wanorris

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by wanorris 11y ago
Really? Trans people are criminals or even Hitler now? Ouch, that's pretty cold. I have a lot of trans friends. Just hearing someone use their deadname (a common term in the community) can cause serious emotional pain. Having it broadc
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by wanorris 11y ago
1. Violet Blue has been a reasonably widely published journalist for many years now. Her bylines include CNet and the SF Chronicle, and she's written or edited a couple of dozen books. She writes both about sexuality and technology, an
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by wanorris 11y ago
The birth certificate was not the only form of ID that person sent. Facebook outed the past name of a transgender person -- that's never ok, and it's a problem taken very seriously in the transgender community. And yes, if you wan
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by wanorris 15y ago
I don't really get this complaint. The spectrum of technical investment in your own devices spans all the way from soldering your own boards and implementing custom hardware logic with FPGAs to hacking together your own firmware for hardwar
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by wanorris 15y ago
Doesn't Spotify use DRM? Which is not to say that it's wrong for them to use DRM on music you didn't buy -- that's a different question. But "only used for music you don't own" isn't the same the same thing as "dead".
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by wanorris 15y ago
I was that way for years. After accumulating a certain number of cubic meters of books (wish this was hyperbole, but it's not), having shelves to put them on so that they're accessible requires a pretty hardcore commitment in terms of the l
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by wanorris 15y ago
The way for them to get out of it was to not help write legislation that their customers would consider completely toxic. In general, this is rarely a wise business move.
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by wanorris 15y ago
They use completely different technologies with incompatible handsets and cell towers, so a Sprint/T-Mo merger is likely to be worth considerably less together than separate.
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by wanorris 15y ago
> There is really no such thing as too big to fail. Yes, actually there is. Too big to fail means that when an institution fails, its default will cause a cascade failure of other institutions relying on it -- and still other institutio
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by wanorris 15y ago
You're right -- the erasure of straight male domestic violence survivors is not an example of heterosexism, it's gender essentialism. It involves the assumption that being male means being stereotypically masculine, and being female means b
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by wanorris 15y ago
There is more and more work being done in social justice circles now to degender the assumptions in discussions about rape and domestic violence. Many members of earlier generations of feminists found it easy to dismiss talk about problems
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by wanorris 15y ago
> None of this captured by your list though so I suppose it's irrelevant. They're not on a male privilege checklist. A catalog of gender differences would be a different list. > When is the last time you read an article about leveli
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by wanorris 15y ago
This is a pretty good starter inventory for what feminists mean when they talk about "male privilege". http://www.amptoons.com/blog/the-male-privilege-checklist/ You may disagree with the analysis behind the list's construction, but I see
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by wanorris 15y ago
> Give most gaming girls a choice, and they will CHOOSE to dress their characters in slutty--or as they call it, "sexy cute"--clothing. I think there's a subtle point being lost here. Female characters designed to appeal to women look d
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by wanorris 15y ago
This is a tough seat to go after because it's a reliable Republican district (around 2/3) and Smith has held his seat since way back in 1986. He's extremely entrenched, so the Republicans aren't going to be particularly tolerant of a challe
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by wanorris 15y ago
Once you start down that road, it comes to mind that estimates generally say that something like 50% of all IT projects fail. Hmm....
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by wanorris 15y ago
> "If evolution didn't build in a powerful urge to make our gender behavior match our reproductive sex, then it made a huge error and missed a very easy and effective optimization." I think this is actually a pretty reasonable statement
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by wanorris 15y ago
As people who have been in certain kinds of accidents or been treated for certain kinds of medical conditions can tell you, having a certain set of body parts is not a requirement for being a member of either gender. The overwhelming majori
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by wanorris 15y ago
Given that they're identical twins, I think it's also pretty clear that this case undercuts the argument that it's all just genetics as well. Oh, and "decided he'd rather be a girl" is generally considered offensive to trans people. She b
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by wanorris 15y ago
And yet there are plenty of kids who are gender atypical, sometimes in a few ways, sometimes in many ways, sometimes such that they identify with the opposite gender. The reality is not that there are hard categories of things that we can s
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by wanorris 15y ago
Absent a 60-member supermajority, passing a bill in the Senate requires both parties to at least agree to let it come to a vote. Passing a bill in the House does not require it to be palatable to the other party, the Senate, or the Presiden
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by wanorris 15y ago
The current Congress can't get anything done because one of the political parties has decided that it isn't in their interest to get anything done, to keep the other party from getting credit for it. I don't mean to call out the Republicans
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by wanorris 15y ago
I think it is true both that politics were more substantive 30 years ago and that many 19th century presidential campaigns were incredibly nasty. There tends to be an ebb and flow in these sorts of things. I think that there is a clear case
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by wanorris 15y ago
Tumblr is hardly Google or Facebook, and they were able to generate massive grassroots political response, mainly through a banner. Any kind of coordinated action by major internet sites could generate the kind of response that I doubt Cong
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by wanorris 15y ago
> Protesters vanish without a trace Didn't that just pass the Senate?
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by wanorris 15y ago
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of
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by wanorris 15y ago
I'm not saying that the iPhone is anything other than an unqualified success, but the idea that Apple didn't really want that market share anyway seems a little off. Apple seemed quite happy to have 70% share or whatever it was with iPods.
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by wanorris 15y ago
And depending on where you got your summaries from, the accuracy would likely be much, much higher.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Your point is well taken, but I can't help feeling that the original post and this entire discussion are ultimately worthless without specifics and examples regarding the test what the original author was complaining about. Yes, we should c
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by wanorris 15y ago
So go register hidemyporn.com or something and get to work. For bonus points: secretly build both types of services and sell to both sides in an arms race. You could even offer an extra premium tier of each that defeats the non-premium tier

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