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Re: Responding to Wired's ad hominem hatchet job on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @05:41PM (#4358238)
So, what would you say to an underprivileged, unattractive, short, Caucasian male? Perhaps, "I'm sorry, but I'm going step on your rights and make you a casualty in the fight for the 'greater good', as defined by me. Please step aside and keep quiet." Or would you bother saying anything to him at all?

Maybe you aren't obsessed with driving wedges between various groups in society, causing them to become factions with increasing animosity towards one another, but you're doing it.

It's odd: No group hates underprivileged, unattractive whites males nearly as much as privileged, attractive white males. It's a cruel form of preening.

It's disgusting.

You ignore underprivileged male hackers because too many other hackers are male? How is that fair?

I'm sorry, but we aren't going to help you. Why? You have the wrong organ between your legs. Next!

Are you sure what you're doing is even legal? What do you do about trans/intersex applicants, or do they not matter to you?

Re:A Woman’s Story on Thursday March 29, 2012 @03:45PM (#3772767)
I would be surprised. Do you have an example?
Re:Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot on Thursday March 29, 2012 @03:05AM (#3770059)
How do you define sexist?

Do you define sexist to mean the belief that one gender should be able to violate the rights of the other? That one gender is better than the other?

That one gender is different from the other?

Under your definition, why is sexism bad?

Re:Don't use bcrypt on Monday March 19, 2012 @01:30PM (#3725026)
That attitude is abrasively condescending.

Why not just say, "people who spent a lot of their time studying cryptography strongly recommend this approach. They feel the approach that you are considering is simply insecure."?

Framing things in terms of intelligence isn't going to win anyone over, if that's your goal. And it probably isn't accurate, either.

Re:Single Page Web Apps with Backbone.js on Thursday March 15, 2012 @07:29PM (#3711149)
Is Backbone.js worth it for interactive web pages that don't require posting to a server?
Re:How To Be Happy Anywhere on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @12:53PM (#3648839)
Is it necessary to do this before ever reaching any conclusion? Should we never trust our own observations until they've been approved with such vigor?
Re:You Only Wish MongoDB Wasn't Relational on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @05:41PM (#3540430)
Does MongoDB have any advantages over using de-normalized tables within PostreSQL?
Hold on. In this post of yours (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3382000), you said:

> I'm against SOPA as much as the next guy

Here, you're saying you don't know whether to support the warrentless censorship of websites you disagree with. Why are you saying two different things?