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Comment · 12 years ago
What the Nature employee did on Twitter was a dick move. The pseudonymous blogger's addressing their complaint to the Nature editor was a dick move. I haven't been discussing a gender issue. 11.
Comment · 12 years ago
Relevance.

The dick outed the writer on his Twitter acoount.

The writer wrote pseudonymously because of their belief that frank discussion requires freedom from professional retaliation.

The outed writer then wrote not to the dick but to his employer, Phillip Campbell.

That's as much as I can do to explain why I think both parties have acted to their own discredit.

Comment · 12 years ago
Sorry, Dr. Seuss.
Comment · 12 years ago
The dick outed her on Twitter. The champion of pseudonymity in the cause of professional freedom wrote an open letter to his employer. I hope this explanation is as embarrassing for you to read as it was for me to write.
Comment · 12 years ago
'We must be pseudonymous to protect ourselves from professional retaliation so let's grass this dick to his employer'. Good to see that, yes, sometimes it is possible and both sides can lose.
Comment · 12 years ago
Of course. Everyone there's best. (Cheers).
Comment · 12 years ago
Typical Oxford defeatism. They simply don't understand that in America everyone can be above average.
Comment · 12 years ago
The point may be the fish ain't fish.
Comment · 12 years ago
What if the finance people in this hypothetical country didn't find it interesting because their research showed them it was a poor investment and that investors in the other hemisphere were often just billionaires playing in semi-retirement?
Comment · 12 years ago
'Start a business' and you'll have to go to a bank: 'grow a startup' and you're in the greater idiot economy. Easy choice.
Comment · 12 years ago
I can publish anonymously in any number of places. The problem is keeping it published in the face of takedowns and this site seems to be completely silent on the subject.
Comment · 12 years ago
Really enjoyed this, cheers. Hunt seems to think mp3 players must inevitably displace radios but it's impossible to overstate the way that live radio can bring a sense of connection to a world bigger than yourself. I've used it myself - in better circumstances than any prisoner - to feel less isolated. "I headphone myself" can be as much about escaping outwards as in.
Comment · 13 years ago
Oh, code poetry. 'Ni code, ni poetry' &c.
Comment · 13 years ago
First time I heard of it was in the context of dogecoin which I assumed was something inspired by the Venetian Republic.
Comment · 13 years ago
And we call that poetry.

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