run4yourlives
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Comment · 13 years ago
If you think limited freedom cultures are good for our work go on ahead ignoring this stuff.
I exist outside of HN.
HN though is where I want to see technology articles and discussion, not politics.
From the guidelines:
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Comment · 13 years ago
What in god's name does that have to do with the article that was posted?
Comment · 13 years ago
Since I can't flag the story, I'd like someone to explain to me how in the hell they consider this "Hacker News".
Seriously, this article, and all 22 comments of this discussion belong on reddit.
Comment · 13 years ago
In Canada withdraws and deposits are separate. Most employees are paid via direct deposit up here, and it's been that way since like the early 90's.
Comment · 13 years ago
From Wiki:
At one point, the CDC coined the phrase "the 4H disease", since the syndrome seemed to affect Haitians, homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and heroin users. In the general press, the term "GRID", which stood for gay-related immune deficiency, had been coined.[180] However, after determining that AIDS was not isolated to the gay community,[178] it was realized that the term GRID was misleading and the term AIDS was introduced at a meeting in July 1982.[181] By September 1982 the CDC started referring to the disease as AIDS.[182]
Comment · 13 years ago
An article like this makes you wonder how many different diseases (answer - over 200) get lumped together under the large "cancer" umbrella.
One wonders if we are doing ourselves a disservice maintaining a term more inline with shared symptoms instead of separating the diseases into shared causes.
At any rate I'm digressing, but cancer is a fascinating (while horrible) concept that exists in our reality. When you think about it, it is probably more responsible for what we are today than any other force on the planet, in evolutionary terms.
As for AIDS: The fact that it was a "gay disease" hampered everything about our response to it. I'd like to think that we would be much more in tune with emerging health threats these days, but somehow I doubt it. I really hope we have HIV licked in a few years though, because Africa really, really needs a vaccine before it can do anything else really.
Comment · 13 years ago
What motivates web designers to tell stories by repurposing the scroll mechanism instead of, say, using video?
I can only speak for myself, but I rarely, if ever, watch website videos, especially at work.
I made it through this entire thing by scrolling.
While I understand video is sometimes the best way to convey an idea, I fricken hate it. It would need to be something very, very intriguing for me to watch. 99% of websites selling things don't fall into that category.
Comment · 13 years ago
Ah, the web was invented to keep military sites in communication (presumably so that they could keep killing people) while the rest of the world was dying a horrible, nuclear death. So it kinda was.
Comment · 13 years ago
Online Protest == Can't be bothered to actually do something meaningful to register my outrage.
Sorry, but change means getting off your fat ass.
Comment · 13 years ago
No, it's called focusing on a particular topic at one time.
You cannot concern yourself with politics all the damn time any more than you can concern yourself with anything else exclusively.
Comment · 13 years ago
>The politicization and militarization of technology is undeniable
You make this statement as if it was some sort of new happening. This is as old as technology itself. Finding new ways to kill each other has been the number one driver of technology progress, and always has been.
Comment · 13 years ago
Pretty much, yup.
Comment · 13 years ago
Agreed, although the top comment here was actually quite interesting.
HN has made an exception for all things US gov't spying related. I even lost my flagging rights for flagging all the snowden stuff (which I thought was exactly what you were supposed to do when you thought something was off topic... not my fault it was the entire front page!)
It's an important topic, but like you I preferred when HN was an oasis of tech away from this nonsense.
Comment · 13 years ago
> it seems to be staying pretty vanilla
Thank God.
Comment · 13 years ago
There is no substance in this post and it shouldn't be here.
The first post was okay, this one is basically writing for the sake of writing something.
If that's not enough - email me!
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