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Techraptor is a known Gamergate-friendly site, so you're not going to get any balanced articles out of them: https://medium.com/@zoequinnzel/lets-talk-about-ethics-in-ga...

Yes, I based that on what you put in your bio: about: I use this account for things I can't say Ok, fair enough, you want to keep HN and your personal life separate. And you may be…

So, the two parts: 2. Unsubstantiated smears, and categorising her as "hostile". You're using an anonymous "throwaway" account, so there's no evidence whatsoever for your claims. 5…

See points 2 and 5 above: you're part of the problem. In addition, labelling Randi as a "harasser" is a common gamergate tactic.

Is that actually a real question? Of course they're not going to say anything like that, but you can judge them by their actions ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9437599 )

You might not like the way he says it, but go back and read the article: Kathy Connor, an executive at Kodak, told Roth the company didn’t develop a better film for rendering diffe…

Er, that is pretty much a textbook example of racism.

Because those things are usually irrelevant, have been tried to no effect or will make the situation worse. Women get raped wearing tracksuit pants and a hoodie, and leaving a dome…

> these comments are not representative of the entire community, or of even a single medium-profile user. The community doesn't have to be 100% racist or sexist for there to be a p…

http://www.reddit.com/r/Ferguson

I don't think that's cherry picked; it looks like an outright fabrication to me. What are the odds that a line of regression on a graph like that would come out to exactly +0.00C?

Yes, the worst case is pretty bad, both for us and life on earth. We're currently in the middle of a large extinction event, so the biosphere is probably pretty fragile even withou…

Water vapour has a very short life cycle in the atmosphere, so while it's theoretically the worst, it's not actually particularly bad in the long term, and it's not likely to chang…

> "By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley" That would be Lord Christopher Monckton, notorious climate quack.

Existing fossil fuel plants (ie. Coal) are designed for supercritical steam. If you can make that with solar, it should make retrofitting much easier.

It's not "just an example", it's the core of their argument. They say "Pythonic code uses a hash table-like data structure" - but that's completely wrong. His other argument, about…

In theory, yes - but mutation rates of clones are going to be very, very low. Bananas are also grown from a central stock to control disease, so even if there were a mutation, all …

I don't know about bacteria, but a banana variety is all essentially the same plant, propagated from a central stock. Have a look at the controls around planting and growing your o…

The several varieties of bananas that you'll see in the store are most definitely caused by human intervention (actively trying to cross slightly different plants to produce a new …

Nitrates aren't harmful in themselves - it's the Nitrosamines that they can produce under certain conditions, which are very definitely carcinogenic. Probably not so bad these days…

Bananas don't have any seeds - they're a sterile hybrid, and normally propagated via cuttings. http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-t...

I don't think Theo's reaction is really warranted. I mean, really? "slimy hypocritical asshole"?! And the follow up later on when someone calls him on this is pretty telling: http:…

Friendly reminder that "meritocracy" is intended as an anti pattern, in the same way that waterfall is. Edit: here's a thoughtful piece on the term and its implications, from the o…

Right, but then the very next thing down in his list of gists is the ubiquitous "curl something and install as root": https://gist.github.com/steakknife/8032911 It's easy to start …

Well, that was the parent's point: PHP, heavily used in production, godawful language. Perl, heavily used in production, godawful language, but at least it's not PHP. Python, heavi…