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hbags

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About hbags

Banned by bigots. I can't comment anymore, and I'm tar pitted.

Figures.

Recent public activity

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    You owe Merritt an apology No way. Meritt clearly attempted to shame her for writing about something that, for whatever reason, she didn't confront immediately. He's a censor. He's…

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    Comment #7118981

    No. what Merritt said that if you don't say something right there and then you should never be allowed to say anything. He's an asshole and a bully. If a victim doesn't protest wit…

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    Comment #7118889

    I'm not dumb enough to try to change the stripes on a proudly bigoted jerk like Meritt. I just want anybody who sees his spew to know that his opinion is not the only one. I want a…

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    Comment #7118843

    > Your cause is hatred of white men and you find solace with others of the same persuasion. You are part of the reason tech is a shitty place to work.

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    Comment #7118840

    Meritt absolutely made blaming statements. Even the most charitable reading of his post is him complaining that she decided to make clickbait. He tried to shame her and degrade her…

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    Comment #7118713

    I think it's absolutely disgusting that you criticize the victim for documenting what happened to her. It's despicable and downright fucking evil that you basically accuse her of s…

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    Comment #7116077

    I sincerely doubt that a company as unethical to the bones as Uber would ever consider firing them.

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    Comment #7098548

    Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you lack empathy for the challenges faced by women in Silicon Valley because you're a white male whose local culture is globally famous for b…

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    Comment #7098474

    I've been involved with several country/region specific immigrant entrepreneur conferences. For example, the famous video of Guy Kawasaki speaking about the Art of the Start was fi…

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    Comment #7095371

    Such a simulation would reveal a lot about the creator's beliefs, and essentially nothing about reality.

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    Comment #7078853

    "The company uses more than uses more than 10,000 physical servers to manage user content, along with Amazon Web Services." source: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013…

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    Comment #7069546

    why don't you move to a more reliable hosting, like AWS? As a fairly heavy ($x00,000/month) user of AWS, this is the funnniest and most-misguided thing I've read in a long time. AW…

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    Comment #7067150

    DRM is not slavery.

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    Comment #7055139

    > you should not be okay with DRM. It's as simple as it's: DRM is the form of slavery. Sorry Ivan, but voluntarily agreeing to access encrypted content is not comparable to slavery…

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    Comment #7033133

    There's a difference between using legal tax structures to reduce (or eliminate) your bill, and simply not paying your taxes.

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    Comment #7030915

    I've heard of other scenarios where the government prevented competition, but they nearly all boil down to the same core: the constituents want X, but some sort of market failure i…