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Hi! I tried to apply but I was getting an error message on the form (didn't find any extra info in the API response either), tried contact form. Is there an email I could send an a…

Hard to tell, but I hope you're not saying this has been a good thing. Locking up kids for being poor and stifling dissent are hardly noble goals.

An omnivore eating less meat is good for all the reasons being vegetarian is good - it's not all-or-nothing. That more-vegetarian-than-previously omnivore calling themselves vegeta…

Getting the 40-hour week took a revolution in France, Mexico and Russia, an incipient revolution in the UK and Chile, industrial action in Australia, Portugal and New Zealand... If…

Where on earth did the author find this revisionist nonsense? The 40-hour work week was won after a bitter decades-long fight by workers and unions against business owners. The ide…

> Sure, but we shouldn't be outraged over Swartz being prosecuted. WTH not? It was pretty outrageous. I'd be interested to hear your argument that he deserved even 6 months in pris…

> I think Jeff was trying to push back against this idea with his post If you want to make the point that suicide is bad, find a way to do it without insulting a recently-deceased …

I think your first sentence perfectly illustrates my point: > There are laws which may or may not be levied against us in certain situations. Evidence (including Swartz's case) str…

> So respectfully empathize with him, and point out your differences about activism. There's no moral problem with being slightly irreverent to someone in such a strong position: A…

"Dealing with suicidal thoughts" and "scaring off potential activists by being nasty" are two separate activities.

Sure. But "respecting Atwood's grief" was outweighed by "challenging his dangerous ideology", especially since (as he says in his post) he'd never met Swartz. Don't think his suici…

"The law" isn't some monolith, though -- it's defined by every institution (every person?) enforcing it, and every decision made in carrying out "justice". It's a crime under the C…

> I am neither sure that Aaron Swartz intended to engage in civil disobedience This is an interesting point: I would develop it to talk about _levels_ of disobedience. Like Andrew …

mcherm is right about what I meant: a hopefully-not-controversial statement. Sorry for being unclear.

Better late than never, right?

It makes me so, so happy that someone else picked up on this.

"No politics" is like absolute zero: a state unreachable because of the nature of the universe. In fact, "no politics" is in itself a very political statement; you're calling for a…

So your biggest problem with VIM is that pseudo-VIM plugins for other software aren't implemented very well? Right...

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Surely the only take-away from this is that McDonald's is a terrible place. Didn't we all know that already? It's still helpful to try and do as much damage as possible with this s…