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12 years ago
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on: An open letter to Nature editor Philip Campbell
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.
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12 years ago
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on: An open letter to Nature editor Philip Campbell
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.
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12 years ago
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on: An open letter to Nature editor Philip Campbell
Sorry, Dr. Seuss.
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12 years ago
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on: An open letter to Nature editor Philip Campbell
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.
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12 years ago
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on: An open letter to Nature editor Philip Campbell
'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.
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12 years ago
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on: Why Are American Colleges Obsessed With 'Leadership'?
Of course. Everyone there's best. (Cheers).
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12 years ago
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on: Why Are American Colleges Obsessed With 'Leadership'?
Typical Oxford defeatism. They simply don't understand that in America everyone can be above average.
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12 years ago
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on: It’s painful to do a tech startup in London
The point may be the fish ain't fish.
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12 years ago
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on: It’s painful to do a tech startup in London
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?
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12 years ago
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on: It’s painful to do a tech startup in London
'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.
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12 years ago
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on: About Hiattus: a platform for writing and publishing, anonymously
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.
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12 years ago
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on: The iPod of Prison
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.
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12 years ago
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on: Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow.
Oh, code poetry. 'Ni code, ni poetry' &c.
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12 years ago
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on: Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow.
First time I heard of it was in the context of dogecoin which I assumed was something inspired by the Venetian Republic.
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12 years ago
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on: Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow.
And we call that poetry.
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12 years ago
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on: ‘JFK Customs destroyed 11 of my instruments’
'God bless you Customs agents for your service'.
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12 years ago
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on: Blame Silicon Valley for the NSA's data slurp.
'Thirty years after the Khmer Rouge declared war on "the Garden of the individual", Silicon Valley was lauding the collective "hive mind" while stealthily dismantling the rights that protect the individual.' A statement at once both ridiculous and true. This article is a pretty good way to provoke discussion about using intellectual property regimes to protect privacy.
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12 years ago
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on: Uber now has to wait 15 minutes before picking you up in France
And no wonder that tens of thousands of Britons own second homes in France and many more holiday there.
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12 years ago
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on: Uber now has to wait 15 minutes before picking you up in France
"BART drivers earn six figures. Why do they even need a union?"
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12 years ago
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on: Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers
That's what qualitative research is. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio... &c".
