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www.alex-buono.com 9y ago

How We Did It – SNL Title Sequence (2014)

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www.google.com 9y ago

Gmail outage

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medium.com 9y ago

The Codewars team announces Qualified

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www.theverge.com 10y ago

Podcast platform Stitcher bought for $4.5M

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9to5google.com 10y ago

It’s official: Android apps and the Play Store are coming to Chrome

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www.popularmechanics.com 10y ago

The U.S. Air Force Is Using Civilians to Fly Drones in Combat Theaters

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www.spokesman.com 10y ago

Lockheed Martin tests pilotless helicopter in Idaho

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: The most advanced scientific concepts with which we regularly interact?

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recode.net 11y ago

Twilio Launches $50M Development Fund

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www.glassdoor.com 11y ago

25 Best Cities for Jobs

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www.flagofplanetearth.com 11y ago

The International Flag of Planet Earth

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motherboard.vice.com 11y ago

Remaking MakerBot

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finance.yahoo.com 11y ago

Dish plans ‘big’ foray into wireless business, document says

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scitation.aip.org 11y ago

Onion artificial muscles

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www.theverge.com 11y ago

Grooveshark has been cloned and its music is back online

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www.linkedin.com 11y ago

Why I left the job it took me ten years to create

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www.nytimes.com 11y ago

Scientists discover the moon is shaped “like a lemon”

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labs.spotify.com 11y ago

How to Shuffle Songs

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Best programming talks online?

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support.skype.com 12y ago

Can I delete my Skype account?

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www.sciencemag.org 12y ago

Scientists Constructed a Functional Eukaryotic Chromosome from Scratch

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Tesla Beats In Q4 With Adjusted Revenues Of $761M

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Meet Alphaworks, The New Crowdfunding-Inspired Investment Platform

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

With Chromebooks A Success, Google Adds Focus On Chromeboxes

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thehill.com 12y ago

Snapchat hires lobbyist

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www.engadget.com 12y ago

Intel announces Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card

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www.forbes.com 12y ago

Afinia Vows To Fight Patent Case Against Stratasys

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www.techdirt.com 12y ago

FBI Special Agent Thinks a MAC Address Indicates Apple Hardware

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www.theverge.com 12y ago

BitTorrent unveils secure messaging service

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Forget Drones: Sphero Will Deliver Your Packages With Amazon Ground

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Nope. You completely misunderstand the pro-choice argument. You can believe life begins at conception and still believe it's wrong to force a woman to carry a fetus to term.

I see. I should've quoted the bit I was replying to.

They said:

Do it in the middle of a desert far away from any people. No NIMBYs, not interesting for attacks.

And I was just pointing out that building it in the middle of the desert has not proven to be a good way of avoiding opposition.

Maybe this is just a sign of working in a technical field for too long, but my mind always jumps to counterexamples first. So I was surprised they didn't even acknowledge the existence of blind musicians.

While I have some criticisms, most of the historical facts are correct. There are places where I could nitpick, but most of the facts are solid. I think the problems with the articles are in tone and in conclusions.

The softest of takedowns.

In 1978, the ACLU succcessfully [sic] defended the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, a community populated by Holocaust survivors. But in 2018, following the ACLU’s successful litigation to obtain a permit for white supremacists to march in Charlottesville, Virginia, which ended in death and disaster, the ACLU issued new guidelines. Citing concerns about “limited resources” and “the potential effect on marginalized groups,” the organization cautioned its lawyers to take special care when considering whether to represent groups whose “values are contrary to our values.”

First off. A professor writes a mere 1,000 word article for a major publication and it has typos. Yikes.

Second, the author points to action the ACLU took to defend the right of white supremacists to march in Charlottesville in 2018 and then tries to say they've changed position but doesn't demonstrate that with any proof of similar action or inaction -- just words. IMO actions are more important than words and if the ACLU's actions are still in line with the mission you say you agree with, this is much ado about nada.