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n7c3c1on Singular ‘They’ Is Word of the Year

The quote is completely substantive. Just because you disagree doesn't make it uncivil.

But is the irony of you threatening to ban me for "inflammatory comments" and the quote itself--about the culture of militant political correctness--not lost on you? Do you see the irony?

n7c3c1on Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough

Because the left in the West, more than being attacked by terrorists, is afraid of being seen as politically incorrect.

n7c3c1on Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15

reads article about unbelievably driven and hard working young person

watches video of American students at Yale yelling about safe spaces

o_o

n7c3c1on Programmers, Let’s Earn the Right to Be Called Engineers

Author reads a piece of clickbait.

Author responds to clickbait with even more clickbait (check out that comment section!).

I wonder if I can write some clickbait off this.

n7c3c1on Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)

I wonder what the equivalent of this is today. What are people saying will NEVER happen? Maybe self-driving cars?

n7c3c1on Amazon Kind of Sucks and We’ve All Just Come to Accept It

Can't believe this clickbait is at the top of HN. Look at the quality of analysis this guy gives.

>Amazon "Kind of sucks" >Amazon "has a world-class distribution system"

Which is it?

> I started looking around, comparing prices, and found that this is not unusual. Pretty much anything Amazon sells that is also sold at your local big box store costs much more.

Care to provide even just one example?

> I’m too lazy to figure out which page the first one pops up on, because I gave up on page 12. Even if you sort by Apple as the manufacturer, you get a bewildering array of crap that isn’t what you’re looking for. Walk into an Apple store or Best Buy and you can figure it out in seconds.

Too lazy? To sort through some results?

This article reads like a Facebook post.

n7c3c1on Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees

I will never understand how startups like this get money with such incompetent leadership.

Look at how this Famo.us office tour showcases the waste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imc1p_laIt4

n7c3c1on My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's New Bookstore

"Here's a 0.5 star review on my 2.5 star trip to Amazon's New Bookstore"

n7c3c1on Instagram-Famous Teen Shows the Dark Backstory of Her Perfect Selfies

"BREAKING: Young woman called 'brave' for tearing down walls she alone put up"

n7c3c1on Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

It's Lifehacker, a branch of Gawker. So quality isn't a high priority.

n7c3c1on Re:work – tools and lessons to make work better

This is just a PR stunt.

>There's a lot of room for unconscious bias to color the information. Research tells us that subtle indicators - names, clubs, addresses, school, previous employment, race, parental status, socio-economic status, etc - may unconsciously affect expectations and assessment of a candidate.

"Here at Google, we're independent, free-thinkers, and we're definitely not influenced by the militant leftist crowd that plagues the Bay Area. That's why you're not allowed to take anything about a person into consideration before hiring them. Literally nothing. We're all the same person in every way and everyone is as talented and special as everyone else. Everything is a bias and should be expunged from your evaluation process."

These companies will let the PC police ruin them.