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> For example, if the sermon was all about how gay people are going to hell, and that made a student uncomfortable, that's not because the student is a bad person. That's because it was a terrible sermon.

Well, no - the proper response to that is not whining but saying:

"Since in hell are probably also Freddie Mercury, Voltaire and Oscar Wilde (and probably Mark Twain) - do I strictly have to be gay to go there or are there other ways I could take" and enjoy the show.

There is no greater weapon against powerful people that take themselves seriously than mocking them and their beliefs.
Like other rises in sensitivity, technology. Ever-present smartphone cameras (and, more recently, police cameras) have made violent attacks on black men real and visceral. And social media has made reports of violence (even without video)that would have been buried in papers much easier to find - such as Charles Blow's son getting (mistakenly) apprehended at gunpoint on Yale's campus by campus police. Much like color news broadcasts made the carnage in Vietnam less palatable than past wars, and the broadcasts of the violence against Selma protesters created a swell of support for the civil rights movement, technology expands our circle of those we perceive as connected to us.
That seems to be what he says, but after the first part he disregards that as not useful. Another comment points out following the standard is good for portabilities sake. Somehow, that all seems obvious to me.
Not one person. It's a prevailing attitude. And the idea that we should renounce freedom of speech in order to prevent hurt feelings - if it ever gains legal force - absolutely is a danger to civilisation.
I appreciate the attempt to perform judo on this debate, but "the uncomfortable idea that it is my obligation to make sure they are comfortable" is not amenable to that treatment. They're still trying to assert that all discomfort needs to be localized in not-them, and that it's everybody else's job to carry the discomfort the world has so they are protected from it.

If this were naturally a world where all ideas were comfortable except for the influence of a few bad apples, it might not be a problem, but since the world does contain uncomfortable facts, opinions, and people in abundance, they're basically demanding that everybody else shoulder the burdens.
I pretty strongly disagree with that "because you're a bad person" too, if it were that.

But what I read in the article is more "because you're not perfect, as neither one of us is, so show a little introspection about you before complaining about others".

And... it's about 1 Corinthians 13. See https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1... Seriously, go read it, it resonates in quite a peculiar way with this whole discussion.

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So, who will set up a transparent FPGA manufacturing company with old tech that will then prove all these companies wrong by capturing the market?

FPGA manufacturers keep their bitstreams secret because there is no real demand for openness. The customers are happy with the product, they are applying the chips and they work. Outside of the tinkerer world there exists a vast realm of industry where access to the bitstream format would be a nice-to-have but not a must. If it were then a manufacturer would surely take the lead in this and capture the marketshare of the others.

For tinkerers and open source proponents this is of course a less-than-ideal situation, we'd like to see that bitstream documented because then we can make tools operate on them and that generate them. But for the vast majority of the customers (some exceptions do exist) this is not a big issue.

The most heard complaint is that the toolchains are cumbersome, slow and too large, not that the bitstreams aren't open (funny though: those toolchains would be fixable if the bistreams were open...).
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I call B.S.

I looked up this "1 Corinthians 13", and I have severe doubts that a "student came forward ... feeling uncomfortable" about this homily. By itself, I have doubts. But, the fact that a president of a university would call out a student on something like that? I severely doubt that this event had even happened.

It's easy to conjure up a unknown stranger to fit some stereotype that one wants to call out as a straw man. This is a pretty common (and shady) tactic.

More likely, this is just political propaganda. Or maybe C.Y.A.?
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> they should be places where you feel confronted, challenged and threatened by different ideas and points of view.

That's a lot easier to say when you're not much more likely to be a victim of violent crime, or of sexual violence, or of racist violence.
I'm asian. I don't feel threatened by black crime when it's also shown that police target black people for arrest more than whites and that the system is often stacked against black people. I'm more uncomfortable that white males are shooting up schools in my country several times a year because there's nothing being done pointing this demographic out.

Your experience doesn't reflect the experience of all others.
This post over-stimulation systemic thin spread is not limited to such chemicals. I think it's the reason for porn websites, and even some consumerist unbalances. The sad part is the memory of the high persists and that leads you to sick for a way to reach that state again. If the imprint was capped at 20x the last known maximum, 1000x being seen as absurd and harmful by the system, people wouldn't repeat the cycles.
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This reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite books: "Living is a dangerous business".
Yes, they are.

As soon as you claim they are, they scurry away claiming that's not what they mean, but as soon as you say "OK then" and move on, they turn right around and it's all about their feelings again. It is very much a part of the modern PC platform that if someone "feels" assaulted, they are, and you must believe them or you are blaming the victim. This is why accusations are as good as conviction in places where PC reigns supreme, because the fact of accusation is itself proof of feeling, and that's it, case closed.

Don't fall for this transparent rhetorical ploy. Arguments that only appear transiently to dismiss one point, then disappear into the ether immediately after, are not arguments, just rhetoric. (This is a general point that applies in many places, actually.)
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Please stop extrapolating from wherever you are getting these examples from. As a minority, I do not need anyone speaking for me and I especially do not need someone who has no idea what I go through trying to educate people. Stop stereotyping minorities and women.
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He never once said the student was a "bad person". Saying someone should "feel bad" is not the same as saying someone is a "bad person".

1 Corinthian 13 is supposed to make us reflect on love and have some negative feeling when we remember that we've not shown our family, friends, neighbors and strangers love. We're supposed to "feel bad". It means we are alive and healthy.
Because reforming all possible aggressors ever is an uphill battle you'll never solve.

Imagine you have an API that receives a POST with some JSON. Every time your API receives a malformed POST, your application crashes or hangs. Do you a) try to do your best to make sure no one ever POSTS to your uri with malformed data, or do you b) rewrite your API to be more robust and send back an error code when malformed input is received rather than crashing?

Does that analogy make any sense or is it too far fetched?
It doesn't take long watching social media trending tags - particularly on Twitter to notice that there is definitely a trend of this kind of sentiment among the demographic of the social media outlets. While the article may (or may not be, I really have no idea) a fabrication, my observation is that the sentiment towards playing the victim and labeling others as haters and bigots is extensive.

Being brought up Christian, I also have no argument that many of the "Christian" religions, Catholicism in particular, do seem to favour guilt as the tool of choice to manipulate their congregations into toeing the line - it's one of the many reasons I shunned the church at a fairly young age. I have no interest in spending my life feeling guilty for not living up to an unreasonable expectation of a collection of long dead ancestors that have little (if any) bearing on today's society. What happened to just treating others as you wish to be treated in return?

There is guilt on both sides of this argument and neither one can stop to address their own shortcomings before judging the other.

On the other hand, I have little to argue with the content of the article. If you're not equipped to deal with how the world around you treats you, you will forever be playing the victim card. Is that what you really want for your whole life? or are you ready to take charge of yourself, responsibility for your own emotions and behaviour? or would you prefer to be treated as a child for the rest of your life, protected from reality by 'yes' men, validating you because you haven't learned to deal with your feelings of a lack of validation?

Nobody ever accomplished anything without dealing with the discomfort of the world around them.
Interesting read - there's a lot of back and forth between the so-called SJWs and the anti-PC crowd and it's becoming reminiscent of every generational battle I've listened to in my life.

Every adult has screamed about the "Next Generation" being softer or not as capable as the current. I think it's a lack of adults remembering how they were when they were young. I'm "Gen X", the naming of which was often (incorrectly) attributed to aimlessness: "The Unknown Generation" (the real naming reason has a much less arrogant reason).

I am concerned about the seeming "addiction to Victimhood" that appears[1] to be plaguing generations below me, however, I'm about as concerned about it as I would be any trivial thing. Success (however it's defined) requires one to figure out how to navigate the perceived injustices and figure out how to carve out a life. We did; they will, too. Hopefully it'll happen without a bunch of new legislation under the guise of Justice but with the result of further erosion of freedom.

There's one, key, difference between today's screaming and the screaming of generations past: Reach. Just like the current crop of over-protective parents dreaming that crime is so much worse these days than it was when we were kids (when in reality many crimes against children occur with half the frequency they did when we were young), the screaming about injustice is much more visible. This serves two negative purposes: we perceive that the entire generation of kids is a bunch of weak, whining losers based on a handful of folks with extreme positions and those striving for an identity see an opportunity to jump on the large (again, perceived) bandwagon and get some attention. Everyone has an opportunity to be heard and it's up to each of us to set our filters appropriately. Unfortunately, Critical Thinking is something that is often absent or ignored[2].

[1] "Appears" being the operative word. Though I've read many articles, I tend to surround myself with people who fit the age-range and socioeconomic status of the typical Victimhood addict and I don't see any of these traits in them. Anecdote, yes, but so many of the news stories are based on little more evidence.

[2] That sounds like a dig; it's not meant to be. I believe Critical Thinking is a fancy way of saying "wisdom" and is something that is acquired through experience, is rarely teachable (if it's even attempted to be taught) and is often forgotten in the face of highly-emotional arguments. It's the sort of thing that changes the phrase "Founders with heavy accents are rarely in the top 100 start-ups" into "I think people who don't speak English are dumb". Over time, and with experience at your back, you (hopefully) learn to be slow to ascribe malice to another's actions and give people the benefit of the doubt. Everyone communicates differently and I think most of us intend the best, not the worst.
Sitting in a coffee shop in a tiny town while visiting my inlaws... granted I did work for about 2 hours offline, then used my phone to connect and check in what I'd done....
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That is so [potentially] sad. I hope Thunderbird finds a nice home.
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There's a few examples in some of the London universities.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11573646/...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/goldsmiths-student-div...
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Could also be related to the person. A prof who's being racist will receive more criticism for being racist, and will have more cause to complain of "political correctness".
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I'm guessing the speed difference comes from this linker using a different approach to symbol resolution which requires visiting files fewer times, but I'm not sure.
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Not as bad as you seem to think..

>We don’t add any monosodium glutamate (MSG) to any of our menu items.

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/your_questions/our_food/is-th...

>In the UK we do not use any artificial flavour enhancers similar to MSG in any of our products.

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/whatmakesmcdonalds/questio...

>McDonald's UK has a fast turnover of food, and restaurants receive three to five deliveries a week.
Food arrives, frozen, chilled or ambient. Our aim is to use as few additives as possible to preserve our food. The majority of the food is preserved by freezing. Other food like sauces are pasteurised and specially packed to reduce the need for preservatives. Breads arrive at the restaurant either frozen or fresh but contain a preservative to prevent mould formation. Cheeses also contain preservatives for this reason. All our beef patties are made from 100% pure beef with no additives, fillers, binders, preservatives or flavour enhancers; just pure forequarter and flank beef. They are individually quick frozen by our suppliers to ensure they arrive at the restaurants in perfect condition.

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/whatmakesmcdonalds/questio...

>McDonald's can assure you that there no additives in any of our salad products which act as preservatives.
Our salad is simply made from 100% fresh vegetables. During some periods of the year when the lettuce has taken a long time to grow, a food grade nitrogen is added to the bags on sealing to slow the respiration and maintain quality, however this is referred to a modified atmosphere rather than an ingredient.

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/whatmakesmcdonalds/questio...

>We use fruit that's been cut and frozen. At our restaurants, we add it to our low-fat vanilla yogurt and serve it with granola.

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/your_questions/our_food/how-f...

>We use a freshly cracked, Grade A egg for our famous Egg McMuffin sandwich. It gets its iconic round shape when we cook it on the grill with an ‘egg ring.’

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/your_questions/our_food/do-yo...
That was testimony under oath. If it was false testimony the penalties would be grave which somewhat reduces the chances of it being 'obviously made up'.
Why would you be at that university if you plan on mocking their beliefs?
The point of using random instead of zero is that it's harder to see which parts have been overwritten and which parts haven't been.
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Yeah - make sure you work on the 4.0 branch.

But the intellisense is pretty seamless. We use Eclipse JDT services and have a lot of intellij-like experiences. so the experience is fairly similar.
Perhaps. Although, stealth mode isn't necessarily driven by a fear of copycats. In many cases it's about hiding the fact that a company doesn't entirely know what they're doing while they try to figure things out. This seems to be especially common in B2B markets where there are a relatively small number of potential customers (though each one might pay a lot for the statup's product), and almost all of these customers are likely to learn about the startup very quickly.

The stealth mode startup isn't really keeping their ideas secret from potential competitors but rather from potential customers. They want to avoid customers getting confused, being turned off, or losing trust if they were too transparent about what they're working on - and how much its changing - before they're ready to launch.
In what case is someone doing this at the cost of "truth/understanding of reality"?
I've never been completely satisfied with Thunderbird and have tried to switch multiple times, reverting to web clients every time. Now I am using Nylas N1 built on electron(imagine that!) and it looks very promising.

Also, arrogance of tech conservatives in every Mozilla or web tech thread on HN is becoming unbearable.
I teach cultural studies-related things and nearly all of my friends who are college profs are as well. I talk about race and gender regularly. The only non-grade related complaint I've ever gotten was that I used swear words in class - which would be hard not to do when one of the readings was about swearing...
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I agree with this too. My list is what I think is important based on my perspective and it is what I use to judge ideas. Everyone should put together their own list - just the process is valuable as it makes you question your own assumptions.

I did say the only critical requirement of a good idea is that you can execute it. By this criteria it sound like your good ideas were not so good :)
Actually I asked for the paper with the evidence. Still don't have it. I also gave prior evidence of academic failures, one of many that inform my thoughts on the matter.

It seems you are trying to puts words in my mouth,and trying to use an appeal to authority, ignoring my point about bad academic research which informs my skepticism, and avoiding the actual papers methods and materials issue.

Finally I'm not sure what you mean by the cynicism comment but a quick google search showed
cynicism: inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism.
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I understand what you're saying but I feel that equating "I fear for my physical integrity" to "someone is talking about something I dislike" is a bit of leap.
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In fact it's being very openly argued all over the place in US culture today. The recent famous video of the Yale professor that was trying to talk rationally to the irrational students around him - it was all about the students claiming they had a right to not be offended, and the notion that their feelings trumped freedom of speech.
It is an indication that they value first mover advantage. It has nothing to do with the value of ideas.
> While I don't agree with religion in university

Catholics invented the university. Secular universities are cultural appropriation. This is like saying you don't approve of Japanese in anime.
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> As Yoda would say, that is why you fail...

Wouldn't he have said "you fail, that is why"?
> Because reforming all possible aggressors ever is an uphill battle you'll never solve.

I don't believe this is true. Human behavior can change. Relative to its levels 500 years ago, we've all-but eliminated physical violence in first-world countries. I don't think it's much of a stretch to believe we can all-but eliminate emotional violence as well.

We're dealing with human beings, so I didn't read your JSON analogy, sorry.
I agree it is powerful but it is also just effective communication. I try to do it a lot with my girlfriend on things we don't necessarily agree. I'll paraphrase her position to ensure that my response is correct. ...Sadly, that is sometimes met with "No, are you even listening". But hey, at least at that point she rewords it to get her point across.
> And this is the sense in which physicist talk about information, the description of the state space. If you throw something into a black hole the only things that remain visible are things like the mass, the charge or the (angular) momentum but you just lost all the details about the thing you threw into the black hole which is a problem for our understanding of physics.

Why is that a problem? The information could still exist, it'd just be inaccessible...

This seems no different to me than a spaceship going beyond the Hubble horizon.
So the monks drank Urushi tea which is poisonous. They also drank water from nearby river which had near fatal doses of arsenic. Both the tea poison and arsenic stay in the body after death preventing decay. They also fasted to remove excess fat and water from the body which would otherwise attract insects and bacteria.

But this still doesn't explain why some monks succeeded and not others.
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