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>If they could only do the same to weasel-wording and stating falsehoods on the internet...

and thank god they can't, at least not for now. i can still say any bullshit i want on the internet, as is my right.

from your own article:

>Non-discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression may very well be interpreted by the courts in the future to include the right to be identified by a person’s self identified pronoun

nice precedent

>Policy on Preventing Discrimination Because of Gender Identity and Expression states that gender harassment should include “ Refusing to refer to a person by their self-identified name and proper personal pronoun”. In other words, pronoun misuse may become actionable, though the Human Rights Tribunals and courts. And the remedies? Monetary damages, non-financial remedies (for example, ceasing the discriminatory practice or reinstatement to job) and public interest remedies (for example, changing hiring practices or developing non-discriminatory policies and procedures). Jail time is not one of them.

oh ok, no jail time, but i'm forced to hire someone that identifies as an attack helicopter, great!

>So what does this mean for pronoun misuse? Well, refusing to use a person’s self identified pronoun is not going to be considered advocating genocide – unless the refusal to use the pronouns was accompanied by actually advocating genocide against trans and gender non-binary folks.

so its fine unless i promote genocide, kinda makes sense but its still a slippery slope imo

>Similarly, it’s hard to see the refusal to use the appropriate pronoun –without something else – rising to the threshold of hate speech. Hate speech laws in Canada have only been used- and only can be used – against extreme forms of speech – explicitly and extreme forms of homophobic, anti-Semitic or racist speech.

so pronoun misuse is still legal, unless it gets to "extreme", whatever that means. and who decides what "extreme" is?

>Moreover, prosecution needs the approval of the Attorney General.

so in the end the attorney general decides..
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>"Violence" is always somehow brought into the mix by conservatives.

It ain't conservatives rioting or assaulting professors.

>Ann Coulter is ... somehow is having her right to free speech stopped by not being able to give a lecture on campus at the most crazy liberal college in the nation.

Your right to speak at a publicly funded institution is not limited by your ability to speak elsewhere.

>we've seen how far conservative belief in free speech goes for Colbert this week.

Was there anybody saying he didn't have a right to say what he did? I'm pretty sure most people were criticizing what he said, not rioting about it or saying he didn't have a right to say it.

Coulter routinely says atrocious things in order to gain attention. I think it's stupid of campus Republicans to invite her to speak. But once that invitation is given, she has every right to speak and they have every right to listen. And the campus left, for their part, has every right to protest. But not to shut the event down, not to riot, and not to assault professors.
I'm not confusing things. I'm saying that public discussion seems to migrate towards prevention/mitigation and de-emphasizes the criminality. I'm arguing that we not forget that and pointing out that it was missing from the post I responded to.

In your bodyguard example I don't think in that type of a situation that people fixate on the quality of the security detail. They rightly demand that the shooter be tracked down.
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One of most baffling examples is "zdziwiony Jezus" (surprised Jesus).

http://jerzyurban.blog.pl/files/2013/07/jezus.jpg

This picture, used as an illustration for an article in an extreme left Polish newspaper "NIE", caused the editor to be sued for essentially blasphemy. It's called "offense against religious feelings".

It was placed on the front page in september 2012, and the lawsuit is still ongoing. The last update was in 2016.

The newspaper is known, among other things, for harsh language, aversion to religion and often vulgar pictures (shit, sexual organs, copulation etc, other purposedly offensive things, often next to religious symbols other than muslim). The journalists were friends with Charlie Hebdo's. But the picture they were sued for depicts, literally, a surprised Jesus in a prohibition sign. Go figure.

The article in question merely discussed the fact churches in Poland are becoming progressively more empty. Nothing particularly offensive.
> In democracies, majority rules. And when the majority doesn't like what the minority has to say, they can use the government to force their way.

It's majority rules, but I don't think you have the right interpretation of why the majority would rule this way.

The majority just wants everyone to be calm and cool, and for religion to be personal, and for ideas to stay just ideas. In the great wide world there are many ideas, and the more diversity of ideas there are, the more diversity of people there are, the more the conflict of ideas becomes a problem. Unless ideas are just toys, then everyone can play with their toys in peace.

And why do most people want ideas to stay ideas? Because we have a real world to worry about! We all got shit to do. We all have expectations of how the world works, the world in which we have to do our shit. Unless our heads are full of ideas and fantasies, we'd rather a stable world order to operate in. So you get a law like this: if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all.
Which one party? I don't mean that factiously. The fact that the percentage is so similar tells me it's more a human effect than a particular belief system effect, and so the mechanisms that worked in the past to fight it will continue to do so. We still have to do the fighting, but singling out Berkeley is pointless and obscures the issue.
It's about learning the environment.

You already know the meaning of the browser icons as well as you know traffic signs. On the other hand on a unknown setting, like a newly installed app, an icon can represent too many things for a person to guess which is the real semantic of the icon in question.
Cars are fine, so is transit.

Transit sucks in the US because we don't invest in it, and our land use regulations are largely hostile to anything that isn't a car.
It's not 12 nations.... it's all over the world...
I was actually just musing at how easily tree roots "tunnel" through the ground. I'm wondering if there's a way to replicate that in a new kind of boring machine.
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> Sure we could have used other technologies for it, but it would cost an unimaginable amount of money to replace the entire IT-workforce.

It's worth doing it, to get rid of the sick MS lock-in. Breaking the catch 22 needs to start from somewhere.
lol... and speak Japanese. That's such a simple solution to my problem.
Mysticism isn't trying to be a better science, any more than a guttering candle is trying to be a better laser pointer.
Is the existence of nautil.us an attempt to make many-worlds theories seem intellectually respectable? They seem to have some kind of mandate to publish at least eight multiverse stories every year.
I wasn't aware the school's president was just an activist.
This is what happens when non-Westernized adherents to the so-called "religion of peace"[1] come to majority power. It's happening everywhere and is extremely worrisome--it's already largely happened in parts of western Europe (Germany, Sweden, some parts of France and Italy) and it must be stopped from spreading further into America.

Step one is to identify the problem (which this article never mentions because it's supposedly politically-incorrect): Islam.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AkAGc5nOXw
Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech are enumerated separately by the First Amendment.
Of course wealthy landed founded fathers were concerned about non-wealthy, non-landed non-persons having political influence. There are a lot more of the latter, and they have little use for the former.

Realizing that the peasantry needed to be kept away from power was not some enlightened revelation. It's the divine right of kings by another name.
And, in fact, given that by now news reports are indicating that the greatest number of affected machines in this wave of attacks is in Russia itself, it's probably private criminal groups.
It's buried in the bugs but I noticed this when I skimmed them:
https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/pull/585#issuecomment-2977...

I'm not sure if that means it means that musl doesn't provide the workaround or if musl doesn't have the bug at all.
There's no "god" in the constitution.

What states like Saudi Arabia or Iran do in their law should simply not be accepted.

Even Turkey was officially secular until at least recently.
Do vendors actually want to let users update the software on their devices though?

I would have thought new shiny software was a nice incentive to get customers to upgrade to a new phone?
The reason criticism is warranted is because unfeasible, far out ideas like Musk's distract the conversation from proven and viable solutions and undermine their implementation.

Musk is providing ammo for persons that oppose public transit spending for political and idiological reasons that can be used in the political arena to argue to decrease public transit spending and slow down or stop implementation of public transit expansion.
The natural response for the attacker is to discount the ransom amount to compensate for the expected cost of penalties (from breaking the law). This will deter attacks if the expected penalty is greater than than the ransom amount, but anywhere less than that, the government just becomes a co-conspirator in the ransom.
>What if people refuse to use the train because it's scary, dirty, stinky, etc.? What if you could re-imagine trains where everyone can bring their own private mini-car and add it to the train? Then the car can be private, clean, luxurious, cheap, or whatever the owner wants. Would people adopt it then?

Because the "private mini-car" isn't as space efficient as just having one person. Space efficiency is a major point of public transportation, and the "scary, dirty, stinky" aspects can and have been solved in other parts of the world like Europe and Asia. What public transport advocates are worried about, I think, is that just like freeways, we are potentially going to create an enormous strain on the surface road system... the cars are going to have to come out of the tunnels some time, after all, right?
>> "... you could spend those same billions to build higher capacity transit."

Former tunnel boring engineer here.

This is true, but the real elegant solution is to build everything closer together by an order of magnitude, thereby raising the number of destinations in an N minute walking radius and eliminating the need for tunnels. If your urban design depends on cars-in-tunnels, it's a "code smell" that you've made a grievous system-scale architectural error.

We should keep building cities the way people did for thousands of years, with mostly little 10-foot wide (building-face-to-building-face) streets and a very few larger boulevards. This is how Venice works. This is how Tokyo works. This is how lower Manhattan works, and it's awesome.
LA's streets are probably ~100 ft between building facades, on average, so we could infill a bunch of little narrow streets of buildings in each one, raising destinations-per-acre by ~an order of magnitude or maybe more.

This destroys demand for transit by inspiring a modal shift to pedestrianism, and now you have a much smaller problem to solve. You can take all the tax revenue from the new buildings in your newly-densified city, and the money you saved on paving/traffic lights/street upkeep, and use it to build a real 12-trains-per-hour, quad-tracked, express-and-local service, 24 hour subway. Elon's Boring company can dig the tunnels for these if you want.

If you have money leftover you can build through-core commuter rail, that comes from the northern suburbs and goes through downtown out the other side to the southern suburbs, with a one-seat ride. If you still have money leftover you can give it to the homeless or something; under no circumstances should anyone ever spend money on putting cars in tunnels, which is one of the all time dumbest ideas and a prodigiously ugly solution to a prodigiously ugly problem.
Wow, the yarn and webpack support is awesome! I've been using the react_on_rails gem, and I didn't like how the webpack stuff felt "tacked on", and I had to run a whole bunch of different stuff using guard. Hopefully they can work with these changes and let me get back to a single "rails server" command.

"System tests" look great, too. It's great that they've brought this in as a convention, since every Rails project I've worked on has configured capybara for integration tests.
>Violence" is always somehow brought into the mix by conservatives

It is your contention that the violence at Berkeley was committed by Milo supporters? Do you have evidence for this claim?
We really are living in the future. My condolences to the NHS, but what a time to be alive.
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That comparison -- Wall Street versus Silicon Valley VCs -- reminds me of a Michael Church observation/complaint on how SV is really a tiny colony, a tail that likes to believe it wags the dog. [Direct link is gone, following text copied from other sources.]

> Zed has a strong point. The startup scene has the feeling of academic politics: vicious intrigue, because the stakes are so small. The complete lack of ethics seen in current-day technology executives is also a result of this. It’s the False Poverty Effect. When people feel poor, despite objective privilege and power, they’re more inclined to do unethical things because, goddammit, life owes them a break.

> That startup CEO whose investor buddies allowed him to pay himself $200,000 per year is probably the poorest person in his Harvard Business School class, and feels deeply inferior to the hedge-fund guys and MD-level bankers he drank with in MBA school.
> The trouble is, it's not unreasonable to open en e-mail attachment if it looks like it comes from someone on your work network.

It's a worm, this isn't a targeted email virus.
I wasn't aware that the president of the university was elected by the students and faculty to speak on their behalf.
Definitely agree on needing more frequent and reliable bus service, with updates on actual bus locations. I do think some of the new lines are useful, but it depends on where you live and where you go. The Expo Line has improved the situation getting in and out of Santa Monica, for example.
Who would have thought 5 years ago that today some of the best tools for Python development would be developed by Microsoft as part of Visual Studio?
Not on Ubuntu with Gnome flashback. I get an update popup at least any other day with the new versions of some packages or security updates. Reboots are for switching to new versions of the kernel. I confess I sometime postpone reboots for even a couple of months. I suspend my laptop and I have too many open applications (desktop or background) to be willing to close and restart all of them. If it's really like that, no Fedora for me.
> "Violence" is always somehow brought into the mix by conservatives.

Antifa and other leftist extremist groups have attacked people a lot lately...

> ...when you see how quick conservative America was drop Milo like a hot potato once he said something that crossed their lines.

"Conservative America" doesn't care about Milo, and most didn't know who he even was before the election and the left attempting to hold him up as some straw man of right wing thought. Pre-election the only thing people knew that guy for was GamerGate, he's never been taken seriously by the right.
Do you have a good alternative to the Freedom of Press Index?

On the Geert Wilders issue: it is a lot more nuanced than how you present it. The quote Geert Wilders prosecuted for (translation mine):

"In this city and the Netherlands, do you want more or fewer Moroccans?"

the crowd starts chanting 'fewer'

"Then we're going to take care of that!"

This was not just a casual remark, as the judge determined that it was a scripted section of a speech meant to evoke that particular reaction from the crowd. The charges were "inciting hate", "inciting discrimination" and "criminal insult of and inciting discrimination of a group", the group being the Moroccan race (race as defined by Dutch law)[0].

The first charge was dismissed, but he was convicted of the latter; the judge decided to give no penalty because he considered the public conviction enough in the case of a public figure. The maximum penalty he could have received was two years in jail, though that would have been highly irregular; a fine is generally used.

Personally, I think Geert Wilders adds little of value. He consequently refuses to set (literally) any concrete goals for his party and only runs on populism.

The context matters, too. The Dutch legal system works very differently from the American system. Jurisprudence and the letter of the law are used, but the principle of arriving at a reasonable, proportional and good faith judgement is weighed very heavily when compared to the American system.

Our prison situation is that prisons are closing. We have 9,145[2] prisoners as of September 2016, out of a population of 16,979,120[3].

[0]: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweede_zaak-Geert_Wilders
[1]: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redelijkheid_en_billijkheid
[2]: http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?VW=T&DM=SLNL&PA=...
[3]: http://statline.cbs.nl/Statweb/publication/?DM=SLNL&PA=37296...
People, in general, don't like to hear/see things that challenge their world view. A good example of this is the LGBT movement. It's opposition is a bunch of, to us, very weird arguments about family but the reality is that some traditional people don't like seeing unusual couples in public (this happened before with inter-racial relationships). On the other hand, the people on college campuses who are inside a decidedly liberal bubble, don't want to see Milo wander by and spew his nonsense, disregarding the fact that it does no harm to them for him to just babble at people.
Because public transit is terrible.

I don't know--have you ridden busses in LA? You have to walk to the bus stop, wait, ride the smelly bus, possibly transfer, walk to your final destination, carry your heavy bags. It's terrible, no one who can afford a car will use it.

If you want to improve public transit you have to solve the last-mile problem, which is expensive. You can't afford a bus every 5 minutes for 1 person to ride. Alternately you can take an Uber, which is very similar to driving your own car.

People who are putting down this project because it's not public transit should consider that public transit has been around for decades. It works in some cities (NYC, Tokyo, etc.) but not in others (LA, Bay Area). We need a new solution, and having it car based for last-mile makes a lot of sense.

Edit: Example, a 20 minute car ride takes ~50 minutes with a transfer using public transit in LA: http://goo.gl/1s6cxL
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How we talk about these situations and the expectations we have are very important. If we collectively signal that extortion is OK and just something everyone needs to get used to then you are de-stigmatizing criminal behavior. I don't think that is a good idea.
that's cute. It's like Google doesn't get that hardware manufacturers need to sell you hardware... Am I missing something?
Our team at Graphistry is involved on bringing this to the world of event & graph analytics, and to full-stack interactive visual analytics, so happy to answer questions about that!
...and if you ask Americans in 2010s, they'd say the "right solution" is more roads.

Convincing Americans that public transit sucks should be studied as one of the greatest PR coups of the 20th century.

:/
Hate speech can, in many circumstances, have the potential to incite violence.
You can't fix a business/greed problem with technology.
Huh, ok. Thank you for providing that clarification.
Cultural appropriation: Why can't we debate it?
They just convicted a protester from Session's hearing. They just arrested a member of the press because they asked the wrong question of Tom Price.

But one conservative couldn't give a lecture at Berkley and suddenly the same people are concerned about free speech.
A Dutch news article is claiming that ransomware can be fixed by "big IT security companies". [1] I thought there was no fix to these cyber-attacks unless you have a backup. I am interested how any fixes are possible?

[1] http://nos.nl/artikel/2172840-waarschuwing-voor-grote-intern...
I am in Tanzania(East Africa) and my father's computer is infected.

All he did to get infected was plugging his laptop on the network at work(University of Dar Es Salaam).

The laptop is next to me and my task this night is to try to remove this thing.
True, some of them like Eric Clanton are professors from nearby colleges.
What's the point of discussing criminality? The criminal justice system is centralized and functions independent of public interest in getting results from it. (And, in fact, functions better when the public is mostly unaware of crime, re: jury selection.)

The civic justice system, on the other hand, is completely driven by public interest—nothing gets done to change things unless somebody (or some class) bothers to sue.
On iOS when you click share, there is a button for mailtoself, this way I can do 2 clicks and don't have to type out my email and/or a subject line everytime.
Took them long enough.
but we're talking about a monopoly. a market inefficiency only occurs if there is competition, a more efficient alternative.
If Google actually implements a way of pushing those underlying Android updates directly to the phones then I think they might actually be successful. If Google end up still relying on the manufactures and carriers to push those updates out, then what incentive will they have to keep the phones updated?
Well, I suspect part of the reason is that HN often shows articles targeted to software engineers.

I also think there is another reason that has been alluded to else where in the comments indirectly: ownership/autonomy. Compared to the other high-skill professions that you mention, software engineering in my opinion is bogged by a near-constant effort to belittle, control, and process-ify the work that we do. Some might enjoy the semblance of order it might bring to their day but it makes me retch. I always found it darkly amusing that a failure on the part of product or management to better predict the market or customer requirements somehow translated into more soul-sucking metrics and process for the development team, enforced by highly-unpleasant PMs who I wish would instead have followed their true calling in life and become serial killers.

I left significant RSUs and took a huge pay cut to get away from a large company that I felt was killing me slowly. I am not saying that I have arrived yet but I haven't had to go through a suck-filled daily standup in a few years and I am very grateful for that.
Are you sure the reason it works in Tokyo and not LA is because LA is unsuited for public transit? It could be that public transit was just executed very poorly in LA.