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Simplified: He actively advocated for discrimination against a protected class (women). There was no way the NLRB was going to find that to be protected action.

The ramifications if they had would be that if someone creates a discriminatory workplace a company could be sued by both the victim and the violator. Under such a rule, both people's rights would be 'violated'. The point of rights is to protect you, its not to enable you to violate the rights of others.
I did, and I also tried the vinegar + baking soda thing. It was annoying to deal with, didn't look good, and would often tangle into a horiffic mess.

It still does, when I fail to shampoo and conditioner on a daily basis.

Yes, I shower without soap. I guess there's some trickle-down of shampoo, but it's not a major contributor. Hot water and light scrubbing cleans me off. If I am exceptionally dirty, I will use soap, but because I don't work outdoors, that rarely happens.

Obviously, I always wash my hands with soap.
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I dunno, if you believe the legal teams, the only reason he was fired at all is because of those points. Maybe you believe it or maybe you don't, but in some alternate universe he didn't say those things, and didn't get fired at all.
> is that if the memo had been exclusively about how SFBA tech discriminates against conservatives and could in a number of ways be made more accommodating to them, Damore would had been protected from retaliation.

But then this whole thing would be nothing, maybe a minor labor dispute. So this boils down to his bigoted views.
It is really cool, got a great match right out of the gate! I'd consider embedding people's HN profile right in the emails instead of just a link, it would make the emails more interesting/click-worthy especially if the person's profile is pretty bare. Also second the other requests that 'my' first email shouldn't go out until I have the chance to fill in some parts of the profile, maybe just wait an hour or two? Again this is very cool!
Once upon a time the accepted tradeoff was between quality and cost. Now it is between quality, cost, and convenience. This is why things like bottled water can cost more than fuel. It's also why Apple can charge a premium for it's products (the convenience of "it just works"). People will pay a huge premium for convenience and are also willing to almost ignore quality in some cases (e.g. food).

It seems that if you want to be successful in today's market you have to prioritise convenience. Just consider how many startups are based on the idea of making something 'easier' as opposed to 'possible'.

Unfortunately, convenience is killing us.
It may be more recent.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...
It is not a requirement. Consider the Oxford English definition:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/harassment

> Aggressive pressure or intimidation. ‘they face daily harassment and assault on the streets’

English doesn't have a definitive dictionary, anyway -- usage determines meaning. It has been the case for decades that a single quid pro quo proposal could be ruled as "harassment" in court. (As it should be!) Is it any wonder that colloquial understanding would reflect legal reality?
Yes. I'm summarizing not the Bloomberg article but the Advice Memo itself, which is on NLRB's case website (you can just go read it).

It's a little fuzzy because the Advice Memo asserts up front that it's assuming arguendo that the memo, in both its protected and unprotected components, constituted protected concerted action. So it's possible that NLRB never really reached the question of whether this kind of organizing truly constitutes organizing for "mutual aid and protection" under the definitions of the NLRA; it didn't have to, because whether or not you're organizing under the NLRA, the memo says there's pretty extensive case history saying you can't do it to work against federal anti-discrimination law.

The NLRA does not eliminate employment at-will! You can get fired for all sorts of dumb superficial reasons. You just can't be fired for exercising your specific rights to concerted action for improved workplace conditions under the NLRA.

But before you go flex this particular right --- and really people should start doing this, like, a lot --- go talk to a labor lawyer and dot your 't's.

This turns out to be pretty easy to do: you can just contact @michelleimiller at Coworker.org, who facilitates this kind of stuff.
>Well, to be honest with you, I don't really know how to tell him.

To both you and abawany: maybe just send a polite, anonymous email (make a one time use gmail or something)? Like a personal version of the public service whistleblower, this is the sort of situation that seems like a good fit. A simple "Hey, I see you fairly regularly and..." type of thing, that they're a nice person and you're worried they might not notice this and don't want them to be embarrassed.

I do agree that a (perceived) lack of personal hygiene can hamper people in subtle ways socially and in turn professionally, and it's possible that they could never realize why. If they're a decent enough person that's a real shame, and a quick equivalent of "Your fly is unzipped" could be a real benefit long term.
Being currently involved in a startup using Go, I go back and forth with this in my mind on a regular basis. On one hand, development is much more arduous than I have experienced on other projects with more featureful languages. During development, I really find myself missing what those languages have to offer.

But on the other hand, when the day is done and I look at what has been created, I'm really impressed with the quality of the project. A good team can write good software in any language, but I do believe this language has helped this team write better software than they might have in another language.

I suppose that, like everything, there are tradeoffs. I'm not not yet sure which tradeoffs are most important to me.
"Damore's memo was about organizing against discrimination of conservative viewpoints --- a phenomenon that is almost certainly real in SFBA tech!"

Only if you equate sexism and racism with conservatism.
Having "conservative viewpoints" is not a protected class.
> “Much of" Damore’s memo was probably protected under the law. ... But ... Google discharged Damore only for his "discriminatory statements," which aren’t shielded by labor law.

Given how significantly many people have misunderstood Damore's claims, this seems to open up a hole for companies to mischaracterize someone as a racist/sexist/etc and then fire them over it.
I've tried ReasonML, but it's principally focused on JavaScript; support for native compilation is meager.
The verification code and the auth code for your profile are different and are generated in a different way, so it's pretty low risk to leave it.
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I'll be honest with you. Programming is actually pretty easy to learn.

As long as you have a vague idea of how logic works and are eager to learn with the right approach, you can pick it up pretty quickly.

A lot of the concepts floated around in programming have crazy sounding names but are actually not that bad.

What's really hard to learn, however, is full on software engineering.

Knowing how something works end to end. Sure, you can learn to program well in JS, but that won't translate right away to knowing how to build an awesome website.

You can be an excellent java programmer, but that won't translate right away into architecting a nice Android app.

For me at least, when I was an up and comer, these were the things that were hard to put together.

Every tutorial site wants to jump into a lot of details right away - I wish they started with a high level overview of where you'd need the language, where it fits in in the larger "app" picture (where app can be a site, an app, etc.) and then dive into the specifics.
You're not going to be able to stop Apple's paid astroturfers here.
I can understand that, my anecdotal experience with AT&T fiber when they rolled out was that they dug up half the curb in front on my driveway and left a trench covered with a unsecured piece of 2 inch plywood for almost 3 months. They blocked half my driveway and gave me no notice or contact info. I'm not even one of their customers, it's just their box happened to be in front of my house.

Yea I was not happy, and insulted when service rolled out and their rep only offered me 5% discount to make up for construction.
Once you do start exercising though, you have to watch out to not overdo it.

I've found that as I get older, what I would've considered moderate exercise 7-10 years ago, now causes bad moods, brain fog, fatigue, general irritability for a day or two after the workout. And getting enough sleep, drinking a lot of water, and making sure to eat right doesn't seem to completely alleviate the problem completely.

It's hard striking that right balance.
Your thinking of the hierarchy of basic hygiene -> exercise -> mindfulness is exactly how I started thinking about my daily life about 3-4 months ago. I am not 100% there yet but I started by making sure by never skipping brushing even if I'm running late to work, then moved to flossing more often. Around the winter holidays I started walking more often (30+ mins), now I do it every day and then just last week I started practicing mindfulness by meditating and I saw it as the last step toward understanding my body more. Of course, I could be doing these with more rigor and more time but I think soon I'll see them as non-negotiables for everyday living. To me, it's a surprise that I went for a long time without thinking exercise is what my body needs just as much as I need calories and sleep.
Isn't employment in places where these companies operate at-will? Meaning they can fire you because you waved your hair funny in the morning?
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I knew someone who never used soap on their body because of a medical condition and their skin would react. Suffice to say they didn't smell like BO, but they did have a heavy sweaty smell to them like after a workout. Not pleasant.

Water alone will do nothing to body oils. They just stick. Bacteria then start to digest it and you get a smell.

Overall, water might cut down some of the smell, but without soap, you're going to smell sweaty.
Quite difficult to type CTRL-[ for me, as it's actually CTRL+ALT+8 on a german layout keyboard :/

Oh, and on Mac CTRL+ALT+5 if I remember correctly.
meanwhile, equifax stumbles in and yells, "nothing to see here, MOVE ALONG...."
Maybe merge with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16395607
> That isn't the case for many of the involved parties (for example the Dutch government

True, the Dutch confirmation is much more valuable, as they have no apparent reason to be partisan on either side. So if it is confirmed with some evidence, it would be very heavy indication towards APT's indeed being Russian and being responsible for the hacks they are claimed to be responsible. It's one thing McCain - which has been at war with Russia since forever and grasping at anything anti-Russian he could reach - saying it and it's another thing Dutch with no partisan motivations saying that. When I rote the above I didn't know about Dutch confirmation, which makes me attribute more likelihood to the Russian attribution if I after some research I am convinced Dutch aren't mistaken and not motivated by something that I wasn't aware of (I know next to nothing about Dutch politics so no idea there).

> And the conspiracy theorists oddly always gloss right over the question of who did do the hacking if not the Russians

Oh, here might be lots of options. E.g.:

1. Russians, but not those Russians - I mean, independent Russian group which is not controlled by Kremlin. Who leaked the emails for lulz.

2. Independent group outside of Russia that has its interests aligned with Russia at the moment - say, Belorussians or Iranians or Kazahks or whatever, I'm not going to list all countries connected to the internet here.

3. Independent group outside of Russia having a beef with Clinton, but having no connection with Russia whatsoever and Russians just got lucky that they also hated Clinton.

4. Independent group outside of Russia not giving a tweet about politics but doing it for lulz and darknet bragging credits.

5. The emails were not published as a result of the hack, the hacks happened independently and the emails were leaked by the insider, unaware of simultaneously happening hack by any of the above.

6. No idea. I don't know a lot of things, and it's completely possible I wouldn't also know who leaked DNC emails. That's always a valid option.

I do not say any of those are true (except for the last one which very well might be true :) but they are certainly options for the answer of "who hacked it and leaked emails".

> And that mistrust, of course, is the precise goal of the Russian disinformation campaigns we do have conclusive proof exist. So that's an interesting detail.

Giving that mistrust of the government is pretty much written into US Constitution and, if one reads what the Framers wrote, was deeply on their minds when they wrote it, the Russians are about 230 years late to the table here.
Go's type system is indeed atrocious, but I'd say that the only major problem. For a high-uptime server, I'd probably prefer to go a BEAM-based sanguage, and for numerical computation and data analysis, I would prefer using Julia (especially if it were more well adopted) but as "a replacement for C" it's quite nice (still need C for things like cross-platform libraries, NIFs, anything kernel).
I'd like to add:

You see the term 'equal opportunity employer' -- it is meaningful and fair.

How does the term 'equal outcome employer' sound?
> and who believes strongly in the absolute innate equivalence in aptitude for our profession between men and women

I believe in it also, but shouldn't this idea be quantifiable in order to be a legit basis of a firing? I.E. where is the line between "promoting stereotypes" and "promoting science?"
>he said, "What separates this is its derisiveness and stereotypical characterization of one gender."

Maybe not exactly, but the above quote pretty clearly outlines that the NLRB agrees that the memo was supporting a sexist viewpoint.
Are you suggesting the city of Seattle has any control over 405? I agree that the 405 toll lane(s) are awful, just not on the part about Seattle's culpability.
It's a relative scale. A binary blob isn't ideal from a security and privacy perspective, though given the nature of radio transmissions used with these devices, there are legitimate arguments in its favour as well. In any case, you're still much better off with a device where that is the only unknown factor than you are with a device where apps routinely spy on you and phone home etc.
Another problem I have with DARE is that it conflates some important messages (like don't give in to peer pressure) with its message of all drugs will ruin your life. When people learn that certain drugs they mention are just not that bad, other important messages could be dismissed as well.

Note: I don't have any study to support this but it's my hypothesis.
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I disagree and further again should say that though I am myself (I think pretty obviously?) a liberal, the argument that conservative politics --- not "racism" and "sexism" but rather "how should we organize, fund, and manage society" type stuff --- are suppressed in SFBA has, like, a lot of validity.
Oh. I was going with "Dirty Rotten Imbecile", from my youthful punk days.

I can think of some cases where it would still fit. You seem okay, though ;)
The startup is a representation of social virtue, not just working but doing it independently and in service of personal goals. It's something people on this site deeply value. Work for people here is who you are. They don't get that's not true for everyone else. Worse than that, they want to pretend that's not true and prescribe a solution.

In regards to the rest of your comment: Do these economic dropouts want families? Do they want houses? What exactly are their lifestyle expectations and why exactly are they wrong?

The projection of deeply personal values not just in your comment but in this thread are breathtaking. The inability to see that just because you want something must mean that that's true for other human beings is disturbingly common here.

Why are people so concerned and threatened by people they consider to be losers? That's not a rhetorical question. Are you afraid these people are going to ruin your lifestyle by doing.....nothing? If they're happy and they have close to zero impact on your life why exactly are they scapegoats for so much wrong in the world? And before you say "well they're not happy", many of the examples of unhappy "basement dwellers" in this thread are described as people close to suicidal because they want to live one way but society says their expectations should be another. It's all such a big mess and I really feel for these kids calling into suicide hotlines over thinking they're failures by some bullshit external standard.
But he never said that in the memo. You're making shit up.
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I was my most fit when I was in Chicago walking from train stop to train stop. Like you said, walking goes a long way.
I don't agree with Damore's message. But Google cultivated an environment were open discussion were encouraged. So firing him for stating his opinion is truly, hypocritical bullshit.

People should get fired for not doing their jobs -- not for writing what they think. And I also want to say that before you blame "the Left" for Google's behavior... Had he been fired in "Socialist Europe," the firing would have been declared against the law and Google would have had to pay a hefty fine.

I can add why I'm so sure he wouldn't have been fired. In most (many?) European countries, you can be fired for only(!) two reasons; misconduct and labor shortage. Misconduct must be specifically related to your job performance. Like, a train conductor that always oversleeps or a cock who can't boil eggs. Something quite a bit more obvious than claiming gender differences between men and women. Labor shortage is if there is not enough work to do and then the company can let go of the surplus personnel.

The walkthrough of the US laws, that tptacek provides, shows that they are completely different and much less employee friendly.
Can someone tell me what is going on here: the release notes [https://golang.org/doc/go1.10#language] state that

> A corner case involving shifts by untyped constants has been clarified, and as a result the compilers have been updated to allow the index expression `x[1.0 << s]` where s is an untyped constant; the go/types package already did.

But the docs [https://golang.org/ref/spec#Operators] state that

> `var u = 1.0<<s // illegal: 1.0 has type float64, cannot shift`
Agreed. If they were humans, that would be entire towns lost.
This seems like a rather defeatist attitude; the kind that keeps people away from the gym.

I can assure you that once you commit to a regular exercise schedule, it is both highly stimulating and an end in itself.
Allow me to suggest that both Google and the NLRB understood Damore's claim, and that any misunderstanding falls on the side of those who disagree with what they found.
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Imagine if he was black

btw I am not even white, but this politically correct tyranny in the west is getting ridiculous
No Windows version, where I need it.

If you are used to Vim then regular editors are dangerous, you find things like '=aB' or 'jjjjj' or 'ZZ' or ':w!' embedded in one's files, breaking everythng.

On Windows you can't just copy and paste from something edited in a terminal, or copy paste to a terminal to do your editing/saving as there is no 'vi'.

I note this software could be upgraded to work with Windows now there is that Ubuntu subsystem in there somewhere. Perhaps a better way would be to modify the accessibility tools - StickyKeys etc. - to have vim be the universal text entry arrangement even for things like username text boxes, you ':wn' to get to the password field and then type 'i' to start entering a password. Much easier.
> Computer retailers stopped installing development environments by default

This is true, but somewhat ignores web browsers. The big ones (Chrome, Firefox, IE & Safari) all have complete and high quality dev environments.

The article is Python-centric, and so the best answer for that right now is: install Anaconda!

Otherwise, the general argument being made here is solved by JavaScript at the moment.

If you use JS to write code, there’s nothing to install, distribution is built in, it comes with the dev environment. All language and feature comparisons aside, this is the strongest reason to use JS, because it makes sharing programs with other people so insanely easy compared to any other language.
I use this app on Mac for the exact key mentioned above
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Is DMARC included in your 'etc'? I think thats needed for gmail these days. If rdns, dkim, spf and dmarc are there, try checking your IPs reputation (senderscore) that could be it.
Both you and pluma are confusing deodorant with anti-perspirant. Very often they are combined in the same product, so the confusion is understandable.

But deodorant is perfume, anti-perspirant stops sweating.
trends and hype happen, it's human nature. biology is and will continue to be an exciting, under-explored frontier for years to come. math will only help. humanity needs people like you who recognize the underlying issues and can move things forward.
You don't need a computer to program. Paper and pencil will get you pretty far. Anyone take CS106X at stanford? Most everything was written by hand, only the labs or homework were actually done on a computer.
I think it's obvious that everyone here is speculating, there's no benefit to trying to call one of them out.
> Aren't you afraid of being hacked

Sure, but most 2FA happens over SMS and that is already insecure. Updating your OS won't help if someone has hacked into the SS7 network.
I no longer use soap for most of my body when I shower, I no longer use it when washing my face at night, and I no longer use shampoo. And things are fine.

I once tried not using deodorant in one of my armpits. After about a week things were fine, but it got bad when I wore a tuxedo and went to a fancy dinner. I think the stress of the dinner made me sweat, and the tuxedo trapped the heat and sweat, so the bacteria went to town.

Other than that sort of scenario I imagine I could get by without deodorant. My girlfriend never uses any and only rarely smells bad.

It's possible that you have to wait for the bacterial population to balance out, and then the odors diminish. After you stop using deodorant, you'll get colonized by certain species that are most aggressive. But I'm guessing that over time you'll get a better mix, and better smells.

Would be interesting to see more microbiome studies to investigate this. See https://www.popsci.com/antiperspirants-deodorants-change-you...
> So firing him for stating his opinion

Do you think it's possible for his stating of his opinion to have side effects like creating a toxic work environment, which would be the antithesis of doing his job well?