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The movement pushing this worldview do not believe oppressed groups can ever meaningful participate in society without their help.

They advance their 'help' to these groups and rely on the cooperation of people who want 'do the right thing' when they go about forcing their agenda on everyone.

It is about cementing their own personal and political power, it does little to actually improve diversity, and has nothing to do with code.

They are radical authoritarian thugs who come bearing gifts wrapped in feel-good language.

You can see how quickly this movement turns on members of groups they believe to be marginalized who reject their help.

They also inevitably turn against even moderates who are just trying to the right thing.

Funny enough the first reply to this in the listserv is calling out use of politically incorrect language in the proposal.
Why is time spent on things that do not matter? If you want to contribute to Open Source project the pull request literally doesn't care whether your reproductive organs are inside or outside of you (or if they even exist at all) just write some code.

People who have nothing better to do than cry about use of this kind of words (and language in general) probably do not contribute to the project in net positive manner.
GDPR could end free internet services. Maybe it is the outcome that the EU desires, I'm not sure, but I don't see how you can run non-transactional, free services without monetizing them via the best possible advertising. Do they want everyone to go back to punch-the-monkey and mortgage ads exclusively?
Very nice way to put it.

What do you think of Google's "don't be evil" clause and that it was recently removed? Same thing, or subtly different? Not trying to be inflammatory, I don't know what to think myself: rationally I think it should feel the same, yet somehow it feels different.
This assumes meritocracy we want is based on skills. I think "working as intended" is actually based on "shown skills", not "skills"; people with mad skills which didn't show it in the project don't have merit. I've seen "do-ocracy" used instead for this reason.

Do-ocracy does not assume equal opportunity.
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I'm partly with you - they don't seem to know what the initial vulnerability was, so just blocking this version of the malware is not sufficient; but by the same token, they'll want to at least find out what the vulnerability was and have a fix before advising consumers replace modems. Clearly, we need laws outlawing the cheap-ass modems we know have and mandating far more secure, easily firmware-updated ones.
that is quite the stretch. thinking a word should be updated or clarified does not make me a "conspiracy theorist". What am I conspiring against? people fighting so hard against a simple change to make the sentence more inclusive are just fighting to keep their antiquated system of bias in place
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What about it is fake? A senior-level employee and strategist for Mozilla made this proposal to the governance listserv. It's up for serious discussion.
>Avoiding GMO doesn't do much in avoiding glyphosate

Uh, being able to tolerate more glyphosate was the entire reason for genetically modifying a lot of the GMOs currently in widespread use.

In other words, glyphosate is used at many times the concentration it used to be used at precisely because of the introduction of GMOs (because that was the whole point of introducing those particular GMOs).

>insect damage in crops, which provide entry points for molds to attack the crops. And some of the toxins produced by molds are really potent.

Insect damage is easy to see (at least on whole produce, not counting processed foods); glyphosate residues on the other hand is hard to detect.
One problem with solar in Europe, especially in Northen and Eastern Europe, where heating in the winter dominate consumption, is that almost all solar potential is in the summer, when less electricity is needed. This is basically a result of the Northern latitude of Europe (Madrid and NY has about the same latitude).

For wind it is the opposite. Wind is strongest in the winter when the consumption is highest. This makes wind a much more attractive option in Europe than solar, given that electricity can't be stored easily at grid level.
I cannot really put my finger on it, but Go is basically perfectly compatible with the way my brain works. Its semantics so far have not surprised me, and I only have to look up the language specification very, very rarely. Most of the time (like 90+ %), I can just let my intuition guide me. Of course, Go has its share of problems, but that one huge advantage dwarfs those problems entirely.
The tiny "share on facebook" button, a google analytics script and so on, you don't even need to show an ad to associate my browser identity with the topics on the site I am visiting. But ads can certainly serve the same purpose.

Maybe you misunderstood what I meant (my wording wasn't exactly perfect), I'm not talking about some dramatic ad-fraud scheme: without tracking-based targeting, all ad-money about scuba-beekeeping (just making up some really small niche) would go to the few sites dedicated to pleasures scuba-beekeeping. This is how Google started their dominance, they were the best at automatically matching scuba-beekeeping advertisers to scuba-beekeeping websites. Content-based targeting.

With tracking, ad-networks show a small, cheap ad (or even just some tracker the site includes without monetary compensation) on the scuba-beekeeping site and take a note that the browser identity a target for scuba-beekeeping. Ads about scuba-beekeeping will now appear to that browser-identity on random news sites and the like while the niche site won't see a cent for the targeting information.

All in all, if the "native" ad market (the one addressable by content-based targeting) of a site has above-average value per eyeball, a site will tend to lose more from cross-site targeting than they will gain from showing ads unrelated to their content (but related to whatever their visitors have visited before), if the "native" ad market is lower then they may win. Visit frequency also plays a role, if the content-targetable sites take only a small percentage of their users' browsing activity, a no-tracking scenario would cause a bidding war amongst on-topic advertizers, if they take a large chunk of their users' browsing, inbound tracking targeted ads (about other topics) could easily more than make up for the losses in on-topic ads.
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It is easier to see the issue when thinking what "meritocracy" means as a process as opposed to a state of being. The word "meritocracy" has no procedurality to it, it solely signals values without providing an effective method of achieving it. Signalling values can in fact hurt achieving those values by poisoning discussions about them. Everyone has their own idea of what "meritocracy" means, so it allows people to pretend that they're all on the same page even if they're not. It also invites people to presume that the organization is already a meritocracy and be less self-critical about maintaining that state.
Looking at prio 1 bugs for a huge distro like RHEL is not going to paint an accurate picture.

I've had production experience with all the major distros except SUSE, and Red Hat's QA is miles ahead anyone else's. Canonical/Ubuntu do a particularly bad job at it, for instance.

That's not to say there aren't any issues with it, and I've personally experienced a few (the devicemapper Docker driver, for example, caused a lot of trouble for me and I'm glad they did the right thing and built overlayfs), but overall, their engineering is very solid.
and yet Mozilla put out a proposal to discuss this, not something people just do for trivial matters. so they clearly feel strongly about it, but this dude can't?

also, there's no need for the ad hominem attack. if he is a conspiracist, it should be easy to point out a more simple explanation.
This is why I support measured merit instead of merit. If you have merit but didn't show it, it doesn't matter.
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this is an extreme oversimplification. those aren't mutually exclusive and diversity isn't just "quotas". read a book
For the proponents of GDPR, do you think that these are good ideas? edit: Why? What's the argument for them?

> The GDPR prohibits such forced consent and any form of bundling a service with the requirement to consent

> a penalty of 4% of global revenue

edit: On the first, if companies use (for example) personalized ads to pay for the service, why should they be forced to provide the service without the source of funding? If you disagree with that, you can just not use the service.
Excellent work!

This detail probably doesn't matter for this nice visualization, but ... do you have details on how this data is attributed to specific lines? For example, District and Circle have such an overlap, and the changes in Circle appear proportional to changes in District. I personally have intended to take a Circle train but because District overlaps and is headed where I need to go, I'll just take whatever comes along next.
Note that the Guardian no-paywall beg for subscribers model can work surprisingly well - they've got 300,000 subscribers and another 500,000 more casual donors: http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2017/10/26/how-the-guardian-f...

I run a critical news blog about blockchains and I get about $200/mo on Patreon on this model. It's not a living, but it's a nice extra indeed.

I am delighted to answer publishers who go "but how can we live without spyware-level ads!!" with "have you tried not sucking?"

(I whitelist a few sites, e.g. LWN.net, and I don't block ads from the Project Wonderful network. If you don't suck, I might let you through!)
I don’t usually follow Mozilla, what efforts do they make that for instance effectively offsets issues of access to education or social discrimination outside of just Mozilla ?
> But meritocracy has consistently shown itself to mainly benefit those with privilege, to the exclusion of underrepresented people in technology. The idea of merit is in fact never clearly defined; rather, it seems to be a form of recognition, an acknowledgement that “this person is valuable insofar as they are like me.”

That seems strange to me, because most projects are basically saying if you have no commits you're voice is essentially noise to them, which I agree with. If you want to join an FOSS project and a make a difference put your money where your mouth is - otherwise don't expect most people to listen. All the flowery words and PR likely won't change this reality, for good reason.
It's a German company with a very 'interesting' history: https://twitter.com/notrevenant/status/1000085227421782017?s...
We are biologically herbivores. We cannot digest raw meat and we have to flavour it to make it appealing. Our digestion system, jaw, and other features are those of a herbivore, and we develop atherosclerosis from eating too much fat, unlike any non-herbivores.
I'll say it, although this isn't popular.

The world has too many people. We had to engineer our food supply to keep up with what is needed to feed everyone.
Wind enthusiasts keep making claims that if only they could average wind over a huge area, it wouldn't be intermittent. But when you look at wind power generation data for huge areas such as the CAISO (California, Oregon, etc.) control area or PJM (New England to the Midwest), it doesn't work that way.

Here's PJM's actual wind power generation for the last 24 hours.[1] Peak, 2300MW. Valley, 250MW. A 9:1 range. Those are real numbers from real wind turbines connected to a huge real world power grid. Today is a bad day; about 4:1 variation is normal. CAISO has similar numbers.

[1] https://dataviewer.pjm.com/dataviewer/pages/public/windpower...
I wish that all sites provided alternative mini-versions such as this.
You’re suggesting that a big multinational corp just leaves phrases in its public-facing motto, or in heavily vetted handbook materials, by accident, or as a joke, or on a whim?

In my experience, absolutely nothing gets into a handbook or a code of conduct unless you go waaay out of your way to put it there, through legal & compliance, HR, senior leadership teams, etc.

There’s zero chance Google treats this like a cheeky wink.
"You're violating our laws that protect our citizens. Why would we possibly have any sympathy for that?"

No one forced your citizens to come to my website.
Note that the cited study actually shows PR from women are approved more often than average. Study authors themselves state this.
Wrt1200ac, supported by openwrt and I can personally tell you that I installed it with no problems. All i did was upload the firmware via the default wrt1200ac ui
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Chinese websites are exempt. What does that tell you?
Only via the NSA :)
I must admit I didn't. I felt confident it was restricted to adding and removing whitespace because the README says at the start:

> Black ignores previous formatting and applies uniform horizontal and vertical whitespace to your code.

I now see it does sometimes modify non-whitespace characters e.g. later in the README it mentions:

> In [certain] cases, parentheses are removed when the entire statement fits in one line

I'm not in a position to test black out right now (I can't run Python on the computer I'm posting this comment on). I'd be curious to know what it does on the code I posted, and on over-length comments and string literals.
One thing he misses is that PTI, et al had explored flesh sensing technology and pretty much didn't feel like doing it.
They also have opposed almost all safety standards.

Oh, did I mention the members have many more ridiculous patents than gass? They've sued each other over patents on worksite radios before.
https://insight.rpxcorp.com/litigation_documents/3919186

They are also multi billion dollar conglomerates, often in countries with little respect for IP, so I imagine one reason he patented so much was to protect himself.

They are also a lobbying org, and he misses all the things they did, yet points out what sawstop did.

PTI has done a great job of lobbying here, unfortunately.

I am generally not a fan of the CPSC (what they did on magnets was beyond the pale), but here he also missed the biggest point they made: the cost of table saw injuries, to the government and insurers, is greater than the value of the table saw market!

I could go on.
He seems like a mostly reasonable person (moreso than most on this issue), but yeah.

There really are two sides to that part. Neither side is deserving of adoration, honestly.

The court case is much simpler.
For defective design liability in a lot of states, it's enough to show a feasible alternative design that would not have impacted function or price in a serious way.
Most of the argument was about the latter.
The first is an excellent idea.

The second... I don‘t care whether it‘s 3, 4 or 5 percent. But the big idea is „global“ and „revenue“, which again is excellent.
too bad. I'd really like to see a genuine (learned) Civ ai
I am 100% sure that they have a terms that they aren't responsible for anything in their TOS/EULA.
The governance documents of a open source software project are not being used to shut down debates about sexism and racism.

The Mozilla and Rust communities are by far the most inclusive communities on the web and more inclusive all the time.
I’ve been reading web news for over a decade, and it’s getting to the point where I don’t think there are many hackers and/or privacy sensitive people on here anymore.

The number of people who are saying it’s no big deal to ignore privacy rights that should be law, especially for sensitive information, is mind boggling.
I have thought about this and I too find it patronising and racist indeed. I don't care about your race, I only care if you are the best.
> Do you really want liability for software bugs?

Yeah, definitely. Especially for infrastructure.

I realize the implications of this are significant.

I don't think the solution is "all bugs cost every company money for every product", but there's definitely more or less risk involved in some software and we are well past the point of negligence from router manufacturers - the vulnerabilities we see from them are absolutely absurd.
Good thing it's not the Thameslink Heartbeat, otherwise it'd be flatlining right now.
I can't find a reliable reference for this. Can you point me to something official about it?
I'd like to see the actual BVS UI. Does it indicate how old the data is or just the timestamp the report was generated? This is a detail that bites lots of reports in business.
> "good thing" words to describe values are kind of bad.

This makes no sense to me. Values are principles or standards of behavior. If I try to keep good values, this makes me evil somehow? Why would common standards of behavior for a group with a common goal be bad? Wouldn't it help the group continue in the same direction?
They are already attempting to control use of language and the foundational view of how open source works, based on their world view that equality is an illusion and only through use of selective discrimination against unpopular groups, as dictated by them, can equality be achieved.
On the other hand, i could rewrite your comment about assembler, in the early days of C and B and the like. As source maps and debugging get better, we get closer to being able to ignore the javascript.
I heard a radio interview by the author a few days ago. An interesting bullshit job he described is the ‘duct taper’ in software engineering. Basically those who take existing software and tape it all together as something new. I see the same behaviour everyday in the hardware industry and passed off as innovation.

Edit: you can read more about the idea here.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=Lsc8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT75&lpg=PT...

My recollection was off. It’s more about duct taping being about paid work doing maintenance on making innovative code interoperable while many programmers spend their personal time actually building the really interesting stuff.

My gripes about my observations was related to colleagues (trained in heat transfer) responding to calls by clueless managers for disruption by buying a bunch of consumer electronics taping it all together can pretending they redesigned the computer.

Incredibly frustrating when you’re actually trying to do novel research.
Well meritocracy means we will try to select and give influence/recognition based on merit. When someone tries to push an idea like "let's have more Asians" or "let's have more men" in the project we can direct them to the very first statement where they see we do selection based on merit and not skin color, gender or sexual orientation. Any attempt to introduce gender/race/sexual orientation quotas will promptly be rejected on those basis. There is value in wording it like this beyond "let's do good".
„Too many“ for what?
In a true meritocracy, all candidates are judged on equal footing so P(x|a) isn't compared to P(y|b). In practice this is very possible (albeit expensive) to achieve, given a set pool of candidates. Although judging based on past achievement has the problem you describe, it can be used in place of a fair test (eg, judging candidates based on resumes instead of technical interviews) since high past achievement is strongly (but not perfectly) associated with high skill.

Mozilla doesn't appear to be addressing your version of meritocracy, but the actual definition of meritocracy, which still gives those who had the opportunity to build skill an advantage.
The bridge’s advertised maximum downward deflection is 10.8 feet. Unless that’s an incredibly blatant lie, I don’t see how a deflection of 7 feet would almost break the bridge.

Edit: the article does go on to acknowledge that, after the point where I’d originally stopped reading out of exasperation with the typical BANG clickbait.
But what might preclude someone who happens to be of a different race or gender from also being the most competent person for the job?
I highly recommend reading Chomsky or Herman’s work directly and drawing your own conclusions. It is extensively footnoted with primary sources.[1]

I grew up in a conservative environment. One day I came across some of Chomsky’s speeches on the early web with claims I found somewhat shocking (e.g. “the US is the world’s leading terrorist state”). But there was something compelling about it, so I took the extra step to check myself into my university library and read some of his books. And actually follow up on the citations. (Which actually documented terrorist activity on the part of the US government, among other things.) This was pre-Wikipedia. It was truly mind-expanding and equipped me with faith that careful study of the facts can change beliefs.

I fear that far too many of us rely on the summations of others. Wikipedia is truly a wonderful resource, but there is no substitute for checking sources yourself.

[1] An extensive online archive of Chomsky’s work can be found at http://chomsky.info
This is a really weird critique of the idea that people with fewer opportunities should be given a few more chances to show their skills. It's directly increasing the metric you're interested in, but you're still against it for... reasons?
I love Go, I really do. But there are some issues that should be fixed (maybe in 2.0).

I'm not so sure if we really need full-scale generics like in Java or Rust, but the interface system (which is the Go solution for the Generics use-cases) certainly needs some improvements. For example, when you write a container lib which expects an empty interface as input you constantly have to cast the type while using the lib. The result is code which looks awful when you use the container and horrible when you look at the container implementation.

Next, using slices of interfaces is just another bad joke [1]. there might be technical reasons for the current state, but I am sure there are ways to solve those issues.

One thing I am not quite sure about the way Go handles bindings methods to interfaces. Currently, that is not supported and the practical way to do it anyway is to embed the interface into a struct and bind the methods to that struct, but that feels more like a hack than anything else.

Another thing that keeps bugging me is the requirement for map keys to be comparable while that is just some internal property which some types have and others don't. For example, functions are not comparable and therefore you can't use them as map keys. Finding out about such stuff really sucks when functions are considered first-class citizens.

That said, I have to add that I enjoy a lot of the positive sides of Go and while I wish those issue will be fixed someday, I will gladly continue to use it even with those issues.

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/InterfaceSlice
The problems in FreeBSD CoC were widely discussed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16406946

When people approached some of the FreeBSD Core Team with their concerns about vague language that could be subject to abuse, they were basically told they were all racist transphobes who weren't welcome to contribute to FreeBSD anyways.

So it was a pretty obvious politically-motivated power-grab.