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The most attractive thing about cotton as a food crop is that the FDA has approved use of pesticides on it that are not allowed on crops meant for people. They need these because cotton pests are among the worst.

That cottonseed oil is permitted in food is among the most egregious loopholes in US food regulation. When you see cottonseed oil in the ingredients you know that the manufacturer has cut cost and quality of every other ingredient to the absolute limit.

Cows' tolerance for cottonseed toxin is exaggerated -- recommendations are that cottonseed meal be no more than 10% of their diet. The attraction for ranchers has been that cottonseed meal is practically free, because it is toxic waste.

Growing cotton is terrible for the soil, and cotton needs huge amounts of water. Anything that increases acres under cotton cultivation is an evil.
I have been enjoying Windows since 3.0, even though I had a Linux zealot phase about 20 years ago. Maybe I have Stockholm syndrome.
You state that you learned of it from someone who "linked to an article that had a screenshot of it". The only way you could have not arrived at the correct interpretation is if you also took at face value misinformation presented to you in the surrounding context. Which in turn suggests you spend time uncritically accepting such misinformation.

You may consider that an accident. I do not.
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I hope at this point you're looking at the replies and realizing that your nihilistic, cynical viewpoint is in a very strong minority.

You can take the money, but you can never say that nobody told you there would be repercussions.
Well if you're a Saudi citizen and you don't have much of a choice then clearly no, it's just the way things are, you don't choose where you're born. If you're a foreigner and go out of your way to open a company in Saudi Arabia then clearly yes.
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What does any of that have to do with the previous question?
One of the components of online anonymity is having different identites for different communities. That way if your expiremental political blog goes horribly wrong it doesn't take your professional life or hobby group with it
Do they float?
I sent fakes of myself to be on TV around the world [video]
A company whose existence relies on government handouts is by definition not sustainable though...
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SO literally gives you a reward in the form of a badge for your profile the more you flag questions! They give you a badge for downvoting, a badge for editing... The root cause for all these behaviours lies with whoever dreamt up those badges and chose what to award them for.
this reads childish and stupid. what a terrible way to say you don't agree with change.
stdint.h can't be reliably be premade. A compiler is completely free to, say, define sizeof(unsigned int) to anything as long as it can represent at least 65535. stdint.h has to work with the C base types, so it does have to be customized for a particular compiler.
I would think "TAZ" in this case would be bowl, not pelvis.
How does being a kit home affect resale value if at all?
This article is admission from there VC community that valuations are basically price gouged as a function of available capital - with little, if any, scientific basis the them.

This was always evident from how badly unicorns have fared in the open market post IPO - but this is a direct admission of price gouging
Only slightly related, but interrupts are a pretty old concept as far as i know. I'm curious if there is anything that would replace them?
Overall, I agree with your point, but it's definitely a fallacy that if you do bad things it nullifies good things that you do.

If (for example) you thought that eating vegan was better ethically or environmentally, eating vegan only one day a week would still be "better" than not eating vegan at all. Eating non-vegan some of the time is not hypocritical, nor does it nullify the "good" you're doing.

Absolutely though, companies should be shamed (and not patronized) for their bad behavior and bad associations.
Precise language matters. You could loosely state that any war in which the losing head of state ended up dead was an "assassination", but that's not what the word actually means.
And another reason for me to avoid FB links. I'm sure blockers will begin stripping that out.

FB just doesn't understand the optics they create.
I'm inclined to believe that the normative case for these kinds of documents is not intentional harassment, but simple miscommunication. Starting with encouraging introspection and moving through mediation before getting to outright banning makes sense. Moving straight to ejection for comments that could easily not be intentionally abusive, is just giving ultimate authority to anyone who takes offence. Better to put both sides of a dispute on neutral ground, and allow community leaders (or the community at large) to sort out the disagreement. But a key step before that should be to encourage people to consider how their words and actions could be interpreted to hopefully avoid offending in the first place.
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with git, you have a mirror on every single developer machine (kinda... depending on what you consider "all" of the code).

We also have a full copy on our CI server (which is hosted on another service, so still not "in-house"), and we have a copy of at least the master branch (and all it's history) on our production boxes (which also gets pulled into our whole backup system there).

In a disaster recovery scenario, that's more than enough for me.

Sure, if github blinked out of existence we would probably be at a fraction of our normal productivity for a while until we fully recover everything and find new workflows, but the risk vs reward there is well within the margins of what I'd consider acceptable for a company like us.
You'll still have to grab the phone to point the flashlight.
Speaking counter to not only RMS but also the tide of popular opinion not only on HN but the internet at large I'm sure takes a lot of courage -- and I just want to say thank you.
You aren't taking into account causality.

"Here's a sports car for you if you vote the way I like on this issue": this suggests that the sports car bought the vote, and so is indicative of corruption.

"I like your position on this issue, here's some money for your campaign to help you get elected, and that can only be spent for that": this suggests that the position is the cause of the money, not the other way around, and so is not indicative of corruption.
How many of us even know (or take the time to find out) the investors of the companies we are interested in working for? And if we take a high moral stance, there wouldn't be many companies left - Amazon for its bad treatment of workforce, Google for privacy concerns, Facebook for its .. where do we even start, Oracle for its nastiness and so on.
People have been saying that for a long time now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485

There has always been a mix of political stories here. pg's criterion was that they were ok as long as they were intellectually interesting and not only about politics.

Lots of links here if anyone wants more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869
Your comment and quote are almost completely unrelated. What on earth are you getting at?
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Right, if it was unmaintained (which I could easily believe it was!) I wouldn't be at all unsurprised by it being a multi-year effort to get it working again with all the big changes made to OS X in the time period.

And things that were rewritten from scratch for Aqua (in 10.0, like the entire graphics stack) will have never run on a little-endian system, and those alone would be a major porting effort.
Customers who liked this article also liked:

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The above article was posted on HN awhile ago. Author goes to number of small town chinese restaurants in Canada and tells their stories. Very long read. Not sure why I liked it so much, but was a good relaxing read.
I have the exact opposite response. The wobbly windows look wacky and distracting. To my eye, windows are simply not meant to do that. I suppose it's a matter of what you're used to (as is often the case when it comes to UI opinions).
If you are in a position to do so, then what does it matter? Given the ability to pick between two things that are identical bar some moral aspect, it seems logically consistent to pick the option that aligns more with your morals.
Developers often quit managers rather than companies. I find how long I stay is related to how progressive the culture is.

Examples of progressive management: Good work from home policy, lack of 70's butts in seats mentality, no death marches, no stack rankings, a no-assholes policy, leadership with a vision, legal carve-outs for your side projects, evaluation based on achievement rather than superficial factors.

All things being equal, those things keep me around. Without them, I'll be looking.
I agree that there is some point that one needs to say failure. However from how I read the OPs description, it sounds like the product has not been marketed in any way other than a single Show HN. That is clearly a marketing failure. It possible points as a business failure but does not mean it is a product failure.

I think we need more data to state definitively.
Everyone that is targeting OS X, iOS, tvOS and watchOS.

The developers that Apple cares about.
Yeah, exactly. https://www.dw.com/en/prague-bridge-collapse-leaves-4-injure...
> You're setting up quite the extreme straw man. Amazon was using the site in a 'normal' fashion to do something that eBay did not want. This has nothing to do with hacking or other sorts of nonsense.

That hacking aside is a red herring.

> Sites can put whatever they want in their terms of service. This does not make them law, and in many cases the clauses are in no way enforceable.

Sites are owned by particular people and organizations, and they have a right to set the terms (withing reason). It's just a like a landlord who puts a term in their contract saying you can't exercise your right of free speech by yelling your opinions through the wall of your apartment at 3AM.

> Amazon could add in their terms, 'You may not speak negatively of Jeff Bezos on our software.' and it's completely meaningless.

That term is not meaningless, even if it's in bad taste, and I think that's the fundamental point of our disagreement.
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> I don't see what Khashoggi's murder changes

It's a definitive and publicized example of behavior that other people (eg Me) have been familiar with for decades. SA is a dangerous and chaotic absolute monarchy that is equatable to Saddam's Iraq. This changes people's minds about dealing with SA. This gives the western public an opportunity to do a casual review of current news and possibly dig into history, for further confirmation.
I agree. Giving someone undue respect just because they're old is ageism. Some old people never really grew up and are still jerks (I plan on being one of them; getting my grumpy on).

Respect everyone.
> Plants do not contain cholesterol.

Yes, they do. Source: Cholesterol and Plants by Behrman et al.
Minor note, but one of your concerns, automatic CW transition was removed several years ago: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/227290/stop-using-c...

Also,

> Jeff bailing 2 years in

The site was launched in late 2008 (hence the blog's congratulations on 10 years), and presumably there was a fair bit of work previous to that. So somewhere between 4 and 5 years.
You were complaining about HN "becoming a political message board," which I took to mean you didn't want to see any posts relating to politics here.

Also, as I recall Lessig's work used to focus on copyright and intellectual property, and it was his experience trying to advocate for sensible reforms to those laws that led him to shift his focus towards what he terms the "corruption" that allow the Disneys and Comcasts of the world to force through bad laws like the DMCA (or repealing net neutrality) and block more sensible laws and regulations. So there is a line from this post back towards tech-related law issues.
What's missing is the ability for people to easily know where the line is, and where people stand related to said line; they might be on the other side of the line simply due to ignorance or circumstances, they need the work to survive.

We have to draw the line (and show who is on which side of the line), so people can choose/decide to hold that line with their actions - to hold the people in nations who are in control accountable, towards peace and for justice. Who's being accountable, and who isn't - who is purposefully not being accountable, who is espousing ignorance or laziness as justification?

These organizations, the employees and leaders of these organizations - they certainly could take a stand and voice their concern, however why aren't they: looking at the story of a dead journalist is all you need to reason why they don't and how they don't want to end up themselves - so they've trapped themselves from action, at least publicly; whether they do anything privately that is significant or indirectly enough to support the cause of peace and justice, we may not be able to see or know.
Do you have a source where we can go look this up? All I found was Trump made such a claim, but there's no proof either way.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/07...
What's the problem being solved that a donated popup tent can't handle? Popup tent is lighter, portable, and you can set up and tear down in seconds. I'm not sure what the point of this is.
yeah, but then your business model is selling ebooks, video courses and paid training, and this just becomes one of a number of avenues to reach your market. Which is all totally fine, of course, but the business is no longer "a website with the 5 answers to the most commonly asked Linux questions" :)
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I don't think it does. I think it's regarded as charming. There's a whole enthusiast community. Also: they're kit houses, but they're not like, mobile homes or pre-fab; they're just houses, like any other.
This article was posted days before any of the links you've given.

According to the metadata for the site, it was originally published on 2018-10-14 and last updated 2018-10-16.

Facebook's own article about the feature came out 5 days after this article was published. So, at the time, Facebook _was_ being secretive about it. Aside from that one line, the entire article reads more like "this is new, I wonder what it does".

Lastly, when I googled "fbclid" the top 3 articles are completely unrelated to Facebook (but, then, I'm not in marketing so this doesn't surprise me) and the forth is this very article.
> That is the paragraph that captures the essence of the CoC issues for me. A CoC seems to be used as a weapon for killing those that do not abide by its rules, not as a tool for teaching each other to be awesome to each other.

Can I ask an honest question? Do you really think that men advocating for molestation of women, or open racists, are just... you know... undereducated and waiting for you as a thought-savior to come and explain to them what's objectionable about their thinking? Do you think that Ts'o just needed you to step in and explain how domestic sexual abuse is rape and that he's just being insufficiently awesome[0]?

I'm all for assuming positive intent, but at some point this game becomes patronizing, even infantilizing. It seems bizarre to propose Linux's CoC or GNU's is the place to go educating people that rape apology is bad.

I don't think it's bad that Stallman decided to go this route (even if I disagree with some of the logic he expressed). To be honest, I don't think the GNU org actually has that much sway or control over individual projects, so guidelines for successful contribution are probably an appropriate measure for them.

But Projects can and in my opinion should quantify what constitutes acceptable behavior from their contributors. This is not an unfair or unreasonable thing for a project to do. It's bizarre to me that people here constantly suggest that it's somehow unfair to bar a developer from participating. This is about the most anti-free-speech, anti-individual-autonomy stance one can propose in the world of software. It's a statement that says the production of value (often not for the community, but at the behest of corporate funding) outweighs the individual's rights to free association. It suggests that reprehensible people with reprehensible views can simply use economic value or unique education to force themselves on communities, and those communities should not be able to choose for themselves because the value of these things should be self-evident. It's completely nonsensical.

[0]: http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/ted_mail/0037.html
An interesting mirroring of the popular CoCs these days. While they enshrine what one could call "San Francisco Democrat" values, this CoC enshrines christian conservative values.

If you think value-based CoCs are fine, you shouldn't have a problem with this.
We can look to NASA as an example of how well that might play out...
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Form _is_ function in a visual medium. If I can't easily parse the information in front of me, then the content is useless; my eyes will just glaze over. That's why we have design in the first place.

I can't stand MPFR's page. There's very little visual hierarchy, so if I go to the page, I have to look through all the text to find anything specific. For a library like this, a big, colored download button would just make everyone's life easier. And it's a small thing, but why put the introduction third, so I have to scroll to see it? Just put a short tag line up top so I know what I'm looking at.

I get the desire to have content, and I agree that modern trends often go too far the other direction, but there is such a thing as fetishizing blandness. It's just a chore to read.

And what exactly is wrong with the Go rebranding? They haven't even changed the website, so I don't even know what your criticism is other than "I don't like modern, sleek logos and typefaces." Because otherwise, Rust and the Go update have basically the same info design (modern type, single tag line, high contrast, etc.).

Also, since when have colleges been teaching Vaporwave? Isn't Vaporwave largely a meme? I don't really see it manifesting in any design trends beyond that domain.
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Well yeah... but so would utm's and the millions of other CID's out there. Adobe... GCLID... the list goes on. You need a canonical.
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It's not about whether you "like" to read them or not, it's about whether the people they're directed at (and the audience) read them and decide to withdraw from the project (or never join it).
> Being politically correct vs getting the job done, I'll always choose getting the job done.

I am absolutely baffled at the idea that there is ever a situation where getting the job done requires a choice to be politically incorrect as implied here. Do you have an example of the phenomenon you're discussing?
> If you want to see the first narco-state of real estate, move to Vancouver, where Chinese capital has turned the city upside down.

Are you implying that a significant amount of the Chinese money flooding into Vancouver originates from the drug trade? This is the first I have heard of this. Care to elaborate?
Update: Compiz style wobbliness on Windows:

https://twitter.com/mikemaccana/status/1054401330817785856
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When people are arguing for "diversity" what they are meaning, generally, is "there is already an enormous thumb on the scales, this can be shown empirically by outcomes". So to the extent Stallman's intent is to take the thumb off the scales and make everyone welcome, it is very reasonable.

That said, I think he's wrong to devalue quota type approaches, because in some circumstances, particularly institutional ones in business and government, those are a very effective way to force a noncompliant culture to take its thumb off the scales.
Vide Judge Kavanaugh.
Sure, but the reason for that privilege is also the reason it matters so much. If you're considering whether to take a menial job in a warehouse or call center or something for a SoftBank-funded company, you're probably in a less privileged position in terms of your ability to turn down the best available job offer. But the ceiling on the value that you can create for those investors is much lower, which IMO significantly reduces the moral imperative to look elsewhere. Conversely, if you're an engineer for a SoftBank-funded startup, it's fairly likely that your contributions will create many millions of dollars' worth of wealth for Saudi investors.
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Many companies believe that catering to the issues of the modern day often is best for itself and its shareholders.

Companies do seem to be taking more and more political stances, though, than they have in the past, and personally I think it's, at least in some cases, naive on their parts. I used to see more of "we'll donate 1% of our revenue to save pandas" type marketing, which is noble and universally applauded, but now it's replaced with taking political stances on things that are often hot-button issues.
Different people saw those emails in different ways. In fact, some people are invigorated by strong words as opposed to being cowed and driven away by them. I'm not saying that you didn't perceive them as vicious attacks, I'm saying that the spectrum of human behavior includes people who think being harsh is fine, and give and take it freely. You can't just throw out everyone that behaves in a way that makes you uncomfortable, that's just xenophobia sneaking in through the back way.

What's really wrong is when someone consciously goes out of their way to target another person's emotions, but that has little to do with the average niceness of their writing (which is mostly set by their natural personality baseline).
GitHub team seems to be VERY unprofessional. 15 hour outage means ~99.82% availability which is extremely bad. 9 hours ago they also told that they would fix the problem within 2 hours... still not fixed!!!
Jesus christ, I never thought when I asked this question the word nation state would be psychoanalyzed in order to call me a nazi. Wtf?

Also, on reddit I was recently called an "anti-white racist." ok.

For the record ai agree with your civil libertarian principle of treating people as equals, and not as part of groups.
Could you clarify what in the article reads as immature and why? I don't feel I fully understand your position here.
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In addition to what other commenters have said, when you write off donated units, they're worth more at that time if their price is higher.
It’s a set of trainings both online and offline.

It’s meant to get people offline and into the real world, but the communication methods are applicable in online discussions as well.
How about BP and their atrocities in Iran. How about United Fruit and banana republics? I could dig up more examples. There are very few ethical companies, if any.