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Absolutely, yes, definitively, unquestionably.

Why?

Because the abolition of slavery is one of the greatest achievements of our civilization.

New generations of humans are constantly being born, and until we teach them, they don't know why this is. They don't know why slavery was such a black mark on our history. They don't understand what it does not just to the people involved, but to a society. They don't know why it proliferated so easily (and this is still very relevant today; when our society turns a blind eye to illegal immigrant labor, it's an echo of the same economics that made slavery easy for past generations to accept).

You should be able to sit down with a 9th grader and explain to them, this is what slavery was, this is how common it was for most of history. This is why it was so tempting and these are the benefits people reaped from it. But this is how we realized that the costs outweighed the benefits, and how we created a better world at a great cost to many people.

Crucially, it's important to explain to someone how slavery would be bad for them and their community, even if they themselves were not a slave.

It's important to teach all of this to the new humans we raise. "It was bad, end of story" is not enough. The best way for them to learn is to reason through the arguments on both sides, explore the history, see how we got to where we are, and draw their own conclusions. Because you can't force a belief on someone. They need to get there themselves.

If you ban the discussion they are going to reach their beliefs without guidance. And the isolated, the lonely, the angry will end up with some very dark beliefs. It's happening now as a direct response to censorship culture.

I completely understand that slavery is a difficult and very personal topic for a lot of people. These are hard conversations to have. But for the sake of future generations we need to have them. Beliefs are stronger when they're justified. They are strongest when they are challenged, defended, and the challenges are defeated. We should never stop doing that.
The first rule of Rust club is chew food while shouting Rust
What he said was stupid and disgusting. People sometimes over-estimate the amount of latitude the organization they work for will give them to do this.

The technology industry is taking baby-steps towards actual inclusivity and diversity of thought -- and not this dumbass "I want to be free to say stupid offensive shit with impunity" flavor of "inclusivity" that people around here seem to champion. That is a Good Thing and organizations like MIT and the FSF need to be very careful about whom they let represent them.

As far as I'm aware Stallman has neither been arrested nor has his website been torn down, so he's welcomed to continue to make whatever good and bad points he feels like and the rest of us are welcomed to judge him as we wish: smart, stupid, ignorable, or maybe even abhorrent to the point where maybe he shouldn't be representing a place like MIT. Or the FSF.

It's a free country, after all.
> You should make this a poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

> But to answer your question, I would be tempted to take an extra day off but in the end I would not, and here's why. An extra day off disappears when you move to the next company (you: I worked a 4 day week at my last job, them: we don't do that here), but the salary typically forms a floor for negotiating the next salary (you: I made $180k at my last job, them: we can match or beat that). With the extra salary you could take extra unpaid vacation days to effectively get your extra day off and get the raise at the same time.

How does your new employer know your previous salary without you telling them? And on the other end, why wouldn't you price intangibles into your salary when negotiating?
> But if you're in a position to bribe prison guards and authorities to cover up murder-by-fake-suicide, I suspect it's not significantly harder or more expensive to bribe prison guards and authorities to cover up an escape.

> It's debatable if it would more expedient to remove the evidence permanently or have it moved to another location where some of its skills might continue to be useful. But I would be surprised if option 2 wasn't at least a possibility.

To think any of this is plausible given the context requires an unwell mind.
I take your point but the issues of consent and agency apply equally well if gender roles are reversed or mixed up any old how.
Could you explain what it is that you find so disturbing and weird about this?
Ironically if everybody had done that, things wouldn't have played out this way.

When at work, confine it to work stuff folks. There's a genius to it. It automatically renders you incapable of things like gossip, harassment, gaffes like this, and most other trouble. The only trouble left for you to get into is saying stupid things about the work itself, which I can't help you with. But remember you're working in a complex world with different people who don't share your opinions and ideally aren't your friends and you ideally don't need them to be, because you've got a vibrant life outside of work, and you go to work, to work on work, and talk about work, and when the work's done, you leave.
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> What was Minski doing on Epstein's party island?

Epstein hosted conferences on a number of occasions for scientific luminaries, which is why-- for example-- there are pictures of Stephen Hawking on Epstein's island.

Minsky was involved in an AI conference held by Epstein in 2002.
We really don’t like the preprocessor, but it is currently necessary for many things, especially supporting different architectures, compilers, and Standard version modes. We regularly purge our implementation of no-longer-necessary macros, even when it breaks (non-Standard) code, as we recently did with `_NOEXCEPT`, and we look forward to removing even more.

Please file an issue if you encounter macros that don’t appear to be necessary.
Perhaps dominance is not required, despite their beliefs? There is more than one huge car company and a bunch of medium sized ones too.

It's possible some investors are buying in because they think they are getting into a viable-when-dominance-not-required business on the cheap.

(Me, I don't understand any of these businesses (We, Blue Apron etc) and let someone else take the risk.)
> > The Go compiler is fast.

> Ah crap, not that shit again.

> The whole point is "compiler is fast, tests run faster". Well, what if I said the compiler would catch bugs before the tests? That would be even faster, 'cause then you can focus your tests on system behaviour, which is way more important than function behaviour or class/structure/module behaviour.

No.

A fast compiler is not only good for unit tests. And even when it comes to unit tests, it is not at all idiomatic Rust to omit them; on the contrary, unit test support is built into the language!

Rust having a slow compiler is a serious downside. The language has many upsides that can hopefully make up for it, depending on your priorities, but that doesn't make compilation speed a non-issue.

That said, the compiler is significantly faster than it used to be and hopefully will continue to improve as time goes on.
I think you should be aware that all non-consensual sex is sexual assault, and all sexual assault is violence. Sexual assaulters have committed violent crime.
My first thought was "I wish the startup I'm working for would read this". My second, "eh, wouldn't change anything."

> so I’m working on a new website and series of engineering posts to help share my approach to a lot of these problems.

Do you have a mailing list or something to get on to get updated on this?
Why? We obviously read the notes and we didn't especially care for them before we found out they were Milton's, so why is that? This implies that we care more about a famous person writing dreck than an anonymous person writing fantastic insights.
> Is this a bad thing?

There is some optimal standard for any class of cases. (At the very least varying the standard will produce better/worse results in relation to particular classes of cases.)

So, no—

> are you going to gather evidence and do cross-examinations before you'll believe them?

—that would be a very bad choice of standard.

I have not claimed to know what the optimal choice of standard is (I will claim that no one else knows it either though), but I do think that changing the standard would have a huge societal impact, and so it shouldn't be done on the basis of a hunch that the outcome would be better. I pointed out one possible complication (convicting more innocent people), though of course the possibilities there are endless.

So to be absolutely clear: I am not advocating for a tighter standard, I'm suggesting that there are complications entailed in lowering it, so it should only be done on a much firmer grounding than some vague notions about catching more bad guys.
> Saying something that is literally true, in an industry which is known to be stuffed with some very literal minded people, should not be grounds for anyone resigning. It should be grounds for doing nothing, apologising or clarifying depending on what was said.

If you think this industry still has anywhere near the room for "literal minded people" that it once had, think again. Even proper participation in Scrum ceremonies requires nuance and a capacity to read a room.

Stallman's political views have always been a little weird and sometimes gross, but he said what he said because his autism is weapons-grade and with that comes a fixation on "hobgoblin of little minds" tier logical consistency. And with all that sweet, sweet corporate money, the normies, who prioritize the feelings of their peers over logic, have effectively taken over open source and installed normies in key positions, the better not to have to deal with icky nerds who say embarrassing things and don't know how to "play the game".

And really, that's part of what this is all about. This is the new guard purging the old guard. It's also why Linus was subjected to a struggle session last year and why he may yet get the axe from the Linux Foundation.
People don't seem to remember that Apple wrote Clang and open-sourced it.
That'd depend on what you'd want for QOL, different people value different things. Myself, I think quality of life in Chicago is so much higher than in BA that I'd take it even at significantly less money. Austin seems similar. Omaha on the other hand...
I guess tacky is subjective. It's largely fun because my family loves it so much and makes it fun. I love the attention to detail, the rides are fun, the food is good, the resorts are nice. It's all stress free and easy and everything goes right and there's very little planning needed. Meeting the cast members is silly and fun. Having a meal plan and everyone just getting to stuff their face is great.

The downside of course is that it's all tremendously expensive. But more than anything I view it as quality time with family in a way that I generally otherwise never get to have (they live across the country). It's more about family time and doing what they love more than it is about anything Disney

Also it helps I've traveled a lot to most everywhere I've ever had interest in traveling to. I'm not really sacrificing trips somewhere else in favor of Disney
>> The Russians are able to extract every capability from any given technology.

And that's how you know you're reading fake news made up horseshit.

Full disclosure: dual Russian and US citizen. Lived most of my life in the US.
The really cool part about this is that the server does not need to know the client's ip address. Instead a new original form of ICMP hole punching is used to allow any client to punch the NAT so that the server can dynamically learn the client ip, and then regular UDP hole punching is used.
Also, cold winters; scrapbooking; applique vests
When my website (https://www.aedaily.net) has a million of record, I had migrated Postgres to Mongodb because performance issues.
I'm using Django template to easy maintain, development and SEO.
It was one medium sized building in an Irvine office park next to the UCI campus. Basically you had an auditorium that opened to QA with 3 awesome coin-ops in free play. I’m still having a hard time finding exact replicas of these games in any arcade. Then you had a small upstairs section with a few offices.
I gotta say, I do hope Blue Apron survives. After all, if it goes under, who will sponsor the entire podcast ecosystem?
Some people write web services in Swift on Linux, though it's really just getting started.
Their finance doesn't look bad. Revenue trended up. Flush with cash. Making money. The 5 year chart look bad, but they've stabilized in the past couple years and it looks like they've found way to actually remain profitable.
Depends on what axes you're looking at. There are a large class of tasks where 10 years ago I would have used C, C++, Python, or Java for, which I could now use Rust or Go and get an improved result with either.
I would say Amazon is the new Microsoft, having turned the old Embrace, Extend and Extinguish into Embrace, Extend and Engulf.
Isn't it likely that someone wrote a script for testing some regression and it keeps running in a loop? I can almost bet that will be the case.
Do I need citizenship in the USA if I want to trade on this stock?
> I don't think he saw it as a hill worth dying on

If you know Stallman at all, you know that he sees every single hill as a hill worth dying on. It's kinda the problem.
I think the argument is around what qualifies as consent.
What about your privacy and security? That maid is essentially a stranger, wandering around in your house, with a perfect excuse to be poking into everything.
Bollocks. Like Ricky Gervais said the other day actually you can say anything you like. People might not agree with you and that's fine.
This had to happen as they are one of the mordern providers for shopping. Ebay is old, still one of the top sites but OLD!!!
The cost of acquiring new customers once they reached scale was the issue. The cost went up significantly making their unity economics unfavourable.
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What exactly is the endgame of this outrage mob culture that tries to consume anyone who holds even a slightly unorthodox opinion?
It's definitely the "achilles heel" in the sense that the only real compelling feature of a weirdo language and environment like Erlang and BEAM is its use / capability in creating both scalable and highly fault tolerant systems.

If in fact the fault-tolerant premise is broken as soon as you need something outside the capabilities of the managed language, why learn a weirdo language? You might as well just use C# or Java instead.
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Ah.

Amazon is a good case study for you. Didn't pay dividends for a decade or more. Reinvested everything. Pissed off analysts. And killed it.

In that world as long as you can keep delivering growth, you're good. Miss once and you're toast.
Yes, but it is also an ecommerce indirectly, it provides products to its users 'drop shipping'.
His argument in this specific email- as I read it- was a variant of "Your Honor, I had no idea she wasn't willing and 18!" ie that Minsky didn't know and must therefore have been blameless.

I think it's an immoral argument too- Minsky should have known something was going on, and would be culpable. And it's very possible he did know.

But paired with RMS' prior pedophilia apologia, the combination is horrendous.
Our commit history is stretched across multiple Microsoft-internal source control systems. In my career (2007+ in MSVC), that’s Source Depot, two databases of Team Foundation Server, and currently Git in Azure DevOps.

Unfortunately, we will not be making the history prior to the GitHub “Initial commit” public. It would be a huge amount of work, would bloat the git repo, and would be of little utility. (We occasionally have to perform programmer-archaeology, but rarely more than a year, and usually it’s only something that the developer who made the change can do due to personal memories.)

Consider this a fresh start. We will figure out a way to tag commits corresponding to shipped releases.
I'm not cheering. I would much rather live in a universe where Stallman didn't "I'm just saying" himself out of his own organisation. I don't even like him that much, but I think he represented an important voice in software. It's not good that he's out, but I think it is right.

I am dumbfounded anew every time I see a smart and analytical person twist themselves around to the point that they become too smart to believe in analysis. Saying Stallman was persecuted for "expressing ideas" is about as sophisticated as "my program crashed because the electrons were in the wrong place". You wouldn't be satisfied with an understanding that shallow in any other circumstance.

Meaning. Words have it. Questions have it. Ideas have it. "Etsy for houseplants" is an idea, as is "figuring out your home address from information available online and breaking in to your house tonight while you're sleeping". Why is one of them creepier than the other? I can't believe I'm being persecuted for just having ideas!

The meaning of Stallman's argument is that he doesn't think Minsky did anything wrong. Why doesn't he think Minsky did anything wrong? Probably because he was a friend, a good guy, a peer, who knows. Because of these entirely scientific feelings, he makes a series of arguments:

1. She only said she was directed to have sex with Minsky, not that she actually did

2. Even if she did say she had sex with Minsky, she may have been confused and answering the wrong question

3. Even if she did actually have sex with Minsky, she probably made it appear consensual

4. Even if she was not legally capable of consent, that is not morally equivalent to rape

5. Thus, it is "injustice" and "wrong" to say Minsky is accused of sexual assault

Is this your science? Is this the altar of rationality you're worried will be torn down by the rabid inquisitors of the new dark age? Because to me it sounds a lot more like The Dragon in My Garage. How far must our credulity stretch to believe that Minsky foresaw most of modern AI, only to fall for "hot willing 17-year-olds in your area"?

And how does a man like Stallman look at open source and see politics, look at dynamic linking and see politics, look at javascript and see politics – and look at science and see nothing but science? Like you, I do not believe Stallman is malicious. I believe he is naive. That is a fine quality in a revolutionary, but not in a leader.
Ripple is sponsoring this.

They gave ~$250m (in XRP) to Coil[0]. Coil is now giving $100m to people to monetize the web.

Gotta do something with that sweet, sweet ICO money.

[0] https://www.coindesk.com/ripple-is-giving-away-1-billion-xrp...
Google trends is probably not a good way to assess Pinterest.

Want to browse Pinterest? Open the app.
Want to get Pinterest? Go to the App Store.
Heard someone say 'pinterest' but don't know what it means? Search google.

Your link is only showing that last one.
That's what you think happened here? You think Epstein felt in love? With a child being trafficked for sex?
The Unsinkable Modernist
It looks like most of the world has it at 16 and below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent
ah no... it's not clean... the places where radioactive materials are mined are inhabitable forever. If something goes wrong the place where the plant was build it inhabitable as well. And we have no idea how to make storage places of radioactive materials safe for future generations.
These costs are put on states and countries while companies are reaping the rewards.
Nuclear power might be clean in the CO² sense, but it's pretty damn toxic in the long run...
>> For countries like the United States, sea level rise is basically a real estate problem

Barack Obama doesn't seem to be worried about sea level rise: https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/190822-barack-...

Neither is Al Gore: https://moodyeyeview.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/montecito-h...

Leo DiCaprio isn't too worried either: https://mansionglobal.com/articles/leonardo-dicaprio-buys-ma...

So yeah, if it's a real estate problem, these guys might have a problem. As to the rest of us, I think we'll start worrying as soon as these canaries in the coal mines, so to speak, start unloading their beachfront mansions for pennies on the dollar.
https://github.com/curvedns/curvedns/blob/gh-pages/CNAME

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=github+pages+"cname+file"

The official GH docs at https://help.github.com/en/articles/using-a-custom-domain-wi... don't seem to talk about it (any more?) as opposed to the web UI way of setting the custom domain. There is a small mention at https://help.github.com/en/articles/troubleshooting-custom-d...
I totally see what the author of this post is saying, and I agree with most...But, that original post wasn’t half bad. It was entertaining and well written. I frankly don’t think anyone took it for anything other than an opinion piece.
By "having an incorrect opinion" I'll assume you mean "having and voicing an incorrect opinion."

Yes. There are laws against workplace harassment. Harassment may include repeated voicing of discriminatory opinions. The harasser may be fired to prevent the workplace from being a 'hostile environment'.

Even when the law does not require action, someone may be fired even after a single conversation with incorrect opinions (and I mean 'incorrect' in the factual sense here). Take Jimmy Snyder, a.k.a. "Jimmy the Greek". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Snyder_(sports_commentat... .

> On January 16, 1988, Snyder was fired by the CBS network (where he had been a regular on NFL Today since 1976) after making several questionable comments about African Americans during a lunchtime interview on January 15, 1988 with Ed Hotaling ...

More directly, if it's the 1950s and I call my stridently anti-Soviet Union boss "a pinko Commie" to his face, that's voicing an incorrect opinion -- and I might easily be fired for it. (It's not hard to come up with modern-day examples, but I felt it best to use phrases which no longer have the emotional power they once did.)

None of these apply to what happened with Stallman. I instead wanted to address your broader topic of being fired for expressing an opinion.
The article mentions one allusion Milton made to Shakespeare. It is possible that we can learn more about what ideas Milton was referencing and responding to in Shakespeare. It gives us more insight into him than into Shakespeare.
I believe Virginia Giuffre.
As a layperson I know no better than what I get in popular articles, however, my understanding is that the state of the art in neurology now says you are actually not fully formed mentally until your mid twenties. See: prefrontal cortex.

So you can say that 17 year old exceeds some adults and it may be true, but current neurological science suggests that 17 year old has not yet reached their full mental capacity.
Hasn't PayPal been doing this for decades?
It's funny how people flirt between law and objective morality depending on which further serves their argument.

Controlling the language is key to controlling the discussion, and as usual Stallman just wanted to clarify the language. He's used to dealing with a more rational, less public crowd, and didn't realize he was poking a bed of hot coals.

It's very sad to see such backlash and support of deplatformization of someone who has done so much for us over one cluster of comments. Even if you disagree with him, surely we can be allowed more than one mistake in the public eye before the platform we helped create is ripped from our hands. This is quite the authoritarian mindset and it worries me to find it in such prevalence here on Hacker News.
It's anecdotal but I've been in half a dozen WeWork properties in the last 2 months and I've yet to see one more than 50% occupied. There were a couple buildings in Seattle that seemed almost empty.