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RMS was pointing out inaccuracies in how a deceased colleague who was being accused of a heinous crime might simply have slept with a prostitute, if at all (which turns out probably wasn't the case).

> This is a man who said something wildly inappropriate in an MIT forum and got fired.

This is a man who said something mildly inappropriate in a forum, as is his wont.

> He deserved it.

A completely appropriate and reasonable verdict, no doubt. Doubts are for unreasonable people, of which one you are not.

> I welcome anyone to provide a counter-argument.

Somehow I doubt that.
Surely, for this to be useful, we need to be able to hit it if we try. Agreed that anything not trying to intercept should be able to avoid that by not trying.
Read a piece recently on how Uber is primarily used by people who are a) fairly well off and b) have access to transit or other options to get to work

This argument you make reminds me of that. Most people taking advantage of Amazon One-Day delivery are in urban centres, and most of them are likely doing OK, and most of them can likely walk or take public transit to get what they need
I think a window system makes sense. If you’re 19 and your sweetheart you’ve been dating is 17, that’s a lot different than a 25 year old and a 17 year old I think.

I guess it’d make sense to base it on brain development.

I have no idea what the best windows would be to promote the greatest reduction in false positive rape cases.

The biggest thing we as a society really need is a culture where the raped feel more comfortable speaking up. It’d probably be a decent thing to fund testing the massive backlog of rape kits piling up at the nation’s police forces as well.

No solution will ever be perfect so you can only attempt to do the least harm and help the most people in these awful situations.

Improving sexual education across some of our more religiously oriented states would be a positive as well.

Hopefully we keep moving forward. And what would be really nice is if some of these awful people Epstein trafficked these girls to went to prison.

It’s high time the rich and powerful started being held accountable for their absolutely atrocious behavior, whether it’s selling enough oxycontin to hook huge swathes of the population on heroin (the Sacklers certainly seem to be getting a better treatment than your average crack dealer), raping underage sex slaves, or leaking hundreds of millions of Americans social security numbers the rich and powerful seem to laugh and shrug it off.

That’s gotta stop.
Oh it'll get acquired eventually, the question is when, and at what price, and by whom? How valuable is a Github competitor if nobody's leaving Github to use it? I don't see Google being interested; they know it won't make any money but from corporate users, and corporate users don't take Google Cloud seriously. Someone like Atlassian might be interested if they didn't already have 5 CI/CD solutions.
That's not how it works for most businesses.
Except he didn’t excuse it, he said rape transcends age of consent laws which are dependent entirely on jurisdiction. Do you disagree with that? He may have phrased it in an unfortunate way, but that is how I parsed it.
Could you please tell more about your experience with GitLab vs GitHub support team? What kind of problems did they help (or did not help) solve?
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The Samsung Galaxy S5 was waterproof too, and had a headphone jack.
Thank you. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find a blocked site that has TLS 1.3 enabled.

I checked 3 blocked sites after enabling the options you suggested. They were still blocked. I confirmed all 3 didn't have TLS 1.3 by testing them with ssllabs ssltest. All had results show TLS 1.3 as "No".
> by saying the girl who was less than a quarter of his age would have appeared willing.

This does not sound impossible to me. Is the idea that say a 19 year old prostitute having sex with an 80 year old man so foreign to you?
You are a lot less likely to run into violence, gore, exploited people, etc. in person. The answer to, "human moderators get hurt by the constant stream of truly awful stuff." is not, "let the stream of truly awful stuff just go straight to everyone".
The world doesn’t need to be one of two extremes, either filtered everything or say whatever you want.

Words have consequences, and while you are free to say whatever, others are free to react to it too. You don’t get a free pass for saying ridiculous things just because free speech | difficulties communicating | you’ve done great things or whatever.

I don’t want a world where everything is filtered but I do want people to think about the impact of what they say before they say it.
Don't know if anyone posted this before, but if you scroll down to #25 here: https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/faq

You can send a letter to the Courts and let them know why you do or don't think this is a sufficient and decent settlement.

Share it, let's get people writing in, because this lets Equifax keep really everything and in the end little real effect from their failure to take care of the information they were entrusted with.
That's not what happened. And I doubt that any amount of apology, even if RMS was sincere, would have been sufficient--contrition is not punishment enough in today's Salem.
You're absolutely correct. Hence my comment about coercion. Did Minsky know that? Did he have any reason to suspect it?
Thanks for highlighting this! I was lucky enough to get to be the shadow this week, and it's been an incredible experience.

The program is outlined in our handbook if you want to find out more info: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/shadow/
Any NFA that does not have backreferences can be converted to a DFA. If you have backreferences in a regex, you must use an NFA to drive it.

Also, backreferences stand a chance of turning an NFA into NIA. Turns out it's not possible to programmatically determine which backreference-containing regexes will halt or not.
I tried it a few months ago but the cluster was kinda unstable, very often not detecting all the nodes as belonging to the cluster and things like that. Hopefully it has improved in the meantime.
That is what “defending” means: he took objection to what Minsky allegedly did being accurately characterised as assault and a crime.

Plenty of criminals take objection to their crimes being described as crimes, but “men should be allowed to have sex with underaged girls” is a particularly self-serving and gross position for a man in a position of power over young women to take.
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Confused about Me – Don't wanna do a cooperate job
I am presently 3rd year student. I am good with programming and have done two internships and everything is going pretty smooth.
The Problem is that I don't wanna endup working in a MNC. I wanna build stuff. I like to work with startup and I want to build one But I am not getting any good ideas. So, Stuck with it.

Any Suggestion of what I can do know. I even don't like being in College I am thinking of dropping out but I don't know what I am going to do afterwards.

Or anyone with some great idea and need a developer and cofounder I am ready to quit my college.
If someone honestly thought, and had reason to think, that they were having sex with a willing 18 year old and it turned out days later that they had sex with an unwilling 17 year old then:

(1) They have committed statutory rape

(2) Their position is morally defensible, although a bit creepy for an old man.

He probably didn't know she was 17. Why on earth would Minsky be risking the law by sleeping with a 17 year old girl when he could just sleep with an 18 or 19 year old? Presumably Epstein had all sorts on tap. It is very likely he wasn't told she was 17 and quite likely that if asked she had been coerced into lying. Stallman has a point here.

And to top it off even if he is wrong it is not such a critical fact that he needs to resign over it. Even if I accept tomorrow that everything I typed today so far was wrong; this is still not an important enough point to resign over anything. It is a moral hypothetical. It is no relevant to my, or Stallman's, daily personal or professional life.
Stallman resigned from MIT and FSF. Looks like he didn't endure.
I'll admit that I didn't read it all but that was at least partly because it behaved painfully in my browser (chrome on windows 10).
Oh neat, I must have glossed over that part. Egg on my face then. It's still not great, but significantly better than I thought it was.
Can anyone please provide context on this? Why did RMS feel the need to personally step in and weigh in on the Minsky allegations? Was it indeed just carelessness on his behalf, as many are speculating? Or were his comments part of another conversation inside the FSF that has not been made public?

I've read the email chain that's been circulated but it does not go back far enough. It's the "comments about comments" discussion.
> Future moon travelers will still have to ride a rocket, though, to fly up to the elevator’s dangling point, and then transfer to a robotic vehicle, which would climb up the cable all the way up to the moon.

And... how long is that going to take? A few months? A year? 200,000 miles is like going the circumference of the earth 10 times and I can't imagine a machine attached to a pencil-thin cable could go very fast
Wouldn't that put them at 40% of github's value. Giving that github's brand is more valuable this is pie-in-the-sky vc math. Ready to be ipoed and written down to a 1/10 of the value in 2 years.
I can't forego buying food and housing and medication so that I can reallocate "what I pay for advertisements" to tipping websites. If there's less advertising inventory available on websites, P&G is going to reallocate that spend to some other form of advertising, they're not going to drop the price of the shampoo and toilet paper I buy from them. The money's not in my pocket to spend, it's in theirs.
The main reason is that while black holes are more "extreme" objects, they are actually physically very simple. The matter collapses to a singularity (as far as we know), and so the physics is just described by the Einstein field equations with a correction for quantum fluctuations near the event horizon. Remarkably, the entire state of the black hole can be described by only the mass, charge, and angular momentum of the black hole.

By contrast, although neutron stars are less "extreme", they end up in a regime where the physics becomes much more difficult. The gravity is strong enough that you still need general relativity, but because the object is extended rather than a singularity, there's also a bunch of "stuff" which needs to be described as well. This means that you need to add in quantum electrodynamics and quantum chromodynamics. Furthermore, it's thought that at these densities you end up with some sort of a superfluid which means you need fluid dynamics and statistical physics to model its behavior, all of which is extremely difficult.

That said, there is another sense in which we could say that black holes are actually more mysterious than neutron stars. Although the physics of neutron stars is very complicated, we at least know what all the fundamental equations are. In the case of black holes if we want to understand physics near the singularity we would need a theory of quantum gravity which we currently don't have.
And of course, with the advent of DNS over HTTPS, this is no longer as effective. I can still access blocked sites and get around logging, I just have to set up a tunnel to cloudflare.
you don't need to hold on to the tether all the time.

Linear motors on the car and embedded metal strips every 1 km and you have a Lunar rail gun :)

In practice the rotational speed difference at different altitudes will make it a bit more complex. But nothing that cannot be solved.
Apple hypothetically buying GitLab sounds soo ridiculous

That would mean Apple did something to positively invest in their developer ecosystem which would certainly be very unusual.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-sci...

actual source email thread embedded at the bottom of the vice article
Except that's the last mile, and I think a small proportion of the total carbon footprint.

I think the question of whether same-day delivery is good or bad boils down to whether the goods are able to be trucked across the country in an efficient manner. If the company has switched to many more smaller trucks, which may be less than completely full, then it's a negative.
Most of them are privately owned and not networked. This renders them very inconvenient to monitor the daily life of political activists.
So it looks like he did eventually figure out a way to slant the ramps. I wonder how.
If Apple cares about their dev. ecosystem buying Gitlab would be pretty solid investment.
I'm very glad to read this here. I'm sorry it's so far down the page.

RMS achieved a sort of secular saintly status early on, and as a result has been excused from developing any sort of interpersonal skills or, apparently, human decency for most of his adult life. Now we say he identifies as autistic, like this excuses it, but in the absence of an actual diagnosis (and maybe even WITH one), it feels like a cop out.

It's well past time to accept that rms may well have damaged the FOSS movement with his behavior as much as he's helped it in recent years.

The free & open software world can do better. It deserves better. We ought to demand it. Moving on from rms is a great first step.
The thing that "sucks" in Amazon's marketplace - is having US entrepneurs , buying some Chinese crap, doing some marketing and playing some tricks(SEO, fake reviews, etc) and over-charging on products.

In theory, with the right tools competition could sort that out.

But this theory doesn't work, not in Amazon, and not in many other online marketplaces.

So the solution is: exclusive brands, controlled by Amazon.

Amazon works hard on scaling that strategy.

And once Amazon is deeply invested in that strategy, a low-quality marketplace seems like a good thing.
She wasn't underage. The age of consent was 16 at the time there. It was raised to 18 later, in the Child Protection Act of 2002.

If you are traveling, and there is any possibility you will engage in any sexual activities outside your home area, it is a good idea to check the destination's laws. If you forget this and just assume they are the same, you can get screwed (no pun intended), regardless of if the age of consent is higher or lower at your destination.

If it is higher, you might inadvertently commit statutory rape with someone who is clearly old enough back home and so doesn't trigger your "do an age check" alarm.

If it is lower, you might run afoul of laws back home against against sex tourism.

(Pay attention to recreational drug laws, too. Sex and drugs are both things that are taken vary seriously. Most other things tourists might do aren't nearly as risky--nobody except maybe Singapore is going to make a big deal of it if you, say, improperly dispose of a food wrapper or something like that. Oh, and also be careful with religion).

The age of consent is 16 in 31 US states and the DC (including Massachusetts). It s 17 in 8 states. It is 18 in the remaining 11 states.

It's 18 in Mexico, 16 in Canada, ranges all over the place from 14 to 18 in South America, 13 to 21 in Asia, 14 to 18 in Europe, and 11 to 18 in Africa.

It also varies widely whether or not places have close-in-age exceptions (also known as Romeo and Juliet laws). Such an exception might, for example, might say that in a place with an age of consent of 18, a 16 or 17 year old can consent to sex if the other participants are under 21. Don't assume that because you are young that you don't have to worry about other young people's age.

Finally, it also varies widely by what kind of sex. There are places where they have close-in-age exceptions, but only for heterosexual acts, and so a 17 year old girl with a 17 year old boy is fine, given an age of consent of 18, but a 17 year old boy with another 17 year old boy is statutory rape by both of them because the close-in-age exception doesn't apply.
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Just to play devil's advocate, if Stallman is genuinely autistic, as many people seem to believe, it's possible that he didn't understand it as a 'tactic'; that he just expressed to this woman how he felt and didn't consider whether it would be manipulative. There's still the problem that he's asking out a woman that much younger than him, but I think genuine obliviousness is a possibility here.
So... sexism in and of itself ought to be a punishable offense?
Yes, I am aware of that.
Where send to my CV?
Not just sex workers - some women marry just for access to the money and power (and I'm sure some men do as well).

But the coercion is very true, and hence my explicit callout. The question becomes did Minsky know that? Did he have any reason to suspect it?
No cited references, no answers about what “most” is, no answers about what “most” is in the specific context of Go, no answers about any “unnatural” patterns existing, no answers about the claim that it was “tuned” to reduce allocations, answering a question that wasn’t asked dodging the question that was (generational having better throughput vs when does throughput matter).

There’s no way I can believe you are acting in good faith. It’s obvious to me now that you’ve just been trolling for years every time you discuss the topic of garbage collectors. I’m no longer going to engage.
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They could use some image processing to make the videos look cartoonish, at least for the first analysis.

That might soften the blow to the screeners.
Do you have any plans to support matrix builds? I know that they can be emulated with anchors but Travis CI's matrix feature seems a lot nicer.
> instead of stealing TravisCIs ideas (cough GitHub Actions Cough)

Not sure how you come to that conclusion. Even _if_ that were true, that would probably be a good thing now that TravisCI is on life support.
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Is the book this excerpt is from, Arcade Perfect, any good? The Amazon reviews are mixed.
the expensive bit is the tunnel and stations under central london where there aren't any houses
It's interesting because excess stress can actually damage your DNA. How much so and how much it affects your children, I don't know. I suspect if you took an average European child and plonked them in a deprived part of Chad, they would fare about as well in life as your average Chadian child. And vice versa for a Chadian child in Europe.

> you can hardly change the climate or the geography

You can introduce new technologies to make the most of what they have. For example better water management and improved crop strains.
Any reason to duplicate the discussion?
And if you don't card her, is it you or lousy bouncer to blame?
Not only charged. There's quite a bit of difference in public perception and how you're treated. E.g. if you hunted someone down and killed in called blood or someone happened to die because of your neglect. E.g. as engineer or doctor who did a mistake.
I think that means while they are installing it on your property, you’re not paying for the assets, and will pay for the electricity you use but at a rate discounted compared to the regular utility? So it still makes economic sense.

They could word that better.

“We sell you the electricity generated that you use at a discounted rate compared to utilities”
>Would her being a 18 prostitute change anything in your eyes?

An 18 year old prostitute is extraordinarily likely to be in that situation as a result of a lifetime of abuse and desperation. Taking advantage of that for sexual pleasure, especially at the age of 73, makes you a terrible person.

An old man taking advantage of a young woman is the issue. One year and tiny permutations of the details which change the legal situation do not change the moral situation that in any similar situation, the old man is a indefensible scumbag.

It doesn't matter if it is a hypothetical or not, defending that old man by saying the victim would have presented herself as willing, is a big issue. Not a witch hunt, not mob rule.
I took it more as an extrem application of : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect

> In a 2015 study, researchers discovered that familiarity can overpower rationality and that repetitively hearing that a certain fact is wrong can affect the hearer's beliefs.
I've seen some non-technical job applications that have an entry for a Github username.
Why does this question even need to be asked? Of course java is still relavant.

The article acts like java and python are in direct competition. This is simply not true. There is some crossover, but both languages have their strong points and both will continue to be used heavily.
Thanks for posting this. My wife and I already have credit monitoring so we’ve been very frustrated that it seems like Equifax will be weaseling out of paying us our $125 each. We’ll be sending a couple of letters today. Personally I’d like to see the courts rethink the settlement and force the $125 payout to everyone who requested it.
We use GitLab because you can self-host it. GitHub is not an option for us, because we must maintain control of our data and source code. So GitHub was never really an option.

But we'd likely be using GitLab even if we didn't have this limitation. There's a bunch of features that make GitLab better for our specific team / situation. From my personal experience, GitLab CI is better than CI options available on GitHub. We use gitflow (ie. feature branches in the same repo), rather than pull requests. And it seems like GitLab supports this flow well.

I also tend to like GitLab issues much better than GitHub. The time tracking feature in EE is really useful (not sure if GitHub uses this). And issue boards across projects is also a very popular thing where I'm at, because we have lots of repos, rather than fewer big ones.

We also heavily use the deployment / environment features and built-in prometheus.
There is no rule that states that a person should be free to say anything without any consequences.

He made a choice to say some words and based on those words people felt they would be better off without him in their workplace. Seems fair to me, people have been fired for much less.
By choosing a language with a large standard library and then relying on that library rather than on frameworks of the day as much as possible.

For example, many vanilla PHP applications written 10 years ago will still run just fine today, whereas upgrading from one version of Laravel to the next version can be a major trauma.
We need on-premise installation of Gitlab. Github enterprise was too expensive for a small team. Integrated CI/CD is a plus.
Is is compatible with https://jsonresume.org/schema/ ? Do you plan to release the source code?
Also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20989696

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994245

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20992381
Not on this basis. Forbes parrots much of the mischaracterizations.