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Consequences aren't out of line. Any person in any private company saying same stuff would be fired. Period. It is totally inappropriate and out of context.
>GitLab is the superior product in all regards, but GitHub has the network.

I could agree on features, but not UX. Github is still the king.
It's still legal in large parts of Europe. What I don't get is the US... where the age of consent is I think 16, but everyone's making a huge fuss about the fact that someone was 17.

Yes, it was rape and trafficking - that's terrible enough as it is, no need to make it look worse than it is.
This is essentially diluting the most terrible crime of abusing young children.
As I said, there is a subset of the population that would never live in a city, just as there is a subset that would never live outside a city. But I think that encouraging more people to choose the rural lifestyle by essentially subsidizing it is not the way to go.
Thank you... words matter... "unwitting victims" would be more like it. Or perhaps "American citizens". As your rhetorical question points out, we are not defined by what we buy.

I did not directly provide my personally identifying information to Equifax, yet they held (and continue to hold) it and disclosed it en masse through their organization's technical incompetence.

I did not "consume" anything from Equifax, and yet, that is the default word that every newspaper writer reaches for whenever they need to refer to a class of people affected by any economic activity.

"Consumer" implies passivity, and in my opinion, leads to a mass culture of learned helplessness and anxiety/depression by implying our only value is our position on the hedonic treadmill. Hyperbolic? Perhaps, but why not choose a different word?
Moral authoritarianism is quite the dangerous thing. It is at the root of every single 'evil' of times past. One has to keep in mind that these evils of times past of course did not see themselves, in general, as evils. Instead they were simply enforcing their world view which, from their perspective, was the 'right' one. It's much easier to do awful things to people when you convince yourself they deserve it.

To take one of the more innocuous examples from the past consider the Red Scares. It was fundamentally driven by people believing that they have the moral high ground against a certain view. Communism is bad and therefore it was okay to do bad things to people who held positive views of such. And it was simply 'common sense' that supporting communism in any way, shape, or form was an absolutely abhorrent thing to do. And I use that as an example only to avoid any rousing of emotion but the exact same logic drove the KKK, Nazis, and nearly every group, sinner and saint alike, throughout time. Moral authoritarianism is again, a very dangerous thing.

And I certainly do not agree with you on this was or will be the way of society. Words and actions are distinct. I think an ideal society would have no tolerance for intolerant actions but an unlimited tolerance of words. Indeed this is even what the actual quote, often egregiously bastardized and misused by the most intolerant of today's society, on the 'paradox of tolerance' fundamentally suggests. Even looking back now at the Red Scare we can generally see how quaint our intolerance was. There's no need to name and shame communists - the view itself is simply not supported by enough of society to matter. And if it does become supported by enough of society? Then we try it, almost certainly fail, and continue on our disjointed path "forwards" as always.
> But it is also incongruous that somehow if she was a year older it would be ok.

It probably wouldn't be okay. She was coerced and trafficked, and many laws exist to make having sex with those people illegal.

In some places it's illegal even if you don't know they were coerced or trafficked.
If you have reason to believe that, why not?
How dare you injure my tiny fragile male ego thusly.
My resume shines much better than this. He'd need to integrate linkedin to get a much shinier profile...
It's not one-day for all of the UK either. ;)

Saying that as I lived in a ~reasonably remote part Cornwall at the time Amazon launched 1-day shipping in the UK. Bought stuff from them literally every day for a few months.

At first stuff really would turn up in 1 day, and it was awesome. However, after a while I guess they figured out it was costing them a fortune in delivery costs. So the 1-day thing silently became "2 day".

As in, when not logged in it, items would be shown as "Receive it by (say) Wed xx" on a Tuesday. After logging in and purchasing, the expected date would then become Thursday. Yes, even with Prime 1-day. ;)

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For me it's a moot point anyway, as after some bad customer service experiences - dishonesty on Amazons part - I don't really buy anything through Amazon any more.
Yes, SolarCity, the company which was run by Elon Musk and his cousins and whose obligations were assumed by Tesla when it was acquired. The problem is not so much that the installations have problems as that Tesla is completely unwilling and unable to diagnose and fix the problems.

At this point with everything that is known about how Tesla's existing solar customers have been treated, you'd have to be crazy to sign a solar lease agreement with Tesla and become dependent on their service for your electricity supply.
it's unfortunate that you value free speech in a way that it isn't protected.
What's Outside the Universe?
From what I remember of php applications written around 2009, a lot of them had SQL injection and bizarre roll-your-own-security vulnerabilities. There were some pretty appalling things like the same (wrong) CSRF token validation code being copy-pasted into fifty different files, or passwords saved in plaintext, or customer credit card info sent over email, or every single site being mashed into joomla and drupal no matter whether it actually fit and then never updated.
"...principles of liberty in expression and action." It amuses me that you fail to see the irony in your use of that phrase when it comes to RMS being forced to resign for what he said.
> decades of inexcusable behavior for any individual

That's blowing it way out of proportion. You mention one remark 13 years ago, and refer to it as decades.
I don't care how much longing I might have for the small town I grew up in, I will never go back, and will never consider moving back. It was a bigoted, closed-minded place growing up and it's still that way today. Rural America has very little to offer anyone except cheap housing, and cheap food. Despite the crime, high taxes, high cost of living, and the abundance of traffic, the city is safer.
Ok cool i just wanna leave a choice snippet from the vice coverage of the emails here so we can all be on the same page about what we're doing devils advocate for here:

> Early in the thread, Stallman insists that the “most plausible scenario” is that Epstein’s underage victims were “entirely willing” while being trafficked. Stallman goes on to argue about the definition of “sexual assault,” “rape,” and whether they apply to Minsky and Giuffre’s deposition statement that she was forced to have sex with him.

> In response to a student pointing out that Giuffre was 17 when she was forced to have sex with Minsky in the Virgin Islands, Stallman said “it is morally absurd to define ‘rape’ in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”

These are totally reasonable things normal people say!
is this the same "think tank" that wanted every elementary school child in America to have standardized, written test scores, maintained in (their) central database?
Just to be clear: There are no statistics in this article, just some anecdotes selected to push a particular narrative.

I don't claim to know whether working as a FB moderator is 'catastrophic' or not, but this article makes an emotional case for it rather than a rational case for it. It reminds me of reporting around the Foxconn suicides - sure, each is a tragedy, but it turns out the Foxconn suicide rate matches the national rate.
I think in that way a picture helps - if someone is biased by only looking at a picture, that's a job you don't want.
I think not quite everyone was affected, it was supposedly 147M people. You can check if your information was included in the breach on the settlement site.
So let's have a new word for situation like this, describing the case when someone spins up an Internet drama around another person so that the resulting fallout ruins that person's life. There is still huge harm done, and it bypasses the court system.
Thanks, didn't know about the SO one!

Did you try the tool? inside you can see a sample of all designs, or do you mean you would like to see them in the landing? something to keep in mind to update it.

Yeah, I'm with you on the bias with the pictures. I want to work on a way to customize a little bit (like removing picture, icons or changing the color accent) of designs before generating, but I have to think it out before building. That's why in the meantime I included a couple of designs without picture for people to use :D
Reading the other replies to this comment makes me incredibly sad, though not surprised in the slightest... that so many men in what is supposed to be an exceptionally intelligent community have so little understanding of patriarchy and misogyny, and somehow see men as the disadvantaged group.

Part of the problem is that this community is so male, so much so that even the men that get it tend to stay silent for fear of being losing status in such a male community.
The sexism would be coming from the people collecting fossils and curating the museums. Later in the article they mention that human biases affect the gender ratios of collections of extant organisms (although not for sexist reasons) so it's not a completely absurd thing to rule out.
I actually haven't seen Minsky being accused. That court transcript says that she was 'directed to have sex' with Minsky but nowhere does it say she did and there is an eyewitness claiming he - Minsky - turned her down.

So RMS is defending his deceased friend as though he was accused, it would have been more effective to question the accusation rather than to defend as though it had happened.
If it’s not subsidized, there’s no issue. I agree it shouldn’t be subsidized, and that we’ll need technology to drive down the cost of low density living (rooftop solar [cheap renewable energy in general], electric vehicles [cars, light and heavy trucks, buses], improved longevity for roads and sidewalks, led streetlights, muni fiber and efficient wireless infra, etc). That’s what technology and innovation are for.

Just as with roads (where building more doesn’t help alleviate demand), you must destroy demand for everyone to live in the same spot if you want affordable housing. You do that with fungible remote work and (efficiently and sustainably) providing high quality of life not tied to a place in space time.
I was hoping that the article would detail what those not-dopamine, not-serotonine neurotransmitters were and what they did.
I also tried to freeze my credit and their website required me to put something in the mail. I did, including sending copies of various documents, and never got any response. I have the same issue with one of the credit reporting bureaus. They refuse to give me my legally required free credit report despite multiple attempts and mailings.
Those who benefit most from Crossrail will be those who will ride it every day. Increased property values around the route is just the visible effect of the benefit of being able to ride it.

Secondary benefits will also fall on riders of other lines and street transportation that become less congested by riders diverted to the new Crossrail route.
Amazon doesn't own the trucks. These are branded partners they contract with.

https://logistics.amazon.com/marketing/opportunity
https://logistics.amazon.com/
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/06/28/amazon-package-delivery-...
So laws don’t matter as long as in some other jurisdictions or time it’s not illegal?

You are free to disagree with the law as it’s written. You are even free to break the laws if you disagree strongly enough. But you should not expect to be free from the consequences.
http://simon-mcav.blogspot.com/2016/05/im-sorry-you-feel-tha...

> When a person tells someone else "I'm sorry that you feel that way", they are not acknowledging the potential role they might have played in making them feel this way. Instead, it is more like they are absolving themselves of responsibility, and are showing apparent sympathy that the person who is complaining might be upset for some abstract, and potentially irrational reason. It not only fails to acknowledge the potential role played by the speaker (or who they might represent), but this phrase is actually used to position the speaker as an innocent actor who has had little or no influence over the current situation.
The comment you’re responding to only suggests that some behavior is related to biological sex and not socialized, and doesn’t call out any particular behavior.
A surprising number of English people don't know that there was an English Civil War. When you've got a thousand years of continuous history to pack in, Oliver Cromwell ends up being kind of a footnote.

Maybe if it had occurred before Shakespeare, instead of after, he could have written a cycle of plays about it, and we'd remember it as well as the Wars of the Roses. But as it is, English schoolchildren forget it as soon as class is over... and I suspect the rest of the UK cares even less.
Can you provide complete, in-context quotes from Stallman's emails to support those claims in paragraphs 3 and 4? I mean directly from Stallman's emails, not copied from Forbes or Vice or the other articles that have taken things massively out of context.
> Why is RMS being used to set an example? Do you think RMS actually hurt any children?

That implies that there's some sort of process or council there deciding Stallman gets cancelled. Also this just isn't about his most recent comments about underaged trafficking victims potentially being entirely willing, he's had a long trail of classically sexist "look a girl" moments in speeches and really out there opinions about pedophilia and consent that he only outwardly came out against last weekend _after_ he started getting in hot water about those emails.

Often who gets hit and who doesn't isn't 100% about the most recent events and depends a lot on the story catching fire and in this case it caught and there was a whole barn of old dry tender that had largely been brushed aside because of his technical work.
If you can't express yourself on certain topics, there's a chilling effect where people just don't talk about them and no further progress can be made. There are now plenty of topics like this including gender [edit: I should specify that it's fine to talk about gender, but only if you have certain permissible positions on the topic]. This list used to include other things like being pro gay rights, pro equality for races or gender - but at least you were able to have those conversations without fear of being lynched and society moved forward. You should be allowed to voice a viewpoint that's against the mainstream viewpoint without risk of making yourself unemployable.

It's atrocious that our academic institutions, which used to be a bulwark of free-speech are leading the charge here.

Stallman made questionable, but reasoned statements. He perhaps should not have made them in a work forum, but the consequences here are way out of proportion to the "crime".

You've been throwing a lot of stones here, but I'm sure you've held or expressed viewpoints just as questionable at some time in your life. I know I have. Should you now be denied the right to make a living if they come to light?
Thank you! GitHub is unchallenged in open source but it turns out you can change all the people in one company to a new tool without much of a problem, especially if you can replace 10 other tools.
The statements I see stand on their own.

Supposing intent behind them isn't necessary.

What they say is damning regardless of intent.

And the intent was pretty obvious.
I am in no position to judge whether UK taxation is fair and reasonable, but will the increase in property value result in increased property tax collections over the following decades? That is one way the beneficiaries will contribute to the expenses.

Most urban transit systems are publicly subsidized in order to keep down the cost to riders, which is of most benefit to the less well-off. Even people who do not live or travel in a big city benefit from the economic activity and revenue they generate. Public transport, if implemented reasonably efficiently, can justifiably be called an investment.
Apple would destroy the open-development Gitlab culture instantly, building a walled garden and alienating Gitlab users' ?

I hope that scenario does not unfold, for anyone involved.
Explaining the joke to you: Whenever we discover unexpected bias due to sex we usually first assume sexism at work, but that's funny here because ancient megafauna aren't sexist.
Just have a gander at #TeslaSolarIssues on Twitter, many smaller residential customers have also reported huge problems and terrible service with their solar installations.
maybe people think you "should be unemployable in any position which would involve public prominence, leadership, or significant influence."

are you even thinking about what you're writing? it seems like you're just attacking for the sake of it.

you've spammed this conversation with your input... what, 20 different times?
I love this project because ir brings up a big issue. There is a treasure trove of information buried in git that isn't easily accessible or useable, even for developers it is hard to make use of this data easily.... That's why I and friend came up with Ship Scoop[0] which is in beta testing now. For anyone interested in testing it out and a forever free account hit me up. The idea is to leverage information that is already being created to do more for you.
[0] https://www.shipscoop.com/
Hi! GitLab employee, our plan is to go public by 2020 [1][2]. I trust Sid our CEO to stay transparent about this (worked with him personally, this isn't just blind company loyalty lol), and he does a company-wide AMA very frequently where he talks about going public. So I think we will stay independent, or at least won't get acquired easily.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/being-a-public-company/

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/#goals
As I've replied to peer comments, if Minsky couldn't rely on his eyes to judge her age, and she says she's 18 (and let's assume a scumlord billionare had the ability to provide falsified documentation backing it up, if he was really there to get leverage over his peers), how is someone to know differently?

It's quite rare that someone who did due dilligance and were criminally mislead to are charged for the crime.
By the way, those dates are objectively correct as well. Just trust me on that one.
Where did it state that Tesla was completely unwilling and unable to diagnose and fix the problems?

>“Tesla worked collaboratively with Amazon to root cause the event and remediate,” it said. “We also performed inspections at the other sites, which confirmed the integrity of the systems,” adding that all 11 Amazon sites are generating energy and are monitored and maintained.

>Walmart and Tesla issued a joint statement late Thursday, saying they were in talks to resolve their issues. “Both companies want each and every system to operate reliably, efficiently, and safely,” they said.
we already have a word for it - mob mentality. I am not saying that it's the right way to go about things, but it's certainly not a violation of free speech
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You're describing life in every single society that has ever existed. Do you really believe that any of these things don't happen today or that there's been a place where they didn't happen?

Further, all of your "options" sound amazing if what the person is doing is calling human trafficking victims "willing." It turns out that there is a difference between good and bad things. AND it's actually possible to determine which is which!

This notion that a social technology such as public opinion can be used in a negative way is not some sort of revelation. Weapons only have the morality of those that deploy them. Just as we must decry immoral use we must also celebrate moral use, otherwise we'll be living in a society where people can claim that victims of sexual violence were "willing."
I was able to switch to Residential, and that showed an option for my home state.
That might be a better way to put it
> If the price increases -- the portion solely due to crossrail -- was taxed at 42% like income,

Not 42%, but most properties will attract capital gains tax when sold.
And why on earth can you not defend a friend whom you think is wrongfully accused of a crime? Since when is that wrong?

I've seen many patently stupid things coming from the US lately, but this is certainly the most idiotic US witch hunt I've ever witnessed in my life.
It specifically calls out “taking risks” and “exploring.”
she confirms that she's 18 or older and here of her own free will

The crux of Stallman's argument is that in that case you would be unable to tell if the woman was lying because Epstein would have coerced her. You can't trust what she says.

However, where you and Stallman differ is that you're suggesting is that Minsky probably said yes and did sleep with the woman, and therefore broke the law.
I take it this was just one example of something that didn't agree with you about the location. I've had a good experience at mine with better productivity vs working from home.

Keep in mind, this is an office that aims to keep individual workers paying it, not the other way around, so the environment is going to be different than a lot of employer-owned offices.
Has anyone publicly done the work to cite law/precedent to object to the fairness here? Certainly I can provide my own personal reasons, but citing law and previous settlements would bolster the case (and this specifically asks for it too)
Who is pushing density on others when they don't want it?

I just don't see that happening.
I've lived (nearly) my entire life in a small town in West Virginia. Like most kids from rural areas, I was looking for my first ticket out of here. I joined the Marines, explored the world and busy city life... and promptly returned to my small hometown.

I see no appeal in living in restrictive spaces for the chance at having something "special" to do in the rare moment where I have free time. There's more than enough for me in my surroundings and if needs be, I'm an hour drive from Pittsburgh, PA for some "culture" outings.
Oh yes, in this case liberty would be allowing a man to stay in a leadership position with power over others despite their defiance of his legitimacy.

As we all know, real liberty is when one person has power over others who object to it.
> witb that sentence was suggesting that minors can consent to sex with adults

With what sentence?

> was suggesting that minors can consent to sex with adults

Legally in most places they can, legally in the place that this happened I think that they could not. Is there a problem with this statement?

> suggesting a young woman forced into sexual servitude by a monstrous sex slave merchant was "entirely willing."

Appeared entirely willing (to Minsky and to anyone else that Epstein invited in his island) != being entirely willing herself.

> RMS's sexism

Would you mind showing to me where is the sexism in anything that Stallman said regarding Epstein?
yeah looks a lot like BASIC, Python and Assembly
One of the things this API can do for you is not give you just strings, but fully typed instances of structs. And you don’t need to do the conversions yourself. So you’re not wrong, but it’s easier than you may imagine.