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Except for the fact that most criminal prosecutions in America are settled through plea bargaining, not trial - isn’t that correct? So to be accurate, the prosecutors decide most of the ‘justice’ in America - judges and juries play no part in plea agreements. Thomas Drake was able to escape the prosecutors also playing judge because he was able to afford representation, and his funds outlasted the pressure the prosecution was able to bring against him. According to your argument, his great victory was only trading his life’s earning for his freedom, instead of forfeiting both for attempting to be an ethical man. It’s pretty obvious that any prosecution of Snowden would aim to forfeit both his freedom and life earning’s, irregardless of the crimes they actually believe he committed.
Would anyone please care to explain why did Mr Stallman resign?
> Square SQ 1.65% Inc. has lent $5 billion to small businesses and consumers and applied for a banking license.

"Applied for a banking license". That application was rejected. Square doesn't have a banking license. Square asked to become a bank and the government said, "No."

Square should either be a bank and be taxed like a bank, or it should be a not-bank and taxed like a not-bank. If I were to make $50,000 this year and the government puts me in the $500,000 tax bracket I'd be a little miffed too.

IMHO this is dishonest reporting.
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You shouldn't be a manager.
Another jerk here-- Something Happened is literally the worst book I have ever read. The title is nearly literally true, only one thing happens in its many hundreds of pages (by my hazy memory).
Certainly not as much, but there is still quite a lot of invisible packaging you don't see up the grocery store supply line.

Just about everything in the grocery store comes in a big cardboard box.
Convicted in the US of something that is not in crime in much of the world. You are conflating US law with ethics/morals.

You are also appealing to emotion by using 'children' and 'pedophile' in inaccurate ways. If you are going to strictly interpret 'statutory rape' as being morally reprehensible regardless of the circumstances, then I would ask that you stop using peodphile unless you can show me one of his victims that was pre-pubescent. I didn't define that word, it has a dictionary and wikipedia entry that you are welcome to read.

And regarding your claim about emotional and mental development, I would agree that it IS true what you say. However, there are plenty of people who've made it to older age who lack the maturity of their juniors (Stallman apparently being an example!). Age should NEVER be a surrogate marker of capacity... we define ages of legal consent arbitrarily, agreed? There are plenty of 22 year olds making bad decisions...

And the self-righteous political agenda was referring to this legislation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_...

Plenty of groups including the EFF think this went too far and the way that people throw around 'sex trafficking' and 'raping children' and 'pedophile' are emotional appeals that do a disservice to the actual victims of these crimes.

Of course all of these things are bad, but was Hugh Hefner a sex trafficker because he kept a well-paid harem of women at his mansion? If age is the only discriminator, then why is the US your moral compass when clearly age of consent differs throughout the world? What about Romeo and Juliet laws? States like Hawaii where age of consent is lower?.
Ah yes, the ever-shifting line about whether or not sex trafficking is okay.
The "overstated sarcasm" and faked quotations is literally what pushed RMS out of his job. Congratulations.
yes, I know, but from scratch in the sense of porting the portions of code in another environment and at same time using unit tests and code coverage tool to isolate the parts and adapt to a better architecture.
Yeah, Chrome/Chromium.
How do you make money? I didn't think farming spiders would pay that well, unless they're really rare spiders.
Stallman is probably a little bit further along the spectrum than you then.

This is a man who commiserated someone for having a baby because it would distract them
from emacs development. He has been playing social minesweeper for decades and finally lost.
It's mind boggling. What the media says is a terrible misrepresentation. What he actually wrote can be found here:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...

Someone tried to intimidate him saying this exchange will be leaked to the press. Stallman answered people at MIT should seek the truth without being afraid.

What sad times we live in! First Linus, now Stallman...
>Parent is absolutely right: twenty or thirty years ago, you were driven from the public sphere for merely a fraction of what passes today as 'within bounds'.

That's because a single viewpoint controls "the public sphere" when all information gets to people through only a few channels controlled by a few people who all happen to be part of the same ethno-religious viewpoint. What you are seeing is a democratization of the flow of information
He literally said he blocked their IP range
that's really stupid. I mean, I would have set a cache repository (SonaType Nexus maybe?), download everything there and use that repository.
In the tweets the author says they've blocked the download from Apple IPs, so now their pipeline is broken.
I can't wait for China to wipe out the US.
Not exactly the same, since there's no UInt8 in Ruby.

require 'sinatra'
get %r{/hello/([^/]+)/(\d+)} do |name, age|
"Hello, #{age} year old named #{name}!"
end
Huh? In another comment someone from Dark admitted they had barely fleshed out the database, they don't even know how joins will work yet! How have they “done the work”?

Schema migrations are easy if there's no complexity to the schema.
One thing a lot of folks are missing is that this was not an isolated incident; the fact that this is the straw that broke the camel's back isnt' that important in the grand scheme of things. I made the same point in more detail in the comments for the article about his MIT resignation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990574
This is a great essay. The second to last paragraph is the crux of it.

Philosophy, in particular, shares this problem.
No one bats an eye about Brendan Eich because he did nothing wrong
I‘m so annoyed with the inferiority of the search experience on Amazon. For example when i search for shoes in my size, why doesn‘t it show the price for the shoes in my size? It‘s super inconvenient.
Your factual claims are not true, probably because you only read the lies published on Medium and salacious reposted, and did not read the source material.

RMS surmised that the woman "presented herself as willing" to Minsky. His point is that Minsky likely (in his estimation) was not aware of the coercion. He did not defend the coercion.
I believe this is the truest interpretation:

> In the days of the PDP-1 only one person could use the machine, at the beginning at least. Several years later they wrote a timesharing system, and they added lots of hardware for it. But in the beginning you just had to sign up for some time. Now of course the professors and the students working on official projects would always come in during the day. So, the people who wanted to get lots of time would sign up for time at night when there were less competition, and this created the custom of hackers working at night. Even when there was timesharing it would still be easier to get time, you could get more cycles at night, because there were fewer users. So people who wanted to get lots of work done, would still come in at night. But by then it began to be something else because you weren't alone, there were a few other hackers there too, and so it became a social phenomenon. During the daytime if you came in, you could expect to find professors and students who didn't really love the machine, whereas if during the night you came in you would find hackers. Therefore hackers came in at night to be with their culture. And they developed other traditions such as getting Chinese food at three in the morning. And I remember many sunrises seen from a car coming back from Chinatown. It was actually a very beautiful thing to see a sunrise, cause' that's such a calm time of day. It's a wonderful time of day to get ready to go to bed. It's so nice to walk home with the light just brightening and the birds starting to chirp, you can get a real feeling of gentle satisfaction, of tranquility about the work that you have done that night.

> Another tradition that we began was that of having places to sleep at the lab. Ever since I first was there, there was always at least one bed at the lab. And I may have done a little bit more living at the lab than most people because every year of two for some reason or other I'd have no apartment and I would spend a few months living at the lab. And I've always found it very comfortable, as well as nice and cool in the summer. But it was not at all uncommon to find people falling asleep at the lab, again because of their enthusiasm; you stay up as long as you possibly can hacking, because you just don't want to stop. And then when you're completely exhausted, you climb over to the nearest soft horizontal surface. A very informal atmosphere.

RMS lecture at KTH (Sweden), 30 October 1986
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.en.html
That's rather beside the point. Just because I advertise my IP doesn't mean I want my service providers to disclose my activity publicly.
Not what this was about.
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Mr Stallman said in an email that Marvin Minsky probably wasn't a rapist.
If you read the infamous CSAIL thread you'll probably see that there's nothing wrong with it. This is a rather tame argument between civilized people. I'm very sad that they got him for this ridiculous thing.
> Ask any 22-year-old woman if she is the same person emotionally/intellectually as when she was 16. How many would say yes? Not many.

Ask any 35 year old the same question. You'll get the same answer. There is no bright line where people are mature.

You never stop maturing, not at 40, not at 75 either.

You just have to pick a number, but don't pretend there is any scientific basis to it.
I prefer the same old Microsoft as the FAANG.
I am afraid to be mis-interpreted as hateful or bigoted, and have to spend an inordinate amount of time/effort either choosing my words for my audience (which is really hard on the internet with such a broad audience) or correcting knee-jerk responses.

The general over-reaction and constant jousting at windmills seems like a net loss to me.

I am forced to exercise self-censorship.
Knowing very little about go, I jumped in to do some maintenance on a few go projects two weeks ago. I was able to do what needed doing within a few hours and implement a few simple changes. I did not consult any books or tutorials. But simply learned by example and did a few targeted searches to figure out basic stuff like "how do I assign a value to a variable", "what syntax do I need to use to create a struct". Mostly, it's all fairly straightforward.

The code base has a history of non go programmers doing work on it. It's not pretty but it works and is maintainable. IMHO that is impressive. I'm sure a few senior go developers would be all over the code base to improve it. But as it is; it kind of does what it is supposed to without much fuss. Having looked at but not really used Rust, I'm pretty sure there's no way I can be productive in that language on a similar timeline. Unreadable rust is a thing if you are not familiar with all it's syntax, macros, type voodoo, and pointer juggling.

That being said, go does look kind of ugly and verbose too me. I've never seen so many "if err != nil" statements before. The code I was working on is littered with it. Error handling is going on all over the place along with a lot of conditional logic around that which is a bit of a code smell. I also noticed a poor man's version of OO where you have structs and then a bunch of functions operating on that struct as the first parameter. I think I'd prefer the real thing. It seems variables are mutable by default, which seems a bit backward these days. So, there's also a lot not to like.
The wrong opinion? Stallman questions whether the victim, who he admits was coerced into sex, was actually sexually assaulted. This is an incredibly shameful take on the situation. If any politician or public figure said this statement in the past 70 years, they would have ended their career. There are no Internet vigilantes hunting down dissenters. There are people trying to downplay sexual assault. As the internet and as the tech community, we absolutely have the right to condemn public figures when they say stuff like this. That’s what free speech actually means.

If you or I said what Stallman said, but to a coworker or to the boss, we would get fired - justifiably. This is not a new concept unique to the digital age, nor is it a concept that should be done away with. The popularity of your comment depresses me deeply.
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There's enough MUDs that are still active, that you should still be able to find a community you like.

Live listings of active MUDs: http://mudstats.com/

The Reddit MUD community: https://www.reddit.com/r/MUD/
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It is very clear that many people are here to defend statutory rape or recite talking points from Reddit. The thing is, you couldn’t be around OSS for more than a month without tripping over Stallman harassing women or producing a six-page rider or yelling at parents on mailing lists for having children. This wasn’t a sudden or unexpected event: this is a troll finally discovering the boundaries of what the community would tolerate.
Labeled as 5% but actually containing 40%, sure. Labeled as 35% but containing 40%? No, because those are functionally identical for most consumers.
And I guess that there are also a lot of cases that the right dose, that the patient really needs for his excruciating pain, will lead to addiction as an unwanted side effect. After long enough, it's going to be both.
Classical music as a genre is quite hard to define. Especially if you try to find some clear boundaries of where classical ends and jazz begins. That is the case for basically every genre.

Personally I would try to approach it like this: If it needs the particular band/artist to play it live, it's not classical, if it can be played by anyone with the notes and still be considered the same as hearing the original, it's classical.

I think the free dictionary puts it well:

> In technical musical usage this means music composed during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, characterized by the development of the sonata by such composers as Mozart. In popular use, however, the term is used to mean any serious art music as distinct from jazz, pop, or folk.

Looking at the article, I think their definition is based on the instruments used and the form of the piece (there's a whole lot of operas there).
Preventing people like Stallman from being leaders is not oppression, it’s accountability.
Where did you get this opinion? I'm really curious.
> I wish he could’ve just kept it to a private conversation with a friend.

It was actually a private conversation.
> All that being said, it is hard to be all "free speech is over" doom-sayer when the person in question has repeatedly (and we're talking decades) said creepy things that cumulatively sets up a pattern of behavior. This isn't Joe Shmoe hopping onto the internet the first time and losing his job. It's disingenuous to try to spin this event that way.

I think that’s the point here. RMS was always a creep who had very odd opinions on many different topics. I never liked the man nor thought much about his opinions and yet I was using software he created. He is creep, but he was tolerated.

I find 2 perspectives here. First is - am I the creep right now who is being tolerated. Maybe? I don’t know 2050 standards. Maybe I am and will be removed because I shown 2050 Toxic Behavior for years, which might be criticizing social media. No idea.

Second is - RMS is a human being. Not every one of us is pristine human being nor have luxury of being pristine and perfectly moral. Biology and past traumas do their thing. As far as I know, there aren’t any crimes he committed and if there were, he should be properly sentenced. If he was tolerated for past 30 years, shouldn’t it be more in sense of “ok dude, your time is up, here are your accolades, pack your stuff and have fun” instead of having witch hunt bringing every single piece of dirt people can find? Nah, that wouldn’t make sense, right?

Free speech is not all over, because I’m typing this right now. I am aware, though, that criticizing RMS “process” might bring consequences to my life if the mob decides to target me. If this process progresses we’ll end up in the state where I won’t discuss anything online and keep all my knowledge and experience for myself. And there was a time in history where life was just like that.
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I think that the idea that Minsky was unaware (or at least had no suspicions of) coercion is highly suspect, and a bit naive.

Powerful billionaire brings you to his private island and presents a beautiful young woman to you who appears ready and willing to have sex with you, a 75-year-old man.

Is that ever credible, even in a porno?

For Stallman to push this "Minsky didn't know" narrative now, with no horse in the race, and Minsky having passed away 3 years ago, is beyond the pale. I get the idea of trying to defend the reputation of your dead friend, but... c'mon. It's not the time or the place, and Stallman should know better after decades of being "misunderstood".
I don't even consider pwa works for ios at all

The support is still not there

Even big player like twitter doesn't put their twitter lite on appstore

As for android just go for it
At least in the case of the Daily Beast article by Blake Montgomery, enough context was included that a plain reading of the quoted material makes clear that the surrounding text and headline were radically incorrect. Journalistic malpractice if not deliberate libel. The author has since doubled down. I, for one, won't be believing a damned thing written by the man in the foreseeable future. I encourage you to make your own determination.

Stallman defended Minsky. Judge him for what he said. Don't judge him for a defense of Epstein - he unambiguously condemned Epstein with the rest of us.
That's pretty much straight from encyclopediadramatica (except they refer to a particular plant) or second-hand (starsandrobots).

The rumour would be more poetic if it said he liked plants, and that he feigned having a phobia to get people to have office plants.

Edit: removed unintentional copy pasta.
More than a third of all Jews live in Israel and about a third voted for the winning party. So if one detests Israel's policy, one detests free democratic choice of a big share of Jewish population.

It isn't 'most jews', for that conclusion one needs to look at the programs of losing parties and for polls of the Jewish diaspora in other countries about their support for Israel's policy.
As somebody else wrote: “minor”. The word “child” has significantly different implications that deserve to be preserved. The examples you’re brining up are evidence of legislative incongruities more than arguments in support of equivalence.
For better or worse, positioning yourself in a David / Goliath with Apple is almost always newsworthy. Interviews with the Apple underdog makes easy content.
LOL, you know you are doing a BS job when you have to look for a problem to solve
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I wonder if any of what's been published about rms qualifies as libellous. His certainly seen serious damage to his reputation, and I think it's clear too that his words have been materially misrepresented.
I've always thought that schools should teach history with food. Bring in börek and you can teach about Byzantium, the Ottomans, and Southeastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in general. Bring in pierogi and teach about Central Europe, Russia, Poland, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Ukraine, and so on. Better yet, make the foods during class itself.
Except he didn't say anything like this.
He also sort of tried to apologize and ended up making it worse because he was obviously neither sorry nor interested in how to avoid doing the same thing in the future.
Have a look at Haxe. It transpiles to C++, Java, Javascript and Python.

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The common definition of child is <13 years old
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child

A 17 year old is not a child, but also not an adult.
"hating investors"

They don't hate investors, just the likes of you or I, and who can blame them? Softbank gives them money on a $47bn valuation, don't have to deal with reporting requirements, don't have short sellers (which SV types seem to be really annoyed by?!).
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Maybe I'm missing something, but if I had made such a comment on a public platform and any of my previous employers learned of it, I could 100% expect to be terminated if it came to light. Whether his final philosophical view on the matter is morally correct or not is not the focus here. I can completely understand why a foundation would not want a man who apparently had to be talked into understanding why sex with a child is wrong to be its very visible leader.

You're talking about a role that has to inspire by example, someone responsible for advocating for your institution publicly, recruiting supporters, and so on. No one who has a history of making incredibly suspect comments about children and sex should expect to stay in such a role.

Incidents like this are NOT about setting up an ethics court and decide the morality or immorality of the person's views. They're about an organization waking up one morning and saying, You know what, we really would rather not have someone with a history of bizarre pro-pedophilic comments as our leader. For god's sake, how would you feel if your CEO had a personal web page with a history of arguing for lower age of consent laws? At a certain point people just don't want to come 'work for' such a person.

And really, who among us would be surprised to wake up and find "RMS indicted on child porn charges" on the front page news? People with normal views on child sex topics tend not to be the ones out there talking about 'ephebophilia' and "now I'm no psychiatrist, but here's my argument for why children actually CAN consent to sex with adults." I'm not saying I'm convinced he's a pedophile, or even that I believe him to maybe be one. It's just not a revelation that would shock me.
I'm an oldtime KDE user and honestly I love using KDE connect. I never used a Apple product so I'm not familiar with how this ecosystem manages device interaction. On the other hand I'm too cheap to use something more than second a hand Lenovo, a Dell tower and a midrange Xiaomi.
I started at Arm last week on an R&D project around eUICC HSMs

I don’t know enough about how SoftBank manages it’s children to know if I should be worried...
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Thanks for the distro. I use it for dev on my Windows machine. Can't wait for the update!
Huh, my first thought was TGA while peaking on LSD. Or after too much alcohol.

But then I thought about zolpidem, which I take every day. I've pretty much gotten used to the idea that I won't remember much of anything after it takes effect, until it wears off, perhaps four hours later.

I always lock computer screens, before taking it.