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> How happy do you think he is now

“I’m always happy when I’m protesting.”

— Richard Stallman
The issue your raise is covered by Anand.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/201...
Yeah. Any relationship I've been in, it was mostly her doing cooking, dishes, and general home decor, while I did gardening, vacuuming, fixing and hardware setup, and occasionally helped with dishes. Early dating sometimes I'd treat her to a specialty and cook myself, but outside of that I only cook if they aren't already cooking.

I've seen so many articles complain about this setup being somehow sexist, but it has always played to our strengths and weaknesses. My partners usually never liked bugs, I can garden. I also find vacuuming relaxing, and I'll take any opportunity to fix somthing to grease my skills. They are usually picky eaters, so my partners cook, they usually like the home kept in a certain way, so they clean and buy things for the home.

It is just the way things are, there is no deep-sexism inherent in any of my relationships, just a reduction of the commons
Most people in the world wouldn't be able to tell the difference between most people from another area. That's how the human brain works.

"race" in the US is just a proxy for "out group". It's the only country I know of in which "race" is an official term (as in you have to give your "race" to get a driver license, ID card, &c.) no wonder americans have such a big issue with racism.
Out of curiosity, what is "canceled"? I haven't seen it used before.
It is not a point. Consider two masses connected by an rope, one in an higher orbit. The entire contraption will move along their common center of mass, and there will be tension on the rope. The same thing applies for an lunar elevator, one end is somewhere close to geostationary orbit, the other is the moon, and the entire system moves as a combination of internal tension and the movement of the center of mass.
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Great to see GraalJS is a realistic option. This polyglot VM idea is fascinating, though it's not likely to go anywhere for my personal use until GraalVM Python gets some traction. I check in on it now and then - every time it hits HN - but it seems to be going nowhere. Anyone have any experience with that?
> The Indian scammers are calling people saying their computers told Microsoft they need help and it works.

My grandmother-in-law was trying to tell me something to this effect last month; that her computer was "acting up" and someone called her "from Microsoft" and she hung up because the sheer coincidence scared her away from the PC.
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This isn't about disagreement; it's about creating a hostile environment for women at MIT and continuing to do so for years. I'm not prepared to tolerate things like that.

If we want to talk about disagreement...

He only recently recanted (with quite suspicious timing) his view that pedophilia is fine if the child gives consent. No, I'm not going to tolerate that view. I wouldn't want to work for someone that had that view.

In the email thread under discussion, he wanted to redefine "sexual assault" and "child rape" to something that agrees more with his sense of linguistic purity. No, that's not ok.

At some point, when people keep having disgusting views, and won't change them, you give up on them entirely. It's just not worth the effort anymore.
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I agree, it should always matter. How much it matters would certainly depend on things like that. So on that scale, it would take a lot more than "I've now learned that sex with children is actually wrong" before I consider that person redeemed. But that's just me.
You may simply not be able to afford a house in a better neighborhood. So I'm sure everybody will do the best they can, but it is limited by their checkbooks.
Without considering the fact that the orbit of the Moon is not circular, this only helps reduce the delta-v needed to go from the surface of the earth to the surface of the moon by ~3.2km/s, but we still need ~12-14km/s to go to GTO/GEO.
In this case, because context and presentation is important, and I don't do as good of a job of it. It presents a cohesive whole, whereas me simply saying "More women attempt suicide than men, but men choose more violent methods that are more likely to result in death." removes a single point of your post, but not the overall worldview presented in your post.
He has.

He talks about it at the start. If your body and brain in development does not receive enough nutrients, it does not fully develop.

As a volunteer teacher I have seen African kids disconnect after just 2 hours of class because the food they ate was weak in nutrients.

This usually happens with iodine. If the pregnant mother has not enough of it, the baby will develop with smaller IQ.

The same happened in Africa in sport for a long time. It could not compete with the USA, even when most of them actually were genetically from Africa. In the US, they could develop fully.
Maybe we should make a hard right and protect our servers with assault rifles instead.
100kg seems like a barely usable amount of lift. It means you need an in-orbit assembly system for most things you want to launch and I'm pretty sure you're not going to be able to launch a person with life support gear.
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The comment[0] I made a previous time this was submitted[1]

> One major problem with the classical Earth based Space Elevator is the problem of security. It wouldn't take much (relatively speaking) for a terrorist organisation to create a credible threat.

> A Moon-based Space Elevator wouldn't have that problem.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20977269

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20977142
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The blog[0] that started it is a disgrace, the only value they act on is spite. The movement they claim owner ship should reject any association with them, I do.

> our movement will only be successful if it includes everyone. With these as our values and goals
> We call for Stallman to step down

[0] https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-spea...
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Was on HN 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895443
No, dual cosmic lashing. One end hitting the moon the other one earth.

On earth side the atmosphere will take the worst of it, moon will hurt...

Also there is hardly any space debris beyond geosynchronous.
Which American cities, they mean. There’s a whole world out there, folks.
Not even! He rejects common language where he has redefined the words, and he rejects specific jargon where it runs contrary to common language.

When he uses the tools of pedantry, he does so to try and change the goalposts of the conversation, not to provide greater clarity.
She graduated with a degree in music, so what? How many of your technical co-workers and colleagues have degrees in non-STEM fields? Probably more than a few. How many of us with actual CS degrees learned about security? I have both a BS/MS in CS, from a top school, and I never once had a class on security. Don't think one was even offered.

The question is what was her experience prior to being promoted? I have not kept track of this "scandal" since it started, but someone's education should not be a major factor.

All that said, she was pretty bad at her job.
this article is not about epstein of minsky at all but about a long history of creating a hostile environment for female computer scientists
The article mentions: 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.

So in the end, we will need a rocket anyway.
The tether is hanging from the moon, not orbiting earth. There is tension in the tether. It's not in free fall.
Any mobster donating to the church or charity could claim to 'do good'. But it doesn't just matter what you do, it matters how you got there. Gates is where he is today - a position to lecture the world on how to behave - by a series of uncompetitive and monopolistic practices as well as a bunch of stuff that should have been downright illegal, and likely would have been if not for an 11th hour change in government.
These activists are just power hungry evil people. The amount of work that Stallman has put into helping the world and now a spoiled young brat wants to take it all away because he does not agree 100% with her in everything?
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Who is this "Selam G." who is the author of this? Is she actually a spokesperson on behalf of "women in the free software community and computer science in general"?
Can the mass density of atom's nuclei match such kind of object ?

On a scale of atom, this star and black hole what would be the mass density ?
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Well that is news to me. Other than that I offer nothing else.
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why is that different from say...a movie youre going rent on apple TV or in the theater?
Because only certain people are in a position to be able to keep their political opinions private. For many people, the very fact of their life is inherently a political statement. So the "keep political opinions private" crowd is merely the people who can keep their opinions private telling everyone else to clear out.
This culture didn't elect him. The culture that created the Electoral College did.

This culture voted overwhelmingly for the other option.
> If someone forces a non-obviously underage girl to come to you at a bar and seduce you, should you be tried for sexual assault?

In England this is definitely illegal.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/47

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/53A
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Except she's doing things that require significant every day time commitments and you're not. You're a poster boy for what people are talking about.

Do you think that women are naturally better at cooking, or do you think that societal expectations have made this basic life skill a necessity for her and optional for you? Your partners having opinions on food or household cleanliness are things that you should take into account as part of a relationship.
minsky should have refused purely because of her age imo. his morality comes into question for me if he only refused because epstein coerced the girl
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Sevan Nişanyan (an Armenian-Turkish language researcher) suggests that it may be of Persian origin (būrak, a dish made with dough and meat). He, however, doesn't dismiss the possibility that it may have some etymological relationship with the Slavic word peirogi (pirog пирог, pirojki пирожки - a dough dish) and the Persian word having a Turkic root (having made a full circle like tülbent).

https://www.nisanyansozluk.com/?k=b%C3%B6rek&view=annotated
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Are you, or the parent, a mental health professional? If not, then I'd suggest you aren't qualified to tell if he's even autistic at all, or, if he is, that his autism is what's causing the problems here, not terrible beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes. In that light, using autism as an excuse for Stallman's behavior is just an unfounded theory by an armchair psychiatrist with no business making diagnoses.
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I move that we flag and bury this thread now. It's choke-full of flames and it has the highest level of personally abusive comments I've seen in the last few months on HN. It's getting like reddit in here.

I just don't think we can discuss this issue sensibly, even on HN.
> The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.

https://stallman.org/archives/2003-mar-jun.html

he's saying that it should be legal at the very least.
Let me try to phrase this in a way that is as neutral as possible, because I'm simply trying to describe a phenomenon and not make a value judgement.

Bill Gates is an American businessman. His values, identity, source of income, and entire way of life is derived from a particular culture - American, Western, market-based culture. A culture which, depending on your viewpoint, has certain good qualities and certain bad qualities.

The point I am attempting to make is: Bill Gates is in a position of power - defining power as the ability to harness forces. When the Gates Foundation, or any other powerful entity, gets involved with a particular less-powerful culture, it unquestionably affects the social structure and culture of that society. In the case of the Gates Foundation, it inevitably it becomes more of an American, westernized one. It is easy to see this from the shared link; it is written from an American worldview and frames everything in American terms.

I am simply asking if replicating American (broadly, Western) cultural values is necessarily the correct solution to solve poverty and other problems around the world.

Personally, I would rather see the diverse cultures of the world manage to develop technologically and socially in their own unique ways, rather than simply adopt Western social structures.
"Child sex trafficking: good or bad?" isn't political, or really an opinion.
Because Democrats have been running all the major cities for decades. Because the solution involves moving all the people out, bulldozing all of it, and starting over. Because Democrats' control and power are far more important than doing anything for actual people. Someday urban voters will wake up.
Are you forgetting C and C++? These are probably the least risky languages you can use. Open source implementations, open standards, multiple implementations.

A language with only a single, open-source implementation controlled by a single vendor, like Go or Erlang, has slightly more risk, in that the single vendor could choose to take the language in a direction you don't like. However, even if that were to happen, it's open source, and the community can maintain it as long as there are enough users.

A language primarily controlled by a single entity that is actively hostile towards openness, like Java, is a little more risky yet, but even so, with enough users it becomes safe enough.

A language that's not open at all, like Mathematica or F#, puts you entirely at the mercy of the company that controls it... but if that company is big and has a good track record, it's still at least a reasonable trade-off.

Now, if something is created by a startup that has at best even odds of being around in five years... you still might take that risk if the technology was open, and you could run it yourself when they close up shop, like, say, Meteor or MongoDB. These are decisions that one is rather more likely to regret, but it's not hard to see how people make them.

However, if a new company introduces a new language that is also it's own walled-garden deployment environment, which you can't run on your own systems, which has no demonstrated history of doing anything well, and which is not open source, anyone choosing that language for a project that's expected to be around for a while would have to be either inexperienced or just plain crazy.
I don't really see how this is so hard. Don't treat women poorly, in person or online. Don't talk authoritatively about subjects you don't understand, especially when those subjects (like rape and human trafficking) cause people intense pain.

Morality is constantly changing and what is considered treating someone poorly changes too. More recently it appears to be changing faster than ever. That can make it hard to remain with the bounds of what is in the current instance of time considered socially acceptable by the majority. There is no absolute morality even though it may seem like it if you are thinking with the span of an hour or a day. Stretch it out and it's a constant shifting. In any case, I don't think anyone should be silenced. If they say something that the majority feels is foolish, they can be considered a fool, or a debate can be had to convince them of why they may be wrong, but to silence externally, or increasingly, self silencing with self censorship, in my opinion is dangerous as that means ideas cannot be discussed openly.
Would we even be here talking about him if not for his so-called PR efforts? I think the important point here is that so many billionaires are extremely rich and fly under the radar. Bill got his money in underhanded ways like basically all billionaires, yet at least he's out here trying to apply philanthropy efficiently.
Drunk, inexperience, distracted and the very old are the major cause of accidents - for human drivers. But for autonomous vehicles, it’s the long tail scenarios which are going to cause the problems. Weather and environmental factors will increase those long tail scenarios and tax the sensors.

Notice that the human eye is amazing. Resolution is in the hundreds of millions of pixels equivalent, and yet we don’t allow drivers to have less than half the standard resolution (20/40). But, what resolution are self driving car cameras? 50 million pixels? Hardly. They’re legally blind.

Human eyes are even more impressive with their dynamic range. The ability to see a deer on the side of the road while simultaneously being blinded by an oncoming cars headlights, is truly incredible. Self driving car cameras don’t have the dynamic range of a 90 year old.

When one sensor is temporarily blinded by a drop of rain, how does the car react? When one sensor has failed and the other is blinded by a drop of rain?

Weather causes many more problems for self driving cars, and yet Waymo is testing primarily in sunny locales during the daytime.
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There is a comment of his talking about "voluntary pedophilia." This is likely (very likely) a misuse of terms, though -- having had this discussion with others on the Internet, they do not usually intend pedophilia, which is an attraction to the prepubescent. Prepubescent children have no sex drive and their interest in sex is usually taken to be a sign of sexual abuse. Consequently it is hard to see voluntary pedophilia as something that can happen.

He probably means hebephilia (11-14) or ephebophilia (14-19). In some countries (Italy, Germany) or cultures the age of consent is as low as 14. Some are perhaps lower. The strict liability concerning statutory rape may also be different, which is likely what he wanted to bring into question.

There are currently people serving sentences for sexual crimes they "committed" after being lied to by their partner.
i think the bigger upside here is that getting humans into orbit and then to the moon via elevator is likely safer than repeated landings back and forth.
"His previous comments about minors on his personal blog, which I don't even want to dignify with a description (you can do your own search), leads me to wonder what other connections than money he had with Epstein."

Speculation, which would not be allowed in a court of law, is unfortunately a perfectly acceptable character assassination methodology.

And this kind of tar-and-feathering is precisely why we need official processes for this sort of thing. Official reprimands leading to termination if unfixed, like all civilized peoples do. This ensures that it's made crystal clear what's acceptable and what's not, with time to mend one's ways. The alternative is arbitrary terminations, which makes everyone insecure.
Well, no, rape is not just a forceful rape, because the law says that minors up to some age are not capable of making decisions on who they have sex with willingly, and thus it's up to adults to be responsible and avoid such encounters. Legally minors can't have a willing sex with an adult. So it's a rape and not alright even if both parties were fully willing, if nothing else then because the law says so. Somewhere else it might not be, but they were not somewhere else. Different cultures have different ideas on what is the appropriate age of consent, and the age is sort of "arbitrary" chosen, but it comes from the tradition and America is very puritan in pretty much everything else compared to Europe, so the same applies to this too. That's just the well established moral norm in the US society, so breaking it is obviously deeply anti-social and evil behavior, regardless of what age of consent is in my country or France or Brazil. Everyone involved was American, so even if you argue against the laws, still American moral and culture norms apply.
> The only problem I see with rails is that it's hard to find devs these days (at least in Europe).

If you need a contractor to help with a Rails project drop me a line (my email's in my profile). Been working with Rails since 2.x days. Not in Europe tho I'm GMT-4.
> The difference is that people who aren't looking for work are "not participating" but not "unemployed".

If you're a stay-at-home parent then you would fall under the "not participating" category, no? I think that's part of the problem for women in that they are often pressured to raise a family and forego a career.
However since the moon period is not the same as a GEO period, maybe the fact that you could juste 'catch' the end of the cable before falling back to earth without having the speed to maintain at GEO could help you save some delta-v.
Zephyr Penoyre (one of the paper's authors, then at the IoA in Cambridge) gave a talk about his proposal for a Moon-tethered spaceline earlier this year, and is available here: https://upload.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2921572

The talk starts with a polemic about the way research is done, but the physics starts about 16:40.
I am 1000000‰ sure it is both.
1. Any time spent in management will take away from technical skills unless you are happy to be a shitty manager.

2. For me, it's different. I actually enjoy unblocking developers and being more of a support for other people than playing the role of whiz kid. But if I were more like you I would move back into an IC role as soon as possible. You may have to switch companies and wipe the management experience from your resume, unfortunately, because it looks bad to run away from responsibility. Sorry.