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Look at UK politicians as an example, they usually have no specialist training for their brief (the government department they direct) and often jump from one section to another.

There's a sense in which they have control of entire industry sectors, some higher learning or extended experience should really be required.
How is that relevant? Her relative newness to the world of RMS doesn't invalidate the research she did and all the bad behavior she discovered.
> That's not working well in the current climate where words carry perceived intent.

I agree that there's a current climate that's even less amenable to open discussion than at other times. However, I disagree that words carrying perceived intent is something new. Any time you make an assertion about individual facts of a particular situation, people's first assumption is going to be that you're pushing the narrative best supported by that assertion. Telling people what you're not saying will continue to be important even if the current climate improves.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm stating a general principle, not saying anything about what RMS did or didn't say, or did or didn't intend to say. I don't have time to dig into all that.
I could already be fired for far less important reasons. Where’s the slope?
And he did retract that more than a decade old statement.
>VCs these days are very focused on the "SaaS Quick Ratio"

VCs are focused on whatever metric reels in the next layer of suckers. GAAP exists for a reason.
Everything you said is conjecture. This is one of the most baseless and accusatory comments I've read here. It's so low effort and it's immediately transparent that you just don't like the guy.
These quotes does not seem to occur in the article?
The kids you grew up with or were friends in school with highly impact this as well.

Friends with the weird kid that just ate his boogers all day? You guys are probably working at McDonalds together. Hang around the stoners that never got their acts together? You might have ended up the same way.

But if you hung out with the kid who went to college? You might have decided to go to the same college and maybe got an internship as his dad's company. Maybe his name was Steve, and you guys took a shared love for electronics and started your own company.

So think about this when you decide to buy a house, if you have kids. Your kids neighbors might be the biggest influence on the rest of their lives. Imagine if you had grown up one town over, or on the other side of the tracks, but didn't because your mom liked the kitchen layout in the house you grew up in.
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What a patently absurd take. Implying that the only part of Melinda's experience that matters is how much money she has access to. If you really think she's experienced no negatives due to her gender I ask you to consider what common negative experience would be for women, I'm sure you'll find that status and wealth don't much change the nature of these experiences.
approaching 1000 comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583
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It's a perfect language to implement dark patterns, in fact they could trademark that term /s
Relevant [0]: "The life chances approach suggests that status is not entirely achieved, but is, to some extent, ascribed. Overall, in societies emphasizing ascription, opportunity is relatively low and status (in the sense of prestige in the community) is often inherited. This means that people are, effectively, given their status as a result of the group into which they are born, rather than earning it entirely on merit. Ascriptive qualities such as race/ethnicity, gender, and class of origin can all affect one's life chances. In all societies parents pass on whatever advantages and disadvantages they have to their children".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_chances

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"Borek" is definitely Turkish, of central asia origin. You are conflating irrelevant things. Not everything you see in Turkish culture is "stolen" from some other culture, Turks roam a huge area in 3 different continents for thousands of years, they teach learn and adapt, what did you expect? It is getting really tired of seeing whenever something remotely Turkish is mentioned someone jumps with these.
I prefer applying compassion to people who say stupid shit.

I also prefer weirdos to Pearl Clutchers. A segment of the world may want homogeneity, but I don’t. I don’t particularly like Stallman, but I also appreciate his weirdness.
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You can leak names can't you? Wouldn't kinda-short-secret-message.foo.example.com make its way eventually to the authoritative server for example.com, as long as it's not too sketchy a domain?
Focus is usually directed at a single thing though, it's a narrowing of attention. Attention mechanisms can pay attention to more than one thing at a time.
I hope it's now painfully obvious why Silicon Valley is getting behind the Long-Term Stock Exchange: they need to be able to pass these duds onto the uneducated public.
Sad to see that you're being downvoted. Richard Stallman's insane statements about child abuse have nothing to do with autism. The man has defended pedophilia and apparently also harassed women throughout his career. Absolutely disgusting behaviour that has nothing to do with being neuro-atypical.
Try using Anki or another Spaced Repetition (SRS) program. Anki specifically has been life-changing for me.

- https://apps.ankiweb.net

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
Then again, if someone believes a man in the sky created the world in 6 days, claims the earth is 6000 years old, ... , what stops them from defending the POTUS? Why expect logic where no other logic seems to apply?
I see race* to be a very prominent factor in these charts.

On one hand I would like to agree, but on the other I would like to respectfully remind my western friends of the existence of eastern Europe(especially Moldova) and the Balkans, where let's just say that white privilege is not that apparent.

*dirty word for me personally. There's one race - the human race.
That's a lot of work to come to the conclusion that a mostly point-to-point network is more resilient to attack/failure than a hub-and-spoke network. Seems obvious that losing a hub creates a mess. Am I missing some nuance here?
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The fact that he held the view that "voluntary pedophilia" is harmless for over 10 years, and only publicly recanted during this shitstorm is... not a good look, to say the least.
> Anyway, he probably should have know better than to weigh in.

That's the problem with the internet today. It's too toxic to hold any meaningful public discussion.

I'd bet that RMS was open to discussing the point he expressed. Because that's what you do on an old-fashioned mailing list. But apparently he got no response to his email. Instead Selam jumped the gun and started, essentially, a shaming campaign on medium.

This kind of attitude essentially hushes people who can actually hold a meaningful online discussion, and perhaps revising their starting opinions after one. Instead we only get to hear the voices of people that are righteous about their opinions—be right or wrong.

Internet has transformed from an open forum to a shouting contest; if you can't join a big enough shouting group, no need to waste your energy participating.
Is that page legally binding?

Does it cite anything legally binding?

No? Then it's not a source.

>The GDPR states that IP addresses should be considered personal data as it enters the scope of ‘online identifiers’. Of course, in the case of a dynamic IP address – which is changed every time a person connects to a network – there has been some legitimate debate going on as to whether it can truly lead to the identification of a person or not. The conclusion is that the GDPR does consider it as such.

>.... The conclusion is that the GDPR does consider it as such.

How?

The article just spews word vomit and then makes a conclusion on behalf of the GDPR without even citing a single bit of the GDPR to back up its arguments.

You should never take legal advise from a website that doesn't cite the legal text.
> He doesn't have any issue with corps taking over the FOSS world as long as it compiles on trisquel and comes with a free license.

The attitude you describe is much more represented by Linus Torvalds, and by the BSD folks, than by the GNU / GPL folks.
Americans think progress can fix inequality because we live in a thinly populated country with lots of resources. In particular, since 1800, mostly European immigrants converted the economy from hunting/gathering and neolithic agriculture to modern agriculture.

Most parts of the world for most of history have lived at the Malthusian limit with diets ranging from lavish to starvation within the society.
As a young kid here in the UK I had a Ladybird book with a picture of an X-15 - almost 50 years later I can still remember my fascination with that machine.

99% Certain it was this one:

https://www.arranalexander.co.uk/exploring-space-vintage-lad...

Now I have to find one!
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You are right!

Maybe we should start an experts registry, so there is no confusion about who can speak.
You're missing Eventbrite, which IPOed September 2018 and has lost around half its peak value.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EB/
Isn't something like jsfiddle, codepen, etc... exactly the same?

Not to disminish your effort and result, but you say that you had a "recurring need", well, that need was already solved.
> (The cynic in me believes he's resigning because it's far more newsworthy to say "resigned from MIT" instead of "resigned from the FSF," especially given all the news headlines calling him "Famous MIT Computer Scientist," and it also has far less of an impact on his life or his goals than resigning from the FSF would.)

If Stallman cared about his reputation or being considered famous his entire life would have been quite different.
Right, the foundation produces community, and the community produces software. RMS’s role is almost entirely about leading that community, not producing that software.
Do you really need a PR person to know that suggesting underage sex is OK is a risky topic of conversation? Like, come on. This isn’t a subtle mine field here, it’s not rocket science, and any adult, particularly someone as nominally smart as RMS, should be aware that suggesting 14 year old girls (particularly ones with a non-zero probability of being _trafficked_!!) engaging in sex with 60 year old men is a risky freaking topic.

I don’t approve of the current political climate (re: freedom of speech) but RMS is a grown man and he should know better. Not going to lose sleep over this one.
I agree with you on principle. In real terms but a PCP who sees you regularly is more likely to take steps towards tapering dosage. If you see someone for the first time and you ask for a particular medication that's scheduled, unless they call the previous PCP to get old diagnosis and dosage etc to make sure things are in order.

PS: I'm not in the states, but in Australia, where things are quite different.

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People can be fixed. But that doesn't mean that people will still be comfortable with them heading up their ideological non-profit, or that it's unreasonable to question whether or not he is fixed.

And even if he is fixed on the matter of his views on pedophilia, we still have all his creepy behavior toward women to contend with.
Yes, people have to grow to not be stupid assholes. On the other side, if people think you're a stupid asshole, they should be allowed to cut off contact.

Thus you probably want to avoid growing in the only global circle we have. With smaller circles, getting cut off (as always has happened) is less of big deal.

In a similar vein, I'm fine with scientists exploring "IQ of the races" in their work. But going on a podcast and sharing that with a more general audience while not understanding its role in broader society while washing concerns away with "this just facts" is fine to have consequences.
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> At some point, most Internet protocol privacy issues boil down to who you're willing to leak information to

They don't. As you can leak all your information to a single party or leak smallest necessary bits of information to each of many independent parties to the point where no single party can make any use of it or even decode it alone.

Naturally for DNS encrypting communications to authoritative servers can actually improve privacy, while encrypting communications to a big centralized third party resolver and using it only has a negative effect on privacy.
Just been to Air and Space Museum recently, as it happens. There's a walkway right next to the X-15, so you can actually see it from very up close.
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Bigotry and colonialism takes many forms. Most people in the us wouldn’t make a distinction between anybody from Central America once they crossed the border — they’re all ‘hispanics’, but they have all kinds of problems with ethnic discrimination in places like Guatemala, using racial distinctions that most Americans wouldn’t even recognize.
A large fraction doesn't not mean "most". 1/4 is a large fraction. 1/10 is still a large fraction. Due to the large amount of people companies like fb, goog, apple etc employ, statistically you should expect that a SV startup on the verge of not being a startup anymore employs some ex-ers. Not having any, will raise questions. This doesn't mean the startup is bad, the answer to said questions might...
A lot. The article has an example comparing one region in India to another.
It's in the graph at the top, under the title "Starting Out Ahead" - see the large bump under 'gender' in Melinda's life plot
(Again reading the comment with good faith/will) presumably "if you are going to respect the environment" covers that aspect?
I think this raises a good point about separating the composer and performer. It's almost like a symbiosis. If you're a composer, and you want there to be any chance of someone performing your work in a live setting, then you have to stay within certain parameters. If you're a musician, you're looking for interesting material that you can play on your instrument without getting killed.

There are other practical concerns such as being able to hire from a pool of musicians who can all do similar work. So it leads to a large repertoire that is hard to define in a formal sense, but develops similarities out of practical necessity.

There are other examples as well. The string quartet and the "big band" of jazz, where a particular instrumentation and performance setting guarantees a limitless supply of repertoire for the musicians, and a hope of getting performed for the composer or arranger. I play in a "big band."
> Three decades later, he still misses it like hell

I can’t imagine what it must be like to go to space as a profession, and then need to leave or retire. A bittersweet thing, to be sure.
He doesn't understands power relations because he ignores them. He doesn't bend, which makes him a general outsider of society, but he expect other to act in the same manner, of not bending, because he doesn't understand social ties.

There are various few occasions that you see RMS bending. Like plane travels (which require IDs), that he just does when he needs to cross oceans. So to him, a person that dd something because of a power relation with an employer is just weird.
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He wasn't attempting to have a meaningful discussion though, was he?

He was defending a 70 year old who had sex with a coerced child by trying to say that the word "assault" shouldn't carry either its everyday English meaning or its more specific legal meaning, but should instead have some other meaning that he created.
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By evicting him, and finding someone who's better, making the parameters more clear each time.

Who can say what would have been in place if a particular leader hadn't? They take oxygen. Some would even say we should move away from the model of a few leaders representing many.
That's not quite right, we do know what black holes are made up of: the remains of a star. Well, if they are reasonably small they are made out of the remains of a star, if they are too big they can contain the remains of lots of stars and also gas, dust and maybe bits of planets, but exactly how we get the biggest black holes isn't clear.

The issue is rather that we don't know what all that star stuff becomes once it goes into the black hole, though there are theories. The problem is that the defining feature of a black hole, its even horizon, by necessity means there is no way of knowing what theory is correct since nothing happening inside is supposed to matter to us.

So before we can make any real progress on the interior of black holes we thus need to figure out exactly in what sense the event horizon leaks information, if it does.

In contrast, while we don't really know what happens to matter inside a neutron star, its surface remains visible to us and so we have been able to discard many different theories about what goes inside it. There is still debate about the precise equation of state, which correspond to different internal structure the various models represent and so different ideas of how a neutron star is made up.

Honestly, I don't know how much difference there are between the various models, but pretty crazy sounding ideas are still popping up, so there must be at least some space left.
Just because you write up something that sounds "intellectual" and appears to have "reputable sources", it doesn't mean it is or it does. Damore's garbage post was just that: garbage.

It's really sad that people felt the need to stoop to threatening him with physical violence, but that doesn't mean he wasn't completely wrong and had to go.
I don’t like how this article spins that doing housework is like a degenerate or bad thing for a woman to do. More housework = more inequality. Uh, ok.

It has to be done. That’s how teamwork, works.
This is correct. It is a common misconception that the gravity an object exerts on it's surrounding increases when it collapses into a black hole.

What actually happens is that the object shrinks
- according the to the currently accepted models into a single dimensional point. The mass now being confined to a singularity, the gradient of the gravity as you get near becomes extreme, reaching infinity at the singularity. The gradient never could get so extreme before because the mass was diffused over a much bigger volume.

Imagine replacing the Sun with a black hole of equal mass. Apart from the lack of visible light, the gravity we here on Earth would experience would be exactly the same as before, as would every single planet that is currently orbiting. What would change is the distribution of mass inside the sun. The event horizon would be at about 6kms from the Singularity. You could now hypothetically approach the Sun to within ~10km from the center and still stay outside of the event horizon, but the gravity gradient at that point would be unimaginable. The difference in force applied to a the feet and the head of a hypothetical astronaut in orbit would disintegrate them into atoms, which themselves would possibly be squished into spindles.

With the sun as it is currently, even if you could somehow get to within 10kms of the center, the majority of the mass of the sun would be actually outside of this sphere so the net gravity you'd experience would be negligible (compared to the black hole scenario).
What did he do? Forgive me, I am not on Twitter et.al.
In the article they go in to expand that within that region, the Sahel, and Chad in particular, even though to most people in the west including blacks from the West we see those people as black, locally there are distinguishable ethnic minorities who suffer under the ethnic majorities.
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I meant something different.

The link between physical sensations of discomfort and pain and the conscious experience of suffering is not constant across individuals or situation and is correlated with cultural differences. I'm trying to create a distinction between pain and suffering (perhaps there are better words).

Western cultures and Americans in particular have a generally much stronger association of pain and suffering and expect that everyone else does too.

As an example, if you took me and a random life-long resident of the bay area and dropped us, appropriately dressed, into a 5 degrees F day outside for an hour, we would have very different experiences because I grew up in a cold climate and I just like it. I don't think my nerves work any differently or that any physical sensation I received would be different than anybody else's -- but my attitude towards cold and my feelings about the sensations are very much different than someone who spends most of their life in 65-90F.

Pain is information and your attitudes and experiences will change how you perceive it. The sensation is universal but its interpretation is not. You don't have to push nerve chemistry around with drugs to alleviate suffering. It is certainly useful in some circumstances, necessary in others, but not all circumstances and some cultures and some people put much to high a value on eliminating the sensation as opposed to treating and improving the downstream conscious and unconscious perception of it.
Glad to hear you've done well for yourself and found a way out in IT.

Question though: what do you mean with 'raised in projects'? I can't really Google it. Or is this a reference to the song I find?
It’s in the “journey” graphic, where Melinda has to scale a “gender” hump: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/assets/2019-repo...
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So the next time someone does something bad, and a group of people rally to support them despite it being obviously bad, we should all look back to this thread.

RMS is a figure in the hacker/tech community so the hacker/tech community has done most of the excusing for his behavior.

It's sad. There's room for argument in how much backlash he should receive, but if you're arguing that what said is fine, I would argue that you may be fooling yourself.

Consider some public figure you dislike (politician, celebrity, etc). Now pretend that person said these things. Would you be so forgiving? Maybe you would. But if you find the answer to be no, then you're just protecting your own. Quit that.
The guy has a long history endorsing pedophillia. Is it so hard to not endorse pedophilla? Can't that just be the one thing everybody agrees on?
> Subsidized apartment buildings, often referred to as housing projects, have a complicated and often notorious history in the United States.

In everyday American English, "the projects" often refers to a very dangerous urban residential area, or at the very least, a non-desirable one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidized_housing_in_the_Unit...
Not only that, now we obviously have reliable sources to turn to to get the right opinion about stuff. O brave new world.
Hello HN mods? Are you okay? Are you okay dannie?

The community has brought attention to this account multiple times with no actual action on your part.

I guess you might be too busy tone policing, as per usual: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20993139
Being racist goes beyond having an opinion. I’m talking about what is clearly a much more limited viewpoint, about a specific situation. Racism is deeply held, applies (by definition) incredibly broadly, and is reasonably expected to affect how you treat coworkers.
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