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Legality != morality

Plenty of laws on the books are immoral and I can think of lots of organizations I'd rather not support with my code. However, the price you pay for putting your work on the open market (or OSS) is that you lose control of who can use it after that point.
Hard disagreement, if something can feel pain and suffering then we should be striving to overcome the need to inflict that on them.

Also, just because we don't "owe" it to them doesn't mean we shouldn't. Being nice or doing good in the world isn't something that should be earned by the recipients, it should be the default for how we treat each other if we're REALLY trying to progress and move forward as sentient beings.
While conducting a GDPR review I discovered that our email service provider (Campaign Monitor) was logging IP addresses of our list members associated with each email open. My jaw dropped when I noticed that they were doing geo-ip enrichment, so that I could drill into any subscriber, see a history of their opening of our newsletters, and a map of their approximate location. I could see if "Bruce" was in Melborne or Petaluma on April 23rd. That kind of data is straight up dangerous and would be very hard to justify on a Legitimate Interest Assessment. That said, I haven't found a way to disable or purge that data thus far, and have been having a hard time finding an ESP that doesn't log IPs for its open tracking. We legitimately need open tracking, but certainly not with non-hashed IPs exposed. Realistically, just overall open rate reporting would suffice for our use case, not tracking of individual list member's activity.
Ah, sorry, I didn't mean you are racist. Just the idea of noble savage. I should have been more careful with the wording.

Re: hunter-gatherer lifestyle, my understanding that people leading that are merely unlucky (or lucky) ones who didn't domesticate enough plants and animals to settle down and go through a population explosion. They certainly have a lot of knowledge about local ecosystems because they depend on that knowledge for survival.

But, a few successful domestications, some introduced species, few hundred years of nice weather and they will multiply and turn into the same kind of locusts the rest of humanity is. I think Maya or Aztec went through that. Hell, this was happening back when cyanobacteria was repeatedly wiping out life on earth before something figured out how to use oxygen. It is a general property of life -- consume and reproduce.

We might eventually grow out of it (I see a lot of promise in regenerative agriculture for example), but chances are not certain.
My email address has been in my profile for years ... I never get spam. I've received maybe 4-5 unsolicited emails in the lifetime of my account (Created October 10, 2007) and they haven't bothered me.
It's not THAT hard to drop in batteries and motors to some 3D printed body and have it move around.

The basic design paradigm (skateboard) of EVs is basically established, new EV companies are systems integration and supply chain (esp. battery) setup... well, probably motor design now too, but it's not like people don't know how to make electric motors.
>18 months.

Bold prediction. I wouldn't be surprised if this is an open problem in 18 years.
Good work! I will take a look
"I was having trouble sleeping at night knowing that software—code that I personally authored—was being sold to and used by such a vile organization,"

I have bad news for almost every open source contributor then.
As I understand it, the latter 2 quotes are now rather old and Stallman has publicly renounced those views.

While I'm sure it wasn't your intention, a casual reader of your post might get the impression that they were all part of the conversation he appears to have been fired for.
Most are spontaneous started out with ideals and outrage but those die unless they meet money..

So the campaigns are real but the scale is faked.
"""Rubbish is working with cities and communities to create a smart approach to litter, using data to put cigarette disposals and trash cans where they will have the biggest impact."""

I really like that approach to quantitate where the hotspots are and to deliver bins accordingly.
They also put you in an environment for being exposed to new thoughts and ideas and to have discussions with peers. Even to the degree you could block off time and do some of this online you probably won’t.

Anyone who approaches conferences as if they were a playlist of YouTube videos is probably going to be disappointed.
Well, they're not exactly of the same mind.

Apple blocks not only the content, but the ability to even monitor as well. So there is a little extra with the Apple way.

You'd hope google would follow suit, but given their business model it's understandable if they don't. (Not that I'm a supporter of Google's business model, just that I understand why the ability to monitor is still there.)
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So he temporarily sabotaged many customers to make a political point about ICE because he believes they are immoral. I’m not sure two wrongs can make a right like that.
>Hah that's amazing. I remember when I did bitcoin mining (only 1 GPU) and thinking it was getting noticeably warmer upstairs in our house, and how actually the bigger miners could use the heat to heat buildings.

I switched to a Chromebox as my daily driver 2 years and change ago because my bedroom would be about 1F higher than the other rooms at idle and I saw it 11F hotter one time after several hours of one of the BattleField titles running dual GPUs.

The added benefit is, even with the PC running at idle 24/7 the Chromebox would have paid for itself right around the 2 year mark in energy savings at a full load.
If that's all you're getting out of conferences then it sounds like a waste of time and you should probably stop going.

The real reason is to meet and get to know people in person that you may want work with or collaborate with. Maybe they're a speaker, or not. Also, in the sciences at least, some conferences are for the presentation and in-person discussion of new breakthroughs. The in-person part is frequently invaluable.
Morality is subjective, Seth Vargo thinks the way ICE enforces the law is not appropriate and choose not to help them.

Wether or not you share his moral beliefs does not seem important to me, you can recode chef-sugar if you think the way ICE works is fine and we should help them.
If you were two people who started on a more or less level playing field, it wouldn't be. The problem with these kinds of systems (at least the ethics of them) is that what conservatives call the "West" which is to say, America, Europe, sometimes Russia depending, or what can also be called the "1st world" is yes, wealthy, yes, successful, but that a great deal of that wealth and success was derived from colonial exploitation of these other countries.

So, in simpler terms, we've spent more or less 4 centuries robbing these people blind, stealing their resources, occasionally their actual people, and murdering them in droves as we did. And now, we sold them cheap phones, and linked them to a network of banks that allow westerners to loan them a tiny, infinitesimal amount of money to us, in exchange for getting a profit when they pay it back.

Now there are people who are going to downvote you and also me because they don't like being reminded that the alabaster clad civilization we all enjoy is built on the backs of just, stressful amounts of slavery, be it literal slaves, economic slaves or political slaves, but it's true. It's also true that our vaults are packed to the brim with wealth that was taken from those who had rightful claim to it. These are unambiguous historical realities.

We here are not fortunate; we are the victors in a war that's been going on since about the time the first iteration of the Dutch East India company was chartered; the war between the haves, and the have-nots. And we have won so hard that it will probably take generations of dedicated effort to make things even remotely equal again.

Edit: Just to make this clear, when I say we are not "fortunate" I merely mean to say that it is not good fortune or some divine will that's put us in this position, as is a common citation of those seeking to maintain this status quo. I'm saying that it was a concentrated, often violent effort that put us here.
Are you referring to alcohol or something else?
Are they really unaccountable? The silence of people seems to affirm their choices.
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The false-sharing macro in the example expands to __attribute__((alligned(/* etc / )) or __declspec(align(/ etc*/). Is there a reason these are preferred over the alignas specifier introduced in C++ 11?
Yes. As individuals we only have authority to restrict access to property we directly own... and as the State is only the collective organization of our own innate individual rights, there is no basis for the State to claim the power to restrict access to property it does not own. Individuals should be free to move wherever and however they want, so long as they don't initiate force or use fraud to violate anyone else's rights in the process.
I'm thinking high-fructose corn syrup or brominated vegetable oil.
For the case of physical media that contains digital data (like a game on a DVD or music on a CD) this is a distinction without a difference. Should I not be allowed to resell my CDs if they are in pristine condition?

I think the argument being made here is: bad for companies -> companies are less incentivized to make products -> bad for consumers of those products, therefore anything bad for companies is bad for users.
Isn't that the whole point? Everyone should have a moral code because everyone's moral code could be a different?
The pic with developers has been taken in http://www.iceaddis.com/ a great co-working place (I normally do not like co-working place: to many so called western digital nomads just uploading dumb youtube videos, but this is different: almost all locals, really smart guys: I mean really)

I am 100% positive on the fact that many EU based IT companies will have a base in Ethiopia in the near feature: almost same timezone, perfect English (in Ethiopia when you are around 16 anything in school starts to be in English: which is not that good, really, but you end up with access to good books and with graduates talking great English); but also great winter (Addis is a plateau, over 2500mt high, so no mosquitoes, no malaria at all, no need air conditioning, and every day sunny as june in Europe): any IT companies will love to have a base there!

the only problem is politics (here, too!): the government do not probably have instruments to control what is going on in the internet, as a result they just turn internet off when needed (and when I mean off, I mean OFF! and for days): election are coming, so watch out!
I'm with you, once I realized how much anxiety and self-loathing I experienced when on social media yet I was so addicted to it that I couldn't stop. I tore that band aid off, deleted all my social media accounts and I could not be happier. I did not realize how much more time I had without social media, how much more time I had to invest in myself, to achieve things I was happy with and was content without needing a numerical approval of the people in my life, the more 'in the moment and living' I was. I realized how much people thought they knew me because of my photos and posts until I was completely off social media. People become curious of what you've been up to and asked me how I was. I noticed how effective this is to build friendships and, this could be the people I surrounded myself with but people have forgot to ask how we each other how we are actually doing because we think we know based off of peoples social media. It's sad.

I've been off of social media for over a year and I don't regret it. I'm happy to miss an event because I wasn't on Facebook, it allowed me to see who actually wants me to be there versus those who just invite everyone in a group.
This argument has no sway, because the passage of time has occurred since the Middle Ages. We no longer live in the Middle Ages. We will deal with what is unconscionable in 2019 using 2019 standards.

Equating literally a currently criminal act that negatively affects individuals we consider defenseless because of their legal minor status, to social movements that have found validity after it's initial dismissal is just not rationale. Unless the argument is that sex with a child should be socially acceptable.
If the enforcement is resulting in dead children, children, locked in cages, withholding available bedding from children because two combs disappeared (shockingly kids want something when you take them from their parents).

The latter is collective punishment and per a variety of treaties, including some signed by the US, a violation of international law.

So yeah, it is immoral.

Arguing counter to that is no different from IBM claiming they weren’t breaking the law by helping nazi Germany track and count the Jews, Romani, Jehovahs Witnesses, Gay, and Trans (etc) victims of the holocaust.

IBM also claimed that they were only supporting “administrative” tasks, and not actually running the concentration camps. Just like these companies.
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You cannot deny that it would work. If we are seriously researching (global, species wide) solutions, it has to be part of the possible solution set.

If your focus is "survival of a given individual", then I agree it's probably not a solution.
But if your focus is "survival of the human species in the long term", then it very much is a part of the solution space.
All these changes to a “phone” OS and the user experience for phone calls is unchanged: still an obnoxious full-screen mess.

Invariably while browsing the web or doing something completely unrelated to phones, the entire screen is suddenly replaced with the stupid incoming-call UI because (typically) a random scammer is trying to call me.

I just don’t understand why this is required. Make it a tiny nav-bar or something. And definitely make it backgrounded so that it can’t interrupt whatever I’m doing.

It’s especially annoying because some apps can’t recover gracefully, e.g. sound may not resume playing all because you got a call you didn’t want.
The high interest rate is for the high risk. If anyone who could qualify for a lower interest rate, wouldn't go and borrow at the higher interest rate.
I'm not completely informed of everything ICE does but I believe this is the agency that has been separating children from their parents, caging people for days (weeks?) on end in conditions where they can't even lie down, and even had small children die in their custody [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48375144
I want to believe he wants this message to get out
This world truly is a boring dystopia.
Check out the ingredients on your favorite soft drink. There's probably all sorts of stuff listed that has been shown to cause cancer in rats.
> - Inter-connectors

What's that? Supply from a grid overseas?
That's putting the cart before the horse. If we're here in 100 years then of course we'll have solved the problem... but we're not going to here in 100 years if we just decided it'd be solved in 100 years.
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c'mon now. is this really a proper topic for an HN discussion?
This is MARVELOUSLY ridiculous and I love it. Thanks for sharing your work.
Selective enforcement of immigration law is immoral. Both in the sense that immigration law is more likely to be enforced against racial minorities, and in the sense that workers are targeted but the businesses who benefit from exploiting undocumented immigrant labor are not targeted.
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Also interesting thing to mention: HF is actually a 'weak acid', its reactivity and danger comes from the presence of fluorine not the H bond which is what determines something's acid strength.
Yeah, I know. I mean, what kind of half-assed dystopia can be described by lyrics from a thirty-year-old rock opera like Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime (EMI, 1988)?
SVN has the alias "svn praise".

I was disappointed that git didn't have it, so I created myself one. I'm glad git has trivial support for aliases.
> Amazon paid NO income taxes last year.

This is not true. They paid no federal income tax which is not the same as no income tax. In 2018 they paid $1.2 billion globally[0] and I don't understand how much they paid domestically because deferred income tax is confusing to me.[1]

Taxes are extremely complicated and a lot of people (politicians especially) will pick one or two numbers that support their narrative. They know most people won't spend the time researching the context surrounding their "statistics" and they also bank on how people will misunderstand what they're reporting.

You just said "NO income taxes last year." The people popularizing the "no federal income taxes" meme know a lot of people will think it means "no income taxes."

[0] - https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/amzn/financials
[1] - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deferredincometax.asp
So further increasing tax burden on American citizens by allowing unlawful migration, when they already bring in 1 million plus lawfully and have been for the last decade, is morally just?

Their illegal immigration problem is literally an order of magnitude larger. Think about that for a second: 10 times more unlawful migration occurs in their country.

"It's immoral" is even more intellectually dishonest: you're just calling it bad.
This sort of thing hurts open source, too - when you buy software, the contract is that they'll continue allowing you to use it as long as the check clears. Now, with open source, you don't have to pay... but you have to run your business/government the way each individual developer agrees with?
Re: Ruthlessly eliminate negative people

I'm undoubtedly the most negative person in my life.
Not sure what to do with this point: "Right now we are just putting the recycling into the landfill, but we don't want to have people stop separating the recycling because it took so long to teach them to do it."
Grassroots organizing is dead. Nowadays you have a bunch of groups funded by ridiculously wealthy foundations and donors who are chasing the ghost of grassroots organizing which has been dead for years.

I work for a small nonprofit which claims to run grassroots advocacy campaigns. We are in the environmental sector, but I'm sure it is similar in other areas. A solid 70% of our funding comes from large foundations. We pick an issue, get people fired up on social media about it, then call it grassroots just because a bunch of people supported it.
The thing missing from upper atmosphere that destroys methane is water. Unfortunately, it's a greenhouse gas too, and relatively long-lived there too.

It's very likely best to focus in CO2 and let CH4 follow its short lived natural course.
I was referring to Coca-cola, consistently among the top advertisers in the world. Often things that are so large and commonplace, its difficult for us to see them as anything but 'normal'.
I'd imagine this is why GitHub disallows private forks?
I could have used this about six months ago when I was starting a new web site for a company with only a main brand color and no notion of accent or complimentary colors.

Definitely putting this in the resources folder for my next project.
I am in no way a designer, but I found myself playing with this for a good 10 minutes.

Thanks Lyft!
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You're arguing that we should be comparing the total cost of the fossil fuel and renewable energy industries. If the discussion is mainly about the direction society should take with regard to energy, then I would agree with you. But there are still contexts in which it is useful to talk strictly about subsidies. For example, when discussing how much an industry depends on direct government action, which is the context of this whole discussion we are having right now. (ie Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies, in which the my definition of subsidy is the one being used, I'm pretty sure.) Yes, there are time where it's more important to discuss the big picture, but there are also times it's worthwhile to discuss the details and language should retain the detail to do both.

There's another reason this is important and it is with regard to the big picture. A lot of people already know what subsidy means and understand it to mean direct government gifts. When you use a different definition of a commonly understood word, what you are doing is defining it stipulatively. If you don't clarify that you are using a stipulative definition ahead of time, then you are committing a fallacy of equivocation. It doesn't matter if you think that your stipulative definition makes more sense or is more useful, people have to be using words the same way in order to communicate. I'd rather not give climate denialists any more fuel than is absolutely necessary and confusing equivocations are unnecessary. Talking about subsidies when you mean subsidy and talking about costs when you mean cost helps avoid them.
If I was to experiment with inducing anxiety in mice, one of the things I would try is strapping it to a chair in-front of a backlit screen for 8 hours a day five days a week.
The majority of people already own houses and have mortgages. That means they don't want interest rates to go up. So the Fed will not allow that.

That's it, that is the reason banks were bailed out in the first place. That's the reason they're being subsidised now (plus lots of cheap money pushes up the stock market and spurs investment and looks good at election time).

This isn't about economics. It's about politics.
It's stealing money out of everyone's pockets to keep the banks going. Devalues the existing currency already in circulation. I love the obsession with keeping the system going, if the system is cyclical and flawed for human beings, maybe we shouldn't base the system that feeds, clothes and houses humanity on a craps table. The more of this sort of news that comes up the closer I listen to Richard D. Wolff.
The attitude you're presenting is a huge problem in software development, and I firmly stand by what I've been saying -- if you're unwilling or do not like maintaining software, get the hell out of the industry.

A developer without a mind for writing maintainable code is a bane to the existence of everyone who works with him/her, and a developer who constantly builds new projects and does not have to stick around to keep them running will never grow that mind.
Well at least you have that going for you!
I know solar doesn't actually require clear skies etc etc, but I still laugh whenever it comes up - because of the notouriously-depressing British weather...
My first thought was: Look, I don't exactly have any love towards ICE, but you can't delete code that you were paid for.

Then I read the article: Oh. You weren't paid for it. You wrote some code, hosted it (with the intent that a third party could use it), and then a third party used your code for a product sold to ICE.

Without saying anything about free software. Companies that repackage and sell free software really should have the logistics in place such that this event wouldn't be problematic.

If you host software for free and you don't like what people are doing with it, then I think you should be able to stop hosting that software.