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AFACT, the strongest argument in favour of the removal of RMS is by Thomas Bushnell[0]. The best counter-argument to that, which I could find, is by Thomas Lord[1][2]. I haven't found any replies to the latter.

(There's also the meta-issue that rule-by-lying-journalists-and-misinformed-mob is terrifying and despicable, but it doesn't affect the object-level question of whether RMS significantly contributed and/or contributes towards making MIT and the free-software world unwelcoming to women.)

[0] https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...

[1] https://twitter.com/thomas_lord/status/1174433645110513664

[2] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1174433645110513664.html
Don't do the PhD. They always take longer than the advisors' rosy estimates and if you're unhappy, it will seriously harm your mental health. If you dislike studying, getting a PhD isn't for you as that degree tells employers "here is someone who studies and researches" and thus you may be on the hook for more school- like work.

I'd say just go into industry now, if you truly want a PhD later on, do it where you'll have a better chance of mental health and prosperity.
That’s a bit misleading. Many of their patches were needed and had been contributed upstream by the time Phoenix was being tested as such. Still, this is a great benefit of sharing the ecosystem as such as everyone gets to benefit from this work.
Never mind the fact it takes trees decades to get to their maximum annual CO2 uptake levels and that species vary wildly in the levels of CO2 they take up...

Planting trees isn't the answer, drastically reducing emissions immediately, drastically reducing construction levels (creating concrete is a huge source of CO2), cessation of paving over square mile after square mile of soil to create roads and housing additions, ceasing the practice of removing all of the top soil from ecologically diverse fields to sell and then throwing Kentucky blue grass sod down and putting up cookie-cutter houses, ceasing coastal fishing that has been damaging kelp and seaweed 'forests' and actively repopulating them via sustainable farming of kelp and seaweed which will drastically increase local marine species populations over time.

Hell, abandoning foolish technologies like cryptocurrency will have IMMEDIATE impact. Bitcoin alone uses an insane amount of electricity. One estimate [1] puts a single bitcoin transaction at using as much electricity as it takes to stream 48,011 hours of YouTube which is nearly 21 days of average U.S. household electricity usage! The network has had an annualized carbon footprint equal to Denmark and an electricity consumption equal to Austria. For imaginary flippin' internet money that is largely used for speculation, ransomware and illicit drug trade!!!

Yes, replacing the forests we've cut down in the past several centuries is imperative but it isn't a solution. You can plant all the trees you want but as long as you're producing nearly 40 gigatons of CO2 a year, you're just making yourself feel good and getting some PR for your company/party/country.

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
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COS is still H&M but their more upper market stores and style, though I have to agree the quality is fairly nice.
Sure, but it's not like he was actively defending his position until the point of his public persecution. They've been the only 2 comments that I'm aware of his thoughts on the subject. Granted they were very controversial thoughts to be ever be trying to question in a public statement. Which makes me think he has no fear/reservations of openly saying what he believes at any time and is not socially-aware of the consequences of his statements, either because he's eccentric, socially awkward, or just lacking in empathy.
Surely that's because its a suggest that we can "solve" an extistential crisis without changing the way we do business or live our lives in any meaningful way.

Feels a bit too good to be true.
I do not know about everyone, but it I believe it is hard to convert a flexible JSON object into a C++ struct (or something with comparable performance), my understanding is that this library helps with that.
This came up on the Hadoop JIRA lately. Someone submitted an issue several years ago and the team is investigating it now and he was trying to figure out how to get off the notification list. They ended up having to change the reporter. jfc jira's a mess.
Questions are rarely deleted by moderators. The community, through voting, is very often the one to delete through voting directly, or through severe downvoting, in which case a bot removes bad questions. And if you have higher score, you can still see these deleted questions and answers.
And how do you feel about weirdos who treaten to kill themselves if a girl won't go out with them?
For anyone who thinks the Scottish highlands are beautiful. Here is what it used to look like and will again one day soon.

https://rewildingeurope.com/rew-project/restoring-the-caledo...

(The video at the bottom is a bit gushing but it's a decent view of what the reforestation projects want to achieve).
Why would it disproportionately put off women?
For a history of the start of WWI, I really liked Guns of August by Barbera Tuchman.

Also, there are some books whose authors wrote with a musicality that they are far better on audio than on paper. Included in this category are:

- Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein

- Souls of Black Folk by WEB DuBois
Russia needs an oil price of at least $74/barrel to balance the budget, which means they've been in a lot of economic pain for the last 5 years. Roscosmos was seen as a cash cow, requiring minimal investment to make reliable $ income off their mature launch business. As a result they were starved of investment and are a pale shadow of their former selves.

Building a dynamic, innovative organisation capable of developing a re-usable architecture would be very expensive, and unless they can not just equal but handily beat SpaceX, there's just no money in it. Their current launch systems already meet their military needs, so there's no political support from that quarter either.
Good luck with moderating this thing. Everyone bitches and moans about Reddit, but the fact of the matter is that sites like Reddit cost a ton to keep up and running and without some sort of revenue, they go down. Without some sort of regulation, sites QUICKLY divulge into a collection of scrupulous and illegal activities, and become blacklisted from advertisers.

I get how everyone wants a community that they can posts and share things anonymously, but the fact of the matter is that unless you have unlimited money where you can fight legal battles and absorb the cost of running it yourself, at some point you are going to need outside resources to keep the thing online and that comes in forms of donations or advertising.
If they were using Phabricator they probably already had a solid sistem of CI and code reviewing.
Holy hell, thank you for that! I was under the same impression as well. The photo just made me appreciate how big the galaxies are!
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It is a good thing that parents can do that, for some reason these issues do not come up when men take paternity leave here. It is very common for fathers to be gone for a 6-12 months after their babies are born.

You just need to change the laws, and how you deal with parenting socially, then it will all make sense ("just").
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> There would be no copyleft, no GNU General Public License, no Free Software Foundation, no GNU userspace (binutils, coreutils, etc), no GNU Compiler Collection, and (of course) no Emacs

Like no other decent person would've been able to invent these?
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Stack Exchange has developed the same group of power people that rule Wikipedia. They have arcane rules with the major effect of keeping people out.

Stack Exchange is good to read, but hard to ask a question that is not immediately due to some rule.
I think you meant bimmer
But we are getting better, right? Despite undoubtedly repeating a lot mistakes (and often times being foolishly ignorant of that), some collective knowledge is surely being retained, otherwise we would not make progress in basically all sciences.
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> Shipping is a pretty dirty industry, because of fuel quality ...

You're not wrong, but no one else is/was using bunker fuel, so might as well burn it, as what else can it be used for? Can it be processed into anything more useful?

(The IMO 2020 mandate may help clean things up.)

> Bear in mind that shipping is also the most energy efficient form of bulk transportation (vs land or air).

I was under the impression that rail transport was. Is that not correct?
You can start here: https://medium.com/@selamjie/remove-richard-stallman-appendi...
Moderators are part of the community that can vote and high-ranked people that vote have access to mod tools - they're basically moderators - just without the diamond.

I can see quite a lot, not everything though, and I don't want to grind reputation asking inane questions to get access to more, to keep my detailed questions from being closed without explanation and then deleted. These kafkaesque trials are ridiculous and obnoxious.
based on my research into phytoplanktons and cyanobacteria-based climate change mitigation for the purposes of commercialization, my take on this is that planting trees is probably a significantly easier approach in terms of the amount of effort involved on an ongoing basis.

in terms of efficacy, i'd say it depends on how productive your phyto/cyano farm is versus planting trees over a 10-year course per dollar. phyto/cyano farms will be super dense in terms of sequestration, capacity but you'll be investing hundreds of dollars per unit.
He doesn't do most of the work but he's very involved. Here's an interview Mueller gave that describes some things Elon did with the Merlin engine, search for "face-shutoff."

https://zlsadesign.com/post/tom-mueller-interview-2017-05-02...
TrustPilot is just completely ridiculous. For a company who's entire USP revolves around 'real' reviews, the vast, vast majority are so obviously fake.
Yeah true. As a business analyst I have queried many databases, but SQL doesn't change (much), and the dialects share a common base, even for the cloud based ones. My bread and butter.
Using JS over CSS for sizing elements rarely is a 'better solution', mostly because of flashes of unstyled content - especially on mobile where it might take longer for the JS to fully initialise.

Like other comments on here say, just use height: 100% instead.
Ah yes, the good old "X/Y Problem" [0]

Doesn't matter if Y is non-negotiable, or if I've purposely constrained Y, to get a specific answer for a specific technology.

How infuriating for a "Questions and Answers" site, to be told when you're asking a question, that the question you're asking is wrong, and that "you should instead have asked ..."

I swear to god, the SO mods are the dumbest, most priggish, humourless beaureucrats in existence.

[0] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-x...
From my friends who have done PhD's, I understand that its a hard road to go down. I feel like you would need to be committed, interested and motivated....

An exercise I find useful when it comes to making hard decisions, is that I flip a coin and if I am disappoint with the outcome then I know it's the wrong decision.
True but we're not trying to profit off people's loneliness.
That's not how it works.
Open source makes it trivial for the nerds inside a company to deploy. Soon, they start taking advantage of various APIs and integrations. They'll have scripts written in Bash, Perl, Python, Ruby and what not talking to various API endpoints, communicating with other systems using JSON, XML, etc. Every single bot or integration like that is one more "tentacle".

Without signing a contract or even having the board or upper management discuss it, the organization is now entrenched with this piece of software. Comes along a new regulation for your industry; GPDR, SOX, HIPAA, etc. It doesn't matter. What do you do? Fortunately, the provider of your "open source" (or rather: open core) solution offers features supporting your use case. You just have to upgrade from the MIT-licensed core, community edition to the enterprise edition, for $xx,xxx per year.
The point of a PhD is to learn enough that you can produce research and then get better at producing research. Learning how to produce research is where an advisor and community of grad students and postdocs becomes important.

However, if you just want a better understanding of the fundamentals, you certainly don’t need to (and probably shouldn’t) do a PhD.

Also, if you’re reading “dozens of papers each week”, maybe slow down? I wouldn’t pick up much more than abstract-level knowledge at that rate.
People enjoy power over other people. The benefit of closing questions or moderation on Stack Overflow is questionable.
As long as there isn't a push to fix it and prevent it and stop it, and coach around it, the issue doesn't get solved.

That sounds like defeatist attitude.

Stack Exchange could add a rule forbidding asking why or adding answers that have caveats the question asker already said in op were unacceptable and deal with part of the issue

They could also add a system to review, rate, and appeal moderator actions, and penalize people who's moderator actions aren't proper.

They could also add a regular segment to their blog or meta that is just about showcasing improper moderator actions in the light of this is why they thought that was the proper action, this is what they missed, this is how we can avoid that kind of mistake in the future.

But all of this really has to be built in from the ground up, as no existing mod community with go along with that being added after the fact.
> Which makes me think he has no fear/reservations of openly saying what he believes at any time and is not socially-aware of the consequences of his statements, either because he's eccentric, socially awkward, or just lacking in empathy.

I pretty much fully agree with this. I don't think he's evil or anything. The consequences of his statements just finally caught up with him, and in a big way since he seems to have had a strong "It's just how RMS is, he's such a great leader, just ignore him or steer clear of him or whatever" shield around him for all those years.
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I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralised way? But that'd be susceptible to 51%-esque attacks too, and no one wants to provide resources for the site.

I think we're gonna be stuck with shitty walled censored communities for a while. At least there's hn?
500+ points in under an hour, yet at the bottom of the front page.
Is "flag" just a super downvote?
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Not that I agree with this practice, but I've heard from people who stream on twitch that if you are streaming on their platform, you cannot stream to you-tube, d-live or other platforms and keep the affiliate/partner status which allows viewers to subscribe and donate via twitch currency to you.

You may stream to multiple platforms at once, however you lose your ability to be verified on twitch by being an affiliate/partner.

I see more and more of the large platforms taking this route and removing the verified/special perks for being on that particular platform if you are not keeping your content exclusive to them, in an attempt to keep the largest market share/content creators.

In the end I think this will only drive the more independent creators to adopt smaller and more open platforms and the big platforms that are left will be an echo chamber more than ever.
What about not simply enabling wifi connection on the tv? My few year old sony tv is the dumbest possible secondary pc monitor, with great screen quality. I couldn't care less about any of those apps, I have vastly superior PC for those if needed.
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Or maybe the rest of the team knew but never bothered to make any change, because why?
Something like 50% of that article isn't Stallman related, and some of the choice quotes are a bit unbelievable. Eg:

> I recall being told early in my freshman year “If RMS hits on you, just say ‘I’m a vi user’ even if it’s not true.”

That sounds like a joke. I mean, it is a joke. That isn't a serious comment/strategy on harassment. No creep has ever been forestalled by someone claiming to be a vi user.

1 stupid opinion and 3 negative comments, one of which looks like a joke, from 1980 to 2019 isn't evidence of a problem with Stallman.
I wonder what Captain's Nemo story could have been today...
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Europe as well, actually. It was virtually covered in forests then largely deforested to make way for agriculture. In the last 100 years or so rural exodus and agriculture industrialisation have meant that forests have started to expand again.

That actually highlights a global issue: We, in Europe, scold developing countries for doing what Europe has done (but it was centuries ago so people don't realise it). That is reasonable considering what we now know and modern technology but to avoid hypocrisy this should be accompanied by offers of help to achieve development and jobs without deforestation, and perhaps by no longer buying commodities that require deforestation.
I was going to write essentially this. Obvious there was a disagreement, obviously there are at least two sides to the story, but after reading a number of meta posts (and responses to the meta posts), including from the person whose firing apparently started it all, I haven't seen a single statement about what the actual issue was. I don't see any value in publicly complaining about treatment without providing details about what actually occurred.

All I see is a handful of people saying "I liked that person and I don't think they should have been fired". I'm not sure what the larger community is supposed to do with this information.
wait, are you saying that RMS was not charismatic enough?
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Now if only Ieddit, Tildes, Lobsters, Hacker News, Voat, and NotABug would all federate with each other like Lemmy[1] and Prismo[2].

[1]: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy
[2]: https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo
Bingo! Above the fold is the more common term. I usually call it "landing area" and the whole thing I call "landing page". Naming is important :)
This is very true. Sounds like a class action waiting to happen.
Are there any NGOs working on reforestation based on this report I can donate to?
Does the ‘equator’ of a spinning black hole have any relationship or influence on the accretion disc? Or vice versa?

Is the direction of spin of a black hole even knowable?
Don’t have the data open to the public but I’m personally mapping the forrests from Southern Romania as they stood in 1867 (give a take a few years, based on an Austrian map) and comparing them to the present day forrested area. There are now 40% less forrests compared to 1867, and in the plain area the situation is even more dire, in those places we now have 80% to 90% less forrests.
The decisions you are trying to make seem to be based more off of anxiety and/or fear rather than a passion for what you want to be doing with your life. Try to find out what you would enjoy doing with your current skillset and spend some time figuring out a way to make that happen. A MSc in CS opens doors to many industries as well academia, so you have tons of options to choose from.

You probably won't regret spending the next few years of your life doing something that you think is interesting. There is, however, a chance that you will regret spending the next few years worrying about if your future self will regret those years.
yes there's something stinky about the recent "movements". Even though I'm sure most population trends like this had a similar blind bias to it.
I'm currently working on a batch of information requests about myself to different data brokers and alternative credit reporting firms. I send a copy of my drivers license and a recent utility bill and they send me my records for free. It's shocking what I found the last time I did this.
One problem I have with 1. and 2. is that they tend to escalate.

Example:
"We're doing a combo-box component, but to keep it simple let's not support multiselect."

Retrofitting such a feature when You Eventually Do Need It(YEDNI?) is neither pleasant nor simple.

My take is that one's skill level is not the most relevant thing - we have code reviews to deal with exactly this problem.

What ultimately matters is whether you're adding or subtracting value.

I've worked with people who were aggressively incompetent. As in: they had bad ideas and were insistent on implementing them, even going as far as bypassing the regular review cycle.
From my own reading experience, I found that individually lit "RGB" clusters tend to be white, wherease "GBR" is fuzzy(?) and "BRG" tends to appear purple on the left but green on the right. This is because the green subpixel contributes most to perceived brightness. I think it's fortunate that most displays locate them in the center.

I tried reproducing the results using actual Cleartype with black lines on white backgrounds, and "orange-blue" vertical lines appear blurrier than "black" vertical lines.
Trees aren't bad, but they're a solution like how a bandage is a solution to a systematic bacterial infection...
> Don't take my word for it, there is a lot of research on these social dynamics.

Well unless you cite the research, the only option you've given us is to take your word.
That second quote is a summary of this Guardian article that he's linking to, published on the same day in 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jan/03/paedophilia-...

What's more interesting is the reason that Guardian article exists. It's basically an attempt to justify why Liberty (then the National Council for Civil Liberties), a respectable British political pressure group with close ties to our Labour party, was lobbying the government to legalise sex between adults and children a few decades ago. (They were also affiliated with the Paedophile Information Exchange, which was exactly what the title suggests.)

Why does something that happened a few decades ago matter now? Obviously it was relevant to the whole scandal over historic allegations of childhood sexual abuse, especially since PIE was run by pedophiles in important political positions. On top of that, one of the most important current-day Labour politicians Harriet Harman bootstrapped her political career using the important roles her and her husband played in the National Council for Civil Liberties during the exact time period where they had those ties to PIE and were doing that lobbying. She's still relevant today; various journalists and politicians are trying to wrangle her a position as Speaker or maybe even Prime Minister.

We could well end up with someone building a path to one of the most important positions in UK government on her role in an organisation lobbying in support of pedophilia a few decades ago whilst Stallman is made homeless based, in part, on his summary of the apologia for that lobbying printed in the mainstream press.

(Stallman completely missed this subtext, but that's not surprising; I don't think the full details became public knowledge until some time later.)
That's fine, I'm just skeptical. I'm sure he'd understand.