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Could you clarify why you mean that women in tech and LGBT movements “are” political?

Movements are broad, and one way of reaching the goals that people in movements seek may be through political means, but that goes for a lot of things, and there is always a lot of of other ways of reaching those goals that one can work on without bringing politics into the picture.

For example, political legislation is one way that we may bring more women into tech, but there are many other ways too. The GitLab page you linked is focusing on inspiring the next generation of women to work in tech, and telling stories about successful women inside of GitLab. I did not immediately see anything inherently political on that page, though I only skimmed through it briefly so I may have overlooked something, in which case feel free to point out any examples of anything political that you see there.

Certainly, blanket saying that talking about politics is not allowed may well turn out to lead to situations where something becomes challenging to talk about because politics may be intertwined. For example, a speaker might go into politics territory in some talk, and how should they handle that? But that could happen in any area of discussion.

Equal opportunity, equal rights, and equal treatment, which is at the core of both the women in tech and the LGBT movements, is not political. It is about human rights.

I don’t see any hypocrisy in simultaneously wanting to talk about certain issues at the company level while at the same time saying that national politics are to be avoided. But like I said, the two may intertwine more than we’d like and it could be difficult to distinguish the two in some or even a lot of cases.
Imagine taking your computer and blowtorching it then sticking it in the freezer every 90 minutes for a decade. How long do you think it'll keep working?
> BTW why people won't use OpenBazaar instead?

I strongly dispute your "Amazon is great" statement but I digress. I think I heard about OpenBazaar when it launched but just checked it out again and having no web frontend for a marketplace is total crazysauce. People who are looking to buy something elsewhere from Amazon find those storefronts through search.
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I'm also strongly in favor of abolishing the restrictive zoning that prohibits building up, but in many ways it's less politically practical to increase density in built-out areas than build new dense areas.

If we don't use small amounts of land close to cities to build new housing we'll continue with our default of using large amounts of land far from cities. This destroys more of the environment, pollutes with more driving, and wastes more time commuting.
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Hmm, I definitely interpret "should not" in an employee handbook as much stronger than cultural discouragement.
You're conflating beliefs and actions. I can have a moral objection to paying for Gitlab's services and still pay for Gitlab's services. I can write article after article about how it is immoral to pay for Gitlab's services. As long as I pay for their services, I will get them.
kind of sad.
Heh, my experience was the opposite. I played it for a bit (having played WoW during burning crusade through cataclysm) and had a lot of fun, but I stopped because it didn't hook me enough into playing long sessions or logging in every day.

If there's one game that does "not very fun (occasionally) but incredibly addicting" for me it's Old School Runescape. I started playing Runescape in 2006 and I still play in 2019 (with some breaks in between). I'm 21. That's most of my life.
This is on a website that actually has people of many differing opinions.
The Houthi claimed responsibility, for starters. Also, as noted by Scott Ritter, 'there is the largest concentration of modern air defense radars in the Persian Gulf oriented toward Iran, and not one detected and tracked these launches?'

The Iran connection was immediately seized by both the USG and SA for their own purposes before the incident was even investigated. Both sides have motives that encourage fingering Iran. They promised to reveal the findings, but as of today, nothing further has been made public. This, despite the fact that the USG should have readily available sensor data that would show if the attack were to have originated in Iran, and if it were so, then that would be a causus belli for direct war on Iran, yet that dog never barked.
> The health of democracy requires that individuals be able to speak their mind and advocate their beliefs.

Exactly.

> This doesn't work if their livelihood is controlled by a group of hyper-intolerant political totalitarians.

Exactly. Hence why we need to acknowledge the right to speak your mind.

> a place like Google I know I'd have to be deeply closeted as others flagrantly denigrate my identity and ideas around me.

The Google case is interesting. Maven was pretty equivalent to a peaceful demonstration. Management had one opinion, (many) employees had ethical objections and eventually got their way.

Damore's case was.. messier, and more relevant to your point. Then again, this policy would just subject everyone to the same thing, while sacrifing the previous benefits. And it's all ultimately enforced by humans anyway, so if anything I'd expect it to lead to further polarization.

> Here at least everyone can be closeted together, and live in a pluralistic way with different beliefs alongside each other.

Many decisions don't have a neutral option. This policy just means that you won't have any say once those crossroads become relevant.
There is an issue opened to revert this:

> [...] I understand the motivations behind the
> policy change but they are misguided: GitLab,
> please show that the concerns of your community and
> staff are our first priority by reverting
> this change.

See: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5579
> The nazi example they gave is also quite egregious. America has sanctions. If the public wants corporations to not interact with certain countries

You're talking countries--that's one case but it's not the only case. America also has Nazis. Here. They are Americans. Even if they weren't, it's an abdication one's core moral responsibilities to one's community and society with this kind of "oh, ask your [bought] legislator [about something unrelated]" do-nothingism. But they are.

I'd make damned sure that an executive team knew it was them or me before I took one thin dime that might've come from Richard Spencer or one of our other homegrown Nazis. When I was a consultant I fired clients for less and I slept great for doing so. It's literally the minimum duty I have to my community and to the human race at large--the denial of custom to hostis humanis generis wherever they rear their heads? A bare minimum of decency.
Upto 23:59 today, I believe....
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Kind of agree with this. As a business you want to have not only your present costs, but your future costs known. No surprises.
But "ambient computing" sounds so pleasant, so friendly.

It sounds like walking through a forest of ferns.
> An artificial satellite also crosses the field of view

Can anyone give some hints on how to spot it?
Maye it is really evident, but I was not able to identify it.
It’s not unfortunately. I don’t buy it, I think people aren’t stupid. It’s a profoundly anti-democratic idea. They’re manipulated by sophisticated powers, and the truth is hidden from them, they’re not stupid.
A House budget committee has likely killed the 2024 Moon landing
>but that doesn't include that one fundie Christian person who reads his or her Bible at lunch and believes that homosexuality is wrong, but still wants to be friends with and accept everyone.

Where is this person? In my experience, the fundies like this just can't stop from telling others how their lifestyles are "immoral" and "wrong". That's the problem with religious extremists like this, and why people who want "diversity" don't want people like this around: they're actively opposed to diversity, and because of their dogmatic religious nature, they feel the need to push their opinions on everyone.

>We want diversity of people, but not diversity of ideas or ideology.

Well, yes. The idea of "diversity" is having different people from different backgrounds together in one group, and (here's the important part) getting along well. You can't do that when some of them have a hateful ideology and they hate other members of the group and attempt to hurt them in some way. How would you have a diverse group composed of people of various nationalities, and then throw some neo-Nazis in there? It wouldn't work; you'd probably have violence, or at least some serious discord.

There is of course a danger to this as you've pointed out, that things can go too far in the other direction and people are afraid to voice any negative opinion, but I'm just pointing out why calls for "diversity" don't actually include certain groups of people, because those groups are inherently opposed to diversity in the first place, and have a long track record of causing problems with it.
> with what they feel like.

Catalan (and other nationalists) are key to form governments on Spain, specially the last two or three legislatures, so this is highly debatable at best. Some laws that were not passed/revoked in the central parliament have been precisely because of the vote of such parties.

A party can be both in its autonomous and central parliament. And this has been the case for decades.

I know what independence supporters feel about, but there's no substance to an argument where Catalans are ignored or overruled from the central parliament because of any sort of authoritarian rule, because they are integral and important part of how power is distributed and managed in such institution.
DOJ Announces Shutdown of Largest Child Pornography Website
you should think about posting previous issues online so people can see what they will getting. Also, for SEO. Adds trust around you as well.
The idea that Satoshi is not one person but a group at the NSA has been going around for a long time.

I don't think it's likely true but it's an entertaining gedanken experiment.
To me "don't discuss politics at work" would apply to management as well and imply that people should only be hired or fired for performance based reasons and not because of their sexuality, race, or gender.
Yes, it's part of our internal guidelines for color usage in product interfaces that color should never be the only visual means of conveying information. There's a lot of different ways that can be applied in different contexts, but it's something we discuss fairly often as a team when reviewing designs.
Then the feds find the guy you sold to when they try to sell them on Coinbase. And that person knows your e-mail, number, what you look like. You had to get the coins to them somehow.

Actually, that is kinda scary. The bitcoin I just got for selling a shirt could be one transaction away from child pornography. And it is all in a pubic database.
Depends on how it was received by actual employees. We don't know how many received this positively vs. negatively.

Evaporative cooling of group beliefs does actually work to increase cohesion. If, given a controversial decision like this, people who disagree with it pack up and leave, the variance of opinion within the company will actually decrease, improving cohesion.
To clarify I don't dislike Rogan. I don't always like him either. I think he occasionally makes great points and sometimes says profoundly dumb stuff. The point is he's divisive and I don't wan't this to become a Joe Rogan debate.
It's a generalization, fall back on common sense and work with people who fit your personality/work style.
You are one and a half times as likely to be killed by someone’s bare hands or feet in the U.S. versus a rifle per the FBI.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
I'm honestly kind of surprised to see people using miles per hour for measurement of speeds in space. I guess I should specify how many leagues my car can travel per hogshead, as well.
> The context here is obviously tech companies and media

That's not obvious to me at all. The parent said "Where we seem to find ourselves today..." which pretty clearly implies a universalist statement, and one that happens to be dead wrong.
Jesus, what an aggresive website: https://i.imgur.com/1aCo9DV.png.
So does this mean that Service Fabric is officially dead? Looks like they're trying to sweep that failed project under the rug
>So when do you imagine they'll be implementing Navajo language support in their UI?

What is the roi for implementing Navaho?
I was taking issue with this statement:

>I’m an adult, I can either make those decisions for myself or hire experts for consultation to help me make the decision.

The opioid crisis is evidence that this can lead to trouble. There's an easy counter argument that it only causes trouble for the people who choose to start using those substances, and so it's still the right thing to allow someone to do. I tried to present an externality imposed to counter that counter, and healthcare is an easy example.
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Building up is already strongly incentivised: new units would sell for far above the costs of construction. But NIMYS use zoning and other restrictions to prevent it. I'm strongly in favor of fixing this, but building dense housing in places with no neighbors is another way to approach the problem.
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"What is it about gun advocates and math? Are the deceptions deliberate? Or does the excitement of grasping a sleek stiff tool in one’s hand cause a depletion of cognitive coherence?"

That's more than a narrow critique of a particular statistic. And the success of that narrow criticism does little to support that leading statement, which is a broad smear of a large subculture. So a response that extends beyond the meteor comparison seems appropriate.
The supreme court upheld the requirement that IDs have a street address, but some (maybe most or all, not sure) of the tribal authorities were able to assign street names and reissue IDs in time.
Interestingly, it depends on your altitude. For objects in a low, fast orbit such as the ISS, time runs slower; in higher, slower orbits, such as GPS and geostationary communications satellites, time runs faster. In between these points, the effects cancel out at an altitude of roughly 3000km.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation#/media/File:Time...

However, both effects can be ignored for almost all purposes. The effect of time dilation is less than 1 part per billion, which is basically undetectable without an atomic clock.
FYI, in C# they have "extension methods" which give the syntax stream.takeWhile(predicate). Like a breath of fresh air.
Precisely this—while we only mention CIELAB in the post, we also tested other perceptually uniform color spaces in addition to Lab (and can switch between them in the color tool). In particular, we also tested CIECAM02 extensively. We found that both were sufficient for the level of precision we needed and that Lab’s simpler lightness calculations are more closely aligned with how WCAG contrast ratios are calculated. We’re definitely open to testing other color spaces in the future as we continue to refine our color palettes.
Smartphone app stores are a duopoly, so I don't think Google should have total freedom to decide what they allow and what they don't.
I didn't say anything about forcing me to talk about it, I said I shouldn't have to listen to it.
Ring signature size is still a problem. Yes, it masks the originating address of a transaction. But you know its 1 of N (currently 11 I think?). We know that most people buy coins from exchanges and then send them to their destination. An authority can simply subpoena every top exchange for users for whom any one of the addresses in the ring signature belong to. That's 11 addresses. If we assume the user may have made an intermediate transaction, we can go up two levels. That's 11^2 addresses. Three levels, 11^3. Given normal people's typical usage, monero's anonymity falls to broad subpoena power.
The health of politics has a massive impact on the health of your family.
Trump picks Colorado Springs author of Illuminati books for education board
Does usetogether/screen hero etc. use some kind of VNC or RDP protocol
Almost all infrastructure should be designed with a 30-year life- it's the limit of practical amortization.
Nobody is saying "don't get involved in politics", just "don't bring it to work".
It's reasonable to not want to get into exhausting political battles at work. But such a policy falls apart fast. What about when a coworker asks about your dating life and you talk about a same-sex partner? A lot people see that as political because it's not status quo.

"We're not going to be political" sounds so simple, but a whole lot of status quo politics spills out when you try to apply it in reality.

Another example: a coworker is from a country bombed by the branch of government you're selling stuff to. What then?

Aside: Hacker News rightfully sees a lot of criticism, but it has improved some. This thread is full of people pointing out that apolitical is synonymous with support of the political status quo, making apolitical an oxymoron.
Dikes would also work much better in the Bay than in Boston because the perimeter to area is better.
... and this is why it's a good idea to use F-Droid instead of the Google Play Store if you can.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that Gitlab and other tech companies stop selling to ICE because they disagree with the beliefs of the organization, but because they object to the actions ICE is taking. If you think those can be treated separately, then gitlab would still be able to say "we won't work with any customer who sells guns".
Are we sure it's a bug?

I see the same behavior (I don't have an account either) when I look at Twitter pages with Firefox Beta on Android: "something went wrong," then a refresh displays the page. But isn't that supposed to defeat scrapers and otherwise mess up the API?
Because they were not living below their means like the comment said. Either because they make only just enough money to survive or they spend it on luxurys
The worst keyboard ever made
I've personally seen many dozens of SD cards fail such that they don't even know their own sector count anymore. My suspicion is that in-progress wear leveling operations aren't rebust to sudden power loss (ejecting card without unmounting it). Most likely firmware specific...
I sincerely disagree. To see why, try writing down a proposed law. One will quickly find it's the new "cookie warning" (thanks EU!).

Consider the proposed "ad-sponsored" label that is required to be on the product. Say you want to sell a product, initially you promise to keep your users data and not sell it, therefore you sell your product legally (in the jurstiction with this new law) without the "ad-sponsored" label.

Later on, you are not doing well financially, and that database is worth money. Company B makes an offer to buy your company.

Is company B bound by your past actions? Nope, nor can they be; that's how mistakes get fixed. You could have instead created a contract with each of your clients, but you didnt. If you had, the client would have the ability to control you, and you may not even be able to sell your company, or it might not be worth anything due to the N contracts involved.

Then consider the pointless regulatary enforcement system required. How would one even approach that? Forced registration of every company that happens to get some customer data? It's a endless cycle, that creates no value, and costs the taxpayers money.

A law requiring some specific action is almost always the wrong reaction.

The only general solution compatiable with a free society is for people to become aware of the value of their data and who they hand it to.

In this specific case, property rights should fix it. Either you get to break your contract because the owner breaches it by installing a camera in your livingroom, or do it from the renters rights side. Best left up to the states so you get a market of ideas.
I'm trying to figure out what you're trying to add here. I have to do all of those things, I'm in that privileged position partly because I've made it a long term priority at the expense of other things. I don't fault people who aren't in my position, but I encourage them to do the same.

The reason was never politics, but being beholden to a job because of disagreements with your boss, the work you're assigned, or being beholden to specific benefits like health insurance. I see so many people who are miserable because they're forced to do things they don't want. They're not even properly compensated because they can't say no.
Where ? I can't seem to find such an obelisk even for more than a few hundred meters forward.
Satellites can theoretically all use Sun shade - a shield which is kept oriented to Sun and reflects most light back.

This is not ideal for many reasons. More weight to carry to orbit, another system to be kept operational. Some satellites need Sun visibility, shield may have some interference with satellite's radios. I'm sure more problems exist.

Another approach - also not without problems - would be to aggressively deploy orbit-based telescopes, so they would have access to space above densely inhabited low Earth orbits. It also costs a lot, still leaves problems with ground-based observations, even though space-based tools have some advantages too.
What? The article makes no mention of the comet coming anywhere near the Earth. There is literally nothing to worry about here.
Can't describe it better (unless it involves food). Good job!
Perhaps the computer is smart enough to determine intent. To paraphrase Marvin, "Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to determine whether you were gesturing at me on purpose."
You might call the shamanic aspect of it "non-scientific woo" but it's important to distinguish between "based on objective reality" and "actually improves your life" here. Many beliefs are one but not the other; in fact, I don't think they're that strongly correlated.

Of course, you can't easily alter your own beliefs, so if you have a lot of trouble suspending your disbelief for these things it might still be a turn off for you. But some such things can be useful to "believe" even if you do not think they reflect objective reality.
> I don't always like him either. I think he occasionally makes great points and sometimes says profoundly dumb stuff.

This is most people, especially the talking head types.

This new purity test we're giving every celebrity is unrealistic and culturally/intellectually self-destructive. Some people are even reaching back decades.
If only we could actually get more space telescopes in orbit looks angrily at JWST
The health of the democracy is independent of discussing politics in the workplace. There are plenty of other opportunities to discuss politics and otherwise tend to the democracy.
Because you can turn on your TV or go to a regular news site.

Hacker News is for subject matter that you would definitely not see in the regular.

Can you imagine? CNN newsflash: "Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham proposes new Lisp dialect."
This article seems to be laced with innappropriate bias. It appears to be judging gitlab for this decision.

Beyond that, its weird that this is not only an uncontroversial position to take but anything other than the only legal option. The government should be the only arbiter of morality with regards to business, where judging your business or actions to be illegal and/or issuing a court order to a company to stop service or remove content should be the _only_ legal way a company can refuse you service.

I do not think putting these kinds of decisions into the hands of unelected people or companies is a good idea.