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When things some people classify as "politics" directly affect work. When you're trying to get your company to make improvements to the state of the world. When you're talking about corporate culture, inclusion, and solving problems. When you're arranging for your company to make a donation, or sponsor an event, or advising against doing so due to potential ramifications. When you're making travel plans and need to know more about your destination. When you're discussing salary or investments or retirement or health or hobbies and the potential impact of future legislative or political changes on those.

We're not just talking about the stereotype of people standing around a water cooler declaring affiliations and throwing political talking points past each other.
Would you feel the same way if your current CEO openly supported the RNC?
Good question as time is slower in space..
WordPerfect was ran by Mormons, wasn't it? I'd love to hear some stories (I already read Almost Perfect)
Salaries are capped at $160 but salaries are a part of your total comp. Most of my compensation comes from stock not salary, and my salary is maxed.
Happen to have a screenshot of the output of that? Just from skimming the source, I would imagine that messages in longer threads get pretty unreadable.
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Just like I don't want employer to flip it into "we need 12 hours worth of work" or hold unrealistic deadline over mu throat, I will ask for new task if original estimate was too short.

I did actually signed contract that actually specifies fI'll time - 40 hours.
> while males actually "develop" into more "adult" forms

No.

Neoteny in humans apply to both males and females and apply not only to physical appearance, but also behavior. You can compare with other primates – Chimps can be very friendly until they reach adulthood, when they become less social and more aggressive.

The secondary characteristics develop at puberty on both sexes, they are just different.

In fact, there is a reason why they develop past a certain age. The individuals we are discussing here are not going to be selected for this trait, as they would not be able to reproduce.

> Ethical question: If no children were harmed and 100% of the videos and images produced were synthetic, would simply consumption of the media still be a problem?

No. Because the reason people are prosecuted is that, at some point, someone has been harmed.
There are some very disturbing (to my senses) cartoons out there. No-one is jailed for drawing or viewing cartoons in any democratic society.
Hopefully you're not building on top of SWF ;)
Otherwise you will be out of money soon...
Generally diversity is better for a team because it brings in a variety of viewpoints. Someone with different political views might be able to offer some perspective that the rest of the group would have missed.
I say this as a very left-leaning person (by British standards at the very least), but in my company strong left leaning values are part of the culture and it's expected that you promote LGBTQ+ issues, promote Women in the workplace and promote immigration.

It's not a bad thing in my mind, it's heavy handed at times, I can see how it would rub some traditionalists the wrong way in an extreme way. If you held some form of conservative view then you'd almost certainly be a pariah in our company/studio.

But left-leaning politics is definitely promoted and discussed in the office.
Obviously in a taxi or ambulance, depending on the severity.

We are allowed to make reasonable exceptions.
This looks amazing and really useful for real-time sign language translation!
With a minor footnote that naphtha smells like you're cooking meth and can blow up.
I was talking about actual Russia not Ukraine/etc.

We could talk about the USSR but not everyone gets
what that is anymore...
There's very much a social norm in some social circles found in Silicon Valley that total political agreement is expected. Opinions are voiced in the expectation of loud and vociferous agreement.

Like any such environment where conformity is the norm, it works until someone fails to conform.
" First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out

Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.

"
That viewpoint is needlessly absolutist. There's obviously no way that native nations could even afford to negotiate with the US Federal Government. That was true 184 years ago, and it's still true now. At the same time these people do deserve special treatment, being the subjects of systemic oppression that continues to this very day. If we really believe that native Americans are valuable as native Americans (and I think that they are) then we need to provide governance structure that can work for them.

It's yet more evidence, as if more was needed, that the idea of a "melting pot" is fundamentally the wrong way to think about multiculturalism.
"There are three things in life I learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and The Great Pumpkin." — Linus
In this case, a hyperbolic trajectory means the orbit isn't closed, which also means the the object's velocity is above escape velocity. The only thing that would possibly change it to a capture scenario would be an extremely close pass to a planet, which theoretically could drain off its excess velocity and would then wind up in some sort of elliptical closed orbit.

Since an encounter like that is easy to predict once a trajectory has been calculated, and there's no mention of it doing so, I have to assume it's going to cruise in, pass its closest point to the Sun, and zoom right back out.
The article mention cities, you are talking about suburbs. Nobody wants to remove cars from the suburbs because it is the backbone of it. Remove the cars => no more suburbs.
A couple recommendations...

1. Get References: ask for references for previous employers/managers and coworkers. You'll want to focus those conversations around the potential co-founder's skills, work ethic, style, motivations and attitude.

2. Fear Setting: if you're not familiar, lookup "Tim Ferris Fear Setting." It's a good exercise to get all your fears and doubts and worst case scenarios down on paper so you can work through addressing them.

3. Operating Agreement: define and document a clear set of operating agreements outlining roles, expectations, separations procedures, etc. Hash it all out now so there's no confusion or guessing if things do fall apart.

4. Temp to Perm/Sweat Equity: if this person's truly motivated to be a cofounder with you, consider a short term trial period that's unpaid and non-equity with a clear set of tasks and goals. If they agree to it, and complete it successfully, they may have proven worthy to join.
Yes, I love the idea of being able to apply multiple verbs to the same item. In my game, you can use, drop, and throw things.

The problem with Angband is that the verbs are mostly disjoint. The only thing you can quaff is a potion, the only thing you can read is a scroll.

Part of my motivation for collapsing all of those "use" verbs to a single use command is because it frees up opportunities to add new operations that can be applied to a range of item types. It frees up keyboard space.
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Well, some countries have laws against that kind of a thing.
Why "by water"?

I mean, yes, the city needs a water supply. It doesn't need ocean shipping, though, or even barge shipping.
Human rights aren't politics, they're non-negotiable.
Mental health / substance can cause homelessness. Homelessness can cause mental health / substance. It’s a shit cycle either way, but the one certainty is we are not addressing either in a meaningful way.
Are you serious?

Because I'm pretty sure there is some random "user experience checkbox" checked by default that somehow means some of the data is sent to Google so they can "improve their products and services" and what not, but don't worry because it is probably "anonymized" and will only be seen by "humans" or "AIs" depending on what feels less bad for the general public once discovered.
I was thinking more about the fleet of Sysco, UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc... trucks.
I feel like discussing politics at work has always been something most folks try to avoid.

On the other hand your company telling you not to is a whole other situation. I'm not sure a policy really solves much. Anyone who wouldn't think twice before discussing such things ... probabbly isn't going to read / care about the policy.

It's one of those rules that no matter how well intentioned, I'm not sure it works well as a policy.
Those are great questions. But please omit the flamebait. (Edit: dvt kindly took the flamebait out—see below.)

If flames take over, only the people who enjoy flaming will remain in the debate. That's a strict loss for thread quality, which is one reason for the guideline I asked everyone to remember above: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I personally have no problem with them making this decision. I wish more companies would take stands like this. At least it's honest. Unlike the NBA and every other company with value statements they honor only when convenient or advantageous.

Look, if you morally object to this, then don't use GitLab. If you think businesses should be held to a higher ethical standard than they are currently, get active with local or even national politics. Start a letter writing campaign to your elected officials. Do something productive.

You know what isn't productive? Getting outraged on Twitter or Hacker News, making emotional outbursts of regurgitated sound bites and platitudes.
Someone in tech who openly supports a left leaning party? How truly unique and brave of him.
Absolutely, you can use the same utterances to invoke the same intents in a car from a home setting.

"Alexa, set temperature to <x> degrees"

"Alexa, set volume to <x> or increase/decrease volume"
I didn't feel that it represented them like that at all. They are walk unique way of life and outsiders have questions, I felt it did a good job conveying why some of their religious practices make them ideal candidates for Amazon businesses.
O/T: the "Blood Money" part of the article title is why I hate news media in general. Sensationalizing, editorializing headlines marked as "news" and not just opinion.
I actually think there is a big spin by certain housing developers to promote this as a housing issue.
If we ceded all land back to them, the United States would cease to exist, having no land left.
The author is correct that capitalism has brought lots of suffering. He is also correct that progress requires much more in society than capitalism alone.

However, it is definitely the case that the enormous technological advances we have seen in the last few centuries could not have happened without capitalism. The proof is that socialist countries, in spite of enormous investment in technology and science, have failed to produce any significant technological advances outside the military and space exploration realms. In the few cases where someone in a socialist country invented something important, like continuous casting or the cat scan, it languished until it was taken up by capitalist countries.
If cars are banned everybody will seek the alternates: that means the walk to the train is much less than 15 minutes (unless you are a farmer - but farmers already have a 30 minute drive to the nearest hospital, and over an hour to a good one), and the train will come more often than every 15 minutes even at 3am. The train will also stop in the hospital, so that walk is less.
> I don’t understand why it’s encouraged (in some companies) to discuss politics at work in a way that leads to internal issues.

There is a middle-ground between "talking about politics" is "encouraged" and "forbidden".
It's companies like GitLab that are propping up Saudi and Chinese empires. Hope one day they get their Scrooge moment. Anyhow, most companies probably do this by default and quietly but what is interesting about Gitlab is they felt like they needed to announce publicly that they'll support all customers regardless of their morality.
I think this sounds very reasonable for the kind of tool that is being produced.

Joel Spolsky has a great article on Big Macs vs Naked Chef

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/01/18/big-macs-vs-the-na...

In there, he talks about bespoke development vs mass market products, using McDonald's Big Macs vs a chef.

I think this provides a reasonable framework for approaching the present controversy.

For example, if McDonald's sold a Big Mac to <villain>, no one would bat an eye. However, if a chef went to work for <villain> there would be questions.

In the same way, if you are making a mass-market, generally useful tool, nobody should be excluded from using your tool. However, if you are doing custom, hi-touch development, then it might be more justified to screen your clients more.

I think Gitlab falls more into the mass-market, generally useful tool.
My commercial tenant is hasidic and he and his brothers might very well be from mars. It's a very insular community and they don't mingle with outsiders as much so it can get a little strange or awkward. If I stop by and one of his brothers is there they act as if they are afraid to talk to me or dont want to. Feels awkward. If he's there, he hands me a beer and chews my ear off for an hour while chain smoking. Very cool dude and usually the convo is about interesting stuff like culture, art, life and politics. Though he admits that he is the black sheep of his family and half a pariah in the community because he does what he wants. Has more energy than the sun.
Weird phrase to get agitated about but I never said anyone wasn't...
What I find most amazing is less the politics aspect and more the moral/ethical issue. For a company to have an explicit stated policy of _actively_ never taking into account the moral/ethical impact of their work is just... astounding.

It is difficult to imagine a more inhuman and bloodless statement.
You said it's much better than others. Not that it's better than a lot of others. I think neither is true by American standards. Not even the Catholic church withheld baptism from the children of same sex parents.
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You'd probably start with 'healthy young university-educated white women' and work your way out from there.
I don't think it's particularly weird, it's about misrepresentation. Most users attracted to open source licensing aren't aiming for abstract goals like "give away a lot" or even "give away as much as possible", they're aiming for "give away practically everything so they can use it for free in any way they want". Proprietary products don't waste these users time as they are clearly not suitable, but advertising an open core product as open source will attract a lot of unsuitable users who desire open source when you're offering open core.

If you're trying to make money, just don't do open source. No one owes you kudos for striking a compromise no one wants.
They're Ukrainians. Slav people are pretty blunt about these issues. Simply put, they don't care. Work is work. Politics is not work.
Just to confirm, "this one" in your comment refers to the original article's title being "really bad"? (As opposed to the editorialized title.)
Exactly! Go to Switzerland, where it is common to take the Train + Postal bus to leave the city and hiking in the mountain.
What do you mean? I am honestly asking, not flaming or anything. What is the point you are making?
Or you can get anti fogging agent in your eye and go blind.
https://youtu.be/Zo62S0ulqhA
Many things were ok to do at work not too long ago and are still ok in most work places around the world. That includes forming romantic relationships, talking about politics and all the other adult human interactions people do also outside work.
> then it's not the amount

Says you, but obviously that's not how most people approach matters like this. Most people can reasonably be assumed to think that differences in degree, particularly an order of magnitude apart, are very relevant. At best you're being a pedantic pain in the ass, hassling people for not explicitly stating that a difference in degree is being considered, when such considerations should be reasonably assumed even when not explicitly stated.
To summarize, the various Native American reservations are generally regarded as having tribal law apply to them instead of state law, which means that they are generally exempt from state regulations. If states don't permit gambling within their borders, a reservation providing the gambling instead tends to be an easy way for the reservation to make money, since they have no nearby casinos to compete with.
It's not just an SV thing. Working in tech in Portland, it's also pretty much expected.
> I thought that Freedom was the most important tenet of the USA?

Freedom being a core tenet of rights in the USA does not me individual freedom above all else. It’s a balancing act where individual freedoms need a justification for restriction. Not that it cannot be done.

I see it like freedom of speech allowing you to speak your mind but society deciding that yelling “Fire!” in a theater is not allowed.

> If something doesn't harm anyone, should it be deterred just because it has associated behaviors that do?

Of course it can. That’s what society and laws are for, namely guiding overall behavior in complex systems. The what and how matter though.

> Should going to the shooting range be illegal because it makes people better marksmen therefore increasing fatalities in mass shootings?

The vast majority of people going a firing range for target practice are law abiding people, not criminals planning a mass shooting. Infringing their rights would not, IMHO, be a fair or constitutional trade off.

This is a good example of where the specifics matter. The vast majority of marijuana users do not commit crimes to buy marijuana.

No honest debate on this subject could say the same about heroin or meth. Both of those drugs do nothing but destroy people’s lives and drive them to a life of dependence and crime.
Don't sleep on the benefits of DM. And automated DM remarketing like this is a killer touch for the high value bottom funnel prospects and returning customers.
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It's not so much an advantage as a drawback; big families led by people with no formal (in the what society expects sense; Talmudic study is quite formal) education and strict gender roles. They also have to drop everything and pray three times per day so I don't know how well that jives with "normal" career.

What I got out of it is they spend a lot of time doing intensive Talmud studies, and perhaps that teaches discipline and hones intellectual skills.

Then someone with this background finds themselves struggling to support their family and they realize that with some hustle, they can do it through Amazon.

I believe the only advantage is being near a large city so there's a lot of stuff available to buy at a discount. NYC is a very interesting city. The other possible advantage is that self-starting is an admirable trait amongst the Hasidim.
Understand that the way Buzzfeed covered it obscures the very real fact that there's a huge amount of controversy regarding this specific Satmar Hasidic community. This is not a question of Antisemitism, there have been very real issues directly caused by prominent rabbis within this community. These controversies are known to pretty much anyone in the NY metro area, so it makes sense that the NYTimes (being located in NYC and publishing in the nyarea section) would cover it in such a way.

They say this in the Buzzfeed article:

>But on an economic level, this commitment translates into a 28% poverty rate among Orthodox Jews in New York, according to the UJA Federation of New York. Many Orthodox Jews find employment at religious schools and rely on welfare to support their large families, which have an average of seven children.

This completely ignores that welfare fraud has been a perennial issue in the Lakewood [1] and Brooklyn [2] Hasidic communities. The community knows it can take advantage federal, state, and local programs so they do. The same community has issues with overt employment discrimination [3], and is also known for being one of the more vocal anti-vaxxer communities [4].

I deliberately chose local, Jewish, and official state sources to appeal to your sensitivities. I understand if you aren't from the area and/or have never associated with members of the Hasidic community so I encourage you to review and understand why the NYTimes article was written the way it was.

[1] https://www.app.com/story/news/investigations/watchdog/2018/...

[2] https://forward.com/news/351162/wealthy-orthodox-couples-cha...

[3] https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20170814

[4] https://forward.com/news/national/422354/hasidic-measles-out...
Parental involvement is not the same thing as "made up obstacles so that parents have hard time in work or additional pointless chores". It is not the same as "mom got forced toward different work track as otherwise kid is in trouble in school".

Oddly, parents ability to work is actually beneficial towards kids ability to eat regularly and healthy. Especially for poor famillies.
That's a guaranteed way to be disturbed again in an hour or two.
Great point! That's one of the reasons we also changed the fonts we use in our product interfaces around the same time, including removing any usage of `light` font weights. We haven't yet made a similar change to our blog design, but it would be a solid improvement for legibility.
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The only reason why people are obsessed with bentos is because they are pretty. Throw them together like your regular lunch sold at supermarkets no one would find them interesting anymore.
FYI: If you say you don't care about politics and you ban political speech in your workspace - that on its own is a political statement that you're fine with the status quo.
Yes, but less auto dependence means less suburbs right? "Sprawl" is criticized a lot. A transit oriented suburb would be like Japan. The houses would be less big, there would be less space to suspend the normal rules of society around things like nudity, and so on.

I get why cities are great, but suburb living leads to a very different — and for me vastly better — quality of life.
I'd also like to point out skepticism to "unbelievably inexpensive to own". To operate, sure. But to own? The tech in these cars alone could easily be $100k. And there's no reason to think society will allow you to operate a car that's 99.999% safe when you could be operating a car that's proven to be 99.99999%. As time goes by, more 9s will keep accruing. And the extra 9s will keep the tech costing the same or more per car as time goes by.
You probably missed all those East Bay cops across several cities serving and protecting in a very specific way that underage prostitute. Statistic wise they seem to have beaten the Church, and the most of those cops are still cops there, in particular because there were "insufficient evidence that they knew that the girl was under 18" as were concluded by the judge in a dismissed case against one of the officers.
That's not how creative work works though. Do you ever think about your code at night or the weekend? Mental work is basically always on and can't be judged by the amount of time at the keyboard implementing it. The whole concept of tasks per hour doesn't map well to software development.