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In the decision, they emphasized that these terms are separate concepts in order to come to the conclusion that it's impossible to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation without also discriminating on the basis of sex. Every example of discrimination based on sexual orientation can be re-framed as an example of discrimination on the basis of sex using a "but-for" test.

From the decision:

> Consider, for example, an employer with two employees, both of whom are attracted to men. The two individuals are, to the employer’s mind, materially identical in all respects, except that one is a man and the other a woman. If the employer fires the male employee for no reason other than the fact he is attracted to men, the employer discriminates against him for traits or actions it tolerates in his female colleague. Put differently, the employer intentionally singles out an employee to fire based in part on the employee’s sex, and the affected employee’s sex is a but-for cause of his discharge. Or take an employer who fires a transgender person who was identified as a male at birth but who now identifies as a female. If the employer retains an otherwise identical employee who was identified as female at birth, the employer intentionally penalizes a person identified as male at birth for traits or actions that it tolerates in an employee identified as female at birth. Again, the individual employee’s sex plays an unmistakable and impermissible role in the discharge decision.
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North Korea/China/<insert oppressive regime> uses Linux. Does that make Linus feel ick and want to take some sort of measures to prevent it? I hope not.

Focus on making great tools. Don't worry about who might use them. That's someone else's job. If Craftsman starts trying to vet customers so nobody buying their hammers can use them to build KKK meeting houses, they will now be pressured to deny their tools to whomever the capricious demands of the internet mob dictate.
That's what happens when you have trouble selling something.
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How would you prevent that, everyone only uses a well known email provider domain that doesn't recycle addresses?

If someone takes over a domain they can also get https certificates, reset all their passwords and do all kinds of other things that are related to it if there's no second factor. That's just what you have to accept if you don't renew a domain.
I think that a large part of the issue is that ICE is violating human rights on a massive scale. Where they might be executing some laws, they're violating others.

And just a reminder, "just following orders" brings up some scary historical context that a lot of people don't want to help recreate.
I've found that the biggest problem was missing those things that got discussed informally around the office.

There would be interesting problems you could solve, but you rarely heard about them.
This is demonstrably false; AlphaGo made significant new discoveries, for example.
That the Supreme Court has already stated QI is a thing can be seen as their reason not to argue it again. They're saying they don't see why the court would come to a different conclusion. It's a view that law is deterministic: given a particularly worded legislation and a specific finding of fact, only one conclusion can be arrived at. There can't be multiple interpretations. (A court can strike down a vague law, but if they uphold it then it must not be.) And an interpretation can't change over time or else that would be "legislating from the bench."
>> I can't see how this helps improve immigration,

In many ways it does the opposite, for reforms to work you need to build coalitions from all political segments of society, vilifying political opponents (the ones that believe in some kind of immigration control and do not support fully open borders) does not build that coalition that is need to fight the unethical and illegal acts. Instead it puts people on the defensive and further divides the nation ensuring no reform can happen at all

Today it seems if you believe in anything other than fully open unrestricted borders then you are considered to be a racist authoritarian from mid 1940's Germany
I also made my own weather display. This one just runs on a RaspberryPi. It can be extended to collect info from other sources (I eventually plan to build some sensors for outside my home), but for now it gets indoor information from my Ecobee, and local weather and forecast from OpenWeatherMaps.

https://github.com/Mrjohns42/WeatherDash/blob/master/README....
Demonstrably and rather obviously untrue. They're violating the law in many instances, including but not limited to the cases of asylum seekers and current green card holders; it's just they're following the evil, xenophobic whims of the current political leadership, who are failing to hold themselves or ICE accountable to the rule of law, so they are, for the moment, getting away with their lawlessness. I hope we can change this with voting in new leadership, but I fear it may be too late.

Aside and personal observation: it's interesting how the same people so vigorously crying for "law and order" are rather particular about which laws they care about enforcing, and which they're willing to overlook. Of course I'm not the first to make this observation.
No one is born an ICE employee.
I've seen that too. I think they're using a phosphor of some kind to convert UV wavelengths to visible light. That would have some persistence for those wavelengths.
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So I recently posted my car for sale on Craigslist. I went through their obnoxious hoops, even after paying $5 for the listing, you have to go to your inbox, click such and such link, then return to your email, screenshot the email, then reply to a different email with that screenshot.
So I do all this.
And I wait.
And I don't get responses to my posting.
Instead I get responses to someone else's posting! Hundreds of them!
I wrote to Craigslist about this issue three separate times. They have ignored me.
Anyone got any advice?
Hmm that’s a good point, I changed this last minute (just like my other reply)

The original branding ended with "for making web apps fast"
Alito’s argument is basically: Title VII can’t already confer these protections, or else Congress wouldn’t be trying to enact them.
There is also a contradiction in calling for more economic equality for minorities in the US and picking on ICE. Illegal immigration applies a downward pressure on wages of low skill workers, which is precisely where minorities are over-represented in the US.
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What is the relationship between GitHub and ICE? Is it ICE hosting their repos on GitHub or is it something more substantial?
Wouldn't that also open the door for 'transracial' discrimination suits from people like Rachel Dolezal?
I live in the US and use my local weatherstation to control my basement dehumidifier and decide whether or not to turn the thermostats. The airport is about 10miles away but actually doesn't have all of the data that I need, such as soil temp, leaf moisture, and it's not very local to my specific house which has lots of trees and tends to deviate from the airport that is more exposed. I still use the airport data, but integrated with my own local data to get a better picture of what's going on.
"Here's our service, use it if you'd like, just don't do anything illegal on/with it" is a line that I'm almost positive the group you're referring to would deem to be "fascist" at this point in time.
It's just... unnecessary.

BTW I think now, I know why Tom Bombadil didn't appear in the movie!

Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow,
Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.
None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the MASTER:
His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.
it gets really weird microsoft/github now owns npm, I don't think core service providers should be able to make discriminate based on politics

it makes for a very slippery slope
There are no excuses for ICE behavior, but they clearly are very different from the SS.
That's quite true, although not totally invalidating my point, because the terms "liberal" and "conservative" as they apply to the Supreme Court tend to be too one-dimensional. Gorsuch and Roberts are definitely conservatives in some respects, but when it comes to social issues, they're more moderate/libertarian, in the vein of Anthony Kennedy.

In fact, if you look at all of Roberts' opinions on social issues, outside of maybe abortion stuff, it's a little surprising that Roberts did not join in with Obergefell. Given that he _did_ dissent from Obergefell, it's also a little surprising he didn't dissent in Bostock. His rationale in Obergefell was that regardless of what he would like the law to say, he did not find that it said what the majority wanted it to say. That's essentially what Kavanaugh said in his dissent today. And to the extent that both cases could be characterized as determining that a right has been hidden in plain sight this whole time, I'm not really sure why Roberts went one way with Obergefell and the other way with Bostock.
Multiple reasons:

- the challenging part of the protocol (from a security point of view) is agreeing on p and g, not finding them
- the interesting part of the protocol is doing interesting things with p and g, not computing them by trial and error
- there are solid and obvious guarantees that p and g exist and are easy to find, no reason to waste even half a paragraph
In societies that have full respect for private property, I should be able to refuse to do business with you for any reason, including the color of your shoes, the kind of music you listen to, or your marital preferences. Whether it is wise or rationally self-interested to do so is a different question.
Graylist is now the "gee willickers, hmm, maybe this is ok, gosh I hope I'm not offending anybody" list.
You didn't read the paper then. Their convincing anecdote is Jena, which ordered mandatory face masks two weeks before every one else, with dramatically good results, no new cases. The rest are the typical statistical tricks to come up with that 40% number, form the initial 3-10% effectiveness.
So you need two things: A good anecdote, remember killing babies in Saudi Arabia, or military vans at night in Bergamo. And second: statistical tricks to come up with a convincing story.
To be fair forecasting snow is hard. I'm just generally against certain companies that 'sell' products that are garbage. If you want helpful weather forecasts go to your local government weather office forecast page. Dont trust some giant global company trying to make money selling ad space on their webpage
Thank you for making my question more palatable for HN readers! Really very much appreciated. You just made me realise I need to practice my HN question asking skills :)
If working with ICE is so reprehensible, why are none of these employees taking advantage of their in-demand skillset and moving on to companies that better respect their values?

I'm sympathetic with those who point out that corporations typically have more leverage than individual employees, and that changing jobs is not so easy for those who are less privileged. That category, though, of "less privileged" with regards to employment flexibility simply does not apply to the average Github employee, at all, as sircmpwn frequently points out.

Furthermore, regardless of which side of this debate you stand on, it is definitely disheartening to see people so vehemently against this relationship yet do NOT back up their feelings with actions. I cannot help but scoff when I see people on Github with "stop ICE" profile pictures. It's nothing but a profound selfishness: wanting to be on the self-perceived "right side of history" but not so much so that you set your origin to Gitlab or SourceHut instead...
Right. And the fact that you don't find those terms offensive is part of your privilege. You're being invited to step outside of yourself and consider that for some people, it's not as clear-cut / apolitical as it is for you.
That reads as if there was no actual smoking gun to directly link the [former] CEO but there were probably at least tangentially related questionable emails. But wow. Head of Corporate Comms among others.
The time to ditch gmail finally. This is the ddg of email.
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Microsoft isn’t kicking off ICE. They’ve backed our government at every opportunity, including pentagon contracts.
Fixing democracy should be done democratically, it’s not the job of tech companies - and Nadella understands that.
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They are based in berlin, price scales with storage usage iirc
doesn't help.
> I get it. You feel the karma "belongs" to you, because you were faster to find out about that decision.

You definitely don't? I literally even said feel free to get rid of the one I posted somehow. My thinking was some people might repost the same link I posted and it might surface later when it gets more votes, or they might do that and leave comments when they land on that one, but I have no idea, I can't predict the future. If it's not an issue then it's not an issue. Why are you making such a big deal out of this and making it a personal issue about me? I don't know why you seem to be trying to start a fight about this here.
I filled up with gas literally at the closest station (.1 mile away? You could see the lot from station). BOOM, charged for an empty tank. No worries, I'd actually kept my receipt from the gas station showing exactly when I'd refilled (2 minutes before dropping car).

It was an endless headache and run around to try to get them to cancel out the charge. That kind of run around should be illegal.

I normally used National (because you can pick any car on their 'aisle') and never had that issue with them.
Have you looked at the profits of every single PC maker? It’s a low margin business.

Making money off of YT videos is peanuts in the grand scheme of things.
Sure, and they're welcome to clarify how the police should be held accountable when applying force to citizens but should not be held accountable for applying force to non-citizens.

Or how certain human rights can be maintained for one group and not the other.
I have worked remote full time for over half decade now and for the couple years before that it was optional. My opinion is that the work environment should he more fluid. There should be an option to WFH or office but whatever you choose on whatever particular day the environment should accommodate that.
ICE inflicts something that seems an awful lot like police brutality on a large number of people. The Kafkaesque horrorshow that legal asylum seekers are subjected to is one of them. The conditions in which they hold people, in general, is another.

The lies and high pressure tactics they use to force people to sign away their rights are also concerning.
Whether or not the etymology of the term is derogatory or racially insensitive is missing the point.

The point is that some words are particularly emotionally charged for some readers. In this case that's not irrational, and rational or not, in this case that's probably observable.

In the context of technical writing and source code, there's no particularly good reason to use a term that makes a sizable chunk of the readers uncomfortable.
...y'know, is there a reason they chose PowerPC over, well, x86?
Maybe it would be nice to have a wiki style page for this... anyway, I can only offer a perspective from the Guix side of things, but these are the reasons I'd personally be cautious about using Nix/Nixpkgs.

I believe a higher proportion of Nixpkgs don't build all or some of the software/artifacts from source. I picked a random example, JOSM. The nixpkgs package definition is quite short [1], but I don't think it's actually building the software? The Guix package definition is much longer [2] but I think that's because it's actually building the software from source.

1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...
2: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages...

Personally, I like binary packages, which is why I use Guix, but I also value the security and flexibility of having these packages actually build the software from source.

Nixpkgs also contains non-free software. This is sort of related to the previous point, as it's much harder to tell if software is free or not if you're not building it from source, but Guix everything should be free software which takes away a worry when using it. With nixpkgs, I believe there are some bits of non-free software that are marked as such, but not taking a strong stance on attempting to build everything from source makes me generally unsure about the quality assurance in this area.
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> Like a master bedroom

About that..

https://www.shoutoutuk.org/2020/01/16/master-bedroom-an-anti...
dang reported years ago that he's thinking about some karma-sharing mechanism, where multiple submitters get a piece of the pie. I don't know if he abandoned the idea, didn't find a good way to do it, or maybe rolls it out tomorrow.
> “Today we discuss”...

Meaning, today I write. Because what I say is necessary. Can’t just be silent.

When is he gonna give up the ghost? He’s not at Apple for a reason. Yet he’s obsessed with them.

No one at Apple sought him out before going in any direction. He’s been a non-entity there for two decades. Yet he can’t stop trying to tell us all how to think about everything they do.

Gruber is at least a little more attached to Apple.

But the two of them sound like two old cranks: one consistently fawning over all Apple decisions, the other fretting.

I don’t know what it’s like to devote one’s life to discussing a single corporation, even one as wildly successful and entertaining as Apple.

I always wonder if these guys ever wake up and think, “Maybe today I’ll just delete my blog, stop reading press releases and tech news about Apple, and go build that cabin or walk a trail”.

Maybe they’re terrified no one would miss them? Or maybe they’ll find that life is better and that they wasted the last few decades of their very precious and limited life?

I don’t know. Maybe they are so enmeshed it just never occurs to them. It just always makes me sad to see their posts. Maybe that says more about me in some sad way than it does about them. Don’t know.
That is true – businesses are legally allowed to refuse service to anyone (apart from protected classes like race or political affiliation, but that probably does not apply here). It's an important right, and probably many businesses would be more profitable and happy if they exercised that right more often.

It's still politically dangerous, and would earn a company a lot of enemies and mistrust (as well as some allies, though they may be the type to just ask for more, as others on this post have mentioned).
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Your choice of language by saying "concentration camps" is unproductively hyperbolic and reminiscent of Nazis killing Jews in WW2. People found to have been here illegally are being kept in detention centers until deportation or trial. Nobody is getting gassed or burned in ovens.
I didn't expect to have this irritating Medium problem come up in a VC discussion, but it's relevant here, and I 100% agree that companies shouldn't post behind the paywall because it's counterproductive. Presumably, they want every single person to see their posts, and don't care about making $0.40 on a Medium post.

To the companies: make sure that when you post, distribution setting is OFF. This is a kind of dark pattern by Medium, which is why it's confusing, on purpose. What it really means is, distribution exclusively for paid Medium subscribers is off - meaning any person, anywhere, can view it.
> five years, Indie.vc has backed 34 companies

That's hardly enough time or data to tell what the actual mortality rate is full cycle. A lot of startups will fail in year 6, 7 or 8 after years of pivots and trying to grow.

> On average, they’re growing 100% in the first year, and 300% the second year

Assuming $0 in rev on day 1, of course they grow 100% in Y1. These numbers don't mean anything.

Philosophically I agree with Indie.vc. I think there is untapped potential in smaller companies/markets that mostly is overlooked by traditional VC. But I don't think VC is the answer to that problem. There needs to be some other funding vehicle that can withstand smaller returns over longer periods of time (like a loan, which this seems to be closer to).
It's like insane that this is a giant company full of people who should know better. Like how do you even talk to a single other person and have them not say something about how this seems like a bad idea.
I don't think encouraging a security department to keep working with a corporation would necessarily help stop the military/industrial complex.
> cop-out

I see what you did there.
Bigger thread (111 comments, 176 points) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23527499
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PCs aren’t doomed no more than Android devices. They are just both a low margin commoditized product that compete on price.
Funny enough many on the right in the US want to change the US immigration rules to be more like Canada or Australia’s rules, ie admission is based on work and skills criteria more so than family ones. The left leaning people oppose this because of how it would de facto change the ethnic makeup of immigrants.
> As a machine learning researcher, where exactly am I supposed to get a dataset that complies with Facebook's/Kaggle's rules in this case?

From Kaggle… There is a datasat provided for each challenge.
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So, I've just checked the HUD report [1] and apparently in NY about 5% of homeless are what they call "unsheltered".

I sincerely wonder why.

My "off-the-top" theory would be that these people are either indeed homeless by choice or they are such assholes that not a single shelter would tolerate them.

How wrong am I?

[1] https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/5948/2019-ahar-part-1-...
> What about hand-washing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_reaction_to_Ignaz...
100% this. Mermaid is fantastic for the happy path, but as soon as you run into any issues, the lack of flexibility makes it nearly impossible to use (It tames more time to use mermaid than to go back to traditional diagramming tools).
not exactly comparable, but business denial of service was the cause of action in masterpiece cakeshop, a colorado civil rights case that appealed up to scotus

conscientious objection is a different case where you can fulfill your legal obligations in a way that's compatible with your religious or moral obligations -- if we created legislation requiring businesses to serve government agencies, there might be an implied right moral objection where use of force is concerned
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Anyone know the blog/newsletter that was victim to this? I want to go read their stuff. Clearly it’s good stuff if the company was this threatened
> could jeopardize their stance with other, less controversial, entities

That would, of course, be a terrible and illegal abuse of power and essentially be the government policing political speech by private individuals. What an indictment of our government (and I don't mean a single person, but of the system itself) that this seems to be an uncontroversial statement. Because I agree, it's true, and it's the mark of terrible corruption.
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