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> What you mean is that someone is a jerk and is repeatedly posting highly objectionable content.

The irony here being that this describes the Damore situation precisely.

> Am I free to go to the management and say that all those who speak of "white privilege" make me feel unwelcome and I want them to be fired?

Of course! I certainly don't hope that you'd be fired for that (nor do I think you would be in most places). You seem to be presupposing the reaction management will have, which makes me think that your problem isn't so much with cancelling, but with feeling unable to express your opinion that "white privilege" is a bad thing.

Now, you might not get what you want, which in this situation is perhaps the people who use the term white privilege to be fired. But that's because management doesn't find your complaint valid, which has been my point from the beginning. Your company has agency and culture that drives their decisions irrespective of what people say to them.

> If my idea to improve the workplace is to have all those who express feminist ideas to be silenced or fired, because as a male they make me "feel unwelcome", what do you think? Is it all fine?

My entire point, this entire time, is that individuals should be free to express the opinions they want, and companies should be able to act on those opinions by choosing to associate with who and how they want based on the company's values. If you can find a company that agrees with you and manages to avoid breaking employment law, more power to you. However if your company disagrees with the opinions you express, ultimately it is up to them what action they take. They are free to disassociate with you.

That's all cancelling is: individuals and groups choosing to use exercise their agency and freedom of association. And I support that. So yes, complain about whatever you want. But don't take umbrage when people choose, of their own volition, to disagree with you and to refuse to associate with you.

Ultimately, this is an issue that oppressed people have dealt with forever: that actions have consequences. It's great that society is getting to the point where everyone can face consequences for doing bad things.

> Of course one can ignore the political pressure, media articles, and very vocal minority who asked for him to be fired. But then it becomes a different story.

No one needs to ignore it. You however are ignoring everything else. That's my point.
If the absolute worst case scenario you can imagine is that we no longer have any huge chunks of metal in the shape of people displayed on public property, then your slippery slope argument isn't very compelling.
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> "By your definition we should ban South Park because it offends nearly everyone, so fsck your sensitivities."

My standard is: Did they act or campaign to make things worse for their fellow man (and woman)? Someone could make a case that South Park has done this, but it would be hard for me to take it seriously.
No, this is a winner-takes-all situation. Basically, Bezos has convinced a bunch of VCs to make a pile of money so big, that they could be the winner in this market. Your Beyonce analogy makes little sense here.
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There's a bit of a trap here that I find myself standing in.

Parts of our culture are participatory. You get social benefits from going through the same things as your peers. When you stop getting sucked into things by your insecurities, you become non-participatory. You miss out on chances to connect with other people. There is no bonding experience for you, but there is for everybody else. It can be kind of alienating.

Imagine you are watching a new movie with people. 15 minutes in your think, "Hey, this is a retelling of a story by [Shakespeare,Brontë]", or "Oh geeze, the nerdy guy is the killer and everyone has dismissed him despite the foreshadowing." You now know the story arc, and so the roller coaster ends for you (unless the director is exceptional - Ron Howard, Apollo 13). Everyone else is having a great time. You're still having a good time, but you're paying more attention to the production values or the emotional range of one of the actors. You aren't part of the same experience, and you are gonna have a tough time participating in the conversation. Whatever you do, don't tell them you knew what was going to happen all along, Mr Buzzkill.

There are plenty of idealogs who would insist this isn't a problem. Your need to belong is just another hang-up you need to deal with. That you should let go of that too. But I don't think many of those idealogs ended their lives forgotten and alone because they never built a connection (or inter-generational connection in particular) with other people.
Feels like you either missed the point of some of those specific recent examples, or you're oversimplifying them.

With the show, Cops (Live PD as well), the overriding concern was that the film crew and the process had turned law enforcement work into voyeuristic spectacle, literally profiting off the pain of others (some may believe those people deserve that pain, but that's a separate issue), and possibly even influenced the officers being filmed to engage in their duties differently than they might have otherwise.

Left out, also, is that 30 Rock's "censored" episodes featured blackface, which at this point, the issues with the practice have been covered exhaustively, and large corporations are only now deciding to care as they see public opinion shift, but it wasn't a great idea when they produced those episodes at the time, either.
I don't have any issue with hazard pay.

The concern is entirely about people being paid more than their jobs to stay home. In some conversations I've had with people, there's an attitude that staying at home is just a giant vacation that they'd like to go on as long as possible.

It's an understandable position as well for anybody who won't see much of an impact from the economic side effects. When people begin asking to extend the stay-at-home-pay program, there are a lot of people who will support the idea of getting paid excessively to stay home and anyone who tries to correct that fiscally unsustainable situation is going to be made out to be the bad guy.

Hazard pay for essential workers makes complete sense.

It's the excessive unemployment for people to stay home that's the problem. For a bunch of people, it's a giant vacation. For others who are working through all of this, they are strained, stressed out, worried about getting sick and their nerves are shot.

All in for hazard pay, but fix the unemployment problem. It's completely out of balance.
The swastika was also in use in the west in the early 20th century before the Nazis came to power. One example of this can be seen painted on the inside of the nosecone of the Spirit of Saint Louis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spirit_of_St._Louis_Nose_...

(It should probably be noted that the Spirit of Saint Louis was flown by Charles Lindbergh, who is generally thought to have been a Nazi sympathizer a bit later in life. But I think it's unlikely this particular swastika from 1927 was painted with the Nazis in mind. Particularly, it wasn't painted by Lindbergh.)

Here is an American postcard from 1910 featuring a swastika in the notorious "tilted" orientation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_use_of_the_swastika_in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_use_of_the_swastika_in...
> But the ethnic minorities that _do_ live there live in segregated apartment complexes, etc. to prevent "mixing with the natives".

source for this?

my experience: my wife is Japanese, i have visited JP many times, we know a ton of non-Japanese immigrants living in Japan and they all live wherever the heck they want to live.

i've never heard of non-native minorities being segregated either officially (government) or privately (landlord collusion) other than perhaps stories of illegal immigrants being packed together in the seedier parts of town. is that what you're referring to?
I was born and raised in Mississippi. You're wrong. Maybe you wouldn't have been when I was a baby. But that's been a long time ago now.
These charts most certainly do not show why.

They throw a lot of numbers around, but they don't establish causality anywhere.
I'm not sure about the taxable donation (did you perhaps mean a tax-deductible donation instead?) but I have a few ways. It looks like that thread links to a company that's specializing in that, were they able to solve your use case? If not, feel free to ping me and I can connect you w/ the folks on our team who have this as a key objective for them and have figured out most of the logistics.

I really appreciate you attempting to do this though, thank you!
It seems like the cause of the explosion is not yet known, but the incident itself is reminiscent of the Stuxnet attack of yesteryear:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
People who work at these places - how rigidly are these things stuck to? Because I've worked in places with very detailed job ladders only to see them basically ignored and replaced with gut feelings and popularity contests. Job ladder is a nice bit of PR but it's better as a cornerstone of culture.
I'm not American, but I don't understand those of you who support such decisions. The world of politics is infecting various gaming communities with politically driven changes that in many cases aren't supported by the actual users(or majority of the users, anyway). It's worrisome that many companies succumb to the demands of the mob just because they want to be left alone.

On another note, the fact that it's just the confederate flag and swastikas is deeply disturbing and acts as sound evidence that those are American problems. What about soviet symbols? Overall, the total number of soviet victims vastly exceeds those of Nazis or the victims of American slavery, why is everyone so one-sided in that aspect?
I want all controversial views to be deplatformed, because I don't see any other way that people will care enough about centralization to actually change.
By that same token, how big are the companies at the end of the tail? If large corporations are cutting marketing budgets, small shops on tighter budgets probably are as well
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What, didn't Chomsky already solve that in the 1960s? /s
Well we have <1000 cities of any type, so Fremont would definitely be on that list. :p

It depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking for access to tech jobs, immigrant community, good schools, safe, Fremont is your jam.

If you're looking for bougie restaurants, a music scene, people who want to work with you on a Burning Man project... well, you're not going to find that in Fremont.
But when racial information is correlated with the output, to decorate with race, you destroy the input. This is most obvious with a face dataset, but is true with anything race correlated: credit scores, where you live, etc. If you're willing to destroy the training data so it no longer resembles real world information, you might as well just not use it in the first place.

That's what the ethicists say: don't use facial recognition models. Don't work on them. Don't research them. They cannot be both unbiased and useful. And in general, there's few to no uses that are ethical, period.
Good point, but it takes a lot of familiarity before those lines become clear. At that point, the shock experience gets weaker, there is more a sense of "I expect that from this asshole", and the discussions become more like the ant wars on the rest of the internet.

Even then, the community is big enough that you're going to regularly run into comments from users you either don't recognize, or didn't realize were of the opposing tribe (or opposing-tribe-adjacent, let's say). So the shock experience never goes away. But I think you're right that it's most intense for less-familiar users, and that explains why there are so many people who use HN for a little while, inevitably encounter the shock experience, feel hurt, and leave. That's a common occurrence and which pains me personally.

The deeper point is that the site is designed to keep everybody together. It's not partitioned by friends or follow lists. There are no subreddits or social graphs. Design differences at that level are profound and affect everything.
I'd like subjects related to brain, and this one was good
What's really funny is that the south had more than enough money to reinvest and industrialize. This lack of industrialization is what lost the civil war as they relied on northern factories to produce equipment / weapons.

Train supply chains allowed the north to move troops and supplies an order of magnitude faster than the south.
What's the actual difference between mobs and protestors?
Is it? On the other side of things, might black people want to avoid majority white neighborhoods where the white police will more likely target them as well? Might black people prefer black neighborhood themselves so that they can live amongst people they understand with a culture they're familiar with? Are those black people racist?
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And, somewhat related, there was period when I think a lot of people assumed, however incorrectly, that content on Medium was somehow differentiated and could be taken more seriously than content on a random individual web site. Anything I ever put on Medium was always mirrored elsewhere, but I did use it for a time--mostly for professional content that my company wanted to link to from newsletters and so forth.
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If you want to see an example of the opposite approach, look at Norway. It is infamous for how expensive its food is, but that has meant, among other things, small farms are profitable.
Are Che Guevara statues on public property a common thing? I think I would support removing them from public property in my community. It also seems like the few mentions of Che statues I can find online indicate that they have long been controversial, like this: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/no-more-statues-of-che_b_1626...

So I'm not really sure what your point is. You seem to be trying to make a reductio ad absurdum, but it doesn't seem absurd to me for a community to be upset about a public statue of Che Guevara and demand it be removed.
Interestingly hammer and sickle is not in the list
I can sympathize but it seems hard to argue with this developer's approach then. If it met the needs of the company, particularly to the desired level at the times these features were requested, I don't think there's a valid critique of the developer's architecture beyond iT's NoT DoNe CoRrEcTlY. And still, there's a lot to be said for keeping your developer's entertained so they stick around.
Whether or not you agree with them.
The correlation between public spending and the metrics lagging in the article doesn't really exist. The areas of the country that lag behind the most, have huge investments in these social welfare projects and infrastructure.

I'd like to see an accurate correlative model that demonstrates high correlations within the US to see what the winning strategy is.
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Of course it doesn’t have to be champagne either. Lots of other stuff to choose from.
Variant types are very different from enums. Variant types allow you to define a type that is "one of these N types". Enums are the same thing at the value level: they allow you to define a type that is "one of these values". You can't implement one in terms of the other.

Variant types do have some similar use cases with interfaces, but I don't see any relationship with enums in terms of use cases, so I don't think that applies.

Also, let's not forget that even C has enums, so their lack of inclusion in Go is baffling (especially since they went and implemented the much more arcane yet limited `iota` feature).
I want all controversial views to be deplatformed

That's a pretty controversial view. Expect to be deplatformed, citizen.
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History is important because it lets us see ourselves in the arc of time and be more cognizant of how and why we arrived at the present moment. When we idolize figures who we believe did good things, we project a guide line from the past into the future for ourselves to follow. When we erase history, we lose this guidance and direction. It's no mistake that the mob is responsible for the destruction, because a lack of guidance leads to mob-like behavior. Just as fatherless children are more likely to find guidance from their peers and in the streets, with a statistically worse fate as a result.

You could say then that these specific idols are not good idols because of the realities of their actions in the past. But there are other perspectives [0] that should be considered before taking that as a foregone conclusion - a conclusion mostly adopted from peers and not study.

[0] https://bit.ly/2NN8Wbv
>So the counterargument is hydrocodone. It is legal, and people that would never in their lives think of shooting smack now had doctors,many of whom knew better, prescribing them a highly addictive narcotic in order to get compensated by the manufacturer.

How is that a counter argument? This is a breakdown/fault of the medical community and has no relation to making drugs legal. To be clear, I am arguing that all drugs should be legal for recreational use (not require a prescription).

No question, doctors need to vet information on drugs better (they should not be taking literature/studies that come from the drug manufacturers as a reputable sources of truth). No question doctors should be extremely hesitant prescribing any opioid at all. No doubt that a lot of the current opioid epidemic stems from doctors (either unwittingly or not) prescribing things that they shouldn't be. Those are all medical industry issues that need to be solved (regardless if things like heroin are legal).

I don't suppose, and don't recommend, doing a self diagnosis and getting whatever drugs you feel will help. The medical community is supposed to be the experts on that subject matter.

That said, people need to be free to determine their own risk tolerance level regarding what to put in, or use on their bodies.

Me personally? I am not going to stop going to the doctors to get medicines when I am sick, even if I could buy any and all drugs over-the-counter. Also I am sure prescriptions aren't going away even if all drugs could be bought over the counter, there is no way insurance would pay for drugs that weren't prescribed by a medical professional.
I'd kind of make the argument that to me at least, it's not really a story about "finding the right balance" between free speech absolutism and a generally pleasant society.

To me that is a somewhat interesting conversation for sure, but the point here I think is that we have a huge number of cases where real live violence and harassment is occurring directly and indirectly as a result of Facebook's choice to NOT properly moderate content that we seem to both agree is most certainly not the kind of speech worth defending.

Facebook will say that there is no way that they could possibly do a sufficient job on this and will remind you that they are "always seeking to improve" but the reality of the matter is that they have made a decision for reasons that aren't actually clear as to why they decided to dedicate this specific amount of resources on the problem.

A lot of people in society think that they should be spending more on trying to fix that problem. I happen to be one of them and I think that is the conversation I am trying to have. What is a good way for society to provide their feedback on how tech has impacted their relationships? Seems to me that very few people actually like social media but many are addicted because these Facebook spent untold amounts of time and money finding new ways to optimize for "engagement" without ever really considering all of the shitty impacts on society that might have.
Is there a big list of all of the companies taking part?
From my research, they didn't catch them in the act of selling, it's an err and abuse from authorities.
> Being of low status, avoiding markers of low status is extremely important.

Can you expand on this some more?
So can Java :)
namedtuple and dataclasses both use eval(), so if you want to give up eval(), you'd need to give them up, too.
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Are trolls a problem to solve at all if your goal is to promote free speech? Trolling is one of the most commonly censored forms of speech. It seems like trolls are a core feature, not a bug, in that scenario.

If you actually want to solve the problem of trolls, I think the first step would be to put away the "free speech" platitudes, sit down and figure out what kinds of speech you actually support and what kinds of speech you want to curtail and why.
> considered by many to have been a brutal ruler

He raided these places in military campaigns; he did not rule them at the time of the raids. So he was not a brutal ruler. In fact, he was a benevolent ruler, distributing loot equally and promoting on merit rather than nepotism.

As another commentator has pointed out, the brutality was an intimidation tactic. It was very selectively applied. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708182

He also did much to bring modern human rights to his subjects. You can read about it in Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford, an anthropologist who lives in Mongolia part-time. https://amzn.com/B000FCK206
It's important to remember that the majority of these statues were not created after the civil war in order to remember them, but during the Jim Crow era in order to intimidate black people. The intent was never to teach history.
How does the community feel about funding in open source projects?