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Statements that genuinely are an affront to human dignity are already prohibited under anti-harassment rules. Such positions are also rarely controversial: most people do not want to disrespect human dignity.

A substantial segment of people have realized that they can shut down any conflicting opinions on controversial issues by proclaiming that divergence from their orthodoxy amounts to an affront to human dignity. Over the course of my employment I've seen people claim:

* All positions must pursue at least 50% female representation, and anything less than that amounts to misogyny.

* Voting for the current president of the United States amounts to an act of overt racism.

* Opposing affirmative action amounts to overt racism.

* Supporting affirmative action amounts to overt racism.

These positions are not affronts to human dignity. Maybe some people genuinely do believe that it does, but their views are disconnected enough that it's no excuse:

* Say an anti-abortion activist genuinely does believe that terminating a pregnancy amounts to murder. I'm sure such a person would be deeply offended by someone who supports a woman's right to do so, and would see it as an affront to human dignity. Say they posted on Facebook to this effect, that abortion is murder and should be banned. A co-worker who has had an abortion complains to HR saying a co-worker accused them of murder because of their contraceptive decisions. No HR person worth their salt would take action in this case, since it's effectively firing ~30% of the population because of their political or religious beliefs. If you don't want to be exposed to your co-workers political views, don't friend them on Facebook and don't follow them on Twitter.

* Say Bob makes a tweet supporting affirmative action in hiring and promotion, and Lin (who is Asian and opposes affirmative action) sees this. She finds it an affront to her dignity and amounts to asking organizations to deprive her right to equal opportunity. Does Lin have grounds to ask the company to sanction Bob for openly espousing discrimination against her? If these statement were made in the workplace, maybe, but otherwise Lin should just not view Bob's out-of-work communications. The company's policy is to give equal opportunity to all races, and Lin has no proof that Bob brought his views into the workplace.

Crucially, though, these two examples occurred outside of the workplace. Had they occurred inside the workplace ,then they now have much stronger cases. Your co-workers are captive audiences, in the context of interactions in the office. If Bob says this to Lin in the office, Lin can't just block him.

As far as your example goes, If Taylor doesn't want to see Alex's political views Taylor should block Alex on Twitter. They're not a captive audience in this situation: there's zero reason why these two people need to see each other's tweets to do their job. But if Alex said this inside the office, then there'd be better grounds for taking action against Alex. That's why offices are increasingly telling co-workers to keep their politics out of the office.
More to the point on Google v. Oracle than any generic pro-strong-IP ideology is that Florian Mueller (who is behind the site) is a (for quite a while undisclosed) paid agent for Oracle (and previously Microsoft) in anti-Google fights.
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I'm not sure if there are shark attack experts on HN. I'm certainly not one, but I'll make a suggestion that I think is worth considering.

Beaches are normally much busier which means a lot of disturbing noise that keeps sea creatures in general away from the noise of the beach.

As far fewer people are at the beach, there is much less noise to disturb sea creatures in general, so they are now coming closer to shore (and sharks follow their food source in towards shore too).

If there are more sharks in the area they are more likely to come into contact with the smaller number of people there and anything in the water is a potential food source for sharks, including people.

The shark experts can pitch in with whether that makes sense and propose more expert opinions.
It can also boot on the Nintendo Switch: https://twitter.com/imbushuo/status/1314487034040311808
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I was excited to hear about this due to the golden age of science in the Arabic world, which was a high point of Arabic culture that has since then unfortunately declined. But wondering how the scholar was able to do this research despite Islam, it turns out that he made god responsible for the mutation, the animals just have a desire to adapt. The article makes it sound like that's a trivial difference to Darwin, but I think there are worlds in between.
I have also seen amazing multi-region teams operating on different timezones. Sometimes they work on entirely different projects and sometimes on same stuff but with 24/7 operations so to speak.

Operating in other regions also gives access to large markets outside the US with entirely different markets and legal structures.

Current laws in the US actually force existing companies to look outside more. For newly starting startups, this transition to international might sooner in their journey. Maybe they'll start hiring in other countries in Series B instead of waiting for a series C.
If this were true, what would it affect about the argument?
Reddit's ads are terrible. It should come as no surprise that no one clicks on them.
I love stuff like this! I find it's quite a lot of fun to play with.

Style 6 seems to have a little bug handling the letter combination "ex" at higher legibility. Try the phrase "I had to collect things from my ex" to see what I mean. It goes delightfully crazy off the side of the page.
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Jewish culture has always had a deep respect for and encouragement of intellectual development. The Islamic world may have had that in the past but it's been heavily suppressed by the spread and rise to power and influence of more extreme and rigid forms of that belief system. In Israel, if the extreme orthodox were in charge or had as much influence as extreme Islam, you'd probably find suppression of intellectual development.
100%.

The decision to approve or deny is entirely in the hands of the officer, and I managed to get a NAFTA officer who interpreted the agreement in my favour. It's why so much time and effort goes into the supporting documents.
Yeah, who needs warning labels on products?! People ignore them anyway.
It may very well be the cosmic filter.

Humans have a "truth default" in communication. We take almost everything we hear as fact by default. Bots will have no trouble at all making the majority of people think, see, and do whatever they want.
Great, I can spend more time gratifying my limbic system while accumulating resources to survive my impending obsolescence.
See Google support.
> people could get a driving license or a truck driving license as part of the training they got

For non-Europeans who might not appreciate the value, this is roughly $1,000 in value and many hours of {written,driving} lessons.

PS: love the De Funès reference in your username!
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I hire a whole person who, along with the company itself, exists in society and is not an automaton judged only by how many widgets are produced.
^This.

When I see "This app has IAP" or whatever the copy is I just scroll down and see if the IAP looks like:

* 1 month subscription

* 1 year subscription

* Lifetime subscription

OR

* Full Unlock

OR

* Level pack 1

* Level pack 2

* Level pack 3

OR

* 10 gems

* 20 gems

* 30 gems

...

If it's one of the first 3 then I'm more than happy to get the app. I don't mind paying through IAP to unlock the full app, pay for a subscription (within reason), or get more content. I am completely uninterested in using a fake digital currency inside your app. Doing that tells me everything I need to know about the app and the developer(s) behind it.

In my book every "free-to-play" game that monetizes like this (even if they try to say they aren't "pay-to-win"/"pay-to-play") is trash. I don't want to hear "It's a fun game and you don't have to pay to enjoy it/play it", that's bullshit. I've yet to play an example of such a game that didn't (eventually) make the game unplayable/unbeatable without paying.
There are features Python is missing as a scientific language, that are not a focus. Proper multicore support, GIL, any static safety (which type hints sort of address but not really).

It was fine in Python 2, it was cheap and cheerful. It feels likes Python 3 is running out of ideas for improvement, and yet these are not at all in the scope of work.

Cf Julia that treats all these features as first class problems.
Everything is not fine. The economic recovery is not quick. Stocks prices are controlled by opaque shadow forces and have little basis in reality.

Something that is grounded in reality is being able to pay down your home loan. Now that mortgage forbearance is expiring in the United States we in the mortgage industry are seeing a trend where pre-pandemic mortgage delinquency rates will not return to pre-pandemic levels for 24 months since the first wave of COVID. Compare this to 11 months of recovery after both Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. 24 months is the best case scenario right now. 2021 will be a slow and painful year for economic recovery. We still don't know if we will endure another shock.
How is this not actionable?

I'd get in touch with my state AG's office as well as the FBI.
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It's a big assumption that SV wages are inflated given the value that sector has generated for the economy. Facebook made around $600k in profits per employee.

I will agree that they are inflated relative to other professions, but that just means for them the earnings gap is even greater. (https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/21/if-worker-pay-...)

https://insights.dice.com/2019/07/10/how-much-tech-companies...
Interesting! Thanks for sharing that. What sort of supporting documents did you end up having, to prove that you were supporting "a professional in the scientific field"?
I addressed that possibility in an edit. Flow sensing is a bad way to determine how much detergent is left in a bottle compared to actually sensing how much detergent is left. For one thing it forecloses refilling the container. Of course one of their primary stated motivations is e-commerce, so...

Their geared rotational telegraph is cute and fun! It just doesn't look novel.
I suspect that this isn't feasible. Otherwise lossy video codecs wouldn't exist (or would be very niche). Because if you sent a perfect diff you would essentially have lossless compression again.

So either your idea will revolutionize video compression or the "diff" would bring you back to the ballpark of lossless codecs.
Tell me some recent Iranian inventions/discoveries. We are not talking about working in some existing field. I am clear about R&D.
"the result is not more or less real than any other technique"

I disagree. If real / not real is binary, sure, it's not real. But if we allow "real" to be a range of values, it is less real.
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If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour
Flood the internet with more disinformation that is generally harmless but ends up being moderately embarrassing or inconvenient to those who believe it enough to act on it. Teach people by negative reinforcement to not assume what they read is true unless they've vetted the source.

Or: Have a counter-disinformation group that responds to political disinformation by creating more disinformation that points in the opposite direction.

To some extent all of the above is done already, organically. In fact, to the extent that Facebook et al. manage to hide the stupidest crap, that would tend to make people believe that what does stay up must be true (or, at least, must have passed Facebook's fact-checkers).
Considering it's protonmail, email them the notification.
Living and working outside the MSA or the normal commuting distance of the location listed on the H-1B petition would trigger the need to file an amended H-1B petition prior to the move.
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Wholly disagree.

MS loves to redesign their UI, but does it half-heartedly. There are dialogs that have had things moved to the ribbon or sidebar or property panel, but only some fields, so the sidebar contents are incomplete and you still have to find where they "hid your cheese."

For simple tasks like writing a memo, it's fine.

But as soon as the task is non-trivial (like changing default styles in word, or making a scatter plot line graph with column a as the y axis), office is a terrible user experience for new users, and guaranteed frustration from previously-proficient prior users. It's click-something-shit-not-that-undo whack-a-mole.
Yup. And the worst part is that the techniques used are entirely outside our regulatory environment. The rules that constrain a journalist don't apply to the head moderator with their finger on the trigger at Facebook. Drive engagement today, suppress voters tomorrow, justify anything under the sun before you know it.
I'm currently reading "Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant and was struck by this even earlier reference to a process of evolution by natural selection:

> Empedocles (fl. 445 B.C., in Sicily) developed to a further stage the idea of evolution. Organs arise not by design but by selection. Nature makes many trials and experiments with organisms, combining organs variously; where the combination meets environmental needs the organism survives and perpetuates its like; where the combination fails, the organism is weeded out; as time goes on, organisms are more and more intricately and successfully adapted to their surroundings.

Durant, Will. Story of Philosophy (p. 82). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition.
Not sure on often this is happening but I was told about many cases of officers abusing the recruits I don't like the idea of soldiers becoming tyrannical educators.
They include the criminalization of “contempt of public officials”, “participation in a group with a view to committing violent acts”

Literal thought crimes. I wish I could say my country handles this stuff better with a straight face, but there has been a very recent, almost worldwide, shift towards authoritarianism.
Most of our traffic comes from direct sales pages, which shopify does not do very well. The membership functionality would be 3K a month at the enterprise level just to meet the needs of shopify integrating with our CRM properly. We've used shopify and are familiar with what it can and can't do well.
This is awesome. I thought about exactly doing that at one point, since I block most ads, although I do it via /etc/hosts instead of AdBlock, so that makes it a little harder.

I also have custom CSS/JS rules to block those infuriating chat box popups on various websites and thought it might be fun to not only block them but also run a chat bot on them in the background for every chat box that pops up unsolicited. Waste their time and maybe they will learn very quickly that unsolicited chat popups are the most annoying UX ever.

(To be clear, I love chat UIs for customer support -- but not unsolicited "Can I help you?" sales chat boxes that pop up and cover part of the screen before you have even had a chance to understand the product.)
Bitcoin has a chicken and egg problem. You claim it will have that stability once its adoption has increased but its lack of price stability is a major hindrance to people adopting it as a store of value. Right now, pick any window of time from 24 hours to a century. I am much more confident that any of us could predict the value of USD, EUR, or GBP than Bitcoin. That is a big problem and it more important than any "but the inflation" arguments.
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Unfortunately, that's not really an immigration law question so I don't know the answer.
In theory, a competitive market could achieve the same goals, but in practice, it seems like marketplaces often need some regulatory nudging to get over the humps.
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> The opposite strategy is to talk about politics constantly, so that it's painfully obvious who's in the minority.

> Which is better for a gay man in Saudi Arabia? A company where people only talk about work, or a company where everybody is expected to take a stance on homosexuality?

You're talking about something completely different. What I'm talking about is basically falsely depoliticizing a political decision, so people think it's something that cannot be changed, like nature or something. The reference to Newspeak, which was imagined as a way of dismantling the mental machinery of political opposition, should have made that clear. That you missed it is ironic given your username.

If you want to map the experience of a gay man in Saudi Arabia onto what I was talking about, he would marry a woman and not even think things could be any different.
Yes. This.

Thinking is hard and it requires training and conditioning to do. I'm not talking about what to think, but rather how to think.

It's an incredible convenience to delegate thinking, like the difference between spending 3 hours debugging some code versus having the answer readily available on StackOverflow.

Conversely, that convenience comes with a cost of a stunted intellect, where an individual can become so dependent StackOverflow that they are incapable of doing something new or difficult if it hasn't already been done.

Neither is necessarily better or worse, there are good arguments for the "hard way" and the "easy way". The important thing is recognizing the distinction and appreciating the value of both.
>It was called the 'National military service'.

I am a male French citizen aged 65, so I know first hand.

There are several differences:

* It was not compulsory, as in most countries including US, there were actually several alternatives (appelé scientifique, etc).

* Only males were the subject of "conscription".

* The goal was to make most citizen ready to take arms, and from my own experience, I think it did a good job at that.

* Young people from suburban areas where not specially targeted (see what said Dupont-Moretty)
In general? Not really. On specific issues where there is overwhelming evidence and consensus coming from outside? Yes, it's good that they act on that.

It's true that absolute truths are hard to find. But absolute bullshit is much much easier to identify, and should be curtailed when it's doing harm.
do you have a write-up on how to make such a transition / do you have one or more that you read to learn about it? Mostly wondering about the nitty gritty like how to register as a business, tax considerations, simple contract stuff, etc. Seems to me that info is rarely in one place.
That will never happen in this country. The truth of the situation is, one political party benefits from this ignorance way more than the other, and they are protecting their investment in keeping the electorate ignorant.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2012-06-27/gop-op...

> "Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
I didn't even consider that! But certainly there's a ring to the term "Treadmill Browser".
Why assume that this is a result of the coronavirus? The oceans are warming, and the currents that carry both the sharks and the food are likely changing.
Logic bugs can be just as disastrous as memory safety bugs. From an attacker's point of view, they're ultimately about making a program do something not intended. Downplaying logic bugs (where Rust is weak) and emphasizing memory safety (where Rust is strong) might make Rust look better, but it's not doing any favors for computing.
Honest question, should Sony/MS/Nintendo also drop their percentage? How about the cut stores get to put products on their shelves?

Because whenever I zoom out and look at more that just Google/Apple the more I see examples of this happening everywhere and I wonder why there isn't similar outrage. Like with the whole "FB mad that Apple wouldn't let them call out the 30% cut" thing, I mean Kroger isn't going to let a company print on their box "Kroger takes 30% of this sale"...
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It's definitely most common to either work 14, 24 or 32 hours: so taking full days off in stead of less hours per day.

It's also very common to stack hours. A lot of people will work 36 hours. But since 'half days' means you have to commute anyway people usually just take every other Friday off. The only exception to this is Wednesday, when some people work half days because Dutch primary schools are often half-day as well on Wednesday.

But I don't think that's the law, just what people prefer.

I know very few people who reduce theirs hours per day but still choose to commute 5 days a week.

But I guess that might very well change now that a lot of people don't have a commute anymore.
This headline is like saying "border patrol arrests extensive cartel smuggling network" after the feds grab a few dozen drug mules. The incentives are still there. The structure is still there. The opposing operating group is still there, untouched, as is the source of "contraband". We don't know how many networks exist; how many remain; how many operate successfully within Facebook/Twitter's rules while having the same effect as the banned ones (to extend the drug comparison, these would be the causes of the opioid crisis). On a structural level, I don't see how FB/Twitter can fix this, and don't think they would if they knew.
(comment) doesn't completely ignore the body, which is weird for something that is supposed to be a comment https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/comment

; and ;; pretty usage is same as Common Lisp. #_ is replaced with #+nil in Common Lisp which is just a reader macro. ;;; is usually reserved for prose, and of course there's #| commenthere |# which is just another reader macro, and is suitable for code examples, where you can probably still eval it in your text editor.
What replication are you using ? What about your recovery times when a server fails on 1Gbs port ?
> At the heart of Ash’ari metaphysics is the idea of occasionalism, a doctrine that denies natural causality. Put simply, it suggests natural necessity cannot exist because God’s will is completely free. Ash’arites believed that God is the only cause, so that the world is a series of discrete physical events each willed by God.

Oof, that's a handicap. I never knew of this strain of thought until now. It's not unreasonable until you accept the failure of theodicy (or observe the long-term consequences).

Being a people of the book can get you far, but at some point you need to stop being a people of the book, and become a people of all books.
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There is but for me cargo tree was always sufficient so far.
My concern is that strong campaigns against disinformation might not actually help with this problem. They could make it worse, if people start to believe that Facebook and Twitter are sanitized media outlets that won't let you say the real truth.