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Exactly as intended. Beneath the surface, this "social justice" movement is nothing but a power grab, primarily from those who could not attain such power by merit. All of society suffers when decisions are made according to gender or race rather than ability.

This is an organized, quasi-religious campaign of oppression, self-justified by perceived oppression. The key word here is perceived - it is trivial to "find" oppression (or racism, or sexism, or ableism, etc) any time two people from different groups interact, especially in a professional environment where criticism is critical to success.

Tyranny by the minority.
The mobile interop is really good, that is because standardization is done rather well technologically and widely followed. This also means that standardization is fought over harshly.

Anything that gets standardized will see wide use. What if the standardization picks a technology you are a market leader in? What if the standardization picks a technology you have a patent on? Yeah, you will be forced to let people license the patent. But you will be getting licensing fees.
Some are trolls and/or flamewar-stokers while others are substantive contributors. That's a problem with any forum with a low barrier to entry. Users can help by flagging the trollish and flamewar posts. To flag a comment, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click the 'flag' link at the top. (There's a small karma threshold before flag links appear.)

We sometimes close threads to new accounts when the situation is overwhelming, but I wouldn't want to do that in a case like this. Generally on HN, we try to err on the side of privileging positive contributions rather than filtering out negative ones, and we rely on community moderation and moderator moderation to try to dampen the latter. It only works partially, but it's better than punishing the positive contributors, and definitely better than being a closed community.
I don't think its fair to completely blame Social Media and relieve people of all responsibilities. After all, human beings aren't lemmings, if they are being manipulated, then they should bear responsibility for being manipulated.
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> Do you honestly think that people would be angry at MIT for having allowed Epstein to eat in their food court without discovering his identity and forbidding him to eat there?

That's my point. People shouldn't be angry at that, so they shouldn't be angry at this.

Even if McDonalds can identify Epstein at all their locations, there is still no reason to deny him service. It's not their duty to make up for the broken justice system nor should it be. Same goes for program director. Unless if there is evidence of a connection between the evolution center and his sex trafficking, then it's pointless to shut it down.
Form a contracting firm may be the best bet.

Or just look for places with multiple openings.
FOH 30 is old
> whereas the left is divided between more moderate and cancel culture. Apparently tucker said that the right would go into full fascist mode

What you described might just be a self-fulfilling prophecy. If the moderate right routinely gets bundled with the far right extremists (and often anti-vac, conspiracy theory and whatever) for voicing out their right leaning (but moderate) opinions, then they might just choose to censor themselves instead.
3 to 28 is not a major increase.

That many people are shot in some American cities every night.
> Almost all of the oppression we see around us can be explained by wealth disparities

I recently talked to a mom who visited her adult foster daughter with a different skin tone. Her daughter reminded her to make sure she doesn't forget her ID in the hotel.

The mom was confused. They were just going to take a walk in Munich. Why would she need an ID? She never has an ID on her when she goes for a walk.

The daughter said, because the police, they stop you and ask to see your ID!

Mom couldn't believe it that the police was so different in Munich. Then it dawned on her. Foster daughter had brown skin, so she was randomly stopped by police and asked for ID because she looks like an immigrant.

Mom was white and has never ever been stopped by police before.

The police absolutely treat people different because of race.
No, the things causing outrage are ruining our lives. There are multiple systems of society, at least in the U.S. that are flat out failing.
I can't be the only one who thinks this is bullshit, right? The scenario described in the article isn't a dilemma unless the gender of the CEO is part of your reason. If it's not, you will have some rational explanation and should be able to point to your history of not being a sexist asshole.
Yeah. I can see a niche for a platform that uses engagement targeting for good. "Use our platform, not Facetube. We have an engagement optimization target of 30 minutes per day. Our competitors want to be your life. We want you to have a life."

Bootstrapping will be very hard however.
> One problem with the lab leak theory is that it presumes the Chinese are lying or hiding facts, a position incompatible with a joint scientific effort.

LOLOLOLOL Excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor. Doesn’t the default assumption about an authoritarian government have to be that it is lying and hiding facts that would harm it?
Opinions are fine in places like Substack, where people actually pay to read them.

Out in the ad-supported world of supposedly free content, yes, fewer opinions would be a boon.
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Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that
something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so
bad as it was made out.

Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so
bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling
to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as
possible?

If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process
which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to
wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we
shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we
shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as
bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of
pure hatred.

-- C.S. Lewis
Not at all. In Mexico, it's written México and pronounced Méjico. So that is definitely an exception to the pronunciation of x as a ks sound.

The spelling rule you imply is not correct either: the same Spanish speakers who write Texas for the state, write Tejano for the Latin music originating there--both of those spellings being the most widespread in both Texas and Mexico.
Don’t forget slashdot
How do you write from the perspective of an ~omnipotent AI? Do they have desires that could be understood by a human?
I'm a bit sad about how eager everyone is jumping on the idea that "candid advice" will always be construed as possibly sexist. I'm from Germany and we are famously blunt, so maybe there is a cultural aspect to this, but to me candor != risk of sexism. If your advice is candid, it also shouldn't leave any ambiguity..."I'm unsure about you doing the pitch because the last N times you froze up and you seem nervous again" makes your reasoning clear without beating around the bush. How can you twist this into something sexist?
You are the winner. There are multiple lenses to look at everything. Chose the lenses that works for you - optimism is just as realistic as pessimism and nihilism.
> It's anyone the police feel they can get away with abusing.

And a core premise of the Black Lives Matter movement is that Black people are generally an easier target that the police can get away with abusing, and police know this. Police can also typically identify Black people easily on sight, putting them at greater risk. Class is a valuable lens through which to view systems of oppression, but we shouldn't neglect these other dimensions of race, gender, etc... that are clearly a part of our society.
This article demonstrates exactly why I’ve tended not to get as up-in-arms as some of my fellow male colleagues when it comes to gender/workplace issues. Sure, sometimes it seems like the pushback against the male dominated culture of some industries can push a little too far leading to unintended consequences like the author illustrates. But, sooner or later those get recognized and things tend to self-correct. Who ever said that dealing with entrenched, thorny issues isn’t messy and fraught with inefficiencies?
True. They can burn a lot of credibility in a single unwarranted witch-hunt against a named individual.
I did't want to hurt you, but i don't see the path to a better world to just think the worst of people. The most people want to be good and create good things, sometimes they don't know better ...
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” - Mark Twain
The good thing is that we realized how bad it was back in 2016 (and again in 2020 considering the amount of people who went out to vote for the orange man).
But outrage is also a powerful motivator for changing society for the better.

Right now in the UK people are protesting an authoritarian anti-protest bill. How many are out there because they were outraged by it? What if they were at home, happily following their respective hobbies instead? If no one ever speaks up, what prevents society from sliding towards fascism / 1984 / etc?
This is a gross exaggeration. Power struggles have been with us since the beginning of time.

Men and women will get along as they always have, with ups and downs. There are no "identity groups" because we aren't and can't be enemies. There are just a few loonies on both sides making a ton of noise, and they're getting amplified by the internet. They'll either get boring at some point or just be ignored completely from the outside of their circles.
> spending your days arguing with strangers

But that isn't what is happening now. Instead of interacting so much with strangers, modern social media platforms have increasingly put people in bubbles where they interact mainly with those who share the same views. Yes, people express outrage at those they perceive as outsiders, but they are not actually talking so much to those outsiders, who are off in their own communities. Instead, they are building community with like-minded people through shared rituals.

Some amount of people will take the outrage and attempt to directly impact the lives of the target of that outrage, but those are (even when they look like mobs) still just a minority of people.
Dunno what this guy was reading but I sure don't recognise it.
I think a doctor would recommend to see a doctor, here.
True, the problem is that we get so much shit on the daily based on how we look that at some point we just have to fight back.
Ironically, no. I only noticed the pattern ;)
It’s not the just the IRS it’s every tax authority on the planet, you can no more buy a Tesla with bitcoins without triggering a capital gains assessment then you can buy a house from someone by trading in your stock portfolio without accounting for capital gains.

Crypto just makes it easier for the time being because the transaction are not as well regulated or tracked as stocks or other valuable assets.

Fine art is constantly used for example for under the table deals but we have a name for it - tax evasion.

If you bought Bitcoin for £1000 and now it’s worth £100000 if you want to buy something for £100000 you can buy you also need to pay capital gains tax on £99000 worth of gains.
BitClout's social media experiment is one bad idea on top of another
People learn new things every day
I just got off a two month, almost completely disconnected van dwelling trip. With such little Internet, I literally forgot who the president was. The complete detoxification from the outrage machine... it was like pure heroin.

The snap back to reality almost broke me. Humans are not meant to doomscroll. They are not meant to be this angry, this often. Just like disconnecting felt like a high, coming back was the come down.

Those months/weeks completely changed my view on media and doomscrolling. I can't stomache it anymore, and avoiding that behavior has helped me be more positive over the last week.
I agree with what I think you are going for: That this super blamey "hyper woke" bullshit needs to stop if we are going to make any real forward progress on issues like this one.

In my experience, one good example of how to do it right is vastly more powerful in solving social ills than any number of people being hung high and scapegoated for getting it wrong.

In fact, I generally feel that scapegoating people in a system where there are no good answers is actively counterproductive and helps keep things stuck. Hanging someone high for not knowing "the right answer" in a system that gives zero good options for how to handle X implicitly suggests that good answers exist and implicitly denies the reality that "We don't know how to do this dance. We don't have an answer for that."

It implicitly suggests there is a means to get this right when the reality is there isn't. So it actively distracts from real problem solving.

I would like to see more real problem solving in this space. As a dirt poor woman, I have a vested interest in seeing a world where there are answers for how to do this dance.

So far, I am mostly coming up empty under circumstances that suggest to me that my behavior is not the problem. The problem is the lack of good answers for how to do this dance.
Absolutely. After hours in a break area, people would be much more candid when they think everyone agrees with them, and then they state this out loud.

I have chat logs with a PE at a FAANG who starts off by declaring that diversity is bullshit, not just efforts but the goal itself, and that race or gender is no impediment to success.

What’s even more demonstrative is so many here saying they are afraid to comment without making a new account because of ‘woke’ culture, but those are likely the people downvoting me to oblivion for suggesting that racists and sexists are the root cause of the situation.
> As the post points out, they're trying to sell their narratives to increase viewership.

This is a red herring - the amount of revenue/profit produced by news media outlets is trivial. Not just nominally as compared to any other industry, but also as compared to the other sources of income that the owners of these outlets have.

The primary reason for the editorial lines that large news outlets take is to push ideas through the electorate, and to generate references that politicians and businesspeople can use to justify their support of certain issues/legislation that the owners of those outlets also support.

They're public thinktanks, not carnival barkers.
> 87 percent of the U.S. stories are classified as negative, whereas 51 percent of the non-U.S. stories are classified as negative

Seems right in light of how badly the US handled the pandemic compared to Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, and so forth. It's not a bias if it reflects reality.
>Funny timing, as it seems the local government is starting to crack down on dumpster divers in the name of "collecting recycling data": https://www.ccma.cat/324/barcelona-estrenara-contenidors-int...

ironic if this stuff will show up while paper metro tickets still reign supreme
Roll 1d6: 2. You click through to discover that warp drives are "having a moment" after "scientists" "dropped a bombshell"
>I’m not going to suggest a solution to the problem of men clamming up.

Well gee how about people stop blaming white males for every problem in the world, cancelling them for the slightest "microaggression", etc. Maybe that would make society a bit more equal?

It should would be nice to talk openly with coworkers and peers without worrying about offending someone over the slightest thing.
I also never said their observation is invalidated by not offering a solution - I said it was frustrating that they didn’t have any suggestions.
The EFF is a lobbying organization, RMS is an actual person.

Also, there should be a higher bar for them because they're a faceless organization attacking RMS. If RMS attacked them, as individuals, I might agree to some equivalency.
Maybe they are not as useful as we thought?
What I mean is: at the intersection of deliberately not understanding what in physics terms is actually "a battery", and not understanding what in financial terms is actually "a store of value"; you will find BitCoin fans.
Closer to 10 or 12 for many, it has a high variance in humans.
One of the toughest things about discrimination is being able to prove it. I'm a white man, but I spent time living in Japan where I was an obvious minority.

Some situations were clear to me that I was being treated a particular way because of my race. But then others were not so clear cut.

For example, one time I was talking in Japanese with a group and someone kept repeating what I said like "He said...". I was getting angry at that as I took it to mean that they were basically "translating" my Japanese for others. But then later, I was watching a Japanese TV drama and the same thing happened on there (with only Japanese speaking). That made me think that maybe this was just a cultural thing that people do and didn't have any reflection on me personally.

Having mentored a female engineer, I've seen that if you are constantly on the lookout for signs of discrimination against you, you will find so much of it. You'll go crazy thinking the whole world is out to get you because of your sex, race, etc. It's tough because there are no doubt situations where that does happen. But there are also situations where a white man would have been given the same feedback or treated in the same way. As a minority though, you only have your own experience to go on. It becomes tough to recognize what is legitimate discrimination vs what is just ordinarily communication.
> Sadly if you're concerned with these overreaction, and voice those concerns, you will be labelled as being against the change. You quickly learn to shut up and just wait it out.

This is a smart move for any kind of group/mob move/reaction, by the way. In much more extreme cases you'd be the smart, polite, but dead guy in the crowd, otherwise.

Crowds as a whole are rash and emotional, you can't reason with them. There's a reason Animal Farm had 10 word slogans, at most ;-)
> It would be impossible to be comfortable working with him, especially if you had children.

Why? I have two kids and if RMS ever comes back to talk at my lab, I'm definitely bringing them to see him!
Agree - while the rise of woke and cancel culture in America have affected people's perception of American culture in the last few years (e.g https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threa...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-18/u-k-an...), I think the lack of quality entertainment from Hollywood over the last few years (reboots, superhero movies etc) are a much bigger reason for the rise of local movie industries.
"we reserve the right to refund to you either the exact Bitcoin Price that you provided to us at the time of purchase"

Maybe I am misunderstanding this but it clearly says the BTC Price that you provided at the time of purchase. So if you paid 2.150000 BTC for it that is the price you would be refunded?

"or an amount of US Dollars that is equivalent to the US Dollar price of the product that you purchased, at our sole and absolute discretion, taking into consideration operational efficiency"

The second part of the clause refers to the USD refund amount if they choose to refund in USD and has nothing to do with the first part about BTC.

EDIT: I did not miss the either. I understand you can be refunded in BTC OR USD. The entire point was that if you are refunded in BTC it will be for the BTC amount you paid which is in direct contradiction to what tptacek said. It's just wrong.
> It always amazes me that in the US there is such a weak identification system, relying on a single number.

Offer Govs/LEO/Biz an alternative that will allow them stronger & less visible influence over the public and it will be adopted yesterday.
Wasn't Theranos debacle because the tech was never going to work due to it being borderline snake oil and whishful thinking hyped by con(wom)man?
I'm glad to see this here. I think people in general do not pay much attention to externalities. I wish to see people take a more holistic/deontological view of the fight for equality across all mankind (shit, is that a microaggression? personkind?). I'm not convinced that this over-correction ISN'T net positive either, but there is an ingrained assumption in the zeitgeist that it is a pure fight for a better world for those trodden upon. I don't think the case is so clear cut and I worry about the deafening silence when I look for introspection among those riding this wave of power. People who do not question the righteousness of their cause are frightening, whatever the cause may be. Nothing is righteous, everything is complex, I wish this was something that we could hold tightly in our collective consciousness. Subtlety and nuance is never as easy or attractive as brashness. I guess that's the nature of the beast, who would willingly attack themselves to prevent their own abuse of the power they've newly gained? Only a rare few, I doubt that will change.

"You must beware of shadows."

page 109 of The Little Schemer
>Why do we find conflict interesting to read?

Overcoming adversity is literally what life does, from smallest to largest.

I'd be genuinely surprised if, evolved survival machines that we are, some kind of difficulty to dedicate our thinkmeats to overcoming wasn't a necessity for a healthy life.
Claiming that "What would a white man do?" Is not intending to bucket people has moved beyond "interpretation" and into gaslighting. The entirety of the advice is bucketing people.

"Graceful interpretation" does not mean that you ignore the advice and substitute for it what would have been good advice.
It is ~~idiotic~~ alien to my world view to fire someone for having to take care of them selves not to overheat. Perhaps a better solution could have been providing more shade, rest, or cooling vests to everyone. And/or to re educate the male workforce not to be distracted so much that it would cause safety incidents. (I struggle to see how this would lead to serious issues. Is somebody going to be distracted so badly they are going to pour concrete over their colleague instead of in the hole?)

I’d say these situations show that we must have more diversity, not less, in all our interactions so that we learn to become more used to differences (insert race/gender/whatever else some people trip over.)

However idiotic it may seem, in a non-safe, litigating environment one can, sadly, expect these knee jerk reactions. The only way forward is to make our society a safer place. This probably relies on all parties becoming more aware of the effects of their actions as well on the receiving side having a buffer and being tolerant such that we don’t get a cascade effect.

Edit: I mean the above paragraph in the sense that just like aircraft investigations are about finding a root cause instead of blaming, discussions should be more about achieving harmony together or to agree to disagree.
People are not some static thing (e.g. "well-adjusted"), but change constantly. And todays external influences push everyone to this outrage culture, even if they come from environment where this culture did not exist.
> If you say things that are not sexist nobody will accuse you of sexism

The article is all about how that is, unfortunately, false.