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>Free Speech precisely means freedom from consequences. That phrase is perhaps the most insidious phrase that is often repeated on the internet. To believe that free speech should be met with "consequences" if it crosses some line is illiberal, and immoral.

I take it, then, you are against existing laws against slander, libel, fraud, harassment and incitement to violence?

And that if I were to try convince your family and coworkers that you were a pedophile, or of some other scandalous rumor, you wouldn't do anything because it would be illiberal and immoral of you to demand that my speech has consequences?
“That seems like [a worker rights issue] that you would want to bring up with [the folks who usually don’t like the workers exercising their rights]” is how that sounds to me, when I read it.

Sure, yeah, you should bring it up with management, but bringing it up with your coworkers is essential to actually making a change happen.
> I encourage everyone to do it - so this way reputable lenders are supposed to call you when they're trying to open an account in your name.

Reputable lender is something like an honest car salesman. Often consumers deal with middlemen and brokers that aren’t bearing the cost of fraudulent transaction.

Isn’t it what partially what caused financial crisis of 2008? Loans were given to people with no income and one, two or even three existing mortgages. Everyone’s incentive was to earn the commission and sell it further misrepresenting low grade bonds as high grade.
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Agreed hopefully we get a response. I was an instructor for Trilogy, didn't really see any 'deceptive practices' in my couple years there.
I think the GP comment is referring to LGBT people who are out, willingly or not, to their coworkers. Which bathroom a trans person uses, for example, is considered a political issue by some people.

But I also think that point can be generalized, to the boring but obvious conclusion that everything involving interaction between human beings is political, since those interactions occur within the context of a malleable political system. We could theoretically pass a constitutional amendment that makes being late for standup punishable by prison, couldn't we? Is it now political to be late for standup? You end up arguing over the degree to which something is political, which leads back to what everyone is complaining about: the enforcement of this policy cannot be anything but arbitrary.

Personally, I think that if the Basecamp folks want to ban a particular type of politics then they should grow a spine and say what they mean, instead of expecting everyone to read between the lines for them. If they did that then perhaps they could expect people to agree to disagree, but these guys clearly know what they want to say and the only reason they don't say it is because they know how bad it makes them look right now.
The U.S legal system (or anywhere else's) is not based on your subjective personal ethics.

Germans voted for a specific right. American's do the same all the time. Germans still do not have some blanket right for every worker to control company policy.
Removing the SALT deduction cap affects people wealthy enough to still itemize after the standard deduction was doubled in the TCJA. Let that sink in.

The number of people itemizing before the TCJA was about 46m, the number after the standard deduction was doubled is only about 16m. There are about 143m people filing returns in the US (taxpaying units).

So about 10% of US taxpaying units still itemize meaning they're deducting more than $12k individually or 24k jointly.

This issue disproportionately affects the wealthy. The top 10% of income earners are getting bitten by this, and the top 1% especially so.

As the TK article illuminates, the US would lose $600 billion in revenue by repealing the SALT cap. That money comes disproportionately from the top 1% as illustrated by the graph from the Brookings Institute:
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p...

The article quotes a guy saying the SALT cap was the only clearly progressive tax policy the Trump administration ever implemented.

So yes, it's funny though not altogether surprising to see the Democrat senators and senior House members (all of whom seem to be in the affected income bracket themselves) pitching this deduction for the wealthy as a fight for 'working families'. It is impossible to even entertain the idea unless open to the idea that supply-side, trickle-down economic theory has merit, which is also a humorous dimension of the Democrat rhetoric.
Well one of the companies had to step in and ban certain areas of discussion among employees because it was so toxic it was effecting the company. So _they_ don't sound super happy.
Good point. Since they specifically mention sedans, likely it's limited to 4 door 3 series, C class, A4 type cars, wagons/coupes/convertibles need not apply.
I think there a difference. A statement of indisputable fact i.e. "I went to the park with my husband" is different from an opinion or belief such as "I think x should be y", regardless of how accepted it is in the workplace or society as a whole.
Most people's homes are far safer than their commute. It would be very hard to understand the legal reasoning that would say one does not have the right to a gun for self defense when going on the metro, but does have the right to a gun for self defense in the home.
Same deal, except I never touched proprietary tools.

I learned the ropes with yosys/nextpnr, and I am glad. No dependency in proprietary tools whatsoever.
In a follow-up on DHH's blog[0], he says:

> Note that we will continue to engage in politics that directly relate to our business or products. This means topics like antitrust, privacy, employee surveillance. If you're in doubt as to whether something falls within those lines or not, please, again, reach out for guidance.

I would read this to mean that political issues that are tied to business decisions (like pay equality and recruiting practices) are in-bounds for discussion at work.

[0]: https://world.hey.com/dhh/basecamp-s-new-etiquette-regarding...
Compare these two messages that might appear in a company’s casual chat channel:

“I’m getting married this weekend and I’m so excited!”

“I tried to get a marriage license today but the county clerk refused to give me one because we are a same-sex couple, which is really upsetting!”

Both statements involve the same event in a person’s life, and it’s an event that tends to be very important and is a very natural thing to share with coworkers. Only one of the statements happens to involve (and even take a stance on!) a political debate which was extremely prominent in US national politics 6 years ago and extremely divisive and highly-charged.

If a company has a policy like this, what should their response be to these two people? Should one, both, or neither message be allowed in the company’s casual chat channel?
He made the claim in the Q4 2020 Tesla earnings call in Jan 2021, here is a transcript: https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2021/01/27/te...
I feel like all these self-driving companies aren't actually in it to achieve the success. They know it's a long way off, they're just trying to hit enough milestones to get scooped up by somebody bigger. Perhaps with the exception of Tesla, who I have no explanation for. Self-driving cars are so far down the totem-pole in my opinion--if we're going to have to rework our roadways in order to accommodate self-driving cars, why not just innovate there?

A roadway can be MUCH smarter than a car. Each segment of smart road is unique, and only has to worry about itself and whatever cars are present in the area. Smart roads could be managed by a few operators (in fact one operator could shepherd many road segments).

Each smart car has to be able to account for all possible kinds of roads. Smart cars each require an operator who is essentially just sitting there waiting for the car to fail (and therefore the failures become more catastrophic as the tech gets better, since trust rises and attention spans fail).

Put the tech into the ROADS, and just let the cars listen.
I don't feel like it's a strawman. I don't know the culture there, but what about:

- Talking about unions, or pay equity (Might be illegal to ban either)

- "Hey Jodie, my partner and I are marching in a Gay pride parade this weekend, wanna come?" (Is that political at Basecamp?)

- Some ex-military employees form an informal group to welcome and mentor new employees coming out of the military. (Is that political?)

- One of our new clients is a controversial group/business/etc, what should we do?

I could keep going for a while...it's difficult to avoid "politics".
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I'm tired for shaming public... huffft when this is over... u have family, husband, wife, why??? Can u just dead...
And what is to stop or check that ruthless agency when it is corrupted?

It is a fundamental attribute of power that it corrupts, and any agency with the power to decide what is corrupt and enforce against other agencies /government bodies their idea of corruption - is pretty much all powerful no?
This all stems from the right to privacy and right to control your data, and the overall lack thereof in the United States. All that the credit beuraus do is collect information from various sources about people.
It's finally becoming possible to run Plan9 as a full modern desktop. With the recent Chinese / Subcontinental penetration of Linux, finding other secure alternatives is more important than ever.
Do you only pay for things like a car or a house using cash? Or what about if you are applying for a loan to start a business? Is it all just a 100% cash based society?
I think by default the apple watch unlocks when you unlock your phone. There is a setting to disable this if you'd like.

As a result, although my watch has a passcode i almost never type it in. It's easier to put on my watch and then unlock my phone.
No, original post had don't discuss. They backtracked to "not on main", maybe after realizing this could be read as barring protected activities.
yarp. we dont love clean code for the user, that should be obvious for anyone who has written a medium amount of code. we love clean code for the fact that some day, we are going to have to read our code, trace it for a bug... etc.

You can feature bloat something up to a certain point and then.... kaboom goes the rewrite. Hopefully into clean code, but usually not since clean code is a culture and mindset, not a code base.
I think I have tried it. The only reason I don’t use it too much because uses a lot of ram and plus its made with python which makes it slow compared to other browser

Maybe it’s just my opinion but happy to hear your thoughts on this.

I use vim extension on firefox btw
Oh will you just shut up and go away forever.

Scamming people with your predatory startup and trying to brush it all off with this faux cheeriness really is disgusting.

What is even the point of your existence? You're just a parasite. Get out of here.
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I think Lyft's core ridesharing business will continue to become more profitable in a duopoly setting with Uber. Ridesharing is a network effect business, if the riders are there, the drivers will come, the more drivers you have, the more availability so you get more riders. The US has proven that it is capable of supporting two overlapping players (not all markets can support this and meet regulatory rules)
The funny thing is that in Slavic languages, the word for a German translates to "the mute one". For example, NEMec in Slovenian.

Mute, because he can't speak our language.
Tesla has ~2,000 charging stations (with 20,000 chargers).

The stations seems to cost a few hundred thousand dollars.

So they have a lead, but it's roughly a billion dollars (or maybe 2) to build out something similar, that isn't going to take decades.

There are tens of thousands of places that might install a couple high power chargers (restaurants and similar). Doesn't take that many of them to add a lot of capacity, even if it isn't spaced out quite as well.
I believe it is up to the share holders and that’s it. If the share holders don’t want to do business with a certain group of people, it is their prerogative. They can vote. Employees can quit.

And yes I don’t think the debate is relevant to a business organization. The elected government decides who business can be and which business can be conducted. If you don’t like it then by all means, petition your representatives. But please do it on your own time.

You can do business with the Catholic Church and Planned Parenthood. If you’re keen to then use your earnings to crush one org or the other.
Okay, come up with a company policy for those (and if people feel strongly about it you probably want to know rather than have them just bitch in private about it), and if people get obnoxious about it do something about that. Instead of leaving your gay employee wondering if she needs to ask permission to mention getting married because that would be bringing up a "societal or political topic" (or to pick an example from elsewhere in the thread, if someone can mention that they went on a hunting trip on the weekend).
I'm assuming you're a Red Hatter?
If you angrily told a personal friend "fuck this team" after a losing game, does that get you suspended? No it doesn't..

A 24 hour self deleting vent to a personal circle of friends should be treated similarly.

As someone else in this HN thread eloquently said:

> It's not just that it was expressed off campus. It was expressed privately. Her speech on its own never reached the school. It was deliberately recorded and rebroadcast. The disruptive speech was the replaying of what she said, not her saying it. There is a huge difference.
You think that the statement “I think my marriage should remain legal” is significantly different from the statement “I went to the park with my husband”?
Firefox only implements the newer standardized scrollbar properties "scrollbar-width" and "scrollbar-color".
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-c...
>It's a symptom of a bigger problem in that U.S.A. schools and companies can terminate for arbitrary reasons.

Is this specific case really arbitrary though? Did you read the contract/terms & conditions that this individual was under? Was this termination random or on personal whim? Because it sounds like it's the result of an individual's actions in violation of an agreement between that individual and another entity.

>The U.S.A. seems culturally built upon a mentality that one should fear government, but never citizens, and consequently has developed an idea of “Free speech is only from the government.” whereas in most developed nations, freedom of opinion is a more active right that the government also attempts to safeguard from private citizens and schools.

Yes, that mentality is literally part of American culture. In the U.S., governments, unlike citizens, are granted a monopoly on the use of force so a natural distrust is not only appropriate but warranted. The government is under no obligation to defend your rights if you literally sign them away (although there are some rights which cannot be waived). You can say whatever you want, but there may be consequences depending on what you say and where you say it.

>> If you're saying f the school and f cheerleading and the goal of the cheer squad is to promote school spirit and pride... (she wasn't suspended, given detention, or kicked off the softball team) I know I would have been benched or cut if I talked about throwing a game or not trying my hardest and those statements made it back to the coach. It's not like they were monitoring social media for this.
> Luckily I can't be let go for this either.

People, including children, must learn there are consequences for what they say, particularly in a public forum (and this was effectively so). The only recourse in cases such as this is whether the response was appropriate e.g., within terms of a contract. I personally do not believe that what was said and who it was said to would warrant expulsion, but that's just an opinion, not a contract.
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It truly is the issue of not knowing if it will ever be solved. The uncertainty of progress and uncertainty of a timeline is what really irks investors (who are right to question the investment given it is dragging down the not-quite-profitable main business)
The Bay Area has always been a bit ahead of the curve there - but my point isn’t just an LGBT thing... that’s the example most relevant to me personally. People of color could probably talk about similar issues related to this kind of policy.

Of note: Basecamp was at least until recently based primarily in the Midwest, in Chicago. Bay Area culture influences them in the same way it influences all tech culture, but they are certainly situated in a different culture than that of the Bay.

(Also of note is that while SF specifically was friendlier to LGBT people historically, this is a difference of degrees: LGBT folks in SF experienced plenty of discrimination over the years. And personally, it’s the only place I’ve been called a “faggot” while walking on the sidewalk - multiple times. Anecdote, but still.)
Yep, that's the remote I had that I miss. I updated an old Roku I had with that remote (which we bought separately after the dogs chewed the prior remote up) to an Amazon device, and I miss those features.

I generally like the Roku experience better (a friend and I wrote some apps for it in the distant past), but we already had two Amazon sticks in the house, and we happened to go into an Amazon store recently to see what it was like, and the fire stick was cheap enough to be an impulse buy to replace the aging Roku in my bedroom. Not having HBO Max on Roku at the time played into that. I wonder how much that cost Roku.
what makes you think that Slack must be synchronous and that asynchronous == email?
De Beers or OPEC spring to mind.
In Kannada, 'desha sutti nodu, kosha odii kali" - Roam the world AND read the books - clubs both of them
Identity theft!
Yeah the A4 and A5 seem comparable but Tesla only mentions the A6, a larger sedan like the 5 Series or E Class. I'd like to see the detailed numbers on this.

Also, the 3 Series wagon seems like it would be included in these numbers?
There's a DevOps Cafe episode, I forget which topic, but the idea was that users just want DNS to work. Nobody cares how clean your config files are for Bind.

But indirectly they actually do care because if the config files for Bind are maintained well then there's less room for human error and ... that contributes to overall stability of the service.
....quietly reminding the "good, Java sucks anyway" crowd that a vast amount of actually-quite-important commercial software has the JRE as a dep.

Like, ok at my end, I kind of shelled out for a license for JetBrains DataGrip, and I'll be really pissed when it stops working on my laptop.

Oh, right, and what if I need to use Gephi? I mean, it pisses me off regularly, but for some stuff it's, like, the only sane way to proceed. Is that just another oops?

Suddenly my Linux desktop is looking a lot less appetizing.

I've been complaining about this problem for two decades: FOSS has a boring-work problem: most maintenance jobs are not exciting, and yield minimal recognition while taking up enormous amounts of time. It's simply irrational to do them.

Commercial software manages this by paying people to do boring work, compensating people with dollars for their otherwise-irrational decision (making it rational.) The pot can be sweetened as need be to keep 'bums in seats'.

But because we compensate one another in attention and reputation (in a manner that is surprisingly reminiscent of the Artworld), we can't just collectively decide to find e.g. maintaining a critical part of the past twenty years of computing patrimony is as hot as greenfielding "X, but in Rust." (and I say this as a burgeoning Rust dev -- it's a beautiful language and ecosystem, no offense meant.)

I mean, we can work on a cultural shift, but we'd best get started as it will take years.
If someone comes to me and reports anyone (of any gender) for using that sentence and claiming that it was political, they'll be first invited to repeat themself because I must have heard them incorrectly and then if that doesn't clue them in, I'll continue along the conversation until they realize that I don't believe that's the least bit political of a statement and if they continue to think that it is, they are only welcome to do that thinking at work with their mouth shut and away from their keyboard.
"Recipe for success: under-promise and over-deliver."

I have never seen evidence that this is true in general. The field I got my PhD in has breakthrough papers with titles like "The Euler Equations as Differential Inclusions" and "Bounded Gaps Between Primes". Would people in the field be worse off if breakthrough papers had titles like "Attention is all you need"? I'm unconvinced that they would be. Would politicians be more likely to win office if they made fewer promises on the campaign trail? I'm unconvinced. Are you more likely to get a job if you are meticulously fair in how you describe your background and experience, or if you puff yourself up? I think the world would be a better place if folks biased themselves in the direction of under-promising, but for any individual person I'm pretty skeptical that this is good advice.
Not that I've seen yet, but the manual does include this passage:

> Strand provides pattern matching but no general unification, instead
logic variables must be explicitly assigned, which simplifies the
semantics considerably.
Assuming someone knows your name, address, and SSN (something which isn't meant to be secret - the SSA even printed 'not for identification' on the cards for a while), they can apply for credit cards in your name as they often require no other form of identification. The U.S. doesn't have a national login system for identity verification or anything so there's not much that could be done here from the security aspect besides creating a federal credit beurau or a federal ID system (or if login.gov allowed third-party companies to use it).
Yeah, and every divorcee promised to be with their spouse forever. Sometimes it doesn't work out, my friend.
> Get CO2 down to 450 ppm

And buildings will be much more pleasant. It's possible that people would be smarter, too (as opposed to being shut up in a badly ventilated conference room for an hour or two).

There are costs, as heat or/AC will have to run more to keep the temperature in the right range.
This entire article and thread and Twitter are people complaining that the boss just said “no stop pestering us about it”.

You made my point?
I've wondered why we have a different word for Germans but never realized that's where it comes from (if it's true).
It is possible and it happens. This what ppl mean when they talk about identity theft.
>"are we paying women and men the same for doing the same job?"

Yes. Wow problem solved! No one in America pays people differently based on their gender. It is based on your experience, your ability to negotiate, and how you sell yourself. I bet short dainty men earn less on average too.

Also, I applaud them for banning politics at work. Nothing you mentioned is relevant to Basecamp or things that they are producing. Talking about politics just creates animosity and drives teams apart. Not everyone has the same viewpoints and most people cannot "just get along" when they disagree.
Probably the opposite, instant massive userbase, then just slowly phase out the meat bags.
And it will happen with trucks first. Either a lead truck running a convoy or remote piloting via drone technology.

Why? Because a truck does 500 miles per day. A self driving truck can do 1000. Amazon cannot exist without long haul trucking