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yep, mental illness sure is sad.
I mean, he very likely killed his neighbor in 2012... so I feel like "colorful" undermines how much of a monster he's been for over a decade.
Trans people are a hot button issue these days but it feels like we don’t really have a seat at the table in that debate. The healthiest thing you can do for yourself is just live your life, surround yourself with people who make you feel safe, valued and loved, and stop trying to convince random strangers online that you’re worth something. I take a lot of inspiration from the ball room / drag culture - how it creates families for LGBTQ folks where none exist and uses expression as a form of activism. It’s not my place to change anyone’s mind; all I can do is live my life and hopefully others will grow as a result of observing me.
Why are publicly funded institutions allowed to decide who's opinion matters and whose doesn't? Assuming the discussion is poised and not straight up slandering nonsense, what harm does it do? Are we trying to curtail freedom of speech? They shouldn't be allowed to take a stance because they are the government. Although for some reason colleges can operate as some separate entity that just happens to siphon government funds...
On the other hand, there isn't any controversy as to whether blindness is a real condition.
Isn’t the end result the same: you can’t go anywhere? I wouldn’t call that free.
Another English source:

https://news.yahoo.com/john-mcafee-found-dead-spanish-193256...
I'm not OP.

I generally answer the ethnicity question randomly. This is because:

* I don't like be lumped into "white British"

* the whole question is rude imho (why does the gym need to know my race and sexuality!?)

* services I use shouldn't shouldn't lose "points" because of my colour/religion/sexuality/shoe-size
He's so frequently called "colorful" and "successful". In fact, he was a nutjob who most likely did unspeakable things when he wasn't busy doing just terrible things.
By this logic, it would be fine if they were infertile, which is obvious nonsense.

Sexual assault does not hit some magic breaking point where it becomes an unacceptable risk at the chance of impregnation. If there is a significant risk of sexual assault, then the prison has fundamentally failed and that is the thing that needs fixing.

It simply doesn't matter if someone is trans or not, cis people are just as capable of sexual assault, and prisons must be protecting all inmates, not only cis-women, from assault.
Yeah, but is such behavior acceptable in the workplace? And is it right to use this behavior as a guide to lessen the legal status of trans people?
I wouldn't describe being held in custody pending extradition as "being free". YMMV.
The better questions are, did he deserve to be imprisoned and did he deserve to die?
Trans people are way more likely to be raped then non trans. And cis women do get attacked by trans men. Like, if your concern is prison rape, it is quite odd to start with lowest probability events and ignore high probability events.
I think the strongest evidence of this is functional vs imperative paradigms. It’s rare to find a functional programmer who didn’t have something like lisp or Haskell as their first language.
Also, most developers in America don't make that much more than European developers. It's just that we happen to be willing to pay seasoned developers quite a lot more. Most junior and mid-level developers here don't make much more than $90k

But the ceiling for top developers in most of the world is below that. Even here in the UK, where salaries are starting to get pushed up a bit, there are still only a few employers who would beat that today, and mostly in places like London where cost of living is also relatively high. Hardly anyone is making the kind of money that you see devs with as little as 5 YOE routinely making with half the companies in SV, even people with multiples of that experience who would be staff/principal level in a big US tech firm.
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Can someone explain why McAfee had decamped to Belize in the first place and started a life on the lam?

Wikipedia is surprisingly sparse here.

Edit - in 2012 he was the prime suspect to the killing of his neighbor as mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609243
If it was natural an used by all, it could be, but it in this case it was not natural, not used or liked by all, and forced.

For example, thief's use their own words and it is not considered part of Spanish for example.

They started with gender ideology and then started to escalate. And it is not more inclusive if you force me to leave my believes. If you want to be called "les", and you ask nice, I will probably have no problem. Now, if you want me to embrace that "les" is more inclusive because you just say so and you force me to do it, is not part of Spanish.

A similar thing happened with abortion. First they started saying it has to be legal, then that it had to be free, and then that if you are a doctor and you don't agree with abortion you have to do it anyway (they force you to do it by law).
Flamewar tropes like "Sorry to break it to you" are not acceptable on HN in any case and certainly not on a painfully divisive and inflammatory topic like this.

If you can't keep in mind that you're talking to other human beings who may have deep and good reasons to feel differently than you do on a topic, then please don't post here. This is a difficult enough topic without poisoning it with swipes and snark.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I feel like a lot of people in this thread are forgetting he likely killed his neighbor in 2012 and has been on the run since.

I mean, sure he built some antivirus software a few decades ago, but I don't think he deserves the eulogies he's getting here. He's not tech's Hunter S. Thompson; he's a murderer who spent the last years of his life screwing over people with crypto scams.
There's a large segment of the population that feels actively threatened by trans rights. The two primary components are:

1. Parents and sexual violence victims concerned about the non-falsifiability of trans-identification and the related concerns of sexual predators claiming an identity they don't actually have to gain access to private spaces of women and girls.

2. Feminists (TERFs) who believe being a woman is a fundamental, biological identity and cannot be coopted by males.

Interestingly enough, there's not much animosity toward trans-men. These groups exclusively concern themselves with trans-women.

Mormons are probably another group due to the reliance of their theology on binary gender, but I don't see them as being particularly vocal on this topic.
And the reverse: your sexuality - or anybody else's who is not my mate - is not on my list of 'want-to-know'. I simply do not care about the choices and/or attributes of other people though I believe they should be 100% free to make whatever choice they want and be whoever they are, and have gone out of my way to ensure that this is the case for people who find their life's choices frustrated or their reality denied by others.

This is probably a sign of my advancing age, I'm probably a prude by today's standards, but I simply don't find these subjects for semi-public or even public discussion with strangers.
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It is still being held captive against ones will.
>>Then the wrong child becomes the leader of the family and and bam, they start reducing the silver weight and replacing the coins with cheaper metals and the entire trust in that coin disappears.

//

That's actually a plot point in an anime called Spice and Wolf[1]. I encourage anybody who has an interest in medieval economics and early capitalism to watch it.

[1]https://myanimelist.net/anime/2966/Ookami_to_Koushinryou
Same here. I only address my sexuality when the topic comes up or with good friends. Otherwise I have noticed people do treat me differently, as was apparent at my previous workplace.
That's curious. I have never heard the word "cut" being pronounced without the "a" sound (in the vecinity of how "cat" sounds in "category") by someone who had a neutral English accent. Where is it from?
Very NSFW. Very hilarious.
Link to said tweet: https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/140517850671217459...
Currently #2 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609027
Tangential question for HN: what is the absolute lowest-level access one can reasonably expect to get to an old Android phone?

I ask because I'm not clear on the architecture of smartphones, which makes it hard to spot opportunities for creatively hacking them. As I understand it, there are at least two OS-like layers: a "baseband" that IIUC is responsible for controlling the radio hardware, and an OS that sits atop to provide applications/display/touchscreen-controls/etc.

I'm aware of projects like PostmarketOS, but these seem to be a replacement for the OS. Is there any equivalent for the baseband? I have an old OnePlus One and would love to have access to some sort of low-level radio API that would let me generate/modulate/transmit/receive/etc radio signals.
Why would anyone want him dead? I don't think anyone cared about him that much.
> The name of the crypto company "afri" suggests it might have targeted the African market as a whole.

Need someone with context knowledge, but I suppose the name suggests it could also have been targeting Afrikaners in South Africa (ex. "AfriForum"[0])

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfriForum
I'm also genuinely puzzled by dang's remark. I had tried to limit the unpleasantness in my comment as far as possible, while providing clarifying info and staying accurate to (i) what the trans activism movement itself seems to be stating internally, as well as (ii) the easily foreseeable consequences of these attitudes, if stated only obliquely for the sake of general politeness. If even that counts as "furthering a flamewar", this has some remarkably unpleasant implications about the overall debate re: gender issues.
so you can't gain an identity by choosing to do certain things? I can't identify as a runner because I didn't inherit the genes that make me in the top 0.1% of all runners?
Either way it’s questionable if he was “free”.
I know this has been posted before.

Anyone know if a similar tool exists perhaps to put in a browser window?
We need a black bar to salute this man.
And if the ladies stories about his hammock usage is true...
It doesn't matter if the ideas are nuanced, we know they are.

It's deeply hypocritical and exposes lack of intellectual consistency if morally shaming people into doing 'XYZ' for several decades, then castigating them as literally 'Upholding White Supremacy' for doing those very same things some time later.

The 'internal conflict' that will arise in anyone of those people will be insurmountable, and the 'New Camp' will never have legitimacy in their eyes, just the opposite in fact, even if there is some validity in their ideals.

This is borne largely out of the absolution, radicalism, lack of self awareness, inflexibility and binary thinking of the 'New Camp' (it's usually that way with 'New Camps') and because those who are 'just a bit older' have the life experience to reflect back on their own experiences of being 'too black and white' and can therefore contextualize any of the supposedly 'New' ideals at least in terms of individual's own life progress.

The assumption by the 'New Camps' is that they are the righteous inheritors of the fairly unambiguous social victories of the 1960's, that among them are the MLK's and JFK's who will have statues made and words etched in stone as the new moral impetus etc. - but this would be wrong. Despite some obvious things that can and will be improved, most of today's social populism is nowhere near unambiguously on the right side of history.

And finally: I'm not discounting any single idea presented by any individual or group acting in good faith. I'm discounting whether or not they should or will be recognized universally, and pointing out the problems with their assertive posture.
There was a ruling today approving his extradition to the US. US officials were about to get him and he was facing extremely serious charges. That's a really important bit of context to keep in mind before jumping to ideas that some shadowy "they" had him killed.
You cannot produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Summer of 2018 is too late for the 2018/2019 year. That gives them 2019/2020 (half messed up due to the pandemic) and 2020/2021 (half messed up and ongoing).

Since this seems to be yet another issue of a state screwing low income districts, one wouldn't expect any change in high income districts, either.
The sky will fall before a greedy fat cat corporate CEO will be elected as a public official - no matter what his track record in managing other people's money is.
Spanish prisons are apparently among the worst in Europe according to some documentary I saw. I wonder if there's a connection.
The fear of being impregnated from a sexual assault is not rooted in bigotry. It places cis-women in a very uncomfortable position of having to birth and raise a child created from sexual assault or have an abortion. This is not concern trolling. It is a very real fear. Prison rape is horrific for everyone, not just cis-women. It is horrific for men and trans-men and trans-women as well. Housing cis-women with intact trans-women does not solve or address the prison rape problem.
> I just try to avoid meat space.

This is really the best solution, to the extent possible. On the internet no one knows you're a dog, as the saying goes.
There were serious allegations of murder and serious corruption. I’m conflicted on how to feel about this. Probably would have preferred seeing him convicted or vindicated, definitely not dead.
A relative of mine taught at a small art college a few years ago.

The situation for college students, at least a certain segment, is that people with the transgender identity are far more common than they once were. That's the base reality, not the product of any ideology. And whatever it's point of origin, this reality for these isn't going to change.

Now, you can object to various qualities of current gender ideologies and I'm not necessary uncritical myself. But these ideologies also mechanisms for accommodating the ability of transgender people existing minimally in the world. If someone intends to simply discard entirely these processes, they are essentially taking aim at this ability of transgender people to minimally exist.

It's active question, to say the least. Transpeople today have a significant and growing chance of being murdered for being trans [1]. The attention put on this by the right wing also has resulted in violence masculine-appearing women.

It should be noted that the Economist was talking about debate concerning whether transwomen should be put in men's or in women's prisons. How much do you think that's a matter of survival for these people?

I'd love to see the details of gender ideology, the complex choices involved with hormones and surgery, etc debated more deeply but when the "debate" allows the question "should we allow these people to continue living?", you will see people willing to completely shut down discussion.

[1] https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-tra...
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I think the author even grants too much to the opposing viewpoint. Think of e.g. Prolog vs LISP vs C vs Haskell. I wouldn't call those "different forms of the same mathematics"; I'd be more likely to call them "different foundations of mathematics"! Learning C may be a small aid to learning Prolog, but I really am not sure it's a big aid.
Everyone here agrees that they oughtn't be harassed. We disagree on whether or not folks who disagree with trans activists have the right to speak on the matter.
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Thank you for being polite, but IMHO my post wasn’t tonally any different than the GP, ergo your indignation is misplaced.

Since you asked, I speak with the experience of starting 3 businesses across Pharma, Defense and Media industries. I have also been involved in hiring multiple people across sectors, both in tech and non-tech jobs. As you also know, for defense that involves White-as-Wonderbread US citizens only, I also have interviewed almost exclusively from a certain complexion-gender combination club. Thus have formed my own pattern recognition, with an n of several hundred. If you are open to listening I can share a few illustrative anecdotes. Admittedly my posts are just opinions as I can only offer my own perspective. Although this study, and multiple others, seems to support my viewpoint.

p.s. Truth hurts.
Apng or animated webp are more suited for this though
Ha, same. YouTube must have been recommending that video to more people.
Motion JPEGs are widely used in surveillance systems. If you can hack into the system using an GIF you can loop the output since the website doesn’t enforce file type.
Most of the discussion is the same old talking points. Probably because the only new information in the article is scant detail about a handful of disconnected events. The likes of which have gone on for years. The title is inflammatory too. Multiple ideologies are involved but only 1 is called that.
We should focus on giving ALL humans a nurturing environment and allow them to grow to achieve their full potential and in turn be able to share their talents to help others.

There is pain, sorrow. There is also place to grow and live a meaningful life and be happy.

Anything else is just nitpicking and a red herring. Creating an infinity of subcategories of humans is not the solution, because it incentives the us-them paradigm, and of course polarization of discourse.

Intolerance in any forms is destructive in nature.
Western Europe countries (per CIA definitions) are Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, and United Kingdom.

Belgium and France rank below the US [2], Monaco is not listed, the other 4 are close to the US, except the Netherlands.

Also, Monaco (population 38,000) has the highest number of millionaires and billionaires per capita in the world. They're not the usual workers and union type of country.

I suppose you mean the Nordic countries are happier as a group, which is true, but World Happiness Reports explicitly do not list your reasons as the cause of Nordic happiness [1], instead listing other factors.

Do you have a source showing their happiness is caused by the factors you listed? I can find none. All list things like lack of corruption, belief in government, etc., as the reasons for their happiness.

[1] https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2020/the-nordic-exceptional...

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...
His body is probably not even cold yet and the conspiracy theories are piling up. On a Twitter thread, replies range from the usual RIPs to people claiming some dubious connection with Epstein, Clinton etc.
Not claiming that you are, but I suspect many will use this as proof of something nefarious. Which it might be, but at least I feel that it is unlikely.
All great points. Thank you!
No kidding and thank you!
Lisp is arguably not much more functional than javascript; is JS a gateway to ML/Haskell?
Much more fraud is committed using US Dollars than Bitcoin. It's just not news so you don't read about.
The first result of searching for the word `wife` in the linked page:

See, e.g., Black’s Law Dictionary (6th ed.1990) (defining rape as the ‘act of sexual intercourse committed by a man with a woman not his wife and without her consent, committed when the woman’s resistance is overcome by force or fear, or under other prohibitive conditions’).”

Not sure it proves what the GP was saying, though. The second result is similar, and seems to be referencing an actual law.
Trolling will get you banned here. You've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly lately. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's a societal dead end, so there's no technical excitement. The same technology that would let you verify a cloud server is running code you specify, would also be used by websites to demand that your personal computing environment conforms to their whims.

Imagine websites that required proprietary Google Chrome on Win/OSX on bare metal - no VM, no extensions, no third party clients, no automation, etc. Imagine mandatory ads, unsaveable images, client-side form verification, completely unaccountable code, etc.

Protocols are the proper manner of allowing unrelated parties to transact at arm's length, and technologies such as remote attestation would completely destroy that.
Looks like he started using "fuck" outside of quotes in 2016.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=4&prefix=true&que...

Understandable.
Why kill someone they were about to get legitimately?
The difference is that there aren't groups cheerleading the deconstruction of human sight because blind people exist.
Learned a bunch from the article and from this thread. Thanks all.
Nope. Most languages have no written standard, and some have more than one (E.g., American vs. British vs. Australian English, or Nynorsk vs. Bokmal Norwegian).
Previous discussion, currently #2 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609027
I think Linus Torvalds do a similar auction of Linux. (Assuming this doesn't change the status of Linux, and it will still be free and open source.)
I think the importance is based not on the numbers involved - which are small - but on the significance of the demands. People are discussing our fundamental understanding and definitions of people's sex and gender that potentially affects everyone. A major concern is that once you let everyone self identify where does it stop? A caucasian woman was vilified a few years ago for identifying as black. Had she identified as male she would have been celebrated by the same people
> I don't mean to downplay what is happening because it is happening but do you not think the amount of outrage this topic generates surpasses the level of impact we can have assuming we fix it? It just feels like we're being distracted.

But downplaying it is exactly what you are doing, literally.

To answer your main question, though: the very small community that we are talking about is disproportionately being subjected to murder, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and widespread discrimination.

The disproportionate harms that this small community is subject to is the key to understanding the level of outrage being evoked on their behalf.
I mean, is that 100% true?
>If you're so against trans people having similar status as you then you shouldn't claim that it's because trans people are causing you a burden.

Yes, I understand. But, much of the opposition you're seeing isn't because people are "against trans people". It's because they're opposed solving the problem of intolerance through authoritarian methods.
> Feminists (TERFs)

One note: Nobody self-identifies as a TERF. Or at least not originally (I'm sure in Internet ire people do it ironically by now.) It's mostly a label used to crush nuanced conversation.