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Another thread of soapboxing. It's rare that I come this close to using the flag button, but the story does have some details I missed, so it has some value.
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Not everyone who disagrees with you is angry and irrational. I'm very calm, but I think you're wrong. Just because someone got offended, that doesn't make it everyone else's problem. Publishing photos of people along with transcripts of their private conversation is highly intrusive, and should only be done in extreme circumstances. A dick joke does not qualify.
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> Such is life when you're running locally-compiled binaries that, depending on your USE flags, have been compiled with a combination of settings that nobody in the whole world has ever tested before.

I do exactly that on FreeBSD and never lost any raid whatsoever, possibly because the "raid stuff" tends to come together with the rest of the OS. There are probably issues that go beyond local compilation and flags.
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The backend should do the same thing, but if the C++ frontend gives complete garbage to the backend, I guess there's only so much the backend can do to fix the mess.
the question is what is worse - making an inmature dick joke or uploading a picture of someone and expose and discredit him publicly to thousands of people. I think with that action she did herself and her company a disservice. maybe taking the feminism thing too serious? https://securecdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/457/3...
People on the Internet being offensive behind the mask of anonymity is not a new thing. Not saying it's a good thing, but when you decide to take your story on the web, you should expect criticism, and outright hate as well, especially on as sensitive a topic as this one is.

In other words, Welcome to the Internet.
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Soon all will know!
Shame that this is the biggest news to come out of PyCon.
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Nice post! Someone on my team just posted a similair post!

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Something is going to replace eBay but somehow your landing page doesn't entirely convince me that Shoply is going to be that thing.
I think that it might still be technically treasonous to speak ill of the Queen at all. Though obviously if that is the case it isn't actively enforced.
First, he was too cooperative. As soon as they brought him in for questioning he should have retained a lawyer. 15 compartments? For who? Do you know what they use them for? The answer to all those questions is "Let me ask my lawyer, first".

People watch to much TV. They think the justice system is fair based on the fact that Law and Order wraps up the case in 45 minutes and the perp always confesses. It doesn't work like that. Even from the article the DA takes great joy in sending people to prison. If you are in front of him your innocence is not taken into account. He's trying to send you to prison for as long as possible.
How might I get these into an audio only form, preferably via an RSS feed? (Although if I had the raw audio files I can make the RSS myself.)
My first boss taught me it's not how much you type but what you type.

I was straight out of university and I knew my shit (as all graduates do but don't). He would spend ages looking at a piece of code, scrolling around, running the app, walking about and plonk down a few lines of code. After a year of bashing out code I realised.

Most coding happens in the planning, not in the mundane exercise of typing.
Your football example isn't too good. Football galleries yell worse things than "You've only got one leg!". They also have hooligans who destroy stuff and beat other people.
> 3. Honestly, why should A & B care? (that wasn't intended for C!)

it was a public event with a code of conduct in a crowded room with children in attendance.

So C was free to report it to the conf. Sadly that's not what C did (when the conf staff got aware of it, they took everybody, discussed it and as far as I understood basically told A and B to be a bit more careful, then let everybody go and have a good time).
I can understand her reaction at the conference. PyCon has a specific policy about this. Since they were in earshot of at least a dozen people around them, it was not a "private" conversation. The PyCon workers took her complaint seriously and didn't seem to have any problem helping her out. The only thing she was out of line about was shaming the guys publicly on twitter.

Edit: just found this on the other thread, where someone claiming to be the guy who got fired makes pretty much the same point. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681
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>But understanding the root causes of inequalities--as opposed to merely pointing out instances of what appears to be inequality--is where the real work lies.

No, the real work is in removing inequalities. Talking about "root causes" of inequalities is only a method by which one denigrates the actual fight against inequality itself. There are countless deep and abiding inequalities which one can argue back and forth indefinitely about their origins, and this is especially true in questions of gendered inequality. Is this, that, or the other thing responsible? Here's an idea: who gives a shit? I no longer do.

For example, take the issue which finally broke my ability to take feminism: male rape victimization. Where does the purposeful ignoring of male rape victims come from? Feminists (when they admit that male rape victims exist in substantial quantities and deserve to be mentioned) would argue that the gender system produced by the Patriarchy refuses to recognize men as potential victims because that would feminize them and weaken their social position. Men's Rights Activists would argue that it is because our society systematically refuses to recognize male victimhood, period. I think the latter is a better position to take. The simplest explanation is best, and the solution is far clearer: stop that.

>If you're really interested in enhancing equality as a social good, you would do better to champion the cause of equality that is blind to biological and socioeconomic factors

There are issues that require a specificity of gender because they affect a specific gender. Discussing the development of a growth mindset in mathematics does require some discussion of gender because women and girls are much less likely to be encouraged to develop a growth mindset. Discussing rape certainly requires discussion of gender, since rape is considered as a gendered crime and the sex of the perpetrator and victim hugely affect how it is perceived. Discussion of virtually every single issue that the MRM touches upon requires a discussion of gender since they are about gender. When cops choose to apply different standards to men and women, you have to look at gender. Paternity fraud requires that one look at sex in order to be discussed because it only directly affects one. There are times and places where pretending that everything is solved is the optimal solution to a given problem; there are also times and places where it is not.

The idea that one should ignore socioeconomic and biological factors in championing the cause of equality is systematically wrong. Sometimes people suffer specifically because they are men. Sometimes they suffer specifically because they are women. You have to discuss this or you might as well not discuss anything at all.
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I get the mechanics. I just think that lack of proper investigation, common sense and shedding employees did make them a strong disservice.

The message they managed to send is: We don't care about our employees or the truth, or proper conflict resolution, we just don't want name of our company to occur anywhere near word 'sexism' and we are going to do everything to avoid that. Which is silly because damage to their reputation was already done.
It sounds like being an employee at a stereotypical startup is like being a native bearer in an African expedition movie from the fifties.
It's not and there isn't. The old thread has way more info, because the people involved were discussing things there directly (including the guy who got canned who replied to several comments and questions)
In general, it's legal to post pictures of people taken in public without their consent in the USA, especially at a large event like this where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Let's start with a disclaimer. I wasn't at PyCon, i don't know what actually happened and i think this entire affair is a disaster for everyone involved. I don't know who is right, but i do know there are a whole lot of people being assholes.

Along those lines, why do you feel comfortable to sit in judgement of this woman, because she didn't do what you would have done?

Try looking at this from another perspective. If the issue that she is concerned about is not this particular incidence of sexism that happens to be happening near her (if it did), but instead that the mindset of those in her community, telling these particular guys to STFU is not going to address the problem. If they're going to blow her off and just go somewhere else and continue being jackasses (again, if they actually were being jackasses), then what could she hope to achieve by confronting them directly?

If on the other hand, her goal is to call out a particular type of conduct as unacceptable, then her behavior seems sensible. She's not going to change these dudes' minds, but she might reach others. So, post to blog, post to twitter.

I wish everyone would stop jumping immediately to evil plots, and accusing others of intentionally gaining at the expense of someone else.
I don't think people are willing to trade bitcoin for anything other than currencies right now, since the value of it is so unstable. By the time the item you bought arrives you may realise that you hugely over or underpaid for it. I just don't think people would go for it yet.

Also, no chargebacks on bitcoin. So, there is going to be a huge amount of scams. You need to at the very least set up an intermediary between all parties. This will effectively double shipping cost and delivery time on all sales.
There's no expectation of conduct here. Way to miss the point.
> The PyCon workers took her complaint seriously and didn't seem to have any problem helping her out.

Indeed, leading to this: http://pycon.blogspot.be/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inappropr...

> Both parties were met with, in private. The comments that were made were in poor taste, and individuals involved agreed, apologized and no further actions were taken by the staff of PyCon 2013. No individuals were removed from the conference, no sanctions were levied.
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> "sexism" is an adjective/adverb that means actions & speech (that's designed to maintain & reinforce the institutionalised power structure among the sexs/genders) and/or (that re-enforced gender roles).

I took the liberty to insert some brackets to transport my understanding of the above, please do correct me if I am wrong. It is easily visible that we cannot fulfil the first, sufficient, but not necessary, requirement for an action to be sexist without knowing the intention of the subject. Hence, I will concentrate on the second condition.

However, I still fail to see how making sexual jokes reinforces gender roles, apart from the, uh, biologically motivated one that, during heterosexual sex, the woman is usually the receiving partner. But by that definition, basically everything remotely related to sex, even the usual bees-and-flowers talk, is sexist, since you will have a hard time finding a discussion of heterosexual sex (especially reproductive sex) that does not involve the female partner being penetrated.
The NCVS uses a funny definition of rape.

""Rape" is defined as forced sexual intercourse in which the victim may be either male or female and the offender may be of a different sex or the same sex as the victim. Victims must be at least 12 years old; victims less than age 12 are excluded from all estimates. Includes attempts and threats to commit rape."

You'd think this would include a woman raping a man with her vagina, right? Wrong. Check it: http://bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=31

"Forced sexual intercourse means vaginal, anal or oral penetration by the offender(s)."
Pertaining to the forking comments, I was once in Adria's shoes. While riding the school bus in high school some younger kids kept yelling a stupid phrase and then would burst out with laughter. "Fire in the hole!" I got tired of it so I pulled a passive aggressive move a just blew up at them. I had misinterpreted it to be something sexual and so I assumed they were laughing at something they also didn't understand. I yelled at them and then asked them if they knew what they were talking about... Long story short. I got in trouble for sexual harassment. I felt awful for my behavior and apologized to the kids after I realized I acted improperly too.

In response to the dongle comments. Referring to parts you don't have would be much worse as then you are/can only judge others. Referring to a part you have can be judging yourself, but not always. Regardless, "private conversations" in public spaces where it is reasonable to believe others can hear are not protected private conversations and anything discussed should take into consideration what/how others might hear them. If they were in the hallway between sessions talking and Adria was just walking by it would be slightly different. If they were in a room by themselves... thats a private conversation. However, they were sitting in a room with others sitting nearby that could hear them. Regardless of what they were saying they were being disrespectful by distracting other attendees.

My point? 1) Be careful not to be the one incorrectly applying sexual context to overheard words or conversations. 2) be cognizant of your surroundings and aware of how your conversation could be perceived in public settings. 3) be respectful.
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FB is a ghost town for me, despite having bigger amount of "friends" there than on G+...

The difference is that the occasional content on FB is utterly lost between tons of "apps" and ads, to the point that I can count the amount of times I visited FB in 2012 on fingers.

FB's last "pro" is Messenger... which I use actually to talk to only one person.
I guess there is a difference between sexism and sexualization.
Yeah my bad I thought we were measuring the speed of compilation in C Vs. C++. (looks like it wasn't just me)
> If she just had said: "Guys that's not appropriate" Then they would probably apologize!

Which they did when taken aside by PyCon staff to discuss the incident: http://pycon.blogspot.be/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inappropr...
This isn't about culture in general. This is about PyCon. They are trying to be extra-specially welcoming to women, in particular. They don't pretend this isn't artificial! You don't have to guess what's allowed; PyCon has a code of conduct https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/ that spells it out for you.

Edit: they guy who got fired agrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681
When you try to take the high moral ground while doing the same thing you're deriding, it severely undermines your point.
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> I'd be rather angry at PyCon organizers for kicking out people

PyCon did not kick out anybody involved in this incident. Here's the incident report for this case: http://pycon.blogspot.be/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inappropr...

Please note:

> Both parties were met with, in private. The comments that were made were in poor taste, and individuals involved agreed, apologized and no further actions were taken by the staff of PyCon 2013. No individuals were removed from the conference, no sanctions were levied.

(emphasis mine)

In the previous thread on the subject (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410515), mr-hank (the guy who got fired) very specifically notes this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5412553 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5404365

> The PSF did not kick us out, they pulled us from the main convention and got our side of the story. I gave a statement, apologized and thanked them for upholding the cons integrity. They felt I was sincere and let us leave of our own accord.
My mistake I took it with middle click... Which leads it to open in New tab perfectly fine.
I don't think the thing is done for Adria.

By the fact that this thing was blown out of proportion by Playhaven she had accidentally got painted a troll target on her back that draws attention even from half baked misogynist trolls.

I think that in a month the guy that got fired will be better off than any other party involved. For one he might be employed by a company that won't shed him off like a hot potato whenever spotlight will shine in their direction.
Playhaven did the cowardly thing by destroying the guy's career as a preemptive measure for any bad PR they may receive over this. It would take a very sure minded employer to hire him now, considering the nasty ways this can be spun by the blogs/media ("Notorious PyCon Attendee Lands A Job With X, Where Sexual Jokes Are Apparently OK").

Sorry but I don't like it one bit. If PH's CEO had any balls at all he'd make this guy publicly apologize. Firing someone like this is the easiest solution.
I'm sure Playhaven employees take note of how one of their own has been had a summary execution. And for the rest of us, Playhaven is now "the company that fired that guy over a joke".
And what score are we keeping?

What are you hoping to accomplish by highlighting this particular tweet? What does this have to do with the incident at PyCon? What does this have to do with determining the facts of what happened at PyCon?

Even if you disagree with this tweet (which i do), aside from the obvious character assassination, what exactly are you asking us to infer here?
Many more unreported jokes would only be a problem if said jokes were a problem. So far, I have not seen a conclusive argument why such a joke would be a problem.
I think a histogram or boxplot might be more appropriate to show the distribution. A scatter plot isn't appropriate for data whose independent variable is categorical (unless you jitter), and a bar plot (unless a histogram) would just show the means, wouldn't it?
So? The point of the example is that being factually inaccurate is not the only possible problem with a statement.
So how do you justify where you draw your own line? Is it okay for you to murder someone because every day somewhere there is a massacre? No? Well then, is it okay for you to shoplift because someone else, somewhere, is stealing much more than you? Is it okay for you to push someone over because every day, somewhere, someone gets assaulted?

The list goes on and on. If you draw the line anywhere then you've applied the exact same principle you just espoused against; you just choose to draw the line in a slightly different place.
Indeed, all Police Officers in the country have their powers throughout the whole country, regardless of which Force they belong to. There are courtesy’s that are usually observed when crossing into another force area in pursuit of a criminal, the control room of the other force is informed (and usually asked for help), and local officers will often take over or lead the pursuit if they are available, though this is more because they know the area better. Upon arrest, the criminal will usually be "booked in" at the local police station but then transported back to one of the original force's police stations for processing.
Criminal law is the same across the country, so there is no sense of different jurisdictions. There are some more formalities going into Scotland, which has slightly different criminal laws, but nothing that stops a good chase! Theres no benefit to the criminal of "getting across" internal borders (akin to state lines in the US). Getting across a border externally means crossing the sea, and even then co-operation between European forces is getting better.
You're right, the marginal cost argument is wrong, and yet there is something different going on here and I think I know what it is: The fundamental change here is that customers own the means of reproducing the product and reproduction costs are equal to the marginal cost. How much could Apple sell an iPhone for if the same was true? What would Apple do to remain in business?
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From wiktionary:

1999, Christopher Lane, The Burdens of Intimacy, Chicago, ISBN 0226468607, page 263, note 23:
Dellamora argues that Swinburne's "Anactoria" aims "to free desire" by making sexual difference and orientation "indeterminate" (77). Slightly earlier in Masculine Desire, he argues relatedly that Swinburne "enjoyed imagining such possibilities" as "male-male genital activity" (69).

2006, Ellis Sandoz, Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America, Missouri, ISBN 9780826217264, page 176, note 41:
Voegelin remarks: "I got into these problems of mysticism as a teenager, not because of religious education in school (I went to a Protestant Sunday School), but because Hindus came to give lectures. But one must get it from somewhere." […] Elsewhere he remarked relatedly: "I can quite definitely see that I got the practice of meditation by reading Upanishads […] ."
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It's not an evil plot, it's just very opportunistic and shows a complete lack of concern or empathy for the effects of her actions on others. She probably thinks she came out on top of this because her follower count may have gone up slightly, but I think that in the end she has cost herself future opportunities with this.

The message she sent was very simple: Being anywhere near her is a liability. You never know what will offend her, and how she will react to it. Do not hire her or take a job that would involve interaction with her. Stay away. Don't even eat lunch near her, as she may broadcast your lunch conversation if she finds the content to be objectionable.
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True, but it's wrong to state that they are open to discussion only amongst people who hold all the facts, which they also state they are not going to give out.
Right. So is there an official statement from Playhaven that this is why they let him go? Seems we only have his word on that at this point, and it just seems kind of unlikely. (edit: wrong company)
> "but when she saw a picture of a little girl onstage, she felt she needed to make a stand for her"

This is outrageously pretentious.
er, maybe I copy/pasted wrong, and misspoke, a better definition is to replace "designed to" with "has the effect of". I don't think intent is magic and makes everything OK. Context can be important.

One of the problems is how often the only type of sex that's discussed us "man does women". You can talk about hetero sex lots by describing lots of different types of sex. It's a problem when the only type of sex is when men are doing the woman. It's wrong to say that men have to be the one 'dominating' and 'doing all the action'. This is harmful to gay men who are receptive in sex, since it's used to justify how "they aren't real men". Likewise it's harmful if women are only seen as sex objects. Things to f*. Rather than people, or even people who can control their own sex lives.
Until they introduce mandatory hiring quotas