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> It doesn't seem like a place people find desirable to move to it seems.

I've been through a few times. There's litter everywhere. It's trashy. San Antonio does not make a good impression. Strange because Lady Bird Johnson started her beautify America (crying native chief) from Texas.
Is there a way we can send cash to Edward Snowden?
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No actually as of this very minute their website is posting the letter saying they have closed their doors. And yes, the Globe and Mail, typo in the title. Thanks! :)
An analogy might be that Typekit is the Netflix of typography, while H&FJ are the HBO of the market. Gotham is Game of Thrones. And this move is the typographic equivalent of making HBO Go available as a standalone subscription.
Regardless of how you feel about whether his criminal charges are political there is nothing extralegal about requesting other countries to turn over the person you've charged with a crime.

It cannot be extra, meaning outside, the legal system, when all you have done is made a request within the established legal system and diplomatic customs.
It's called stalking.
A lot of thoughts on this topic.

First up, my bonafides: I've used Medium four different times. Two of my posts (http://sfbne.ws/17PPdPL) and (http://sfbne.ws/17PPhir) were editors' picks. And Medium even picked me as their writer of the week one week. (Which was sort of awesome, by the way.)

I think this assessment is a little off in a few ways. While I agree that the analytics leave a LOT to be desired, the thing that Medium excels at is amplifying an individual idea. Not necessarily a writer, but something that writer says. This is a big deal—it means that you don't need a platform to shout from anymore just to get traction. If the idea is good enough, thought out enough, relevant enough or challenging enough, Medium's staff will help push that idea out into the wider world.

I have a site with decent traction in the blogosphere, especially on Tumblr, and I know that if I put the ideas I discussed in those posts on there, they might have gotten noticed, but putting them on Medium had an amplifying effect. With my second post, about the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's decline as a newspaper without a print product, I got pickup in the media, including the Seattle press. The executive editor of the Seattle Times, the publication's direct competitor, tweeted it. And though I couldn't do it due to time constraints, a local radio station tried to get me on the air to talk about the post. And in the end, it succeeded at its goal—it got a lot of people thinking and talking about what we could do better about newspapers and advertising online.

My story directly contradicts his entire point about the "leaky faucet." That is a powerful tool and one that stretches beyond the individual blog. If you wanted your voice to carry that far previously, you needed to be Andrew Sullivan or Michael Arrington, or working for someone with a built-in audience and/or a lot of access. It has this amazing way of cutting through the niche and surfacing voices into the mainstream.

These days, everyone has a voice. There's more noise than signal out there. Medium is great at cutting through the noise and giving nearly everyone the opportunity to be a quote-unquote "thought leader," as cliché as that term is.

The fact that it decentralizes the voices, in a nutshell, is what Javier Sandoval is complaining about above. But that's exactly the reason why it works so well.

(Side note: If a lack of directly-trackable ROI is really a deal-breaker for you, you could always do what Narratively did with their recent post on Medium—they wrote a long item, gave a good teaser on Medium, and linked to the full piece: http://sfbne.ws/14KVNRj)
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I'd also like to add that the word "creeper" should be kept out of these discussions. It seems obvious that sexism is very common in United States computer culture. But the word "creepy", when used to describe an undesirable man, is every bit as derogatory as "fattie" or "slut" when applied to a woman. It's the kind of word that is used for character assasination.

As you say, it doesn't go well when you imply that every man in a large group is supporting sexist behavior. The proper way to handle this issue is to just be direct when someone is behaving inappropriately and not use ambiguous language:

"Don't touch girls who obviously don't want it - that is sexual harassment. Not cool."

"Stop treating this woman like a sex object in a social setting - it is inappropriate."

"Don't stare, it makes people uncomfortable."

One final thought which I haven't heard from anyone else: I think one thing that can make a lot of nerd guys angry when it comes to this kind of behavior, is that many less-than-socially-masterful guys observe that women may respond very negatively to behavior that other men get away with. How sexual harassment is handled by women is very dependent on the situation and instigating person. The exact same behavior which would be met with disgust and derision at a tech conference, could be considered flirtatious and hot if it came in the right tone of voice from a hot guy at a nightclub.

This is obviously no excuse for acting like an asshole in the tech community. But I think a lot of people severely underestimate the role that status, attractiveness and social skill has when it comes to these questions. The tech scene is not the only social environment where sexism and misogny occurs, but it is certainly the one with the highest concentration of men that can safely be shamed for it.
"trolls using political correctness as an excuse for lulz"
No. Stalking is a specific thing (for one, it has a specific subject) that is not what we're talking about here (generic behavior, amongst other differences). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking
Oh, I'm not sanctifying him. I don't even use Apple products, because I don't want to be in the walled garden and I want to be able to hack my stuff.
You might, but I've yet to read American writing that leaves out the 'from'. It certainly wouldn't ever occur to me to do that.
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First of all, for an organization whose sole existence is to provide journalistic integrity, I would be very surprised if Wikileaks isn't being honest about this. Secondly, he was actually accompanied by Wikileaks associations on his flights to Moscow. So they're likely sitting right next to him, wherever he is.
No journalists edits direct quotes like htat - where a person's words or spelling (in a written quote) is idiomatic or incorrect, the practice is to put [sic] after the odd word(s) to signify that they're being reported as received.

If you want to preserve your credibility, it's better to either leave the mistakes in, or explain the context (eg 'this statement was a written record of a verbal statement; we apologize for an inaccuracy in our transcription of Mr. Snowden's recorded words').
Look at you, pretending asm.js and emscripten don't exist.
That map is alarmingly accurate. And people say meta-data is no big deal.
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So... Where can I find more information on what this is and how it works? There isn't even a description on the website on what oauth.io is, just a small code snippet. Why am I supposed to sign up for something I know nothing about? I was expecting at least a small video that explains how this all works and what it does for me.
> As such, in every post you are condemning behaviour that around 50% of the population will have done at some point.

I agree with this exact sentiment. For example, hand holding is a thing commonly done among women friends in Japan. This sort of a thing in the US, however, would be viewed as 'creepy'.

However, most of the examples that the author points to, IMO, would not fall under creepy, but rather offensive. Offensive, however, has a 'higher burden of proof' so to speak whereas creepy is just a feeling. Therefore, creepy gets used much more and consequently it makes men feel more violated because there is no way to rebut it. E.g. "the way you said hi to me was really creepy." There is no response to that which an honest person can give: apologizing means that you were indeed creepy and arguing makes you look stupid.
No, it just means that the US engages in more varieties of torture, some of which we consider to be more severe than the others. That does not mean we can't use the same word to indicate all of them.

And why limit yourself to NSA whistleblowers, a government that has crossed this line has crossed that line in general, not just for some class. All this 'just NSA whistleblowers', 'just whistleblowers', 'just foreigners', 'just enemy combatants' and so on isn't fooling anybody.

Some lines you just don't cross, lest you become that which you claim to fight.
Low transparency tends to lead to high transaction costs, low liquidity, and high volatility in a market -- which is pretty much what's going on with BTC right now. There's also very limited commercial exchange volume, from what anyone can tell, further hindering liquidity. Seems like it'd be pretty hard to earn a decent return from this ETF.

I'll be watching this one from the sidelines. Definitely not participating.
A man doesn't even need to chase women to be stigmatized as "creepy". Merely being single and being in a place where someone doesn't want you to be, or doing something simple like opening a door or complimenting someone, is often stigmatized as "creepy" just because the recipient of the attention doesn't want it from the individual giving it.

This is not to excuse any cases of actual sexual harassment, just an observation
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It's not the language that makes people nutters. They might have downvoted you for discounting the entire article for something that doesn't matter.

Have you never seen the reactions the article is talking about?
It probably isn't all of his words, but so long as he stands behind his name on it, who cares?

This assumes he has other channels of communication. He probably stands behind it insofar as its consistent with everything I've heard from him so far, but neither of us has any way of knowing for the time being.
I dont think it was meant as one specific behavior, but the collection of behaviors that one may classify as creepy.
I was responding to a comment about company secrets. I guarantee you a lot more information is being exfiltrated from large US companies via Windows than via Android, and since most businesses are built around Windows, it's a lot harder for them to do anything about it.
Fair enough, I was thinking of Bradley Manning. I don't know if the other NSA guys were held in solitary. However, I'll be surprised if they capture Snowden and he isn't. Why wouldn't he be?
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Or if there were any context or substantial content whatsoever. I realize this was probably written only for the author's own self-expression, but I can't see any reason for it to be here.
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Human nature is often shitty and here's the status ranking that tends to emerge, except in mature/stable monogamous couplings:

High-status men > High-status women >>> Low-status women >>> Low-status men

Few people will put it that nakedly, but let's get it out there. I'm not defending this. I hate that it's that way. It's unfair to women (who have a ceiling placed above them) and unfair to low-status men (who are treated as garbage, criminals, effluent).

This rank-order exists because humans are not naturally monogamous. High-status men can have more reproductive yield than any woman (200+ children, easily) so there is more incentive to compete and, in pre-monogamous times, it was aggressive men who took the most risks and ended up on top (or dead). Low-status women outrank low-status men because they still have wombs (a scarce resource) while low-status men only have unwanted genetic material (and are a risk of upset to the high-status people).

Most "creepers" or "sketchy guys" are socially awkward, low-status men who get scapegoated for the horrible things done by a small minority of (high- and low-status) terrible men. Most are not guilty of anything other than being socially unwanted.

Society is so bad at finding and punishing the actual male criminals (who are still out there) that the hammer tends to fall on the socially awkward instead... because they're not quick enough to get out of the way when it's falling.

There's a perfect storm for flamewarring on these issues because both genders have a genuine injustice to get angry about. For women, it's the fact that most societies still are pretty horrible to them, that they are forced to compete in a career game that favors sociopathy (more commonly male), and that a small minority of very bad men still commits disgusting crimes (and sometimes gets away with them, especially when it's high-status men involved; see: Stuebensville). For men, it's the hypocritical nastiness (hypocritical because the most common offenders when it comes to, for example, rape are usually the entitled, arrogant high-status men) directed at low-status men. Note also that almost all men (probably 75%) will have low status at some point in their lives (especially risky times are the freshman year of college and the first 2-4 years in the work world).
Really? Is there some army of women out there extorting money out of men somehow by accusing them of being creepy and I've somehow missed it? Because it seems like that would be big news.

Generally the only "demand" I ever see follow accusations of creepiness online is "please stop".
A woman who just called you a creeper does not want your money in any case. A women complaining about sexism is typically not asking for a sugar daddy. Women do different things and have different views, it isn't the same woman doing all these things at once. Any more than it is all men doing all the stupid things any man has been known to do or say.
Agreed, but asking for 20+ % raise over 3 years was a poor PR approach.

I think unions served a purpose in the past, and hopefully still do now, but honestly once you look at the overtime pay it's painful.

http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area/2012

p.s. Some dude took a stab at liberating the data further, but it could use some work.
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/BARTsalaries/BARTsal...
In all fairness, can we stop using the phrase "in all fairness"? In all fairness, it's just weasel words, and in all fairness the phrase reliably shows up several times in every Hacker News comment page.
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It's not an outside chance. The last guy who leaked classified US military information to the press to expose a systemic coverup of abuses was tortured for several years prior to his trial beginning:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/01/1166253/-The-Tortur...

Additionally, Obama himself declared him (Manning) guilty in public before his trial even began. (I wish I was making this up.)

It's not speculation. We've watched it happen, and recently. They are condemned before the trial even begins, and denied basic human rights from the outset - rights we shouldn't even deny convicted mass murderers.

It's an incredible shame for everyone who used to be proud to be from the USA.
> * Perhaps they personally will provide liquidity for this ETF.*

That sounds suspiciously like "unloading".
Unfortunate this is as far down the comments as it is.
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I'm not giving a legal opinion, ameteur or otherwise, nor trying to second-guess what the judiciary thinks. The judiciary can think whatever it wants to, why does it matter? I'm only giving a philosophical opinion on the logical implications of the existence of various criminal statutes, and my opinion is that they have lots of rational-choice implications but zero moral implications. To put it another way, if everyone has a duty to refrain from X'ing, the importance of this duty is neither increased nor decreased by the existence (or lack thereof) of a law that punishes X'ers. I think I've offered plenty of philosophical arguments in this thread to try to back that up. But if you're looking for legal opinion, you're talking to the wrong guy.

I did mention "hypothetical imperatives" in my comment above. "Conditional imperative" was your terminology. You're right that a conditional sentence may turn out to be a categorical imperative. But since according to Kant there exists only one categorical imperative with 3 different formulations, and since "If your society has laws, obey them" ain't on the list, I'm going to assume that Kant doesn't think it's a categorical imperative.

If so, it's just another hypothetical imperative whose validity depends on whether it is consistent with the categorical imperative. Kant apparently thinks it is, for unrelated reasons. That's where I depart from Kant, because I don't think the imperative in question is consistent with the categorical imperative. At the very least, it would have to be revised to something like "If your society has laws that promote obedience to the categorical imperative and its logical consequences, follow them."
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Kinda interesting but I wonder if it is normalized at all for the yelp review density in a given area. See xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1138/ as I draw some unusual correlations in the Boston maps.
> that did and still get by with laxer schooling, less "boring stuff", and more "creativity".

Creativity is inherently good. It's literally what brought us from the plains fighting large animals to making monolithic structures that battle the elements. We can harness the power of the electron to post, critique and posture ideas in nanoseconds because of extremely creative people. The "boring" stuff matters just as much as the "non-boring" stuff. What kills me is that the STEM and liberal arts side of the education debate are arguing from extremes - and both sides sound like morons when it comes to creativity. Creativity is harnessed by two things: a wealth of experience and knowledge (ie learning Calculus is good, just like skipping rocks on the river), and treating idea generation like play and not like work. Obviously it's a little bit more nuanced than that, but that's the distillation and the point remains. The boring stuff matters. The non-boring stuff matters. Everything is relevant and we should be creating a culture of education that not only understands that, but actually does something about it.
You can make as much doing menial work for BART as you can in engineering. Except that you don't actually have to do anything difficult when you work for BART, it's almost impossible to lose your job, there is no unpaid overtime, and you get more vacation.

The economics of bay-area engineering are broken. Consider this, how many engineers making comparable salary could take over these jobs with minimal training? What about vice-versa?
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Sometimes people disagreeing have "privilege." And sometimes the people they are disagreeing with have just got it wrong. Regardless of the existence of sexism, nobody gets a free pass for all their claims or complaints just because of their gender. That would indeed be a "privilege."
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> And why limit yourself to NSA whistleblowers, a government that has crossed this line has crossed that line in general, not just for some class.

Because the claim isn't that "the USA has tortured people". The claim is that the USA will torture Snowden. Given the wide disparity in justice systems utilized for U.S. citizens, "enemy combatants", and U.S. military, you have to at least make that broad type of distinction to evaluate the probability of the claim that Snowden will be tortured if he returns.

There's no end to the things you can do or refuse to do if your only justification for that action (or lack thereof) is that a government has, at some time, tortured somebody somewhere.

I agree wholeheartedly that the U.S. needs to account for instances where they torture, but that also doesn't completely invalidate the whole government.
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Why assume the entire organization is involved; it could be one person.

Suppose (for argument's sake) that Snowden were depressed or had got cold feet, and was uncommunicative or otherwise climbing down from his previous position; a supporter who thought he was simply undergoing a crisis of confidence might decide to draft a statement 'in the spirit of his actions.'

I'm not saying that this has happened here, but such things are not unprecedented. You don't need to believe that the entire organization is engaged in a deception, or even that the (imaginary) author of such a statement would consider it deceptive, but rather reflective of a 'deeper truth'.
"creepy" is just a code word for "unattractive" or "awkward"

In this context, it simply means being pushy and mumbling (or screaming) about sex and/or violence all the time. E.g. http://fatuglyorslutty.com/

i've been called hot, sexy, and creepy in the same hour span on a night out.

Yes, and people have called making a lot of money "killing it" before, too, but that doesn't suddenly make murder okay. How's that for a simple exercise in logic.

If a word being overused makes people unable to pay attention to the matter at hand, why do they insist on having an opinion anyway, not to mention being so vile about it? The question remains.
Third, public transportation is generally valued more highly here than
in other places for a variety of reasons.

If various professionals employed by the state were paid in accordance of their value to the society (even if only to a certain slice of society), members of the armed forces would be centi-millionaires.

That line of reasoning is utter bunk.
There has been some movement on this, New Hampshire passed a law requiring the court to allow the defense to inform the jury about nullification:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/10603/jury-nullification-i...
Revoking his passport is not extralegal. Nobody's arguing that.

Exerting unknown influence behind closed doors with those who have the ability to grant or deny his requests for asylum is an entirely different matter, though.
Unbelievably sad.

If anyone ever doubted whether memes (in the original Dawkins sense) are real, this is a good demonstration. Lately, police have just taken to shooting dogs willy-nilly.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/incoming-police-ch...
Isn't that fraud though.