13thLetter

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by 13thLetter 11y ago
> They decided not to hold another event that was affiliated with lambdaconf. You make it sound like they randomly woke up one day and decided, for no particular reason whatsoever, to not hold an event they had already put enormous effor
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Indeed. If self-important bullies are demanding that folks get thrown out of professional conferences because of their personal political opinions, men and women of good will everywhere need to forthrightly stand up against that.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
But that's simply victim-blaming. This is a professional conference about a particular apolitical topic. If the speaker, no matter how controversial or unpopular his unrelated personal views might be, is going to stay on the topic and
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
I recall a lot of wailing about how irresponsible they were deploying their sinister infrastructure-damaging war viruses, and such. But thinking about it more, I'll grant it depends on your perspective of the whole issue, so my point d
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
It's weird how the news that agents of a foreign government were attempting to sabotage American infrastructure, which is -- I realize this is an antiquated notion nowadays -- an act of war, is received with shrugs and yawns and no rea
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
A disappointing lack of professionalism on Typelevel's part, but fortunately such behavior is also self-limiting.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
A group that's policing who can use their services based on political disagreements is definitely not a group that it's safe to do business with. Who knows what they'll take offense at next?
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
> I don't want Yarvin at FP conferences, and I suspect none of the attendees particularly do either. I'd imagine there's a solid overlap between Hacker News posters and people who might attend a functional programming conf
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
What? Presenting all the facts is exactly a journalist's job. If a journalist is presenting a "narrative" instead of the facts, that journalist needs to quit their job and become a novelist.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
You've missed the point. Namely: If one person's semi-trollish advocacy of monarchy under a pseudonym several years ago means he's too dangerous to be allowed to speak at a tech conference, then surely other people's abs
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
What was incorrect about his statement?
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Yarvin and his "ilk" aren't the ones complaining about being offended here.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Along the same lines, no one is obligated to like you or associate with you , doubly so if you have political beliefs that would likely result in their being unable to earn a living in their field. > Community sanctions are part of wh
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
For example, the view that people should be prevented from earning a living if they have the wrong political opinions.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
So... no, then?
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
What if they wanted to host a conference about technology? Are they allowed to do that?
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
You think that the fundamental principle behind the First Amendment and Enlightenment philosophy was that we really needed a natural rights justification to have people whose politics we disagree with ostracized from public life and prevent
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
> Why? The "jokes" were clearly in bad taste, and meant to belittle women. Can you quote the jokes and explain how they were meant to belittle women?
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
If one did that one would, of course, be wrong, both in the general case (the jokes were silly grade-school level puns that would concern no well-balanced person) and the specific case (if anyone was being stereotyped or belittled, it would
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
> You have no understanding of the first amendment. It applies, of course, only to the government's response to speech. Darn it, I thought we were going to get all the way through this discussion without someone wheeling out that ol
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
> But if you really care about people who depend on you including them, it's obvious some measures must be taken to create a safe environment for the underrepresented. Please be specific: how is Yarvin's presence making you uns
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
> At what point does someone's routine vocal endorsement of racial superiority and advocation of violence become problematic? As long as the person does all that on their own time and is professional and respectful in the work conte
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
It's not true in the slightest; it's political propaganda. You can walk into almost any drug store in the United States and buy armfuls of contraception without any difficulty. It is true that in certain limited cases if a company
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
"Deemed" by whom?
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Nope. You're making the mistake of mapping a foreign political force with its own motives and ideas onto Western political disputes.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
> It's not like a bunch of people got up and were like "We hate the West!". There's a lot of stuff involved. Not that it justifies their actions, but it's at least good to be lucid when thinking about the why. I
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Perhaps people are coming here to discuss things, not to be "educated."
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
> I'm all for soaking the rich, but how is that fair? Perhaps this experience should make you rethink your support of "soaking the rich."
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Are you're going to vote for Hillary in the general anyway? If so, they're not going to pay any attention to what you want.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Have you ever heard of a place called Tibet? It's pretty interesting. You can look it up on Wikipedia.

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