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> that occasionally nuclear power causes terrible catastrophes. To play devil's advocate...so do cars. Tens of thousands of people die every year in the USA from car crashes, and millions more are injured. These numbers are greate
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I have a background in Nuclear Physics. One of the major themes was that Physicists recognize that they are humans, and that they make human mistakes . The take active steps to double-check their assumptions. To have independent third
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It's often pretty simple to check that studies are biased and wrong: --- Q1: For black people, how many times have you mugged a white person? Q2: For white people, how many times have you been mugged by a black person? Conclusion: Ther
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The problem with SMBs is marketing. How do they know to use your software? What is the cost of sales? I've had 6 months of negotiations with customers. For a large contract, that's OK. For a small one, it's not worth my t
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> So you have an economic incentive not to make it too usable? And... do commercial companies don't have the same incentive? The difference with me is that I have pride in my work. I do good engineering. The reason I charge for ser
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> As for the worry about combining open source and money... forget it. I dunno... I've done well. Offices in Canada and France, 6 people working for me (not all full-time). The key for me is to sell services around the software, an
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> Instead the majority of the kinetic energy needed comes from the ejected electrons from the sun's light ionizing the upper atmosphere. IIRC, at martian surface temperature, hydrogen atoms have escape velocity. That goes a long wa
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> I've trained them to pause and read the words on the toolbar, read the words on the window, etc. as they're generally self-explanatory. You're a miracle worker. :) Failure to read what's on the screen is one of th
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I'll agree with most of this. We had a new hire come in with his personal Windows laptop. We tried to get him connected to the corporate WiFi, and into the corporate net with our own client certs and private CA. Uh... no. No, you ca
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You think that referencing stats from the CDC, DoJ, Department of Labour, etc. makes me a "flat earther"? Let me guess... you think there's a secret government conspiracy to watch your every movement, and you have this magic
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> You're being a bit disingenuous. I'm trying to understand just, what, exactly people mean by "power". You've used it repeatedly in subsequent examples. But haven't given explanations. Your examples lar
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I asked Don't show how I'm treated better than others, show how I have power. Your argument is largely that I may get treated better than others. How, exactly, does that show I have power , as the GP comment suggested? And did
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> I live in a society where the white male has power What power do I have as a white male? Please be specific. Don't show how I'm treated better than others, show how I have power . I've never shown up at a job intervie
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> Racism and sexism are by default perpetuated by the oppressive group, especially at an institutional level So... which sex is more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, sentenced to prison time, and less likely to be let out on pa
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LinkedIn: Our iOS app is web-based! Simple and fast! We save money! 2 years later... LinkedIn: Our iOS app is native! Simple and fast! We save money!
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> Care to elaborate? Not the parent, but I do have a background in physics. Positivism is broadly the philosophy that underlies all of science. i.e. the philosophy that there is a real world external to our minds, and that it can be
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> the repelling force between them could account for the expansion acceleration in a very simple way. The electromagnetic force still follows the inverse square law. So if objects in the universe are charged, the effects end up being s
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That's not how physics works. We've measured the charge of base particles, we know their charge to 8 decimal places. (e.g. for electrons). There is simply no way for the force of electromagnetism to be different at the scale of s
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> What am I missing? Resonance over a few million years.
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> claiming he was a fugitive from justice (even though he hadn't gone anywhere) IIRC, he was a "fugitive from justice" because he refused to fly to the States to defend himself in court actions there. Which is a pretty wei
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> I've always wondered if the high profile fallout actually causes any change Underlying personality disorders are a relatively constant percentage of society. Barring near-universal awareness of these disorders and how to countera
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It's similar to conversations between conservatives and liberals. Both groups have implicit assumptions about how the world works. They have implicit value judgements, in preferring one thing versus another. Conversation almost
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> isn't it very short sighted to consider silencing/removing the accusers a protection of the company. Yes. It's also human psychology. See the church sex abuse scandals. The morality that people claim to have is less
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> why would scientists around the world spend years studying complicated subjects, and then decades doing research, and NEARLY ALL accept a bribe from the leftists of YOUR country to sabotage their own sensors and models and data? Becaus
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> As far as patrols go, sounds like a fantastic jobs program. i.e. a way to throw money away doing nothing productive. Either the people involved will be highly trained / paid well, and therefore bored. Or, they won't be paid
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The Berlin was was built in a densely populated area, was patrolled regularly, had frequent guard towers, and, was ~100 miles long. Are you really claiming that's a good comparison to a wall 1000 miles long, through desert and unpopula
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$21 Billion for a wall is a lot. Penn & Teller did a show on Immigration. Tthey got a bunch of Mexicans to build a wall. And yes, after it was built, they asked the workers to try to get across it. The wall slowed them down by about 2
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The "Code of Conduct" discussion is about a larger social issue. CoCs in open source projects are just one facet. As others have posted here, some people pushing "codes of conduct in open source" end up violating those
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Except in the case of Twitter, the claim was that they banned Milo for engaging in certain kinds of behavior. Such claims are false. When you have such a legalese disclaimer as above, you don't need to lie about why you're banni
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That is, it looks like GitHub will ignore it's own code of conduct in order to punish "bad" people. This is a common theme among proponents of codes of conduct. See also Twitter's ban on many people, including Milo Yia

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