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by dmatech 5y ago
Where I work, that sort of behavior is classified as "workplace bullying", and I think that's accurate. My concern with political discussions being common is that people will be expected to conform to whatever happens to be
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by dmatech 5y ago
Immediate knee-jerk apologies are usually worthless because the person apologizing usually has no idea what's going on and can't make a reasoned statement. They're just trying to do damage control. The best apologies are the
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by dmatech 5y ago
More than that, they could put multiple weight sensors on the platform to make sure an adult is on it in order for it to start and continue operating. As an added benefit, it could use the signals from the sensors to detect roughly where t
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by dmatech 5y ago
This is almost certainly being done to placate Apple, because there's no mention of Android. My guess would be that Discord is being leaned on to "clean up the NSFW problem" or be de-listed. Discord is already rated 17+ (th
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by dmatech 6y ago
Yep. The 17th Amendment was probably a mistake for that very reason. I should probably research exactly why it was ratified by the states.
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by dmatech 6y ago
Money doesn't always buy competence.
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by dmatech 6y ago
It's common to be defensive with these sorts of things. I wish people would instead be inquisitive And ask about potential downsides vs. upsides, but it's much easier to respond that way when you feel like your job or status isn&
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by dmatech 6y ago
No, because that puts company management in the crosshairs. You don't let some developer do that without first getting the spin machine time to come up with a reason why it's good for the users. Otherwise people question the ven
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by dmatech 6y ago
Actually it wasn't even the EPA that uncovered it. It was academia. Corporations and governments just don't have the curiosity built in to their culture that academia does.
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Not at all. The way she acted created serious risks to her employer, and anyone seeing her postings could reasonably conclude that she was conducting personal attacks on others and doing it on behalf of NVIDIA. When you declare your employ
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by dmatech 6y ago
Both styles have their merits. That's why we have both adversarial debates as well as collaborative panel discussions.
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Indeed. The way society regulates behaviors these days is to pressure people to cut ties with someone labeled "bad" or be labeled "bad" along with that person (and jeopardize your own ties). You might be forced to deno
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by dmatech 6y ago
You'd have to be prepared to get rid of the entire concept of the "head of state". The USA has proven quite well that having the head of government and head of state combined has substantial problems. A head of government n
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by dmatech 6y ago
What's many people forget is that local governments themselves are special types of corporations (specifically "municipal corporations"). They can even go bankrupt (unlike the states whose devolved power they use).
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by dmatech 6y ago
The lies need to do demonstrable harm to someone (and be about that someone) in order for it to be defamation. Lies that just "make the world a worse place" are much harder to deal with. For instance, in the Snyder v. Phelps case
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by dmatech 6y ago
Given what happened to Fram a year and a half ago, I'm not surprised that they're continuing to do this stuff (especially given that it's the same people). Honestly, I think WMF needs a serious examination of the agendas of
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by dmatech 6y ago
I do this sort of thing with WSL1 all the time. Unless you're dealing with large numbers of files or spawning thousands of processes (or have security software that gets in the way), it is perfectly adequate for me.
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by dmatech 6y ago
More specifically, there are fewer people willing or able to do crime scene cleaning than normal janitorial work. That drives the price up. Simple supply and demand explain it quite well.
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by dmatech 6y ago
You could self-host your own Mattermost installation with OAuth2 for convenience. https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/sso-google.html
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Additionally, there is a large and highly competitive market for baking cakes, so you can just drive down the street. With enough cake shops, someone's almost certainly going to take your order. The law currently only protects against
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by dmatech 6y ago
Risks of reputation damage cannot be allowed to override contract law. Instead, they should be able to just point to the contract and tell the deplatforming mob that they have to abide by it. Otherwise, no contract will be worth the paper
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by dmatech 6y ago
Ideally, that would give you the best of both worlds. But some places delete the old branches after they're merged. It would be nice if there were an easy way to hide or rename old branches so that the in-use ones stand out.
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by dmatech 6y ago
The scientific community often comes to an incorrect consensus, and this consensus becomes dogma that must not be questioned because the consequences would be too damaging to reputation/credibility/whatever. Here's another ex
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by dmatech 6y ago
That might be the case of what's trending in the US on Twitter or in the media, but that's hardly a representative sample of the actual population.
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by dmatech 7y ago
Part of full ownership of a computer is reserving the right to "lie" to any code running on it about its execution environment. This could be for examining malware, testing, reverse-engineering, or anything else. There are still
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by dmatech 7y ago
I hate to say it, but it seems like only a large-scale worm outbreak that gets media coverage would be enough to fix the utterly broken Android patching landscape. From the description, this appears wormable (especially in crowds and possi
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by dmatech 7y ago
To be fair, pronouns in English are considered a "closed class", while adjectives (like "antifragile") are considered an "open class". This has been true for centuries.
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by dmatech 7y ago
This whole reaction deeply saddens me. People should be encouraged to experiment, make their own stuff, and tinker. People are so easily scared these days of anything they don't understand.
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by dmatech 7y ago
One might argue that forcing you to use their app store constitutes illegal tying. The iPhone could easily be made to run apps from competing stores (as is possible with Android). Don't think about competitors that do exist on other
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by dmatech 7y ago
She likely has very different views. https://opensource.com/life/15/8/patricia-torvalds-interview

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