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by fche 7y ago
where there is hunger, birth rates are too high where there is obesity, birth rates are too low
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by fche 7y ago
That is a big "if", of course. And I thought the initial idea was to have the gov't pay the losses of the victims of thefts, without incarcerating the thieves. As though that would eliminate the victimization.
33.
by fche 7y ago
A daily theft of $84 per day has much more than $84/day of cost in terms of corrosion of social trust. A government payout cannot fix that - heck it makes it worse.
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by fche 7y ago
How would you support the proposition that San Francisco is not failing, or is even flourishing?
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by fche 7y ago
> nobody on the left is seriously talking about having open borders. This is a blatant lie.
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by fche 8y ago
The comparison lacks a big item: distributed-ness: the whole git-remote push & pull symmetry. It allows not only offline bare-minimum operation, but full offline development, then later online merging. I don't see any signs that
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by fche 8y ago
> it absolutely does not apply any restrictions to using the licensed software. What it does is codify the responsibilities of someone who runs the software as a service. Potato / potatoe. The imposition of that responsibility is a
38.
by fche 8y ago
The AGPL needs some competent defenders.
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by fche 8y ago
build your own bank build your own internet service provider
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by fche 8y ago
The actual report is here: https://www.acrecampaigns.org/s/Delivering-Hate-Jul-2018.pdf Pages #21/30 onward contain evidence of the horror. Confederate flags. Nooses. Skeletons. LEGO. PEPE. Pepe Trump! (Why
41.
by fche 8y ago
Thinking of men solely as a source of sperm is as goofy as thinking of women as only wombs.
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by fche 9y ago
ikiwiki
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by fche 9y ago
> and in the early days people were scared off with its kernel panics. It is ironic that to this day those kernel panics are associated with systemtap (the visible user interface) rather than the kernel (where the vast majority of the re
44.
by fche 9y ago
Note for freshness that systemtap can also emit eBPF directly now. So kernel modules are the fastest & most powerful way, but not the only one.
45.
by fche 9y ago
The more the better. But think of the incentives this vague "definition" creates. By labelling your opponents "toxic" (claiming that their rude etc. stuff is making you want to leave), you can get them censored. It is
46.
by fche 9y ago
> Toxic is defined as [...] subjective, unquestionable nonsense
47.
by fche 9y ago
... complete with lingo ("toxic") that is vague enough that it cannot be defined or disputed. Convenient!
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by fche 9y ago
It sounds like they kept meetings deliberately off-the-record, but then again here on https://www.google.com/diversity/index.html there's stuff like "we’re committed to making our workforce more reflective of
49.
by fche 9y ago
I believe the memo + followups included claims that the hiring process is not the same either.
50.
by fche 9y ago
Proof for what? Smaller number of available women? That's obvious. That if larger companies hire the best of them, the remaining supply/quality will shrink? That's obvious too.
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by fche 9y ago
And then watch out if your company bases its diversity targets on numbers from the rest of the industry. All the good ones may be taken (in order to get to the mythical 50%), but now we want to follow suit (to get to 50%), but what's
52.
by fche 9y ago
If you search harder for them, the bar is lowered by virtue of letting them be less outstanding / noticeable.
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by fche 9y ago
> in order to use them to discriminate [citation needed]
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by fche 9y ago
being closely followed by "nazi"
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by fche 9y ago
"If waterboarding is not torture then why would you apply it ..." This applies to any sort of interrogation tactic along the spectrum between The Comfy Chair and Execution. Each step would not be applied if the detainees confesse
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by fche 9y ago
If female engineers need to worry that, in the aftermath of the memo, people will wonder their genuine qualifications, they should not aim their blame toward the memo. The only people overtly and explicitly injecting non-qualification fact
57.
by fche 9y ago
... so did they reinvent httpd reverse proxying?
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by fche 9y ago
> "There is absolutely no evidence that there is a biological imperative that prevents women from being as effective as men at software development." straw man when applied to individuals begging the question when applied to gr
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by fche 9y ago
> "honest discussion is being silenced" I'm pretty sure that being fired - having pitchfork crowds go after you and people who agree - is close enough to being silenced.
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by fche 9y ago
> That is not true, here is the best point-by-point analysis But that is pretty crappy analysis, throwing your conclusion into doubt. > it's not you, it's biology! What if that is literally true somewhere in the causal chain

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