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by jf- 8y ago
I have to wonder what these coins actually offer the consumer. If they’re to be used as a real world currency for transactions, they would need to have some utility over credit/debit cards. I don’t see what that utility is. I can alrea
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by jf- 8y ago
>If someone helps you live when otherwise you're going to die >That is what most people call “violent coercion”. Really? Is it? There’s no point in continuing here, I’m afraid we’re too far apart to gain anything from this discus
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by jf- 8y ago
Life creates a power dynamic which can be abused in this way. This is getting ridiculous. Have some minimal set of rules so that people, including important people, can’t be outright nasty to each other and leave it at that. There is absolu
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by jf- 8y ago
> A very interesting observation is that in the extreme "meritocracy" 100% implies that people with merit should be excused for their bad behavior in public spaces based on the value of their technical contributions. That’s a n
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by jf- 8y ago
From an organisation’s point of view, does it matter how one person came to be a better performer than another? Surely they just care about current state: this person performs better than this other person now . Perhaps had their backgroun
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by jf- 8y ago
Then you’re into territory where the CoC controls everything that a contributor says on every platform, as another contributor can always claim some indirect harm.
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by jf- 8y ago
I have to agree. We tread a fine line here between being honest and being assholes. Let’s try to stay on the right side of that line.
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by jf- 8y ago
Why should it be any different? If people have different sensibilities does it not make sense for them to have separate communities? Sure there should be some baseline, but as said elsewhere what one person may take as abuse another may tak
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by jf- 8y ago
> why would you prefer that the circumstances be entirely up to each individual maintainer's discretion Exactly so that the same judgement isn’t applied everywhere. Different maintainers will end up having different audiences. I see
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by jf- 8y ago
You’re both right. In any other situation we’d say “ok, these are the limits between which 2 SD of the population falls, outliers will just have to deal with it”. And that would work. Here however we can’t measure anything, so we have no id
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by jf- 8y ago
Your example isn’t that ambiguous, that’s a public communication directly about the project. That should be covered by the CoC. However unrelated statements, even very politically incorrect ones, should be outside it’s remit. If for example
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by jf- 8y ago
Ha. Needs some tweaks here and there but it’s a good start!
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I see. I agree that any such code of conduct should be limited to communications involving the project directly, and be the minimal set of rules necessary to ensure civility.
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by jf- 8y ago
I’m seeing a lot of people stating that they’re worried about this code of conduct. Since I’ve not read it or any commentary about it, can someone tell me why it’s so worrying? Is there a sincere fear that Linux will be damaged as a result?
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by jf- 8y ago
Looks like the discussion has been derailed and the thread buried. You might want to take the word struggle out just for the sake of avoiding this again. For what it’s worth I think you make a valid point, frankly people need to know when t
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by jf- 8y ago
How about “hardship porn”? Seems as punchy but less likely to be misinterpreted.
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by jf- 8y ago
It definitely does. If it’s not appearing something is wrong. A common cause is some asset being delivered over http rather than https. Actually, it should allow you to add ordinary websites to the desktop, but doesn’t display them full sc
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by jf- 8y ago
It’s sad that you’re a software developer and can’t see the unacceptable level of risk in using tech to vote.
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by jf- 8y ago
No. I won’t accept any technological innovations when it comes to voting. Votes should be paper and counted by hand. This is the ultimate safeguard against stealing an election - make sure as many pairs of eyes as possible are involved in e
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by jf- 8y ago
The problem is no one can think of one. As is often repeated here, there doesn’t seem to be any use case for blockchain that is superior to other technology, other than a cryptocurrency. And even they are rife with problems.
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by jf- 8y ago
They don’t look like much of a dumpster fire to me.
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The most likely outcome, in my opinion, is a no deal Brexit. That has been the most likely outcome for several months. There has only been the illusion of progress in the talks. Really things are in largely the same state they’ve been in si
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by jf- 8y ago
People think it’s a cute story and there’s a plaque on the bridge. It doesn’t need to be anything more than that.
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> To find a way to make 3-dimensional numbers into an algebra in a way that extends the algebra of complex numbers What does that mean? My understanding was that Hamilton was searching for a way to make the manipulation of points in spac
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by jf- 8y ago
My comment doesn’t imply that google are biasing their results.
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Have you considered that there may not be as many African American economists as there are scientists, doctors and inventors and that is the reason the search behaves differently? Do you have any substantive basis for your claim that google
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by jf- 8y ago
Works for American doctor, gives a decent number of black results for American soldier. Exactly what is it going to take for your conspiracy to be disproved? Does Eric Schmidt need to float down on a cloud and walk you through Google’s algo
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Because there aren’t that many pages about it. Also a white American inventor would probably just be referred to as an inventor, without reference to race or nationality. A black inventor would be seen as out of the ordinary, and so be refe
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by jf- 8y ago
I take your point about misleading historical data, but I’m not sure that was the sentiment behind the statement. I took it more to mean “if this feels transgressive to you, don’t publish it!”. Your explanation is a valid observation of a p
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Occam’s razor?

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