lostjohnny

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by lostjohnny 7y ago
I still have to testimony an useful contribution (or proof of donation) from those attacking open source projects for not using gender neutral pronouns. I'm not young anymore, in my 40s, but I have hope that in the next 40 years some
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
exchanging ideas in person works better. after working home for 3 years, I missed being out of my house, even though I am not the most social person you'll find at my office. I think the balance is some remote, when you fill it, and th
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> No, you are not better or worse, europe or wherever you are from is not better or worse Yes, work rights wise Europe is much better. Full stop. It's not anti American sentiment, it is what it is. Do you a right to paid sick leave?
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> what's not reasonable about working remotely? security. You are going around with company secret data. You are moving them outside of the company network, which is heavily controlled. Not all businesses thinks it's ok to put
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> trust me to manage my time as needed the 99% of jobs need the time to manage you, not the contrary. they are not task based, they are presence or hourly based. If you go to the bank, they need to be there. If you go to the hospital, th
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> Nothing has been proven Do you know the presumption of innocence principle? > I absolutely would lose my job if I was holding a high leadership, PR position at my company for making idiotic statements. You would too. I dare you try
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
It's gonna end like this: share a netflix account with friends for kids while the adults watch movies and tv shhows on popocorn time.
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
You are sidetracking the conversation with a troll attitude. I was replying to > However, as you start pushing beyond "scale" Go is designed for Go is designed for Google scale, I don't know anybody pushing beyond Google s
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> if someone has a history of complaining about absurd legal results, it would not be surprising to hear them use this situation as an example while beating that drum that's a big IF and BTW Stallman notoriously complained about abs
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
The irony is that without Stallman the SJW are just the blackshirts of fascist memory. And I'm Italian, my grandfather was a partisan, I know what I'm talking about. BTW, I am yelling , because what he said is perfectly reasonabl
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> Right, and this time he has finally paid the price For what? For stating the obvious? This time he didn't do anything wrong, other than pointing out what everybody in their right mind think: a dead person who cannot defend himself
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> Your definition of 'wrong' is certainly agreeable It's just what it is, he wasn't defending his friend, which, BTW, is not even accused of raping anybody. > The comment was inappropriate Like this is new for RMS.
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
You, sir, made my day!
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
This is one of those cases where Reddit > HN "Context: In a recently unsealed deposition a woman testified that, at the age of 17, Epstein told her to have sex with Marvin Minsky. Minsky was a founder of the MIT Media Lab and pione
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
No, he didn't. He expressed an opinion as single individual person, he didn't ask for support or rioting against someone or something. And he didn't ask for nobody to be fired in the first place. > and that's why peop
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> Legal drafting always leads to absurdities Agree, and that's exactly the kind of absurd RMS was talking about. That's it, just that. He can't concive that something is illogical. Does he deserve the blame for it? > le
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> If person is 17y 354 days old it doesn't matter what the minor person acted like, because law treats it as a non-consensual sex, so it's statutory rape That's why USA are the motherland of mass shootings then... I'm
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> It does matter that RMS, in a hypothetical defended the supposed actions in the way that he did. Like... he wrote about it? Many others did, nobody lost the job. It must be horryfying to read someone else's opinion in 2019 America
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
But id didn't. He just expresses on honest opinion on the matter. Like he always did all of his life. > That's not how argument works. To prove you wrong I don't have to prove an alternative scenario. You are wrong, that&#
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
First of all: sexual assault has nothing to do with either Stallman or Linus! Secondly: their strong leadership brought us an hacker community devoted to the product and correctness of the result, regardless of their personality, as technic
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> but to me it sounded like the reasoning that it's not rape if it was a willing interaction My reasoning is: rape victims are victims regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, time and space. But it's not Twitter crowd that decide
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> RMS defending his friend was happening Although it looks like you really believe that's what happened, it is not what happened. And no amount of repetitions can change the fact that he did not "defend his friend from rape acc
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> It is, because one is illegal, the other is not Rape is always illegal. Sex is not. > Just like drinking with 21 and 20.99 years is not the same, because they're American. We start at 18, no problems here, no mass shootings, n
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> For me it looks like corporate hijack of open source projects. It's the most plausible explanation.
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> They're a negative contribution, and they contribute to driving away other contributors. And now there's good Linus, there's no RMS anymore, but we have this https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19&
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> RMS was defending his friend who, at the age of 74, is accused of having sex with a 17 year old girl on a billionaire's private island. That's not what happened.
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> but didn't. So he's being punished for thinking out loud and not apoligising for thinking out loud?
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> Why are so many people obsessed with applying the same standards used in a court to real life? Because IRL there's no attorney of defense. You can just throw accusation in the air and somebody else get hurt.
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> Well, no, rape is not just rape because the law says that minors up to some age are not capable of making decisions on who they have sex with willingly And that's absurd. Do we all agree on this? for different reasons - 17 years 3
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
You should never come to Rome then...

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