mjolk

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by mjolk 10y ago
It's an environmental concern. An oil spill causes harm to the ecosystem, and if the response to it isn't correct, the damage can spread or future parties won't be particularly careful.
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It's upsetting because the end result of taking a different approach was because the systemd contributor was told to go "pound sand" and not out of a realization of "oh, I'm actually asking for something bad."
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by mjolk 10y ago
Correction: it's working on "perceived" issues with Linux, e.g. plaintext logs being too large or sequential boot processing being too slow. I personally don't think that systemd and subverting unix philosophy is worth t
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by mjolk 10y ago
The (management or computer) algorithm is likely designed to cut down on pornography and/or "offensive content"; the correlation of the terms bi, lesbian, or gay as metadata to explicit images is likely to be large on a visua
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>Also, no, everyone is racist and sexist to varying extents, it's not a binary. Humans are imperfect. Not everyone and everything is racist and sexist, stop peddling this histrionic narrative. If it's automated, are you claimi
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by mjolk 10y ago
Probably because people were using them to post/promote their pornography using terms they know people would search. Please find something more interesting to feign offense over.
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Going into another anecdote just confuses the matter. Like most interpersonal issues, the specific context and actions are important. I will say that the scenario that you've created is markedly different.
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by mjolk 10y ago
"Nuke em from orbit" is a quote from the movie Aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q I think (hope) it's being used in that playful way.
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by mjolk 10y ago
I can't speak for the person you're replying to, but I think he's stating that there's lines in the sand that once you cross, sitting with HR and watching some dumb training videos and reading some policy documents is no
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by mjolk 10y ago
> if the woman is making the offer and the man refuses, he's likely to still feel flattered but the woman is likely to get the signal and move on. I've had the opposite experience. I didn't feel flattered and she didn&#x2
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by mjolk 10y ago
I would suggest it's so he doesn't move out of the potential area for users/testing/investor meetings/hiring, but if he's living out of a van, that's probably adding more challenges than it's resolvin
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by mjolk 10y ago
>A root cause seems to be that everyone with the aptitude for security crowds toward jobs that don't actually involve implementing good security. To expand on this, I've also noticed that "security" in enterprise-size
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by mjolk 10y ago
Well, even if they're buying, that doesn't mean someone is selling. If I owned an apple tree and merchants were willing to give me $5 per piece of fruit, why would I sell the tree to a farmer for $10? That's assuming that I
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by mjolk 10y ago
I'm not judging -- I'm stating facts. Also, I was hoping to hint at that policing crime isn't the same as criminalizing being poor. It's possible to be flat out broke and not commit crimes. Having grown up in a town wh
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by mjolk 10y ago
If I understand you, you're suggesting a course of corrective action that doesn't simply look at a given event (e.g. robbing a woman at knifepoint) when suggesting punishment for a crime. This is already the case in US courts, wh
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You've repeatedly fallen back to a wider position; you're not giving "concrete examples." You're blowing the discussion out of scope (trying to drag in something happening 6000 miles away with a totally different c
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by mjolk 10y ago
You're coloring outside of the lines. We're talking about policing crime in San Francisco, USA and not the living conditions and behaviors of economic migrants and refugees in Europe.
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I'm not pretending white-collar crime is victimless, but I'm also not at all comfortable with the bias of "remove the consequences of crime for people perceived to be disadvantaged." The issue of treating drug addiction
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That's cute, but the law also forbids the rich, as well as the poor, from committing violent crimes, which is what we're actually talking about.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Lowering your expectations for low-income households and treating people that come from them as if they're too stupid and/or broken to not commit crimes is wrong is offensive. There's a difference between acknowledging the v
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by mjolk 10y ago
>“We are not going to criminalize people for being poor,” he said. “That criminalization is only going to make it harder for them to get out of poverty.” I don't understand this attitude -- policing crime and taking actions to reduc
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by mjolk 11y ago
For a site this ubiquitous, they don't need to scrape the bottom of the barrel to get a few more page views -- I think this is earnestly meant as a service to others. I don't have a Facebook account, so I can't verify, but at
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by mjolk 11y ago
It's not a contest.
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by mjolk 11y ago
Even if "we" (meaning HackerNews users or engineers) come up with a better term (e.g. "a company"), it won't get picked up by the media. Old media has schadenfreude for technology companies failing and they use &qu
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by mjolk 11y ago
I agree that there's a lot of worth in having a turn-key solution that's fast, especially if installing dependencies is required anyway (e.g. Ruby isn't necessarily on the user's system, neither is Java, so since you hav
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by mjolk 11y ago
>It might be true for you. We know it's not true for many other people. That's why orchestras stick auditionees behind curtains. It's why people are advised to remove any protected characteristic information from their res
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by mjolk 11y ago
>Let's just... ignore the larger societal angle of harassment, denigration, fear and uncertainty that plagues women and some minorities in STEM fields or finance, okay? Let's say, "It exists but let's not discuss it h
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by mjolk 11y ago
If you're referencing GH with that sexual harassment lawsuit comment, it fizzled, and from the outside, it seemed like it wasn't anything sketchy, just that the accuser's work wasn't very good and people didn't trea
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by mjolk 11y ago
How do bad interview processes prove that meritocracy doesn't work?
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by mjolk 11y ago
Youtube and reddit have a shaky relationship to reality.

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