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by ng12 7y ago
It's confusing to me too. Very clearly this is a battle for which there are only losers and no winners.
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by ng12 7y ago
It's still just timing the market with more steps. You may have done well the past two years but there are many other periods of uncertainty in which a large bond allocation would significantly underperform.
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by ng12 7y ago
> that OP has esoteric stylistic preferences that are not transphobic but happen to be consistent with the language that transphobic people will use. Is there a term for this? May I suggest "wrongthink by associaton"? Furthermo
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by ng12 7y ago
I don't understand why this has become such a common theme in the tech world. A small clique of non-binary/LGBTQ+ people who wield undue amounts of soft power and use that soft power to fight pseudo-political internet battles. I&#
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by ng12 7y ago
Yes, this is the point of that code. It's boilerplate to ensure the module loads in different environments.
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by ng12 7y ago
The NE corridor doesn't suck compared to the rest of the US but it's pretty dismal compared to the EU and EA. A favorite experience of mine was waiting at South Station and watching the train get delayed 5 minutes at a time for tw
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by ng12 7y ago
I wasn't aware human rights had to be earned.
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by ng12 7y ago
What makes it bad faith? Read through this thread. There's a lot of hearsay and misrepresentation and obviously some people just plain uncomfortable with RMS's persona regardless of what he did or didn't say. And that's
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by ng12 7y ago
Because a bachelor's degree in CS from a state school can very realistically be the key to a six-figure salary. Most other "white color" professions either require significantly more schooling or have dimmer job prospects.
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by ng12 7y ago
It's one of the few fields where a bachelor's degree from a state school can pretty easily lead to a six-figure salary.
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by ng12 7y ago
> Imagine Facebook and Instagram trying to outdo each other to protect your privacy and keep misinformation out of your feed This feels like an unrealistic fantasy. If it hasn't been the case for FB vs Twitter vs Snap, what makes he
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by ng12 7y ago
> Either RMS was oblivious to the distress and distraction his comments would cause First, the conversation was internal, it was leaked to the public. Second, it's nothing new. He's been documenting his opinions for decades. Th
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by ng12 7y ago
The most recent article I can find on the issue is from 2016. She's definitely cooled it on Comcast/Verizon since.
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by ng12 7y ago
I'm not sure why she's so gung-ho on this. I can't imagine it's a popular issue with the average voter, especially when tech is one of the last true paths to the middle class Americans have left. On the other hand even m
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by ng12 7y ago
> He thinks people should be punished for selling proprietary software correct? No? I'm not really sure what you mean by "punish" here. He advocates for Free Software -- to my knowledge he's never advocated for punish
766.
by ng12 7y ago
That is absolutely a false equivalency. I don't think you'll find any evidence that RMS believes people shouldn't be able to _discuss_ selling propriety software, or disagree with free software, or anything else.
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by ng12 7y ago
I think it's reasonably sound logic from a libertarian perspective. The more concerning thing is he's not allowed to simultaneously discuss that line of thinking while working at MIT.
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by ng12 7y ago
There are plenty of anarchists in the world who would respond with an emphatic "yes". Should we be taking steps to ensure anarchists aren't allowed to write software or work at a university?
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by ng12 7y ago
Not "it's been like this" -- he, a human person, has been like this. In fact he's been voluntarily blogging his political thoughts for decades (which, again, in 2019 is an incredibly dangerous thing to do). So the questi
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by ng12 7y ago
The issue is that Stallman has been this way for decades -- he's always been outspoken, nitpicky, and aggressively libertarian -- and FSF has flourished under his sole leadership. It's only in 2019 that internet culture and clickb
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by ng12 7y ago
> There was also one that I can't be bothered to find Then please don't post it. Lazy citation of original material is how we got here.
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by ng12 7y ago
Can you explain why these opinions are inappropriate? What makes someone with aggressively libertarian views unsuitable to lead the Free Software Foundation?
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by ng12 7y ago
If there's one place in our society that should welcome discussion of ugly issues it should be our universities, particularly the few as storied as MIT.
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by ng12 7y ago
That's a good question, how is it decided? Is there a tribunal?
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by ng12 7y ago
> "I propose we use only people's full and legal names when referring to them, because I believe that system works better." Undoubtedly a weird, outsider view of things but I wouldn't advocate him being punished for d
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by ng12 7y ago
Without a doubt Stallman has done several magnitudes of more good for society than harm -- from what I can tell the "harm" is mostly him being just a weird, semi-insufferable dude in a field of weird, semi-insufferable people.
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by ng12 7y ago
At what point is your work no longer your own? FSF wouldn't exist without Stallman's vision and subsequent decades of tireless effort. Who gets to decide that Stallman no longer deserves stewardship over his own life's work b
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by ng12 7y ago
There are many countries in the world where the age of consent is 14. It was so in Canada, our physical and cultural neighbor, until 2008. Why is it so wildly unacceptable opinion to question an arbitrary line of US law?
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by ng12 7y ago
So what's the message, the EU is only interested in combating oppression when there's no money on the table?
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by ng12 7y ago
This has nothing to do with web standards. A developer decided to limit a field which could be either 2 or 4 characters to only 2. They could have used 10 different approaches to do this and they all would be broken for autocomplete and cop

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