smudgymcscmudge

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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
About a quarter of the company has signed the protest letter. I signed the letter just so people would stop nagging me to sign. I don’t care about ICE. I suspect there are others who got pressured into signing.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
A good portion of GitHub’s employees live in Europe. Of the employees who live in America, most are citizens.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
Have a look at GitHub. It's a similar service with unlimited private repos for free.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
> So who gets to decide how much profit this person is allowed to make? Their customers get to decide that.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
There are also people who aren’t capable of producing $15 of value in an hour. A $15 minimum wage means they are less likely to be employed.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
This comment from the other thread may be useful in mitigating your issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21328285
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
I'm not OP, but I heard that unofficially from somebody who works at aws.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
I’m in the same boat as the person you replied to. In the past I’ve read arguments for and against anthropogenic climate change. Both were compelling to me when I read them. I’ve come to the conclusion that I just won’t understand the clima
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
I might agree with you that human rights are non-negotiable, but we're probably going to get into a fight when it comes time to list those human rights.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
I'm talking about third-person pronoun, not second. Sentences like "They is in the office".
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
I had the same idea. I forgot about it before I was old enough to reason about it. At the time I thought the size of the mirrors would be the biggest issue. I guess I thought faster-than-light travel was easy.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
That’s good to know. I hadn’t read that before.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
That’s quite true. And thank you for also recognizing that my snark can’t be reasoned with.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
I happen to agree with EFF on this, but even when I don’t agree with EFF, I appreciate that they are consistent on their pro-privacy stance. We need more organizations like EFF that are a consistent voice for one cause and aren’t swayed by
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
“and give up on my dream of being a tech billionaire? no thanks”. Also popular is “the bay area has one of the greatest collection of minds ever assembled in the history of the world”. If they are really that smart and money flows so freely
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
That may have been fine in 1500, but in modern, American english the phrase “they is” just makes you sound like an idiot.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
That’s what surprises me about this. I see the StackExchange sites as a place where people help each other make their software a little less crappy. In all my years using it, I don’t think I’ve ever used a third person pronoun (gendered or
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
That’s a convenient opinion for a married woman going by “miss”. Also, an opinion I agree with.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
The other side in this case isn’t the far right. The other side are just ordinary people who don’t want to be called names for forgetting to use the right pronoun or even not using a pronoun at all.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
That’s interesting. I’m an American who frequently talks to brits, and I’ve never picked up on the different meaning of quite. I’ll make a point to listen for that in the future.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
Resign doesn’t really belong on this list. It isn’t an antonym of itself. Resign and resign are homographs with opposite(ish) meanings.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
Terrific is my favorite autoantonym, but at this point the “terror causing” definition is little more than entomology trivia.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
That’s all true, but a lot of people prefer to have this all in one place.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
No it doesn’t justify the valuation, but a list of things one person likes about gitlab/github over plain git isn’t supposed to justify a valuation.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
It’s also helpful from the other end. As a new contributor, I feel a lot more confident making a PR if there are tests and I can show I didn’t break them.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
It’s a Sunday. Weekend HN is a free-for-all. I kind of like it this way.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
Did you notice the article doesn't say anything about decrypting the messages? It just says they have to turn over encrypted messages.
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
On re-reading the sort article, I realize it only says they will be compelled to share "encrypted messages" and "information to support investigations". It never says anything about decrypting the messages. If that is li
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
Is "EAR" the agreement? It sounds like you know about it. Can you share information with us?
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by smudgymcscmudge 7y ago
All I've found is this paywalled article. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/police-can-access-su...

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