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by virgilp 7y ago
> they still come to me and ask me to tutor them, rather than our parents or a private tutor. I wouldn't read too much into it... there's often times other factors involved. Just because you are a sibling and not a parent might
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by virgilp 7y ago
> She is part of the problem and one of the reasons why women are having such a hard time in the industry today. Yes. She should be fired for this opinion... though perhaps that would be too lenient, given how much suffering her opinion
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by virgilp 7y ago
> based on additional info here and elsewhere, it seems Stallman has a long history of questionable behaviour towards women Those are also lies, probably. Read all the comments here - or link to an actual instance of "additional in
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by virgilp 7y ago
How about "looks". Is it surprising to you that physical aspect can have consequences up to and including your employers no longer wanting to employ you? Because what you said is such a broad generalization, that it feels "ob
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by virgilp 7y ago
> Do you think that's a complete coincidence? You are right - I was under the impression that was posted earlier, but he posted that immediately after the email thread was "leaked" to Vice. It's no coincidence; I stil
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by virgilp 7y ago
Actually, no, he didn't - he lead with it. > Diversity -- but no diversity of opinion... Is there any sort of evidence of action? Him having had sex with children? If anything, it's you who left out the part where Stallman alre
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by virgilp 7y ago
Also, Gruber dislikes Stallman for quite a while, and has repeteadly picked on him for various reasons like "lack of hygiene" or weird behaviour. Never, once, until now, for the sexual advances theme.... He just discovered that th
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by virgilp 7y ago
> He actively made women feel unwelcome in the workplace and behaved unprofessionally over and over again. All this is irrelevant to the quite real and undeniable truth that it's not because he "made women feel unwelcome in the
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by virgilp 7y ago
He's probably arguing against generalization. You know, "younger people learn faster than older people on average" might be true; but even if it is, it doesn't preclude "I learn faster than you even though I'm
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by virgilp 7y ago
Shine a very powerful laser on it, and yes, the human eye will be able to tell the difference
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by virgilp 7y ago
We shouldn't expect the companies to be "fair&transparent", especially given the documented evidence that it's unprofitable. It's really the job of the governments to impose fairness rules. E.g. in Europe you do
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by virgilp 7y ago
This happened to me in Italy... i guess it was Avis? Not sure. They billed me 25E processing fee for providing to police my details, because apparently I got a parking ticket. Never got the ticket itself, either from Avis or from police. Th
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by virgilp 7y ago
You don't have to like him to recognise injustice. People are literally celebrating a "long overdue" injustice because they don't like the man, so "he had it coming". I don't know how can anyone not find t
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by virgilp 7y ago
You're talking about the guy who, in the email thread that "ended" him, complained that he can't read a link because the site doesn't work with OSS technologies. He's extreme in following his dogma. If he belie
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by virgilp 7y ago
What is the exact unacceptable behaviour that you linked to? (Sorry, navigating twitter sucks, I honestly am unsure what you're talking about). From the second link I get two things - second-hand tale that "he gets touchy" (h
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by virgilp 7y ago
Really? What's the difference between "fired" and "resigned under pressure"? How does it change one bit my original argument? In this instance, RMS was innocent. Doesn't matter if he was guilty in 999999 other
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by virgilp 7y ago
> I got anxiety just typing all that. He's nuts. Exactly. I'll never achieve something as big as GNU or FSF - because I get anxiety just thinking at the personal consequences. Because of that, allow me to be sad that the world
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by virgilp 7y ago
That's just semantics, you know that, right?
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by virgilp 7y ago
Doesn't matter what metaphor you chose - he was fired for the wrong reasons. To exaggerate: if Trump were found to be helping out a Mexican immigrant, and after the huge scandal with his voter base he'd get impeached - I wouldn&#x
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by virgilp 7y ago
> Opinions aren't cheap. They have a real cost. I.e. "before trying to form your own opinions, make sure you can afford to". Nice world we live in. I don't disagree with you wrt the current state of affairs, I just fi
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by virgilp 7y ago
GDP doesn't matter here. Average salary might... presuming employees that maintain the system are paid average salary, AND the cost is overwhelmingly in the "salaries" category - which I sorta' doubt.
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by virgilp 7y ago
I don't have the 1Gbps connection, I took the cheaper 400Mbps one. But they're fairly good at actually offering the promised bandwidth. Again, internet is one of the very few top-notch things here, better than most of the world.
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by virgilp 7y ago
Well, Romania is known for cheap internet prices, but for reference, here the largest _private_ operator is offering 1Gbps for $9.33/mo, taxes included (19% VAT). I kinda' doubt that $50/mo is really unsustainable, especially
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by virgilp 7y ago
> The debates might be valid but the place, and time (given everything going on about the connections between Epstein and the MIT) are what is wrong here. Yes. And it's such a Stallman thing to do, to have a valid debate regardless
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by virgilp 7y ago
Have you actually tried talking to a lot of children about this topic? (it would be funny if you did; it would also be equally funny if you didn't, and are surprised that children didn't express said argument, even though you didn
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by virgilp 7y ago
Ah, but then I can learn R2 by simply sending F enough R1, no?
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by virgilp 7y ago
Most people underestimate the usefulness of location data. Do you can use location data to compute accurate credit scores? (better than what banks achieve). To predict health state?
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by virgilp 7y ago
_Maybe_ you don't need that much CS per se (debateable, but an argument can be made); however you do need a lot of math coursework. Also, it's far easier to grasp the basics of AI from a course than to reconstruct "basic body
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by virgilp 7y ago
Oh, I see what you mean; I would still be seriously impressed with any bootcamp that teaches approximation algorithms. And not in a good way TBH - it kinda' defeats the purpose of the bootcamp. It's hard enough to go through Knuth
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by virgilp 7y ago
>how to solve TSP with dynamic programming. Impressive. (TSP is NP-hard. Not even NP-complete because you can't verify the solution in polynomial time... or at least, I don't know how to do it and would love to see a solution w

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