The paradox of tolerance is the dumbest argument I see put forth regularly on topics like these. There is no paradox. The assumption is that hearing intolerant views inevitably leads to more people being intolerant, but that has simply not been demonstrated.
This whole situation seems like a made up problem. I work on several open source projects that have thankfully not be subjected to one of these codes of conduct, but I honestly have no idea what the race/sex/whatever of at least 75% of the people I regularly work with. It doesn't matter. It's only an issue when generally less talented people want to dictate how everyone else should act. Enforced fake niceness, with a nice thick coating of legalism.
There are so many medium sized cities across the US that would love to have the problems that Seattle has. Growth? Check! Great jobs that aren't going away any time soon? Check! Rising income? Check!
Someone is going to complain no matter what happens. If nobody invests in your city (see Detroit), then it's been abandoned by the high tech economy. If they do, then it's taking away the soul of the city. Ridiculous.
Food has value because it has utility for us. That isn't anything intrinsic to the food. Is gold valuable intrinsically? Nope. It's also only valuable if you have some use for it. Dollars, both physical and virtual, have close to zero utility in and of themselves, but we still think of them as valuable.
It's all made up shit. The difference between bitcoin and dollars is only a difference of opinion.
>Yes, minimum wage in 1997 was ~$5. Now it's $15 in NY. It's well above $10 anywhere else.
No, it's not you freaking moron. There are a handful of places, all big cities, that have a minimum wage above $10/hour. Most place can still get away with paying half of the federal minimum wage ($3/hr) to tipped workers.
>As jobs are automated, their cost of production drops, meaning money is freed up to spend or invest elsewhere in the economy.
Except that that's not what's actually happening. Instead of reinvesting that money, giant companies are content to sit on it, since there is no productive use for it outside of drawing interest. What are these magical jobs that you think the bottom 50% of the talent pool (and eventually the bottom 99%) are going to be? And no, subsidence farming isn't going to make a huge comeback.
I work at a small startup in Seattle with unlimited vacation days, and I used about 4 1/2 weeks last year. Not all companies have the issue you bring up.
You're out of your mind. The amount of work that had to be done just to feed yourself varied wildly based on location. At absolute best, yes, you only had to work a couple of hours a day. At worst, and much more common, you were perpetually on the edge of starvation and constantly looking for food. You are whatever you could find or kill. Today your local grocery store has a larger variety of foods that any king could have ever wished for a couple of hundred years ago.
You also leave out the complete lack of effective medical treatment. Any scrape you got could get infected and kill you. Everyone was perpetually infested with lice and other kinds of insects feeding off of you, not to mention all of the species of fungus that would live in your crevices. If you were lucky, your toilet was a river.
Society isn't a shit heap. By almost any measure, things are better than they have ever been for almost everybody in the world. Wars are at an all time low, violence is too. Things only seem worse because the media and politicians stand to gain from you thinking that way.
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>You dont have to go through Outreachy.
That's the thing. Nobody does.
The paradox of tolerance is the dumbest argument I see put forth regularly on topics like these. There is no paradox. The assumption is that hearing intolerant views inevitably leads to more people being intolerant, but that has simply not been demonstrated.
This whole situation seems like a made up problem. I work on several open source projects that have thankfully not be subjected to one of these codes of conduct, but I honestly have no idea what the race/sex/whatever of at least 75% of the people I regularly work with. It doesn't matter. It's only an issue when generally less talented people want to dictate how everyone else should act. Enforced fake niceness, with a nice thick coating of legalism.
I lol'd. For real.
It doesn't need to be safe. It only needs to be safer than human drivers, which isn't a particularly high bar.
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No, we'll simply continue to ignore you. It's that easy.
> the only way to be just is to account for the historical oppression that whites have inflicted on people of color.
Who cares about being 'just'?
I lol every single time someone uses the phrase 'intrinsic value'. It's a fantasy. Nothing is valuable except in its use.
There are so many medium sized cities across the US that would love to have the problems that Seattle has. Growth? Check! Great jobs that aren't going away any time soon? Check! Rising income? Check!
Someone is going to complain no matter what happens. If nobody invests in your city (see Detroit), then it's been abandoned by the high tech economy. If they do, then it's taking away the soul of the city. Ridiculous.
Here is the actual Nazi platform:
http://www.historyplace.com/wo...
Points 9-17, 21, and 25 are straight up socialist, direct from Marx.
Food has value because it has utility for us. That isn't anything intrinsic to the food. Is gold valuable intrinsically? Nope. It's also only valuable if you have some use for it. Dollars, both physical and virtual, have close to zero utility in and of themselves, but we still think of them as valuable.
It's all made up shit. The difference between bitcoin and dollars is only a difference of opinion.
Nothing has intrinsic value. Things are only valuable because we decide they are.
Or you could try for custody.
You can find a high quality pirated copy of GoT the moment the episode is over on the Pirate Bay. 3 clicks and you're watching it.
>Yes, minimum wage in 1997 was ~$5. Now it's $15 in NY. It's well above $10 anywhere else.
No, it's not you freaking moron. There are a handful of places, all big cities, that have a minimum wage above $10/hour. Most place can still get away with paying half of the federal minimum wage ($3/hr) to tipped workers.
>As jobs are automated, their cost of production drops, meaning money is freed up to spend or invest elsewhere in the economy.
Except that that's not what's actually happening. Instead of reinvesting that money, giant companies are content to sit on it, since there is no productive use for it outside of drawing interest. What are these magical jobs that you think the bottom 50% of the talent pool (and eventually the bottom 99%) are going to be? And no, subsidence farming isn't going to make a huge comeback.
Always be sure to vacation in places without cell phone coverage.
I work at a small startup in Seattle with unlimited vacation days, and I used about 4 1/2 weeks last year. Not all companies have the issue you bring up.
If it's not anonymous, you're doing it wrong.
Who cares if he really believes it? How does it affect his ability to write code for an open source project at all?
You are advocating a witch hunt. Persecuting someone for their private beliefs. You make me sick.
You're out of your mind. The amount of work that had to be done just to feed yourself varied wildly based on location. At absolute best, yes, you only had to work a couple of hours a day. At worst, and much more common, you were perpetually on the edge of starvation and constantly looking for food. You are whatever you could find or kill. Today your local grocery store has a larger variety of foods that any king could have ever wished for a couple of hundred years ago.
You also leave out the complete lack of effective medical treatment. Any scrape you got could get infected and kill you. Everyone was perpetually infested with lice and other kinds of insects feeding off of you, not to mention all of the species of fungus that would live in your crevices. If you were lucky, your toilet was a river.
Sure everyone was almost equal, equally shitty.
You mean, something like this?
Society isn't a shit heap. By almost any measure, things are better than they have ever been for almost everybody in the world. Wars are at an all time low, violence is too. Things only seem worse because the media and politicians stand to gain from you thinking that way.
The problem is that most of these drugs haven't been shown to work better than placebo people on anything but the worst forms of depression.