Today, according to the U. S. Government Manual of 1998-99, the EEOC enforces laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age in hiring, promoting, firing, setting wages, testing, training, apprenticeship, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Race, color, sex, creed, and age are now protected classes.
Ironically, your straw man's right to be a racist prick is protected by the law. Note that he has no right to bring his prejudices into the workplace.
First, I'm absolutely 100% against Prop 8. I'm not gay; I just don't think I should have a say in the relationship between two consenting adults.
That said, I'm absolutely 100% for Eich's right to have an opinion I disagree with. If he were acting on his opinion in an official capacity, sure, release the dogs of PR war. But if he maintains a nondiscriminatory policy, even if he may personally not like it, then that's about all you have the right to ask of him.
Remember, sometime it'll be our turn to have an unpopular opinion. Would it be OK for our companies to fire us for them, even if we don't bring them into our workplaces? That's not a society I'd like to live in.
7. No locks and eventual consistency. I work at a company which answers about 40,000 HTTP requests per second, average, 24/7. Some techniques that make sense at small scale ("lock this object, read it, update it, release") would bring the whole thing to a grinding standstill at larger concurrencies. Learn the tradeoffs between ACID and eventually consistent databases and when each is more appropriate.
8. CAP theorem and why you can't just code around it.
We'll be seeing each of these becoming more and more important as the standard abstraction programming model moves up from transistor logic to assembler to virtual machines to distributed computing.
Presumably Cogent knew this when courting Netflix as a customer. How is Cogent's arrangement with AT&T (and every other individual ISP on the planet) any of Netflix's concern?
For various reasons, I'm stuck with Comcast. I don't know and don't care what agreement they have with Telstra when I'm emailing stuff to my friends.
If they can serve 30-years-in-10, I guaran-fucking-tee that people will decry a 10 year sentence as "soft on crime" and push for 120-years-in-40 for downloading movies or other heinous crimes. The nice thing about a life sentence is that they can't do any more to you than that. In extreme cases, you still have suicide as an option (either directly or by chowing down on horrible prison food and not exercising until your ticker gives out). If you're facing 180 years in prison for armed robbery as an 18 year old, guess what: you're going to serve it. There's no early out when Johnny gets his gun.
LOL Drepper. He had a free pass to be an abrasive jerk for years because of his supposed dedication to perfection and uncompromising quality. In retrospect, maybe he was just a jerk to shut down people who wanted to examine his work more closely than he liked.
Hey, I went to Pleasant View, Hillcrest, and later Glendale. Yeah, it wasn't the best place in the world to be known as the smart kid. That made for some long, unpleasant bus rides home.
I'm not a homeschooler (all my kids are in public), but I've known a few. One of my best friends is a family practice doc. His family homeschools because they believe they can give a better education than the local schools in his small town, but he's adamantly in favor of vaccination.
Homeschooling absolutely doesn't imply anti-vax (although the Venn diagram does overlap a fair bit).
And you would most assuredly be wrong. Certainly not recently. We are quite careful about what we eat, tending only to eat those things God fashioned and directed us to eat.
God provided me with a cheeseburger yesterday, and it was aluminumally delicious.
Yes, I'm making fun of you. All opinions aren't equal, and yours is incredibly naive and dangerous. You're endangering your kids for no legitimate reason, you're a bad parent, and I have no desire to be tactful about this idiocy anymore.
You misspelled "willful accomplices". Everyone's heard that vaccines are good and safe. Rallying against that is exactly like arguing that cigarette smoke is harmless when it's well documented and universally understood to be the opposite.
Anti-vaxxer here. Convince me that I and my entire family should vaccinate.
That's not our collective job. Convince me that you should have the right to spread diseases that could otherwise easily be eradicated.
I don't want all the toxins
Full stop here. "Toxin" is something that a bacteria squirts out, like botulinum toxin. That's the only thing it means. The only people who use "toxin" in any other context are the ones who want to sell you treatments to remove them from your body. No doctor or scientist refers to toxins as meaning anything else.
and animal byproducts used in creating these vaccines injected into me or my children. Nor the aluminum components.
Why aluminum, specifically? I just drank a can of highly flammable hydrogen in compound with ridiculously dangerous oxygen, containing among other things a hell's blend of reactive sodium and deadly chlorine. And it tasted good. You've probably had many a pickle brined in vinegar (acetic acid! corrosive!) and alum (aluminum, potassium, sulfur, and oxygen again!), so why is aluminum as one chemical in a compound of many a particular concern in this context?
You probably wouldn't want to sit down and eat half a pound of aluminum powder by itself, but you and your kids have almost certainly ingested some as food ingredient recently.
Nor many others. Why do any vaccines need monkey kidneys in it?
Because that's a more convenient incubator for poliovirus than a human kidney.
Not remotely. Public health has long been accepted as a legitimate concern of the government.
Stupidity, ignorance, religious preference (which I know a lot of people 'round these parts will lump in with stupidity), lack of access, distrust of the government, distrust of doctors, etc.
Of these, lack of access is the only legitimate excuse and it's self limiting and easy to address. Many places offer mobile free vaccination clinics.
Look, bud, if you don't like living in a country that promotes and supports individual liberty, you're free to either try and amend the Constitution or expatriate.
I can just about guarantee I'd win a "more Libertarian than thou" contest, but your idea of individual liberty is severely flawed. That old saying about your right to swing your fists ends where my nose begins? Well, your right to carry around dangerous pathogens for the hell of it ends where my immune system begins. You don't have the right to willfully take steps to make people around you ill.
Neither of those are at all true. Plenty of pediatricians (like ours) refuse to treat willfully unvaccinated kids because of the high risk they present to other patients. If you're taking a two week old baby into the doctor's office for a well baby checkup, the last thing you want to see is some moron's measles vector sitting in the same waiting room. "First, do no harm" nicely dovetails with "by condoning and tolerating anti-science Luddites spreading disease through your office."
This isn't uncommon and most doctors who feel this way make no attempt to hide it. If nothing else, if a patient doesn't trust their doctor when recommending safe, prudent vaccinations, will they trust that same doctor to recommend emergency surgery or other invasive treatments? If there's not a trust relationship, why even bother with it?
Anti-vaxxers should come to expect that their rejection of science leaves them to see only homeopaths and other witch doctors because science-based ones won't touch them with a 10 foot pole. If they want to practice voodoo, why should they want or expect to receive all the other benefits of legitimate medicine?
Yeah, I don't know what sane person could get "blame the victim" out of that. Is it "blaming the victim" if my wife takes a self-defense class, or is it acknowledging that there are bad people in the world and it's prudent to learn how to deal with their presence?
I use 1Password on my Macbook. My password for 99% of websites is command-\, which autofills my username and password from its encrypted database.
There are plenty of alternatives for whatever platform you're using. Pick one and learn to love it. After all, the most convenient password is the one you never have to type.
It's because the naysayers are the ones more actively working in the field and closest to the experimental and theoretical results and are trying to actually accomplish these kinds of tasks.
More actively than Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google in charge of machine intelligence? Very few people in the world are more active in AI-related fields than he is.
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Yes, although he should anticipate being watched like a freaking hawk for any transgressions. According to The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
Ironically, your straw man's right to be a racist prick is protected by the law. Note that he has no right to bring his prejudices into the workplace.
I agree. I was answering the question in the summary, "should private beliefs be enough to prevent someone from heading a project they helped found?"
Of course not. Unless those beliefs become workplace actions, they should not affect someone's employment.
First, I'm absolutely 100% against Prop 8. I'm not gay; I just don't think I should have a say in the relationship between two consenting adults.
That said, I'm absolutely 100% for Eich's right to have an opinion I disagree with. If he were acting on his opinion in an official capacity, sure, release the dogs of PR war. But if he maintains a nondiscriminatory policy, even if he may personally not like it, then that's about all you have the right to ask of him.
Remember, sometime it'll be our turn to have an unpopular opinion. Would it be OK for our companies to fire us for them, even if we don't bring them into our workplaces? That's not a society I'd like to live in.
8. CAP theorem and why you can't just code around it.
We'll be seeing each of these becoming more and more important as the standard abstraction programming model moves up from transistor logic to assembler to virtual machines to distributed computing.
Presumably Cogent knew this when courting Netflix as a customer. How is Cogent's arrangement with AT&T (and every other individual ISP on the planet) any of Netflix's concern?
For various reasons, I'm stuck with Comcast. I don't know and don't care what agreement they have with Telstra when I'm emailing stuff to my friends.
You're doing God's work, son.
If they can serve 30-years-in-10, I guaran-fucking-tee that people will decry a 10 year sentence as "soft on crime" and push for 120-years-in-40 for downloading movies or other heinous crimes. The nice thing about a life sentence is that they can't do any more to you than that. In extreme cases, you still have suicide as an option (either directly or by chowing down on horrible prison food and not exercising until your ticker gives out). If you're facing 180 years in prison for armed robbery as an 18 year old, guess what: you're going to serve it. There's no early out when Johnny gets his gun.
LOL Drepper. He had a free pass to be an abrasive jerk for years because of his supposed dedication to perfection and uncompromising quality. In retrospect, maybe he was just a jerk to shut down people who wanted to examine his work more closely than he liked.
I don't assume anything, except that we've both resided in the same place and I very likely know your "rural backwoods" area. :-)
Hey, I went to Pleasant View, Hillcrest, and later Glendale. Yeah, it wasn't the best place in the world to be known as the smart kid. That made for some long, unpleasant bus rides home.
I'm not a homeschooler (all my kids are in public), but I've known a few. One of my best friends is a family practice doc. His family homeschools because they believe they can give a better education than the local schools in his small town, but he's adamantly in favor of vaccination.
Homeschooling absolutely doesn't imply anti-vax (although the Venn diagram does overlap a fair bit).
Did you miss the lower bad outcomes risk than the vaccine?
I did, but the math (and severity of outcomes) were off so I ignored it.
That's a pretty legit-sounding reason not to trust that particular doctor. I wouldn't hesitate to look for another doctor and get a second opinion.
Point taken, and you're correct.
And you would most assuredly be wrong. Certainly not recently. We are quite careful about what we eat, tending only to eat those things God fashioned and directed us to eat.
God provided me with a cheeseburger yesterday, and it was aluminumally delicious.
Yes, I'm making fun of you. All opinions aren't equal, and yours is incredibly naive and dangerous. You're endangering your kids for no legitimate reason, you're a bad parent, and I have no desire to be tactful about this idiocy anymore.
I skipped the second M of the MMR (mumps), as my sons exposure risk was minimal and it's very treatable with lower bad outcomes than the vaccine.
Have you ever seen the mumps? What kind of sadistic bastard would rather see his kid suffer through that than a 5-second injection?
Punishing the victims.
You misspelled "willful accomplices". Everyone's heard that vaccines are good and safe. Rallying against that is exactly like arguing that cigarette smoke is harmless when it's well documented and universally understood to be the opposite.
Anti-vaxxer here. Convince me that I and my entire family should vaccinate.
That's not our collective job. Convince me that you should have the right to spread diseases that could otherwise easily be eradicated.
I don't want all the toxins
Full stop here. "Toxin" is something that a bacteria squirts out, like botulinum toxin. That's the only thing it means. The only people who use "toxin" in any other context are the ones who want to sell you treatments to remove them from your body. No doctor or scientist refers to toxins as meaning anything else.
and animal byproducts used in creating these vaccines injected into me or my children. Nor the aluminum components.
Why aluminum, specifically? I just drank a can of highly flammable hydrogen in compound with ridiculously dangerous oxygen, containing among other things a hell's blend of reactive sodium and deadly chlorine. And it tasted good. You've probably had many a pickle brined in vinegar (acetic acid! corrosive!) and alum (aluminum, potassium, sulfur, and oxygen again!), so why is aluminum as one chemical in a compound of many a particular concern in this context?
You probably wouldn't want to sit down and eat half a pound of aluminum powder by itself, but you and your kids have almost certainly ingested some as food ingredient recently.
Nor many others. Why do any vaccines need monkey kidneys in it?
Because that's a more convenient incubator for poliovirus than a human kidney.
Unconstitutional
Not remotely. Public health has long been accepted as a legitimate concern of the government.
Stupidity, ignorance, religious preference (which I know a lot of people 'round these parts will lump in with stupidity), lack of access, distrust of the government, distrust of doctors, etc.
Of these, lack of access is the only legitimate excuse and it's self limiting and easy to address. Many places offer mobile free vaccination clinics.
Look, bud, if you don't like living in a country that promotes and supports individual liberty, you're free to either try and amend the Constitution or expatriate.
I can just about guarantee I'd win a "more Libertarian than thou" contest, but your idea of individual liberty is severely flawed. That old saying about your right to swing your fists ends where my nose begins? Well, your right to carry around dangerous pathogens for the hell of it ends where my immune system begins. You don't have the right to willfully take steps to make people around you ill.
Neither of those are at all true. Plenty of pediatricians (like ours) refuse to treat willfully unvaccinated kids because of the high risk they present to other patients. If you're taking a two week old baby into the doctor's office for a well baby checkup, the last thing you want to see is some moron's measles vector sitting in the same waiting room. "First, do no harm" nicely dovetails with "by condoning and tolerating anti-science Luddites spreading disease through your office."
This isn't uncommon and most doctors who feel this way make no attempt to hide it. If nothing else, if a patient doesn't trust their doctor when recommending safe, prudent vaccinations, will they trust that same doctor to recommend emergency surgery or other invasive treatments? If there's not a trust relationship, why even bother with it?
Anti-vaxxers should come to expect that their rejection of science leaves them to see only homeopaths and other witch doctors because science-based ones won't touch them with a 10 foot pole. If they want to practice voodoo, why should they want or expect to receive all the other benefits of legitimate medicine?
Yeah, I don't know what sane person could get "blame the victim" out of that. Is it "blaming the victim" if my wife takes a self-defense class, or is it acknowledging that there are bad people in the world and it's prudent to learn how to deal with their presence?
There are plenty of alternatives for whatever platform you're using. Pick one and learn to love it. After all, the most convenient password is the one you never have to type.
It's because the naysayers are the ones more actively working in the field and closest to the experimental and theoretical results and are trying to actually accomplish these kinds of tasks.
More actively than Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google in charge of machine intelligence? Very few people in the world are more active in AI-related fields than he is.
They've even invented protocols for sharing information between themselves.
That's utterly different from selective enforcement.