It is always right to punch a Nazi. It always has been and it always will be.
See Popper's "The Open Society" - basically you can not give unlimited tolerance to intolerance, or else the Nazis gain control and there is no more tolerance allowed.
At some point, you have to use violence to resist intolerance, and yes this does seem paradoxical. The point is that true Nazis are not amenable to reasoned debate (any more than ISIS), and I don't imagine many people here think we should only ever talk to ISIS and never use violence against them.
Isn't using power to shut down dissent instead of debate kind of the whole reason we think fascism is bad?
No one's shutting down anything. Or do you think that, say, a Roman Catholic Church should be compelled to host Atheist or Satanist (or Protestant) speakers every Sunday alongside the regular priest's sermon?
But Hugo Chavez is/was a hero and champion of the left. Populism is good if you're Chavez but bad if you're Trump because... ????
I didn't read OP as thinking Chavez was any sort of hero, I think he was pointing out the irony of the Trump being so similar to Chavez in many bad ways.
Yes, exactly. That's why I quoted that part of the post! I fully realize the Dems haven't lived up to their promises (though they blame much of that on the Republicans and their "obstructionism", but when you have people like DWS in bed with the payday-loan businesses, it's hard to believe the Dems are as in favor of helping the poor as they claim), but the part I found interesting was the claim about SJWs wanting to be exploiters.
It could legitimately be argued that if you're a rich, powerful right winger and someone wants to redistribute some of your wealth and power, you would look on them as working against your own self interest and therefore 'exploiting' you.
The alternative explanation, of course, is that OP is talking bollocks.
I suspect that increased Norepinephrine in the prefrontal cortex mediated by the activation of Nicotinic receptors increases prefrontal cortical control over the limbic system.
But apparently if I call an afro-american "black" that makes me a racist. And I'm not really happy about being called that.
Yes, but if using "black" is tantamount to using "n-word" where you live, then you just have to accept that you shouldn't use "black" unless you want to cause offence and be seen as racist.
The usage and social acceptability of words varies over time and across locations and contexts. I can say "fuck you" on the internet with impunity but if I said it to a police officer I could be in legal trouble, and if I said it in anger at work I could be in disciplinary trouble. A hundred years ago I'd have been unable to publish it in a mainstream book.
I live in the UK where we don't use "person of colour" at all, but do use "black" as a neutral descriptor, so it's hard to judge how reasonable your coworker was being.
Because you work in the tech industry you are assuming that the tech industry is the bellwether of industry in general. People in other industries such as banking or car manufacturing would probably disagree.
Counting only those PCs used for web browsing, an good 10%, strongly reinforcing what GP said: not everyone is using Microsoft software on their PC; and Microsoft is a hugely important company, but not as influential on the PC market as it used to be.
In the real world outside slashdot, a company with 90% share of a market would be considered pretty influential.
As a pure coincidence, it wasn't two days ago that I was editing Wikipedia about Knuth, TeX, etc. One thing I have wondered before and wonder now is if he has some plan for what happens to the work once he dies. Simply put, at this pace, he will not finish the book. Is anyone working with him to ensure that it is completed if he dies? Does anyone know? I'd like to ask him via snail mail but I frankly don't want to waste his time.
That's already been explained. The combination of truck color, angle (it was on the crest of a hill) and lighting conditions made the Tesla interpret it as being a flyover.
And why is that somehow not a flaw with the Tesla software?
As for "lorry", I have no problem with the BBC using "lorry" in place "tractor trailer", given that the BBC serves a primarily British audience. But Slashdot serves an international audience of decently educated people who are familiar with both British and American English, so it makes sense to use the original terminology wherever possible. In this particular case, the coverage is for a report authored by the US government, so using the term "tractor trailer" would make far more sense.
The BBC is a UK organisation, it will communicate using UK English. The term "tractor trailer" would be meaningless to most of us in the UK, if the BBC quoted it from an original US report they would have to provide an explanation.
Most British people would see "tractor trailer" and assume it was something to do with a farm tractor on or with a trailer. "Lorry" is a generic UK term for a big truck, a quick Google suggests that "articulated lorry" is a closer equivalent.
Autopilot is an automated pilot, not an Autonomous pilot. It automates part of the flying of the aircraft. It is not a replacement pilot. It can't make decisions.
This has been discussed endlessly on slashdot. The fact that some aviation company has used a highly misleading term to describe its product does not justify Tesla doing the same for cars.
Slashdot Mirror
Statistically, if you don't want to be poor do 3 things:
1) graduate high school
2) get a full time job
3) get married before you have kids
Because if there's one thing we know on slashdot it's that correlation=causation, right?
Frankly, I don't care anymore whether people call me a racist or white supremacist; it's about as ridiculous as calling me a zoophile or cannibal.
Not if you hang around in groups who happily discuss the joys of fucking sheep and eating their neighbours.
We won't really know how to judge it for some years yet.
The danger is that by then it will be too late to do anything peaceful about it.
Well, you should go to those forums to listen and ask questions, not to lecture or proselytize.
So in between passively listening and actively lecturing, where does the much-vaunted right to free discussion sit?
It is always right to punch a Nazi. It always has been and it always will be.
See Popper's "The Open Society" - basically you can not give unlimited tolerance to intolerance, or else the Nazis gain control and there is no more tolerance allowed.
At some point, you have to use violence to resist intolerance, and yes this does seem paradoxical. The point is that true Nazis are not amenable to reasoned debate (any more than ISIS), and I don't imagine many people here think we should only ever talk to ISIS and never use violence against them.
Arguing with them?
Isn't using power to shut down dissent instead of debate kind of the whole reason we think fascism is bad?
No one's shutting down anything. Or do you think that, say, a Roman Catholic Church should be compelled to host Atheist or Satanist (or Protestant) speakers every Sunday alongside the regular priest's sermon?
But Hugo Chavez is/was a hero and champion of the left. Populism is good if you're Chavez but bad if you're Trump because ... ????
I didn't read OP as thinking Chavez was any sort of hero, I think he was pointing out the irony of the Trump being so similar to Chavez in many bad ways.
Yes, exactly. That's why I quoted that part of the post! I fully realize the Dems haven't lived up to their promises (though they blame much of that on the Republicans and their "obstructionism", but when you have people like DWS in bed with the payday-loan businesses, it's hard to believe the Dems are as in favor of helping the poor as they claim), but the part I found interesting was the claim about SJWs wanting to be exploiters.
It could legitimately be argued that if you're a rich, powerful right winger and someone wants to redistribute some of your wealth and power, you would look on them as working against your own self interest and therefore 'exploiting' you.
The alternative explanation, of course, is that OP is talking bollocks.
I suspect that increased Norepinephrine in the prefrontal cortex mediated by the activation of Nicotinic receptors increases prefrontal cortical control over the limbic system.
That's easy for you to say.
Oh, actual racist, yes.
But apparently if I call an afro-american "black" that makes me a racist. And I'm not really happy about being called that.
Yes, but if using "black" is tantamount to using "n-word" where you live, then you just have to accept that you shouldn't use "black" unless you want to cause offence and be seen as racist.
I live in the UK where we don't use "person of colour" at all, but do use "black" as a neutral descriptor, so it's hard to judge how reasonable your coworker was being.
I think OP was referring to the emotional maturity of Mr Trump, not that of Big Brother.
Start menu where's my Start menu! Uck you Microsoft where the fuckimg fuck is my fuckinv start fucking menu! START. MENU.
Yeah, you have to have a Start button for when you want to stop your computer. Anything else is just unintuitive.
Apple laptops are the norm in the tech industry
Because you work in the tech industry you are assuming that the tech industry is the bellwether of industry in general. People in other industries such as banking or car manufacturing would probably disagree.
Shelley was a romantic anarchist, not a reactionary satirist.
Counting only those PCs used for web browsing, an good 10%, strongly reinforcing what GP said: not everyone is using Microsoft software on their PC; and Microsoft is a hugely important company, but not as influential on the PC market as it used to be.
In the real world outside slashdot, a company with 90% share of a market would be considered pretty influential.
they will never, ever stop until they get what they want.
Squirrel Terminators.
As a pure coincidence, it wasn't two days ago that I was editing Wikipedia about Knuth, TeX, etc. One thing I have wondered before and wonder now is if he has some plan for what happens to the work once he dies. Simply put, at this pace, he will not finish the book. Is anyone working with him to ensure that it is completed if he dies? Does anyone know? I'd like to ask him via snail mail but I frankly don't want to waste his time.
That'd be a fun exchange of letters.
Fundamentally all programming is research, you have a problem and you need to develop a robust solution on how to solve it.
Sounds more like a definition of engineering than research.
Having 8 more years of life to spend exercising doesn't seem so great.
You do realise that you don't have to spend the 8 years continuously exercising? Right?
That's already been explained. The combination of truck color, angle (it was on the crest of a hill) and lighting conditions made the Tesla interpret it as being a flyover.
And why is that somehow not a flaw with the Tesla software?
As for "lorry", I have no problem with the BBC using "lorry" in place "tractor trailer", given that the BBC serves a primarily British audience. But Slashdot serves an international audience of decently educated people who are familiar with both British and American English, so it makes sense to use the original terminology wherever possible. In this particular case, the coverage is for a report authored by the US government, so using the term "tractor trailer" would make far more sense.
The BBC is a UK organisation, it will communicate using UK English. The term "tractor trailer" would be meaningless to most of us in the UK, if the BBC quoted it from an original US report they would have to provide an explanation.
Most British people would see "tractor trailer" and assume it was something to do with a farm tractor on or with a trailer. "Lorry" is a generic UK term for a big truck, a quick Google suggests that "articulated lorry" is a closer equivalent.
Autopilot is an automated pilot, not an Autonomous pilot. It automates part of the flying of the aircraft. It is not a replacement pilot. It can't make decisions.
This has been discussed endlessly on slashdot. The fact that some aviation company has used a highly misleading term to describe its product does not justify Tesla doing the same for cars.
I do not want to have a pointless argument with you
Yes you do.
It didn't stop vinyl from coming back when it is objectively a worse format than a CD.
As far as I can see, the one thing that vinyl LPs have going for them is their size, so you can actually see the cover art.
With cassettes you don't even have that.