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No. First of all you're being pretty rude. Secondly, I don't want ANY pecking order in Tor. They should just focus on making privacy tools and leave the unrelated political messaging aside.

I wouldn't say "clearly". They make reference to doing something about harassment but give no outline what that might be. The post is tagged feminism. Believe it or not, not everyone supports this type of feminism. I'm not comfortable with Tor being so overtly political.

What exactly does this mean? Are there new centralized control mechanisms in the works for Tor? This seems like a really bad idea TBH. I don't want my privacy tools to come with some strangely ambiguous "political" feeling sentiment. Focus is the key to success and this doesn't seem like it.

His female colleagues had no issue with the shirt. It was the guy who wrote The Verge article and the following pile on that had issue with it.

In fact some of his female colleagues came to his defense on Twitter.

This wasn't an attack on "men" it was an attack on a specific man and yes, it was totally outrageous.

Women don't need thicker skin. No man or woman should be criticized for how they dress.

Diverse, as long as you dress EXACTLY how you're "supposed" to.

A friend made him this shirt. He was wearing it as a tribute since the day was important to him. He got nailed to the wall.

Remember when scientists and engineers could dress how they wanted and be independent thinkers? It's sad to see that coming to an end. This is not a win for science or free thought.

No, but it's horribly unfair to ruin what is probably going to be the most important day in this guy's life.

The shirt was made by a woman who's friends with the guy anyway. He's just quirky, not sexist. We shouldn't label him as such.

It was a reaction to an article yesterday on The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/7213819/your-bowling-shir...)

So sadly, it was the US press that made this happen.

Incorrect, women aren't as weak as you think they are. He worked with many awesome women to make this mission happen BTW.

More likely this type of overreaction and hysteria will keep free thinking individuals out of science.

It's not just the US. Just today the UK press made the lead scientist of the Rosetta mission cry by attacking his SHIRT instead of celebrating his achievements.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/11231320/Rosetta-mi...

I have been retweeted by it :P

I stand by my opinion though despite the (anticipated) downvoting. Programming in PHP is anti-intellectual.

My problem with PHP is that it's a signal of developer laziness. There are a lot of very interesting things going on with languages nowadays. If you develop in PHP because "it pays the bills" you ARE NOT the type of developer I ever want to work with.

Honestly, I'm starting to see the same thing with Python/Ruby/JS devs. Stick with one language that you're comfortable with and never push yourself.

PHP is an order of magnitude worse in that respect than the other scripting languages.

His technical background is clearly insufficient in that he doesn't understand the BASIC technical problems in his argument. Yet, he feels he's qualified to authoritatively call for radical government access to our data in a mainstream media publication.

He's changed his position to "need more information to decide". Well DUH! how about getting that information before scaring up a call to backdoor all of our data?

You sound like a really good doctor, but alas I'm pretty healthy (thankfully!).

I agree that there are good doctors, but I'd rather not have it be such a crap shoot. The consistency and depth of knowledge provided by an expert system of some sort seems like the way to go.

You can definitely feel this as a patient. If I could give my vitals to an app and have it diagnose and prescribe remedies, I would do it in a heart beat and never visit a doctor again (of course you would need robot surgeons too :).

I've never seen a doctor research anything either (although I'm sure they do behind the scenes). They seem to be pulling from whatever information cache they have in their head which I often suspect is horribly outdated.

I'd take a crowd sourced db of health info over a doctor's personal knowledge any day of the week.

Was it a love for Native American culture that caused the original European settlers to come to the US? No, it was raw opportunity. Unless you're talking about Native American culture, then ALL culture in the US was constructed by immigrants.

Even Native Americans were immigrants as they crossed the Bering land bridge ;)

There are plenty of untalented natives in any country. I do not think the government is particularly good at spotting talent. We should just let everyone in IMO.

Besides, "talent" can mean many things. Is the Mexican mother who can't speak English and doesn't have a college degree (maybe not even high school), but can make BAD ASS food and is capable of raising a family of 5 talented?

I agree that would be hypocritical. I didn't tell him to wait his turn though, I told him I support open borders.

If he wanted to come into this country illegally, I personally would have no problem with it. Maybe then though, he'd see that those people don't have it easy since they obviously won't be getting high-end engineering jobs like that and will realize they are no threat to anyone whatsoever.

Good genes?! This is the most racist thing I've read on HN. I see why you have a throwaway account.

What harm were those people actually causing you?

I live in the US and I'm not ensured any of those things. Allowing more people into the country could only improve our economy.

We would be more "selective"? How would we select?

Why don't you want open borders? You haven't said why it's bad.

The internet is a good example of a culture than can exist if you do away with artificial barriers between groups of people. Modern immigration policy is not inherently correct and it wasn't devised during an age of hyper connectivity.

I support open borders for the reasons I listed.

And you know, everyone who's not xenophobic, enjoys living in a diverse community and philosophically believes people should be able to live wherever they want.

I think there are two separate issues in your comment...

You make more than your sister doing "less" work because knowledge and high level skills are a value multiplier. You may come up with a world changing idea that generates billions of dollars. No kindergarden teacher could achieve that. Pay matches accordingly.

Your second point is that there seems to be a lot of people with useless jobs and I couldn't agree more. We're RAPIDLY approaching the point where most people are employed to do basically nothing of value. How many people's jobs could be replaced by the mythical "script" written in a day by a good dev?

I'm glad to see us get to this point. People should learn and practice useful skills. So as not to cause a violent revolution, I think we do need some form of basic income though. That would also enable creatives to experiment and produce without economic pressure which I think is great. I also don't care if 99% of people mooch off this model as most people are just wasting time at work as it is anyway.

Maybe I'm parsing your comment incorrectly, but do you mean that you used to have clients that allowed you to make your own schedule but you no longer do? Out of curiosity, what caused the change?

I firmly believe we'll see more people move to a consulting model where they work far fewer hours, are more productive and make as much or more money as before.

I agree with the real estate issue.

My point is that people CAN afford to live in these places and those people built their fortunes on the back of a labor supply with artificially suppressed wages.

I agree that's a good idea but in the context of this story...

Who lives in this ultra expensive real estate? The execs stiffing the developers on pay while making bank on their work.