HN user
Like the original commenter, everyone at my company really likes all the folks at Cockroach Labs. It's been a pleasure working with them.
We're currently in discussion with them to see if we can resolve this licensing change to our satisfaction. If not, we'll do the obvious (use a different database) as you said.
Using any protected class
Right. And they're saying it would be best if they weren't accidentally doing that.
DEI isn't an anti-discrimination effort, they are actively carrying out discrimination
Why do you think this? All efforts I've seen have been to correct for the discrimination currently occurring in the system.
You admit that women are overrepresented
I don't. We're still substantially less than 50% of engineering.
The evidence in tech company hiring actually shows women are favored over men
If this were true, men would be the minority. Women like money just as much as men do, and would leverage that non-existent favoritism to get those high paying jobs.
I don't know about the power of appointment there and it's limitations. Regardless, that's still an influence move. It's either trying to influence the existing people in power via threat of unemployment, or influencing potential replacements with a promise of employment.
diverse candidate
Even though some people would call me that, I've always hated that term/ideology. I wish companies would shift their mindset to, "a candidate that adds to our diversity". E.g. my current employer has done a really good job at not discriminating too much against women and attracting women, so we're well above industry average in our woman:NB:man ratio so it's more representative of the source population. We haven't done as well with regard to racial and age non-discrimination. As we do better in either of those two categories, the definition of "a candidate that adds to our diversity" will change.
We have already selected a male candidate for the internship so it'd be best if the next one was a woman
This is both true and legal (though I wish it included NBs as well). The more candidates you select from a given demographic, the probability increases that your organization is participating in a discriminatory system. If it makes it more palatable, reword it in your head by tacking on at the end, "... so we can be somewhat reassured we're not contributing to gender discrimination."
Your no-hire vote should have more justification since the candidate is a woman
Studies have shown even women evaluate women more harshly than they evaluate men. Extra justification is warranteed when gender is known or implied and the reviewer is likely to have unconscious bias. That's why better hiring systems try to hide gender on the initial application, so you can be reasonably reassured gender is not a factor. (That said, there are a lot of gender implications on many applications, so it can be tough to hide gender completely).
The reality is that we need a strong legal ruling against these type of things
Alternatively, guaranteed job placement into one's chosen profession would help everyone indiscriminately. Trying to ban anti-discrimination efforts serves only status quo biases.
too "problematic" to bring this up and the risk for retaliation is insanely high
I agree this is a risk. Surely there are some people who "bring this up" in a bigoted way and are rightfully fired, but I suspect there's a number of people who, with a gentle reframing, can see how their views are problematic and can learn the knowledge gaps that caused them to come to the wrong conclusion. From the company's perspective, they're doing anti-discrimination work, and an employee objection sounds like they're pro-discrimination. It's a bilateral failure to communicate in an at-will employment relationship.
I try to look at this pardon as a quick, easy, and obvious way he can use his limited power to improve people's lives.
Getting the DEA to reschedule it would involve more time and more influence than direct power.
That said, I think he should do both, AND that issuing this pardon may double as a good way of influencing the DEA.
This is Comcast's publication on the October 2023 leak of customer information. The most relevant section is copy/pasted below:
What Information Was Involved? On December 6, 2023, we concluded that the information included usernames and hashed passwords. For some customers, other information was also included, such as names, contact information, last four digits of social security numbers, dates of birth and/or secret questions and answers. However, our data analysis is continuing, and we will provide additional notices as appropriate.
I haven't. Thanks for the recommendation!
Spending time with family is my joy. Building games (Factorio, DSP, Satisfactory, Timberborn, etc) are my zen.
Practically speaking, no. It would be huge news in the legal field if some court allowed it, and the decision would certainly be appealed and overturned.
Tangentially, this has been great for Apple to get metrics on Android demand for iMessage. Sure, one can assume every Android user would want access, but instances like this show people are willing to pay for access as well.
Apple should bundle iMessage access for Android into iCloud's subscription and release an official Android app. Maybe some eyes from the DOJ will get that on Apple's roadmap (I can dream, right?).
My devil's advocate for Apple is that iMessage is relatively free of spam because of the exclusive architecture tied to hardware.
The issue isn't so much Beeper as it is the open the door to anyone on the Internet. I.e. Apple probably cares little about Beeper itself, and more about the risk of 3rd party software accessing its services/users.
A good number of us have had to combat spam/abuse in our careers, and we're sympathetic to the plight.
I like the expression, "Your data doesn't exist unless it exists in three places, and at least one of those places should be under your direct control."
I'm surprised people still trust Robinhood after the GameStop debacle.
What's your take on why it's reported to be one of the most dangerous cities in America?
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ut/salt-lake-city/crime
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/is-salt-lake-city-r...
Replace the domain name with nitter.net to view content anonymously
Last Week Tonight did a deep dive on how the courts are used to censor people.
Not to mention, you're still the product by producing content for their system and being reachable on/promoting their system.
Women have similar issues finding quality men. Men who aren't looking for a live-in maid/sex-worker/nanny/cook. Men who are responsible, and yes, ideally good looking too. Men don't raise boys to see women as equals, so the pool of quality men can be rather small.
Or, you know, have sex sober with trustworthy people and don't rape anyone. It's not a high bar.
Have you considered adding a section to the readme comparing Sshx to these well-known alternatives?
On a sample size of one, I can tell you there isn't zero enforcement. We probably ought to talk stats instead of impressions.
Personally, I'll never support profitizing the criminal justice system. Too much bad happens when you create a perverse incentive for the government to call everyone criminals. Law enforcement should cost money so we have to be selective about which laws we're creating and enforcing.
And then the boy fired the girl for the legally protected activities of talking about work conditions and how they might improve them.
The USA works that way with Civil Asset Forfeiture. Cops take your money/property and you have to sue to prove your innocence to get it back.
I see no practical reason for doing so. There's one owner who has daily involvement and final decision making power that is often exercised. Of course they'd address it to him.
Brave has some user-first features you'll never see from Chrome. E.g. ad/tracking blocking by default, cookie consent popup blocking offered, YouTube downloads on iOS.
That's in addition to some anti-Google and better privacy features.
I want a browser which actively fights the enshitification of the web. Brave is the best I've found so far. I'm hoping to find better.
10/10 satire. No notes.
It's disappointing to see so many TERF voices here. Transmisogynists tend to also be regular misogynists.
I hate to think about how all the folks here with hateful/bigoted comments are either current or potential future coworkers.
If you say so. Statistics, media, real world conversations, and often lived experience all say otherwise.
women want careers too
An alternate phrasing, "women work for anti-birth employers and women can't find trustworthy fathers."
We need absolutists like him
I agree we need passionate people working tirelessly for software freedom.
The broader free software community agrees we don't need people like him though.
From Wikipedia:
The FSF board on April 12 [2021] made a statement re-affirming its decision to bring back Richard Stallman.
Multiple organizations criticized, defunded and/or cut ties with the FSF, including: Red Hat, the Free Software Foundation Europe, the Software Freedom Conservancy, SUSE, the OSI, the Document Foundation, the EFF, and the Tor Project.
For those out of the loop, the Richard Stallman had repeatedly defended adults having sex with children over many years and he most recently said sex slaves aren't raped.