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Feels like a sentence like this doesn't explain much. I assume you are not moving files around all day, so where is the productivity exactly in a tool like Midnight Commander? What it allows you to do?
You find some articles via google search about things like "black lives matter" in Croatia and claim it is relevant there somehow. There was a BLM protest in Lithuania too (where I am from). There were maybe 10 black people in that protest. Half of them when interviewed said they were traveling through different countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland) to create and initiate those protest. Then if you look at the people who attended - mostly teenagers. When asked why they are attending this protest they came up with "to show solidarity for US". Which is to say - they are being fed US politics over the internet and found an opportunity to join an event here.
So that's how I see it. These US political things leak to other countries. Through media, through twitter and instagram, and now even through HN.
From the perspective of where I live (Eastern Europe):
"Black lives matter" - We have very few black people living here. And very few problems with police in general. When something bad happens it typically happens to the police, not by the police.
"Racism" - we have no history of slavery nor racism, except being subjected to it. Even more - originally the word "slave" was derived from the word "slav".
"Sexism in tech" - there is no sexism in tech here. Tech is not even a prestigious field. People want to work in law, medicine and finance. Some can even be quite ashamed to admit they work in a technical field.
"Transphobia" - even such things as thinking about "sex" and "gender" as different concepts are quite US specific. i.e. where I live we typically refer to people by their sex, and don't even have a term for a separate concept like gender.
Yet these things are so pervasive on the internet. People even post their pronouns on twitter and (in this case) fill their GitHub profiles with that stuff. They can do it of course, it might even be a good thing to do. But I do not think this deserves a front page of HN. Hence why I am glad it was flagged.
People are mainly talking about US politics here. And look at the discussion. Every different opinion is downvoted and dead.
I've tried a few tutorials about git internals before, but always get confused in the middle for some reason. I go just after git being a list with pointers where each element having a hash and what not. But still something seems to be missing in the end to make it all coherent.
Posted this answer on SE too.
For new questions there are two strategies. First is to post a sketch of an answer first, and then edit and edit and edit to add more content to it. This way OP will see the core of it quickly and can upvote and nobody will "scoop" you on it. Second strategy is to write detailed and elaborate answer so that when your answer appears it will outshine the rivals by being the most comprehensive and most deep.
But frankly, nowadays, I feel like 95% of newly posted questions are duplicates and should be closed, yet aren't because even high rep users prefer to post a quick answer for some points, instead of going through the (as of yet unrewarded) effort to close the answer properly.
Also a lot depends on the tag.
So here is a proposal: in protesting Fisher let's stop doing randomization.
"The abolition of man" by "C.S. Lewis" 3 times.
"The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times" by René Guénon. 3 times, and planning to set a weekend for another re-read soon.
> You make it sound like posters should write some epic multi-paragraph thumbsucker
He doesn't 'sound' like it. He enforces the rules about how it should be. And I agree with the judgement - the comment he replied to had no real substance. It's a kind of thing you post on a reddit meme thread as a first comment in order to accumulate "likes".
Claiming da Vinci is overrated to Jobs because Jobs shipped more is on the same bar as saying Beethoven is overrated because his music is not suitable for a disco club and is less profitable.
Those protests are ripe for foreign influence escalating the situation. USA knows this best of all with its history of amplifying civil unrest abroad in order to advance its geopolitical goals.
For USA the most recent were the Honk-Kong protests which it used to try undermining China. So wondering how China will respond now. Russia might try promoting Black Lives Matter again to escalate the tensions. Then there is Iran too. Would be interesting to somehow get the list of all the players.
However there is another interpretation which says that ability to remove someone from your private business is also an expression of free speech. And that private companies as well as individuals are free to choose who they do business with. But there is one nuance here - this is better served under another principle which is "freedom of association". Freedom of association states that you can refuse to deal with anyone you don't like. However in USA this principle recently lost its value after certain group of Christians were not allowed to refuse baking a cake for a gay couple. So it seems there are certain protections.
But then there is a third thing which is that in some countries (and I am not sure here about USA) the president has the right to send a message using any media channel he sees fit, and the media channel cannot refuse. Informing and communicating with the public is one of president's duties and refusing to send his message infringes upon it. If USA has such a law and if Twitter could be interpreted as a media platform then it could be against the law for Twitter to do what it is currently doing. Unlikely thou, as twitter has a team of lawers and likely they were consulted beforehand.
> Zooming all the way out I don't see why Twitter really care about such a fight
Companies are ran by people and those people take political sides. Twitter is on the democratic party side, and the election season is coming. I predict we will se a bigger coordinated effort spanning Google, Youtube, and Twitter, and some other big corporations as we get closer to USA president election date.
When I read something written in the style of a medium post I sub-consciously think of the material as being shallow. While reading this type of LaTeX style I would start taking it more seriously. But the texts with most serious look to me are non-formatted pages, like the ones on danluu.com or even plain text posts like this one: http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/t/transint.html
But even after reading the "about" section I am still confused on how it works.
In particular I have the style with disfigured colorful human figures displayed in various weird poses. I am not sure what is the name of this drawing style and how it got popular, for some reason it repulses me, but here is one example I remember:
My only "suggestion" is to please keep it functional and simple.
As for whether or not tibbles should be data.frames - I posted a link to this exact discussion on R-dev mailing list within this thread, as an answer to a different poster. Here it is: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2017q3/001896...