LeftHandPath

> Refusing to serve a customer when you disagree with that customer's goal is pretty far from being a "moral arbiter for society." Keep in mind that anyone is free to use other services (or roll their own) and gitlab can't do anything about that. Neither would it be overreaching for the workers building that product to request a say in how it's used.

I think we're getting to the core of it here. [The law's opinion isn't clear yet, but it appears to lean in this direction.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...) GitLab's decision may not be adequate - but it could help dodge a bullet or two while the law sorts itself out.

> "The problem with the whole 'activism' mindset is it doesn't actually target the people who created the problem, it just creates lots of noise – and the problem with noise is facts get lost," Fellows said.

The responsible thing to do is to refuse to play ball. If they claimed to be actively vetting content and something slipped through the cracks, it could be more legitimately portrayed as an endorsement than something that occurred with a Laissez-Faire policy in place.

It also seems that the title is misrepresenting the facts. Needing more to reach the top one percent of an arbitrarily separated population should suggest that the rest of the population is also benefiting.

E.g. if you needed less to join the top 1%, then it could be suggested that the gap is increasing. If you need more... well, it could just as easily follow that the bottom 99% percent have merely moved closer to the top 1%, effectively raising the bar (which, as an arbitrary point, shifts all the time anyways).

That said, it could be argued the other way - but the evidence for either direction is lacking. Because the issue is being raised by people who tend to overemphasize inequality, I tend to lean the opposite direction - perhaps we should re-evaluate the way we define upper and lower class.

We're all going to be fucked, when it comes to employment in twenty years, then.

Forget the M&M's. Video games are a skinner box on steroids. Kids are going to learn fast.

Edit: I may have missed the point -- it looks like motivation improves performance, not necessarily actual "cognitive ability", if we can quantify that.

You see, it's actually something that almost anyone will start to think about when they abuse ritalin on a daily basis for a little too long.

Just look at the microdosing community.

It's partly a flex but I think it's a common experience. There are lots of things that the kinds of people who are on this site - for the most part, intelligent people - will pick up on subconsciously.

When we realize it's not common knowledge, we get excited and/or become proud of ourselves, and explain what we think to indulge ourselves (because we were just given evidence that the knowledge isn't as common as we thought).

It really does. I've been a professional developer/programmer for a few years - since I was 18 - and I'm only just going back to college (at the behest of my employer).

Really enjoy taking advantage of it and reassuring the younger kids (only two or three years younger than me) that they're more than capable of this shit. And it helps me be more confident when I'm at work - at school they see me as the guy with all the answers (ha, I wish - but it's a good reminder that we're all our own worst critics).

Interesting. I've used PHP on the IBM i Series, for the sake of not using COBOL or RPG (...or C, or C++ - since I'm most familiar with PHP).

I think it really does just come down to what language you're most familiar with.

I usually get into stuff like this for professional reasons. However, as someone in the aerospace industry, it’s not very common that we go through the hoops to get a drone out at the airport. We’ve talked about using one strictly inside of our hangars, but at that point a gyro does just as well.

I’ll stick to writing code.

I never got into them for the same reason I never got into football or (before I had to for professional reasons) Linux - everyone who is into it turns it into an evangelism project.

I’m sure I would love them if I tried them, but I don’t want to be seen as the type of guy who owns a drone (like how I don’t want to be known as the guy who uses Linux or the village Libertarian, even though those words might describe me reasonably well).