bayesianhorse

Still they make less money, bear the cost/burden of child birth, are more likely to care for children, are more likely to be physically abused by their partners, more likely to be killed by their partner, and the list probably goes on...

Long story short: You believe that feminism has already gone so far that women have more rights than men, right?

You don't need to be a feminist to want to make a programming community more "diverse". Often the lack of diversity is a sign that there is toxicity in the culture. Trying to attract more women, or people of color, or LGBTs rather than chasing them off can only make a community more healthy, in my opinion.

Also, once you really take a look at "feminist" issues, they are a bit deeper and more complicated than people who say they don't believe in feminism seem to think.

And then people make lots of money maintaining COBOL and Java code. Or securing custom PHP applications...

All these factors don't matter if demand increases as it has done during the entire prior history of programming.

I think this will change when there are so many programmers above 40 that companies can't afford to turn them down. Due to age pyramids I can't really imagine total age discrimination to persist in the future.

I think for Denmark, the Baltic and Scandinavian states, the question is not so much whether you decide to go to war with Russia but rather when Russia decides to go to war with you...

The lesson here is that it is really hard to manage projects like the JSF program.

Cost, conflicting interests, technical challenges and secrecy requirements in the worst possible package.

Most of what we know about the torture at Guantanamo and other places comes from the government itself. I'm not a US citizen. I really don't believe anything the US is doing should allow Australia to put people in camps that have been labeled "concentration camps" by some unkind people, because of the pretty obvious similarities (extraterritorial, abysmal conditions, putting cost saving above basic human decency, lots of avoidable deaths, all ages, deterrence, "out of sight" nature ...).

The US prison system is stupid, no doubt. But even the worst prisons in the US are much better than what Australia is forcing refugees to endure. With the small difference that the US prison system doesn't have a 100% rate of non-convicted detainees, unless Australia's refugee detention.

Still, being allowed full access to porn does not seem as urgent to me as preventing thousands of children being physically and mentally harmed willfully by a supposedly democratic and elected government. So is torturing adult refugees to deter others from coming, but maybe the well documented harm to the children wakes people up more, than "just" mistreating some adult Muslims...

I fully agree, that free speech in general is very important, though.

When using all these plugins, how is that better than using an integrated framework? I always thought the point of flask is that it is "lighter".

Who says it's magic? It is, however special, because it restricts the ability of a democratic system to rid itself of democratic features. That's why it should be harder to change and be treated like a very delicate and serious issue.

For me, there is a world of difference between mistreating a relatively low number of terror suspects - and regretting it after a few years - and detaining innocent civilians, including children, without trial.

No behavior of the United States should dictate what Australia should allow itself to do. A state that treats people in that way will not be called a true democracy by me, though.

Well, the right to asylum, as well as human rights in general has been ratified by Australia and it's even part of the constitution.

I brought the asylum issue up because I find this a much more extreme and urgent example of a human rights issue than to restrict free speech to a very low degree.

From what I hear from afar about Australian politics is that the Australian government can essentially do whatever it wants, unrestricted by minor details like a constitution, citizens or international law.

Surveillance, website blocking ... And not to forget the new definition of "asylum", where refugees are kept against their will in camps, "unfit for human habitation". One former government psychiatrist called it "torture". Including, of course, children.

But the system works reasonably well. I mean, why flee to Australia from political persecution, when Australian refugee camps are worse than most cases of political persecution?

I'm still more in favor of Django. There is more to learn about it, but almost all Flask projects that get beyond the weekend-project stage end up reimplementing stuff that is in Django, or working around that lack.

The interplay between ORM, migrations, admin, CRUD, API, Forms, etc is just beautiful. Doing that with SQLAlchemy and the like is possible, but may create a bigger mess than starting out with a slightly less lightweight Django. project.

That may be harder to achieve than you might think. Big sellers would have lots of employees inside Germany and smaller sellers may be reluctant to setup a multi-national business...

It may be impossible to enforce this ban completely, but that doesn't mean that major sellers won't follow it and the others, those who are based in Germany, will get fined. Could be quite lucrative actually...

My personal thinking though is that this was a legislatory mistake. Not selling erotica on Television before 10pm was a good thing, back then. And it didn't matter until now.

A couple of kilograms per drone can easily kill you if it drops from a couple hundred meters.

A vehicle operated by human beings can deliver a lot more packages a lot faster, while their accident rates aren't nearly as sky-high.

I think the main obstacle for drone delivery is that even failure rates as low as 1 per a thousand hours would result in lots of injuries and damaged property.

Helicopters and planes are maintained to a ridiculous degree. Without getting that kind of safety into drones, they will fall down on people's heads left and right. Especially once the drone traffic gets dense enough that they can run into each other.

"Drones" may be used for drug smuggling, though.

Sleep deprivation is one of the most reliable and strong antidepressants, but also one of the least practical. Some clinics actually make patients stay awake for a period of time. I don't recommend "self-medicating" on purpose, though... In many case this makes everything worse.

The paradox being that SSRIs have been shown to be beneficial for social phobia ...

I think it's more than hazing. It may be some kind of costly advertizing, to show off their ability and willingness to function under that kind of stress level.

On the other hand this behavior also selects for candidates who are driven more by (the hope of) success and money, than by health, social/family life etc.

because you didn't consider my statement. Specifically "Islam" instead of "individual Muslim" and "on European Culture", not that Muslims exist in Europe.

So they have the right to a good life because they always had a good life?

I can understand that such thinking is convenient, but especially those who are afraid of outsourcing haven't done that much "building" at all. And how come that in virtually any other regard competition and free enterprise is enshrined, even to the detriment of poor people and low income workers, but not when origin is concerned?

For me this entitlement does not follow immediately from some kind of ancestral rights.

Am I the only one that has any problem with the idea that citizens of a particular country feel more entitled to well paying jobs than comparably capable foreigners?

I can understand the feeling, I just can't justify it by reason.

It feels like these workers have more of a problem with the general low standards of worker's rights and labor protections than with H1B visa quotas...

I don't like to think about the spirit/mind/brain being "broken" in case of depression. Depression causes problems, but often the only way to get rid of the cause is to alleviate the problems.

Everybody, including those described to be mentally healthy, can and should improve and evolve their mind, and CBT can be effective for that.

"Big effect on suburb" does not become "Influence on European Culture". If these immigrants have their own culture, just by living it, they don't necessarily constitute an influence. Just like there being Millions of French in France doesn't necessarily influence German cultures...

If you believe you have a right to throw Muslims out of Europe, which is the only way to stop increasing Muslim populations in Europe (short of genocide), then that is only possible by believing in racist assumptions (often disguised by calling them "facts").

Under democratic values, everyone is the same before the law. Therefore there have to be serious reasons to prosecute, hunt down, imprison and deport someone (and en passant destroying his livelihood, potentially his family, and causing misery and death). You essentially say that Muslims are in general not "useful", so they shouldn't have this protection.

First of all, this is deeply anti-democratic and anti-freedom. But secondly, in this argumentation there is almost always a tendency to attach negative value to certain ethnicities. To deny human rights to an ethnically distinct group means to devalue them as human beings, and this is racism.

And please don't say you don't want to get rid of Muslims... If that were really true, why are you complaining about them?

My statement was that "Islam" has virtually no influence on Europe culture. First of all, that doesn't include everything a Muslim does, for me, Islam is a religion with values and rules.

The mere existence of Muslims following their own cultures in Europe does not constitute an influence in its own. Not even when they interact with other Europeans. Influence on European Culture would mean that Europeans change to adapt to Islamic beliefs. Which they largely don't, except sometimes in very negative ways.

You probably overestimate population trends... Yes, the Muslim population will increase, but not without bounds and much less than some people seem to believe...

Well, if you voice small-minded arguments, you do run a risk of being called out as small-minded. There is this strange belief among self-styled "immigration critics" that the fact that they have a minority opinion, is somehow proof of an unfair conversation.

Bad news: You will always be judged by the things you say and the value system that is behind these things. Deal with it!

I don't see evidence of Muslims changing European cultures in any significant way. Most don't even seem to try. Even the more religious ones seem to be content with being allowed to go to a mosque every once in a while...