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> UNIX-based OS goes mainstream

What are you crediting Jobs with? What does this mean? It seems like your list fell apart after the first 3 concrete things you listed, the rest are just random things you like about Apple.

I thought this headline sounded overly pessimistic when seeing it after actually reading the report...

Being equal can easily discriminate against anyone because your definition of equality does not match everyone else's. So, in your case, being equal means that handicapped people aren't treated equally. What if you set your arbitrary equality definition to only apply to white people? Now you're being equal by your personal standards again but you just regressed to the 1800s.

Your version of equality is worthless, your backbone is just an excuse to make yourself feel better.

What are you gaining from removing disabled people from "everyone"? You're against protections for these people because it's not fair to you? Ever consider that your way is not fair to them and potentially any other arbitrarily defined group of people?

In my experience, in-house hosted products have had much more frequent outages than the SAAS alternatives. Then when there is an outage, it's down for hours instead of minutes.

I don't like the trend of putting the environmental onus on consumers. If you want to stop single use plastic then ban companies from producing it.

The simplest explanation is that it's 'acceptable' to be trans in 2019. Plastic didn't make people gay, but the gay population increased in the mid to late 1900s just as the trans population is increasing now.

There aren't just the social factors with coming out, but also the education around being being trans. Some people live their entire lives not knowing and only find out after watching youtube, meeting people in the community, or going to therapy (which is also becoming more commonplace and acceptable). The stigma attached to trans people as mentally unwell 'others' prevented people from even considering it for most of their lives.

Also, I do not believe there is an unbalance of trans woman to trans men. Trans women are more controversial (bathrooms) than trans men, which puts them in a public spotlight. Trans women often present themselves as stereotypical women, and if they've not fully medically/surgically transitioned yet, it makes them easy to pick out in a crowd. Trans men, on the other hand, wear men's clothes, which happen to be gender neutral if worn casually. They are often seen as 'butch' women if not fully transitioned, not trans men. You oftentimes probably wouldn't notice or identify trans men when you see them.

Disclaimer: I'm a trans woman.

Couldn't we have just had a post about sex without making jokes or disparaging remarks about women?

What's up with the arbitrary scrutiny placed on sex?

Where's proof that every other consumer electronic is good for anything?

Are you implying that their actions cannot be gender biased?

This logic doesn't give facebook a free pass to allow bullying to take place on their platforms.

Not all opinions are equal and there's no reason to treat them as such.

I think the point was to cite an opposing case where massive corporations are having issues with production as well.

It's pretty disgusting that you knew that this was a gap in policy, had been considering it for some time, and ultimately decided to run with it anyway and even took measures to obfuscate the truth.

What's the point in pretending to be honorable by offering a service one can pay for to prevent your misdeeds? Any reasonable person here can see straight through you and your business.

If you want to be ethical going forward, rewrite your user agreement and offer this insurance baked into your product. If it turns out you cannot profit from running your business in an ethical manner, then perhaps you should consider a different line of work. Or, at the very least, don't offer your fake sympathy when a user uses your product and falls victim to your personal shortcomings.

I was just going by the trailer, which I'd imagine the Wikipedia page is citing, that references the azure AI and satellite data towards the beginning of the video.

I'm guessing the "AI" was used in the geometry mapping from the sat data they used for their region maps.

Continuing to allow businesses to take out loans against the environment is a net negative for society as a whole if those loans are never expected to be repaid.

There are few industries that break down binary "free market or bust" logic. This happens to be one of them and you cannot apply some global, arbitrarily defined, rule of responsibility when the real world is more nuanced than that.

Wow, thanks for pointing that out, I missed it on my once-over.

It's not as disastrous as this person makes it seem. It's a rest call you can use to have slackbot do or say whatever you want for integration purposes. You can customize the name of the bot as well as its icon, which would allow you to "impersonate" someone.

The slackbot has limitations in that it looks different from a regular user and will identify it as slackbot if you click on it, as well as tell you who created the webhook to allow the integration.

It's not a problem.

I find the XXTRA flaming hot cheetos to be particularly hot. I'm the type of person that finds most "hot" things to be rather mild, but these I have to pace myself with.

WSL2 is dependent on hyper-v, though.

It's not hard to turn that into a situation where it can work against you.

What if it were your child's baseball bat? You can say that's what it's for but then what if the cop asks you if you'd use it for self defense? Would saying yes potentially be incriminating?

Right, sure. I don't think that's a worthwhile comment on a discussion about terrorism, though.

Sure, and I wouldn't want to be. Judiciously, though, I do not consider these people to be innocent just because they didn't pull the trigger. The number of deaths on this community's hands is non-zero, despite any pedantry surrounding their intentions.

I personally find this view strange. I think there's tremendous risk in breeding a community that promotes this behavior to a degree that it's difficult to discern whether or not someone is _actually_ talking about shooting dozens of jews at a synagogue instead of _joking_ about it.

At some point in time I don't think it's worth picking apart that nuance anymore. Like, it's great they're not committing acts of terrorism daily and are instead only doing so every few weeks, I guess, but there's really no reason to defend the people who are promoting this behavior in order to protect the use of grade-school irony.

For salary purposes or for client billing? I'd imagine the distinction matters

As someone who's constantly learning how to be human, I found this helpful.

Blocking commuters gets people talking.

This is similar to a conversation I had with my wife about inner dialog. I had always considered that one's inner dialog was literally conscious thought until I learned that some don't have that at all.

This comment gave me goosebumps.