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When I read these things I always have to think of Voat, the reddit clone that was 'open to assholes'. A lot of reddit users who could not follow the rules actually jumped ship, but what they found was that Voat was not really what they were looking for. They (ironically) did not find their safespace there because the other side of the coin was that other users could also criticize their views (extremism is exponential). That was not what they were looking for.

The other reason it didn't really work out well is that people need an audience. Voat was and is much smaller than reddit, so they had less reach. What I'm trying to say is, is that it's not a technical challenge, those have been solved already. It's people with extreme views who want to be able to express themselves where those views are not tolerated.

I'll join the protests once they actually start censoring, but if it's just like hey: don't be an asshole or you can just be an asshole somewhere else... I'm fine with it.

AT&T should just retire the number at that point right

Lots of people in New Zealand and El Paso won't shed a tear for that fact.

> it was the_donald which was harrassed and abused because some authoritarian types wanted it off reddit

By googling around I can easily find that members of the_donald created a list of thousands of addresses and phone numbers of people who are anti-trump. Or is that 'fake news'? The thing that actually got the_donald quaranteened (not even banned!) were calls to violence..

> Hopefully all State Police in Oregon refuse, hes serious. No problems shooting a cop trying to strip rights from Citizens. If he calls for help I'd come.

How can you defend that? Are you just disregarding all that because you have to be victim somehow?

When did those other subs call for 'shooting cops'??

> Also, considering you aren't american, why are you so supportive of censoring political speech in the US?

The US political landscape has a direct effect on the rest of the world. If your political speech consists of racism, sexism, and calls to violence then I personally believe we should absolutely censor that.

Are you comparing facebook to a utility company? But honestly, misinformation in this day and age is such a huge problem. If a source is willfully spreading misinformation (that can be fact checked) then yeah, why should they be allowed to do that? They have absolutely no value, except for the people trying to deceive in order to further their agendas.

So you're fine with the fact that they are purposefully spreading misinformation? Then just say that you're OK with that (if it suits your agenda, of course) instead of downvoting.

Meh I can kind of understand why the site is deemed questionable. It's paid for by a Republican political consulting firm. It may not be orchestrated by the Trump campaign but they definitely condone it. According to Snopes some parts of it can also be deemed as misinformation (like the picture framed as Biden groping Stephanie Carter).

So to me it's in the grey area bordering on black, but I'm also not a fan of this type of campaigning (playing on the man).The fact that they try to present it as an actual Biden website is also questionable.

How is "have no choice" false when you have to pretend to be from another country to be able to use messaging services? If the choice is bordering on illegal (I'm not familiar with the intricacies of Chinese law but I'd assume it's atleast frowned upon to bypass their barriers) then is it really a choice? To me a choice would be that you could use the state sanctioned communication apps OR another one in the same way.

Also running this on a raspberry pi I have stuffed somewhere in a closet, it's genuinely great. Web interface even works decently on mobile (mostly use it for viewing and dragging not creating issues).

And it runs on Ubuntu! To be honest I'd rather not use software made or hosted on US/Chinese/Russian soil but I don't really have much choice at my workplace. If it didn't ran on Ubuntu I'd dual boot to windows just for meetings.

This would be a great time for some proper European alternatives.

Being able to sufficiently handle technology can be a matter of learning a trick and sticking with it. A difference in mentality or 'skills' is the ability and curiosity to learn new tricks when a situation calls for it. So it's not really a generational issue (now that I think about it, generational issues are not really related to the 'quality' of the people in it, but the environment that shaped them - heh), it's a mentality/skill issue. The will to actually solve the problem in front of you is a skill that can be learned, but if everything around you 'just works' you never have the need to develop that skill.

You've been happily using your Generic XPad your entire life dealing with minor UI changes that are explained to you via small tutorials or w/e. You learn your job on the job, specific things in school etc. The furthest you'll go is the search bar on Facebook or a marketplace.

If you encounter something that doesn't just work, how do you know how to figure it out if you've never developed that skill. To me and you it's not that hard, it's pretty obvious.

People just learn the trick, but not how to be curious. Or maybe they just don't care, that's fine too I guess.

When I was a junior dev and was stuck on a problem (had to cap myself at 1 hour max because otherwise I'd spend the entire day) the first question my mentor asked was 'what have you found out?' and 'what is your thought process?' By regurgitating and trying to condense the things I figured out he could already point me to the right path and/or correct some wrong assumptions I made. It really helped me grow as a developer to not just be handed the answer.

But yeah, he did sit with me beforehand and explained how he mentors people.

Did or did you not create a new account solely to bash on Dr. Boaler?

You must switch depending on your results. The school does have a big say in it, and if you switch schools your parents could possibly make a case for you.

Lowest track - 4 years Middle track - 5 years Highest track - 6 years

I started and spent 3 years in the 'middle' track, in my third year I failed my French and German classes so badly that the school required me to either re-do the third year of the middle track, or go to the 4th year of the lower track. The funny thing is that the 4th year of the lower track does not have French or German as a requirement.

Since my parents did not really cared or bothered to stand up for me (unlike another girl, whose parents lobbied and she was allowed to go through to the next year with worse grades) I chose to do the lower track. Finished that up easily and was given the choice to go to the 4th year of the middle track (without French or German, the 3rd year was the final year with that requirement). Finished the middle track with ease as well.

I think RuneScape (or old school runescape) used to do this as well, if your account was flagged for botting you'd be silently placed in a hidden world (and unable to join other worlds) with other botters so they could better keep an eye on you.

The intention is always there

> Senior-level men are now far more hesitant to spend time with junior women than junior men across a range of basic work activities.3 They are:

> 12x more likely to hesitate to have 1-on-1 meetings

> 9x more likely to hesitate to travel together for work

> 6x more likely to hesitate to have work dinners.

I think a contributing factor is that harassment can ultimately be a he-said/she-said kind of deal. You hear horror stories about men being falsely accused and getting their lives ruined (though I don't know how big that number is, but it's something to get mad about so it gets a lot of attention). Exemplified by the 12x more likely to hesitate to have 1-on-1 meetings. Any fix for this seems to be bad, adding third parties, adding surveillance, etc. All of that points to 'one of these parties is not to be trusted'.

Am not in the USA, Netherlands actually.

For my internship I first had a good conversation with the lead developer. After it was determined that I was a culture fit and didn't bullshit them, I got a small simple assignment which I had to do on a whiteboard. Later found out it wasn't really meant to figure out whether or not I could write a simple function, but more to see what my thought process was. Like, did I instantly start writing one big function that did stuff - or did I break the problem down into smaller steps.

Anyways, the interview for my second job (for a fairly big consulting firm) was purely focused on culture fit, and questioning about stuff I've previously made.

Third and current job was the same as the second - only on my initiative I came by on another day to check out what the other developers were actually doing and trying to help them out.

I don't think a test is really useful, if I'm not up to par (or they don't meet my expectations) either of us can decide to end the contract in the first month. This focus on tests strikes me as silly, especially in the USA, since you can just be fired for no reason anyways.

edit: I do have an (outdated) github repo with some code, but not much else.

Same - I don't really speak to some people anymore because I moved away from WhatsApp. The one's I do really want to speak to (family) have installed both apps now, simply because I messaged the group saying "I'll be moving away from WhatsApp - you can reach me through text, calling, and telegram" and just left/uninstalled WhatsApp. It can be that simple.

A Planet Money episode went into this. It's basically:

- We (R) don't want taxes

- We will make filing taxes the most cumbersome thing possible

- People will hate taxes

You'd love Karma to Burn then, example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxGD45SK08o

The interns' goal is to learn the trade. The companies goal is to attract talent and/or get a ROI.

In my company an intern conducted research on scalability - creating tools to measure and monitor the software in the mean time. So not only does the company have some neat monitoring tools now, the intern actually found a bottleneck and improved the product. The company is now offering her a contract...

Caring about eachother doesn't have much to do with it.

What kind of person would be more suited to negotiate a deal? And what did the people vote for? Wasn't it just "Remain" or "Leave"? There was zero intellectual thought put into any of this. It's on the UK that this realization comes when it's inconvenient.

Would the EU bend the rules if a different person was at the table? Or would they simply say the same? There is no incentive for the EU to give back / bend their rules. I don't know why people expected that.

> Pretty petty if you ask me. ICANN generally lets things be grandfathered in.

EU membership is not a phone subscription.

> My passport says European Union on it, does that suddenly become invalid?

The passport itself does not become invalid

> I don't expect to be able to get a passport with EU on it for ever, I expect to able to carry on using the one I already have though.

Sure, however you wouldn't be able to enter Schengen like you do now. You'd be a "third country national" and be treated as such. Instead of "European Union" it could say "Loves Pasta" and it'd carry the same legal weight.

> I'm sure there are many contracts negotiated between British and EU organisations, under EU law. Should those contracts be ripped up? Renegotiated under British law?

I'd guess so, since they were based on a different situation. They probably didn't account for a situation where there was no free-trade and such.

> That loan that a German company took out from a British bank under EU banking regs. Is that agreement null and void?

Wholly depends. They'd probably have to renegotiate the regs.

> Both parties lose even more if this turns into a petty tit for tat.

How is it a petty tit for tat? This is the reality of leaving the EU. I get the feeling brexiteers want all the pro's but none of the con's. It simply cannot work that way. "Why are they being so mean?", it isn't being mean. It's simply a consequence everyone could've known before this shit-show started.

Not really. Trade agreements were also made when the UK was in the EU. It doesn't make sense to let them run their course either? Why so lenient? Choosing to leave a club that allows for certain things is ok, but it's inane to be outraged about not keeping those things when you leave.

> the .it domain is intended for Italian residents

Do they have a TOS? Because there is a difference between 'intended' and actual rules. And by using those 'proxy companies' you're still breaking the rules but just being sneaky about it.

> a breach of trust by the .eu registrar

Really? So because they actually enforce their rules they are 'breaching trust'? You can't get away with breaking the rules so you just crawl into the victim role? Absolute nonsense.

https://eurid.eu/media/filer_public/76/48/7648e621-0c5d-4c09...

In this first step the Registrant must verify whether it meets the General Eligibility Criteria, whereby it must be:

(i) an undertaking having its registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the European Union, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein, or

(ii) an organisation established within the European Union, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein without prejudice to the application of national law, or

(iii) a natural person resident within the European Union, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.

> who knows if eu will exist in near future

????????????????????

Absolute nonsense. That'd be like saying don't do business with US companies because they haven't had a functioning government in more than 40 days...

> Have you considered the dog was at fault?

Mate... It's a dog, we are the care-takers. Even if a dog is messed up in the head and bites people, it's probably been influenced by its' environment - people.

If we want to have cool pets, we have got to take responsibility.

> Because their goal should be what is best for Europe, not what is best for the EU.

Why?