pelliphant

I am european and I have the exact opposite view:

Public entities are supposed to be neutral, private ones are not.

But I do agree that simply disagreeing with someone shouldn't work the same way.

But the first half of the webpage only talk about communities in general, so I first assumed this was meant to be used on places like hackernews and reddit, places where downvotes most of the time mean: "you are an idiot/troll, I'm downvoting this to save other people from having to read this garbage."

A situation where I really don't want to help the poster...

Anyway, could you vent your conspiracy bullshit somewhere else?

The reason is usually because americans seem to assume that everyone is an american, so it is to clarify that I have a non-american perspective.

for those of us that just heard about nitter in some other thread here today.

But what can you do when a large part of commenters are arguing against democracy?

But they have to convince management to publish important stories instead of the stories that pay their bills. Is it really that surprising that it's an uphill battle?

The question we need to answer is "how are we going to pay the salaries of investigative journalists?"

That since the american democracy is already weak, it should be abandoned?

Sure, more people watch some crazy person on fox rather than actual news, but is that a reason to stop with news altogether?

The TLDR of this would be: this is a call to action for people who value democracy to stand up for it. If you dislike democracy, then this is obviously not for you...

Also, if you have a chip that you think you might be working on, check out the development tools from the chip manufacturer, it will probably be made for C.

Learning to use a chip is much easier if you have a library of examples written by the chip-maker for that specific chip.

For those reasons I would recomend C.

france,germany and uk are all at about the same amount spent on military as russia.

Sure, sweden alone couldn't hold back the russians, but it's not like we need america, a quarter of the union would do it.

Those that would volunteer are not necessarily the ones you would want.

There are always going to be a social contract, things you have to do, like paying taxes. I would argue that defending the country is a reasonable thing to include in that social contract.

I started working fulltime as a coder maybe 3 years ago. Before that I coded a lot on my free time, but since I started doing it fulltime at work, I did less on my spare time, and now it's basically no coding at all on my spare time.

I can understand that an employer wants someone who practices their work-related skills on their free time, but is it really that important?

If you want productive employees, isn't it even more important that they eat healthy, exercise and sleep well?

Just counting amount of hours/week spent on coding sounds like quantity over quality to me...

America is using a two-party system, If you can't vote for one candidate, then there is practically only one option left..

So, the question here is really just: "Is the difference between the two candidates so small that one really bad thing done by your favorite candidate enough to make you favor the other one?"

People who want to end democracy rarely say so, it is always just "a little less than it is now".

Same for education, where would you draw the line?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/world/europe/soros-hungar...

They already got rid of the non-government funded ones, that didn't seem to be any more difficult that going after the government funded ones...