No matter how good or bad Microsoft is, the workers there dont have a magic privilege that should force anyone to respect and feel grateful to their company and them...
When the games got held in Nazi Germany , they were used as PR for the Nazi regime. This is what Putin is planning to do as well. Maybe we should learn from our historic mistakes rather than use them as guidelines...
The Olympic Games, like it or not, have some very specific rules about discrimination. Unfortunately even the Olympic Committee is not keeping up with the rules and it is turning a blind eye when it comes to the human rights violations happening in Russia. How can the games happen, if the LGBTQ athletes cant openly compete? If the games are not following the ideals of the olympic games then they are not really olympic games but a parody. And humanity has better things to do than spending time on such monstrosities. How the hell can a country send LGBTQ athletes over there if there is a risk of them getting imprisoned? The way you present it is as like the games are like a passive aggressive family reunion.
Uhm... you people know that Russia has already been violating a whole bunch of human rights, quite publicly, right? (eg. LGBT rights, freedom of expression in general etc). This seems like the tip of a really evil iceberg. Sochi games deserve to be boycotted because Putin's politics are an antithesis to the olympic ideals (and this is quite tiny in comparison to what is happening there ...).
A big concern of mine is that this verification process does not seem inclusive to transgender people. Obviously the official documentation of these people would not necessarily match their online profiles , or in case of video their appearance. Thoughts?
Imo being able to choose your clients/guests (they pay you after all) however you like is immoral and it would be illegal if it was done from a hotel/ apartment rental company ... (at least in a lot of European countries). You should not be able to profile your customers in any way. If you dont like it, dont make money out of your apartment.
Some people burn witches, other people kill gay people. Recently 15000 religious people and priests gathered in Georgia , in the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, and started hitting on the LGBTQ crowd that was there for celebrating the day. Tens of people were sent to the hospital, a couple badly hurt. If you are straight , white, catholic and male you may do not feel/know or even care about how religion harms our everyday lives, but what is happening to these women in PNG is happening to non-male/straight/white/religious people all around the world, maybe not in such a ritualistic way but still....
Is blaming someone for a crime without actual facts legal? Is it something we should encourage? How about not? (btw am I the only one clearly seeing the bag strap on the second picture?)
I cant see how Kaggle is good for the data scientist (but I can certainly see how it is good for the hiring companies). It seems like the design spec work. I find it horendous that people do work for a company and most of them never get paid for it. It is disgusting. The top #1 in Kaggle according to the article only got paid 6 times. Lets put it into perspective. Companies that wanted web developers stopped hiring them and started using a similar service, in which, everyone would create a version of the application, with only the frontend available for other contestants, in order to foster competition. Then the company chose the best one and only the winning team would get paid. This is capitalism at its worst, and long-term it is severely harmful. In a modern work-rights aware society this should be illegal, spec work that is... At least the communities should critic it in my opinion and not embrace it.
Not we humans, we sexist/conservative/stereotypical people. I did not respond well at all. And I do have a huge problem with shopping , and yes I am a male. Ok now somebody go make an application such as this that is targeted exclusively to queer men , then another one that is targeted to people with Aspergers that hate the social aspect of shopping. Then another one for people with ADHD that hate shopping as well because it takes too long, and another one for masculine lesbians that dont believe in their taste of clothes. And also another one for super busy people and another one for people that are disabled. To be honest with you the only person in my social circle that fits in their definition of masculinity, is not my father, or any of my male straight friends, but a lesbian friend of mine.
I visited your web site and now I am a little full of hatred as well due to your record breaking stereotypical/conservative/sexist/gendered approach. I would like to know if there is a website that pays people (people of all gender identities) to choose clothes for you while it does not make you feel unwelcome due to the fact that you are not a "bro". (Why dont you make the girls choosing the clothes to have nude pictures as well, i am sure it would make the whole experience 12000% more manly!)
I cant see how you can have a poll for both gender/sexuality. If you want to be inclusive it would easily have more than 50 option due to the simplicity of the HN polls (also Male/Female , internationally, are more usually used to describe sex not gender ) :/ It may have been flagged to death due to other factors as well (eg. homophobia?, people not being comfortable with it etc)
I cant understand why the poll was taken down! Maybe we can make another simpler one? Without gender? It may be a little oversimplifying but it would be more viable regarding the platform. The starting options could be: Gay (Gay male/ Lesbian), Straight, Bisexual, Asexual, Queer, Pansexual . ?
I agree with the article, but if we say that Cambell is unethical then where do we draw the line in general? Eg. Is Kaggle unethical and exploitation as well ? Like the Cambell hackathon, in Kaggle competitions you work for free and only a limited number of people actually get paid for their work. Even if Kaggle promotes that everyone's work actually helps (indirectly) to pin down a good solution, not everyone is getting paid.
In Europe the knowledge you need to be a educated voter and citizen is supposed to be taught at high school. Most european countries dont have generic education lessons at all. I dont think the purpose of colleges should be making someone a good citizen, that is the role of public education that everyone receives.
Correct me if mistaken, but isnt Skype voice transmission peer to peer? Wouldn't it be burdensome and very expensive to transmit the voice data back to a central server in order to be warehoused?
I see! Although (correct me if I am mistaken) a lot of US internship positions require that you are already eligible to work in the US, clarifying that they cannot offer help with visa applications etc.
It is not much of a choice. While I have no problem travelling for an internship, I am pretty much limited only in EU and I was rather unsure if there are a lot of offers that include living and travelling costs. Does your company offer intern positions at the moment?
Update: Well I checked out your employer's intern opportunities and they are only employing state-funded internship positions in Athens (and I am overeducated to be eligible for a state-funded job, they are only for high-term unemployed with lower education). On the contrary they offer real intern opportunities in London. This is a great example of how twisted intern opportunities (and jobs in general) can be in Greece, unfortunately.
If there are offers for university students, and they just are not on display on the website, please let me know :)