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yetanother1980··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
In this context a fund for poor founders would be a good start.
yetanother1980··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
I will always call out discrimination in any context even by well meaning people. I do hope that arguing against racism and sexism is acceptable on this forum.
yetanother1980··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
I missed nothing.

Racism is inherently wrong. By being racist you are empirically making the world a worse place.

By being racist you are increasing the divide.

yetanother1980··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
Racism is defined as discrimination based on race or ethnicity.

Sexism is defined as discrimination based on gender or biological sex.

Both are well defined terms in English both in dictionaries and general usage. Stop trying to play games with words and start explaining why you think racism and sexism are ok.

yetanother1980··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
> As a white male

If these characteristics are not important to your argument why raise them.

yetanother1980··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
It normalises racism and sexism. If it is OK to discriminate in one way on racial or gender grounds why not another?

Let's get one thing clear. Just because you look like other people you don't get to speak for them. You don't represent all white males any more than the Grand Wizard of the KKK does. Your skin colour or gender have no bearing on this - and should have no bearing on your opinion on this.

yetanother1980··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
I detest racism and sexism even when done by well meaning people. If this is a character flaw then I want more flaws.

I am glad I got a chance to let you know that not everyone agrees with bigotry.

yetanother1980··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
It is always racist and sexist to discriminate on racial/ethnic or gender grounds.
yetanother1980··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
You are the one using a very strange and tortured definition. Neither racism nor sexism involve power structures they both involve discrimination on racial/ethnic/imagined or gender grounds. This is well established English language stop trying to redefine it.
yetanother1980··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
I think that racists and sexists like those behind this fund have gone too long without being told that their bigotry is unacceptable. I think that in the main they want to do the right thing. They need to be told explicitly that racism and sexism are never ok. I hope that if decent people keep saying this and acting on this all racism and sexism can one day be consigned to history.
yetanother1980··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
This is expressly racist and sexist.
yetanother1980··on Please stop asking me to use the app
Try mbasic.facebook.com
yetanother1980··on FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details (2015)
I don't know about the US but in the UK there has just been a major and sadly underreported scandal with police failing to disclose evidence to defence solicitors.
yetanother1980··on Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
I was about to respond to the GP asking for details because where I am and as mainly a pedestrian and cyclist OSM is really the only decent solution (unless you like walking 30minutes in a large circle rather than 5).
yetanother1980··on Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts
No Israel hasn't been at war with its neighbouring Arab countries for a long time. They periodically attack Hezbollah, there is tension with Syria at the moment and obviously they are still occupying Palestine. However Egypt for example helps Israel with the Gaza blockade by not opening the Palestine-Egypt border.
yetanother1980··on LibreSprite – fork of last open-source release of Aseprite pixel art editor
If you feel this way you should never open source your work. Licences like the GPL as well as licences like BSD/MIT explicitly allow for forks like this.
yetanother1980··on Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (2014)
Hopefully your analysts (which in this case includes your lawyers, accountants and statisticians) will tell you that the new client is different to the others and your models may not hold up and may need revision.

Hopefully you also listen to them.

yetanother1980··on DNA of every baby born in California is stored. Who has access to it?
NB I don't necessarily agree with it.

This is legislation not gym terms and conditions. It is about public policy towards steroids. I.e. one mentally unstable person did something criminal whilst using steroids and then there was a moral panic.

yetanother1980··on DNA of every baby born in California is stored. Who has access to it?
Denmark and Norway. I think that it's the law in both of those not just gym policy/terms and conditions.
yetanother1980··on DNA of every baby born in California is stored. Who has access to it?
Does it maybe require accepting that random or targeted drug tests can be carried out and you have no right to refuse? Source this is the case in several countries.
yetanother1980··on The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s
The single biggest problem with repatriations is that slavery in the US did not exist in isolation. It existed in West Africa before and existed afterwards. It existed legally at all times in human history until quite recently.
yetanother1980··on Google YOLO clickjacking
Why rely on a million different copy pasted implementations if one good implementation is possible?
yetanother1980··on Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case
What the actual fuck? I didn't realise that the UK was so stupid. Is due process dead here?
yetanother1980··on Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case
Not sure about DNA testing.

The other two examples are true. Across the Atlantic polygraphs are regarded as a comedy technology and breathalyser tests are sufficient grounds only for arrest and an actual blood test.

yetanother1980··on Web Browsers Reject About Two-Thirds of Cookies
Which of course begs the question should third party scripts be allowed to run?
yetanother1980··on Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany
Why? I hate everything Hitler stood for. I read mein kampf it did not change my opinion.
yetanother1980··on UK Electronics Store Maplin Goes into Administration
I would used to buy other stuff there just to support the existence of a shop with a components section and fairly knowledgeable staff. Real shame to see them go the high street will be less useful without them.
yetanother1980··on My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition
I have not tried it but I imagine this would work fine.

    Project
        Project/venv
        Project/src
And then have the whole project as a volume. Then your editor can see the same files as you have in the container.
yetanother1980··on Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads
Pretty standard. Political posts are heavily downwaited.
yetanother1980··on 26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent crime conviction (2014)
Sort of like transportation?
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