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New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract"

smudgymcscmudge — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:55:35 +0000

About a quarter of the company has signed the protest letter. I signed the letter just so people would stop nagging me to sign. I don’t care about ICE. I suspect there are others who got pressured into signing.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract"

smudgymcscmudge — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:53:14 +0000

A good portion of GitHub’s employees live in Europe. Of the employees who live in America, most are citizens.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com"

smudgymcscmudge — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:54:19 +0000

Have a look at GitHub. It's a similar service with unlimited private repos for free.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants"

smudgymcscmudge — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:56:51 +0000

> So who gets to decide how much profit this person is allowed to make?

Their customers get to decide that.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants"

smudgymcscmudge — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:28:55 +0000

There are also people who aren’t capable of producing $15 of value in an hour. A $15 minimum wage means they are less likely to be employed.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors"

smudgymcscmudge — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 21:10:10 +0000

This comment from the other thread may be useful in mitigating your issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21328285

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Parts of AWS are down"

smudgymcscmudge — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:37:34 +0000

I'm not OP, but I heard that unofficially from somebody who works at aws.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted"

smudgymcscmudge — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:38:38 +0000

I’m in the same boat as the person you replied to. In the past I’ve read arguments for and against anthropogenic climate change. Both were compelling to me when I read them. I’ve come to the conclusion that I just won’t understand the climate models enough to evaluate them on my own without spending months or years studying the topic. If my opinion on climate change ever matters, I will side with the vast majority of climate scientists, but I will always have my doubts.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work"

smudgymcscmudge — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 20:53:55 +0000

I might agree with you that human rights are non-negotiable, but we're probably going to get into a fight when it comes time to list those human rights.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline"

smudgymcscmudge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 21:18:06 +0000

I'm talking about third-person pronoun, not second. Sentences like "They is in the office".

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded"

smudgymcscmudge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:38:38 +0000

I had the same idea. I forgot about it before I was old enough to reason about it. At the time I thought the size of the mirrors would be the biggest issue. I guess I thought faster-than-light travel was easy.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption"

smudgymcscmudge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 02:40:28 +0000

That’s good to know. I hadn’t read that before.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "I hate living in my tiny house"

smudgymcscmudge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 02:38:11 +0000

That’s quite true. And thank you for also recognizing that my snark can’t be reasoned with.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption"

smudgymcscmudge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 02:35:22 +0000

I happen to agree with EFF on this, but even when I don’t agree with EFF, I appreciate that they are consistent on their pro-privacy stance. We need more organizations like EFF that are a consistent voice for one cause and aren’t swayed by unrelated political matters.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "I hate living in my tiny house"

smudgymcscmudge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 02:18:53 +0000

“and give up on my dream of being a tech billionaire? no thanks”. Also popular is “the bay area has one of the greatest collection of minds ever assembled in the history of the world”. If they are really that smart and money flows so freely, then they should have no problem solving this little problem.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline"

smudgymcscmudge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 02:02:55 +0000

That may have been fine in 1500, but in modern, American english the phrase “they is” just makes you sound like an idiot.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline"

smudgymcscmudge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 01:39:29 +0000

That’s what surprises me about this. I see the StackExchange sites as a place where people help each other make their software a little less crappy. In all my years using it, I don’t think I’ve ever used a third person pronoun (gendered or not) for another user. I don’t think anybody has used any pronoun except “you” to refer to me either. Usually if I’m referenced at all it’s “@smudgy’s answer is wrong because x,y and z”. How often can pronouns come up?

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline"

smudgymcscmudge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:40:44 +0000

That’s a convenient opinion for a married woman going by “miss”. Also, an opinion I agree with.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline"

smudgymcscmudge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:30:04 +0000

The other side in this case isn’t the far right. The other side are just ordinary people who don’t want to be called names for forgetting to use the right pronoun or even not using a pronoun at all.

New comment by smudgymcscmudge in "Auto-Antonyms"

smudgymcscmudge — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:20:26 +0000

That’s interesting. I’m an American who frequently talks to brits, and I’ve never picked up on the different meaning of quite. I’ll make a point to listen for that in the future.