MollyR

It's my fear this locus of control or suppression of voices is part of the reason we have an increase in violent rhetoric.

I learned an important lesson in 2016, my worldviews are not shared in America outside of big cities. It forced me to realize that I didn't even know people disagreed so fiercely because of media conglomerate created echo bubbles.

I don't think that's fair. Some of us work very hard for a living or have kids. I just learned about the Daily Stormer, this weekend.

EDIT: on second thought, I wonder if this is what Daily Stormer wanted all along. They have raised their profile enormously now.

With more and more content providers pulling content, I'd say Netflix is the middle of the pivot from technology focused distributor to content creator already.

I believe its a new term for what used to be called the radical left. There is evidence they go beyond attacking nazi's, to attacking journalists or just people who "look" like nazis.

Antifa is a good example with their huge riots and firebombing of cars during Trump's inauguration.

The son of Israel's PM considers them a bigger threat to the jewish people than actual neo-nazis (surprising to me). http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-junior-says-leftists-...

I'm thinking of switching my business email to protonmail from gmail.

Any users like it ?

The whole google memo revealed google employees are not as trustworthy as I thought. All the social media talk of blacklists, and inquisition tactics from some of upper management is bad for business.

I've already gotten emails from clients asking me to change their business google services to something else (anything else in their own words).

Yea, I tend to avoid companies that pretend to be about something other than making money.

Its mainly for practical reasons, they tend to pay less.

So I was googling some stuff based on your comment.

Intel creates the diversity fund in 2015 for 125 million.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3047239/why-intels-capital-diver...

Then a year later in 2016, lays off 11% of their workforce.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-c...

Then in 2017, Google hires Danielle Brown the VP who pushed the diversity fund at intel.

I'm beginning to think as a minority woman in tech, These diversity funds are worse than quotas.

Whats the point in being hired, then fired a year later.

I also suspect, every group is afraid of losing their job. Intel firing 11% of its workforce is scary example.

As a korean woman, I can tell you its the opposite. We don't have the luxury of pursuing passion jobs.

I would have preferred to be an artist or a philosopher, bu t my family was poor and had bills to pay.

Yep, many agree with him.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-m...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...

https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/08/10/the-google-memo-what...

http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...

SlateStarCodex and HeteroDox are way better and more impartial.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-m...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...

https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/08/10/the-google-memo-what...

Probably, people are afraid of uncanny valley elements combine that with a fear of the new /unknown and also pseudoscience feminism. It hits a lot of click-bait buttons.

But I could see it possibly as big a revolution as birth control, especially for a generation born with video games. I noticed my younger nieces and nephews have an exceptionally higher tolerance for uncanny valley simulacrum.

There was double quotes in your article about Giuliani talking about the "muslim ban", so yes I don't know what that may mean or may not mean and I didn't feel like speculating.

Also I said I don't think it was the right thing to do.

But again I have to say a muslim ban that isn't based on religion really doesn't make sense. As for region based bans, those are not really new they've been done since Jimmy Carter.

No I don't. I think the executive limits worked pretty well here. President Trump may have wanted a muslim ban, but they couldn't do it.

So they tried to take Obama what did in 2011, a few steps further and are rightfully taking flak for it, just like I think Obama should have gotten in 2011.

Again though a muslim ban not based in religion sounds nonsensical.

Edit: Is there subtext I'm missing. Are you implying this is a slippery slope to a full muslim ban ?

In the article, it says explicitly.

""" "The areas of the world that create danger for us, which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. Perfectly legal, perfectly sensible."

Giuliani reiterated that the ban is "not based on religion." """

A muslim ban not based in religion sounds nonsensical to me.

As for the conspiracy theory medium article, its easy to do in a world of big data. It's called cherry picking, and its exactly what Info Wars does to create their fear mongering articles. Vague speculation and half truths on the main premises of the paper, and then even the conclusions.

Here's an example from the medium article: "The aims of crushing various groups — Muslims, Latinos, the black and trans communities, academics, the press — are very much primary aims of the regime"

This is clear hysteria. Here's what Trump actually said on black communities while campaigning, "We're going to rebuild our inner cities because our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever, ever, ever."

And so far President Trump as been doing pretty closely what he said.

Its absolutely not a false equivalence. Infowars publishes tons of fear mongering articles with various shades of legitimacy, just like this article. EDIT: It's how they got so influential, they mix a lot of half truths and speculation into their articles.

A muslim ban that doesn't ban saudi arabia, india,pakistan indonesia,and somalia doesn't seem much of a muslim ban.

I'm going to quote elon musk here "Reading the source material is better than reading other people's opinions about the source material" on the muslim ban. Its pretty clear the media is acting as an opposition party to Trump rather then objective researchers.

I highly suggest you read the actual executive orders, before you start fear mongering, because that doesn't actually help anybody.

This reads like a conspiracy theory I'd find on Info Wars. I really dislike the term trump derangement syndrome, but every day its becoming a better descriptor.

We need to be better than this.

Trump's very election is a coup against the establishment, and so was Bernie Sanders impressive campaign in the primary. Trump's win, and Bernie's Rise make it clear, that Americans are done with business as usual politics.

We all need to be dealing with this new reality instead of running to conspiracy theories.

I'm pretty sure, Trump is using game theory to push his orders first, and use the momentum to push it through congress. He's openly made hostile comments even up to yesterday about leading republicans.

Every country should have their own primary tech conference, in a de-globalizing world. It's pretty clear. The return of nation state sovereignty and de-globalization is on the rise from the brexit, trump, le pen, modi, duarte, putin are all anti-globalists.

Yes. I keep a daily journal for all my programming related work with sources,ideas,debugging notes.

Reviewing them really helped me evaluate and improve my software architecture patterns.

I don't know for sure but. I noticed a lot of his class notes were written for windows and mac users. Also a lot of it was focused on java and python. I wonder if C and Linux classes became higher level electives.

Yet when she lost, many foreign governments started to pull funding.

Its pretty clear that something suspicious was occurring.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/16/clinton-glob...

I'm training my nephew, he's living with me while going to college in the philadelphia. He's been getting really frustrated hearing platitudes like this from his professors.

I've basically been mentoring him and having him read https://github.com/braydie/HowToBeAProgrammer , Comp Science with Python, and a couple books on linux and C to help with some lower level stuff.

He's been struggling a lot with C and Linux concepts. I've been there to help, and now I have strong opinion C and Linux would make a lot of programmers have a better understanding of their programs and computers.

I've been more than happy with the microsoft sculpt. https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...

I used to feel that way,but all my day jobs are python 2. They never to seem to want to budget in time to do an upgrade to python 3. It's been frustrating.

Lately I've been so frustrated I've actually been researching new languages with better performance, because that's a MUCH easy sales pitch to the business managers.

Aren't the chans not about your real beliefs, but simply trolling to get reactions ?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/11/terrorist-t...

This guy got articles published as radical feminist as well beyond being a fake isis terrorist, fake white nationalist, fake jewish lawyer.

I'm not a fan of reddit, but occasionally they have some brilliance.

- http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/296789-gop-chair...

- their AMA's with famous people are pretty amazing, steve wozniak's was great.

- Can't forget their net neutrality protest either http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29127179

- Alot of the programming related subreddits are pretty nice. It's how I got connected with Django Girls.

Beyond just emulation, Dolphin is fantastic to get insight to programming you might not be familiar with. I spent a good portion of time learning about their HLE audio emulation and how they approached it.

It was very enlightening.

Except who decides what that intimidation, violence or terrorism is ? If you are burning it in public, it could easily be spun different ways. We know some police officers treat minorities differently, so the line gets blurry.

Does a white college educated young person burn the flag with no consequences, and everyone else gets hit with intimidation ?

Hillary co-sponsored an actual bill called the "the flag protection act".

The fact that the democrats and republicans produced such like minded candidates is the more worrying aspect.

Well within in nonevangelicals, this article was popular for a while.

The Food Pyramid That Made Us Fat http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/29/934261/-

Not to mention the anti-vaccine people on all sides of the political and religious spectrum.

This article really suggests to me a long term trend in the establishments loosing their credibility across multiple groups of people or at least that is the real issue.