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fosap··on The costly criminalisation of the mentally ill
For beating animals you might be right. I don't think so, but maybe you are right. For the rest you are not.

Also you somehow see to confuse moral and ethical. Moral is "Eww, that's itchy." For example sodomy. Ethics are a reflection and systematization of the first. The latter is abstract.

There are no universal ethics. But several sound systems. Kant's Categorical imperative, several utilitarianism. Hell even Hedonism is ethics and IMO a way better than morals.

But all these have in common they do give explanations and justifications, unlike morals. Morals is just "that's nothing one should do" or "We never did that." And I can't see a ethics that would demand the criminalization of public nudity. However it is very easy to reduce to criminalization of killing and theft to a sound first principle. And IMO only these first principles are important enough to force them upon others.

fosap··on The costly criminalisation of the mentally ill
Public nudity is mere morals. IMO nothing law should deal with. Tyranny is a strong word, but it seems unreasonable interference.
fosap··on Tor is dead
1) I don't see why. It's end to end encrypted, but still who visits what is transparent.

2) Perfect Dark is not a general purpose net, but rather a file distribution mechanism, for known hashes. Not for message exchange between peers like tor or i2p.

Tor is a mix network aswell. But a low latency mix. The adversary is a way stronger than assumed, it does not seem to be safe anymore. High latency mixes (like remailers) are unaffected.

Also, Perfect Dark is 1) broken 2) closed source, so not trustworthy to begin with.

fosap··on Hugo: A Fast And Flexible Static Site Generator Built In GoLang
So this depends on git, bzr and hg? Why?
fosap··on Ask HN: is it legal to price discriminate based on Geo-IP
Oh, that should be "shipping fees"
fosap··on Ask HN: is it legal to price discriminate based on Geo-IP
Asking for different shopping fees and taxes should not be illegal anywhere.

The price itself could be more tricky. Of course it highly depends on your jurisdiction, but i some this would easily racial (or ethnical or whatever) discrimination.

Also I'm almost entirely sure that this would be a violation of the "one market" principle (and therefore illegal) of the EU if you operate from the EU and distinguishes between two EU countries.

But I'm not a lawyer or ever tried this.

fosap··on "Australia Tax" is real: Infrastructure and Communications report
Sorry, I can't follow suite. Could you explain the thing with the political narrative again? Who has which political views?
fosap··on Porting dl.google.com from C++ to Go
Yes, the page source. It's very clean.
fosap··on Porting dl.google.com from C++ to Go
Read the source code. IMO cleaner, and scrolling in the "right" way (vertical).
fosap··on You shouldn't hotlink someone else's JavaScript
That is a way better, IMO.
fosap··on You shouldn't hotlink someone else's JavaScript
I hope referrals will be disabled anytime soon. Firefox has AFAIK disable referrals to other domains by default.
fosap··on Ubuntu Edge lowers prices on IndieGogo
And without paypal and indiegogo fees.
fosap··on Ubuntu Edge lowers prices on IndieGogo
Could you explain why you use indiegogo? It seems to be a very expensive way to fund such a big project. Have you considered alternatives or setting up your own page?
fosap··on PyPy.js: First Steps
You could generate a javascript (or asm.js) string and eval() it. That should be the equivalent.
fosap··on systemd's syslogd replacement supports JSON output
Systemd seems to be quite mysterious, because the myth of the dbus dependency comes from the lead developer trying to debunk myths.

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html

>When you build systemd, it only requires three dependencies: glibc, libcap and dbus.

In the paragraph "bloated".

fosap··on systemd's syslogd replacement supports JSON output
something that was not necessary. Init scripts can be nice and clean [1]. And yes, I'm all for a init replacement. Something new, nice and clean. But I take the shell script hackery over a dbus dependency. But that's just my personal opinion.

I have neither used it nor looked at the code, but [2] seems to be what I want. It's by the libdietc author, so i expect the code to be small, elegant and not maintained very well.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/rc-scripting/rcng-dum...

[2] http://www.fefe.de/minit/

fosap··on History of Emacs & vi Keys (Keyboard Influence on Keybinding Design) (2010)
or 'ASDF'.
fosap··on Linus on "acting professionally"
And that is the concept of the "benevolent dictator". If he is a dick, incompetent or does technical stuff you don't like, fork. IMO the best way to run FOSS project, but of course there are others.
fosap··on Changing The Creepy Guy Narrative
So, looking at somebody consensually is "eye sex" and non-consensually is "eye rape"? I have to say... I can't take this vocabulary serious.

/edit

Looking a somebody and having sex with sombody is as far apart for me as a hand shake and a MMA fight: the polar opposite sides in the spectrum of social interaction.

fosap··on Changing The Creepy Guy Narrative
Yes, it is overused, that's why i used it. The last sentence was not serious, but a caricature.

> With women, there's a strong focus on their attractiveness that doesn't exist for men.

Except there is not in this text. As i said, it is very balanced, if there was not the picture.

Your posts illustrates exactly what i said. Any mention of attractiveness leads to accusation of misogynist (or sexism towards woman, I have to say I don't really know the difference), no matter in witch context. No matter how the author does this for all genders, at some point somebody points out that "all genders" in include woman, and that this is not ok. And clearly discrimination to include women into "all genders".

fosap··on Why I won't speak at women-only events
Sentence 1: If you disagree with something you get nothing but ridicule and insults. You just proved that point. Sorry, some people are just not worth arguing with, for example people with that discussion style, like you and most feminist. Or most fans of homeopathy. Or most jehovah's witnesses. Or other esoteric world views, preferably with a very strong in-group/out-group mentality. Case closed.
fosap··on Changing The Creepy Guy Narrative
Ok, I'm not even sure if you are sarcastic or serious. Did you seriously just say that looking at somebody can constitute rape?
fosap··on Changing The Creepy Guy Narrative
The outer appearance of the two people interacting are descried. There is even a picture illustrating how the man looked like.

How this is sexism against the woman is beyond me. How this is sexism at all.

This seems to be a feminist keen-jerk reaction. Outer appearance of a somebody? That somebody happens to be a woman? What a misogynist!

fosap··on Do_good.js
But it does, potentially, prevent my laptop CPU from sleeping and uses battery time.
fosap··on Changing The Creepy Guy Narrative
It follows a feminist narrative where woman are asexual beings and sex is something only men like and force upon women. (sex-negative feminism) In such a narrative every statement of attractiveness is ultimately a outing a want-to-be rapist or a predator. If you are in such a narrative it also makes perfect sense to say it's sexist. Outside of that narrative hardly.
fosap··on Why America's Outdated Morals Won't Let Porn into Mainstream Business
I'd guess the majority of anti-porn activist are not religious in a traditional sense but feminists. But thats just what I think and I live in Europe.
fosap··on How ASCII lost and unicode won
But for historical encodings that kind of matters. Because a byte was not always 8 bit we have to deal with utf-7 and had to ensure things where 8 bit clean. And utf-9.
fosap··on Haste – A Haskell to JS Compiler
Since jQuery is a monad i expect a Haskell wrapper to be written very soon.
fosap··on Haste – A Haskell to JS Compiler
It has more backends: GCC style C annnnddddd.... Javascript.
fosap··on The web you know is dying
Yeah, Gotham city.
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