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Sad truth is that you buy bananas in lbf and in most of the world we use Kgf.

This world is lost I tell you, can't even pay for something according to it's mass.

Well, the wirecutter is not really an independent source anymore (if it ever was one). Studies by the consumer associations are a much more accurate view (the French one is particularly good BTW).

About the quality of the job. My issue is not with shame, is with unwarranted praise. This article is trying to praise someone that did a job 6x worst than the competition, that sounds to me like a plain old advertisement.

> "Portugal shouldn't overly acknowledge the slave trade, they barely kept any in the mainland while profiting off their sale and work for centuries."

We are just going around and around in circles.

Again and for the final time: The article and my problem with it, is NOT about Portugal's involvement in the slave trade. I totally admit Portugal was the big motivator of the slave TRADE, yet history let's it very clear that the Natives were the ENSLAVERS and already since at least 1500 years before and have continued to do it UNTIL THE PRESENT, long after the Europeans stopped that.

The article IS about some WRONG idea there is some slave legacy in LISBON - when in fact there is basically none.

> "If they refused, the offer would go out to their rivals. "

Ok, so what? Both you and you rival have something to sell. If I don't buy it from you, I buy it from your rival. Let's face it, the Europeans created a greater demand for a product that the natives were already providing: Slaves. (no disrespect intended by the word product, just an analogy).

> *"ignoring your own source saying that it isn't clear chattel slavery was practiced in the area"

The moment the natives the sold those slaves, even if they weren't chattel slaves before (which I agree with you, was not clear), they started practicing chattel slavery. That's just the definition of it.

In a nutshell, Europeans didn't turn that people into chattel slaves, they where turned into that by the other natives that enslaved them.

> "Yet you ignored the parts that didn't, like the ten percent of the population part."

Yes, the 10% that only occurred for a short time compared to the rest of the all Europe and because you keep accounting for people passing by than only spent there some weeks (i.e. the slaves waiting to be sold).

> "I don't really care if any men get hung high here."

What kind of place are the moderators of HN running here where this kind of comment is allowed? It's absolutely ridiculous the double standards going on here.

> "it's because ideological battle is not what the site is for"

If this is actually true then why do you keep removing flags from ideological submissions and force them into the front page when me (and others like me) keep flagging and asking to stop with the ideological posts? Quite the conundrum, isn't it?

> "We've asked you before to stop this"

Can you actually point when that happened

> "If you continue to descend into using HN exclusively for ideological battle and fulmination, we're going to have to ban you"

I clearly don't use HN for "ideological battle and fulmination" my comments clearly go into the technical realm whenever you don't keep editorializing the front page and removing flags from the actual ideological submissions. But so what if you ban me? We already understood that our downvotes and flags mean nothing since you keep removing them whenever they go against $your_politics Dang, so it's not like we miss absolutely anything by just making a new account and keep calling out your double standards with it.

Let's hope so that he doesn't have time, but I think people are fooling themselves by thinking he will get voted out of a second mandate. If he lasts that long without an impeachment, history tells us that it's highly improbable that he loses the election for the 2nd term.

Because he seems to be actually creating an oligarchy in the USA, firing and hiring people for top administration like he sees fit in order to concentrate power around him.

I see, I was interpreting the GP comment as that the OP stopped talking altogether after knowing she had a boyfriend. But you are right, it can also be interpreted that after the OP knew she had a boyfriend he changed from "small talk" to some more interesting subjects cause he felt more at ease of not being misunderstood as hitting on her.

Where in that sentence do you get the idea that he "stopped 'making smalltalk'" after "they told [him] they had a boy/girlfriend"?

> "By saying it was the Africans who did the kidnapping, you're putting the crime on them. But if they refused, they likely would have been enslaved or killed."

Way to go and completely distort all historical evidence to try and shift the blame. Let's get something clear, the natives selling other natives were from tribes/kingdoms that had been at war for centuries. Europeans clearly created more demand and are at fault for that. But the natives were very clearly and very well documented NOT coerced (like you are trying to claim), they just continued doing what they already did for at least 15 centuries before.

And also, they continued doing it AFTER the Europeans stopped slavery. Thing is, even today there are millions of slaves in Africa and really we can easily agree it's not the Europeans that own them or trade them in present times.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa

> "Your comments were about how Portugal was at ease with it's slavery past, and came as part of the "Africans were the kidnappers" spiel. Mainland Portugal was in control of Brazil at the time, part of this time involved the court located in Brazil."

No, my main comment was that LISBON didn't had the slaving history as the article is trying to put on it and as such, Portugal being the first nation to forbid slavery (even of just in the mainland) goes on to validate my point about LISBON.

> "The only thing we're trying to optimize HN for is being interesting (a.k.a. "gratification of intellectual curiosity" as the site guidelines say)"

Care to explain us how removing flags from posts that aren't about technology (like you admittedly did in the past about perceived discrimination) in order to keep them in the front page against the community wishes is a an attempt of gratification of intellectual curiosity from your part?

Care to also explain us how your constant admonitions and flagging against factual comments that challenge your views of discrimination are, yet again, an attempt of gratification of intellectual curiosity from your part?

Thank you.

> "As for burden of proof, I don't see it. It's like saying that asking people to lock their houses is a burden, when thieves are the criminals."

This is surely the poorest analogy I've ever read in my all life, comparing a burglar trying to enter your house with someone falsely accusing you of something.

What about the burden of proof you don't see if you go casually dressed to shop in some fancy shop and they falsely accuse you of trying to shoplift and you - oh bummer - didn't record everything?

You also don't see any burden of proof on you if you go to some corrupt country and the police falsely stops you for speeding and you didn't record your all trip after the moment you got there (though luck, if you didn't record everything is because you surely did something wrong)? You don't see that burden of proof on you, right?

> "If you're really truly worried about false accusations then here's another fix you can have for free: record your meetings, texts, emails, and calls with founders and/or don't meet alone."

Well, there are two problems with that.

1 - It puts the burden of proof on the accused. I.E. it totally throws out of the window what has become a de facto human right and an universally established legal one in every democracy: "Innocent until proven guilty", into a: "Guilty until you can shows us some footage that proves you are not guilty" (which let's face it, it's basically impossible if the accuser is lying on purpose and knows how to do things).

2 - In America I think you are free to record other people interacting with you or in your office/home (perhaps some American can clarify this), but in many other countries, specially in most of EU, that's a crime. You can't go around recording people unless they are of public interest and in a public situation or they expressly consent to it.

> "If an employee of yours said they were raped by another employee, would you make them go to the hospital and get a rape kit before believing what they said?"

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your sentence, but are you advocating that you should fire the accused employee right away with no evidence other than the word of the accuser?

> "Paying someone else to do the work doesn't change who was responsible."

Never claimed Europeans weren't responsible (in fact I clearly stated the opposite), I factually stated something wrong in the original article: Europeans were not going around kidnapping natives at large like the article suggests, they were buying them from the other natives that were the ones actually enslaving them.

Can't understand why you are trying so hard to hide that part of history.

> "In mainland Portugal, slavery wasn't abolished in Brazil until 1869."

Yes, and this article is about Lisbon. Lisbon, is in mainland Portugal.

> "Plus, this is about Protestant Portugal"

Protestant Portugal? What are you talking about? Protestantism was only allowed in Portugal after the mid XIX century (and after that still mostly inexistent). So, basically when slavery was also forbidden by law in there.

It is quite deceiving to mention so greatly - and more than once - the slaves that where kidnapped by Europeans like they where a representative part of the slave trade, they were factually not. Portugal is without doubt a big culprit in the slave trade, but the African slaves themselves were basically all enslaved by other Africans and then sold to the Europeans. Portugal was also the first country to officially forbid the slave trade.

Portugal is quite at ease with the history of its colonial past and its role in the Atlantic slave trade, there is no denial or attempt to hide the historical facts and the slave trade and the role of slavery in the former colonies (specially Brazil) is well discussed during obligatory schooling.

All this to say I can't really understand why Lisbon should acknowledge its slaves to such great length as this post asks to, because in fact Lisbon had very few ones actually living there (it was not well seen in Catholic Europe to own slaves) and was mostly a point of passage (but then again, so were many Atlantic islands).

If you want to check the historical facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade

I want to vouch for Matplotlib, I can see it gets a bad reputation when compared to these new shiny frameworks like plotly, but it's vastly more powerful.

If you are a researcher and you want to publish in B&W (something still very common in fields like Physics and Astrophysics), no other plotting library for Python comes near.

You can choose filling patterns, line patterns, annotate with LaTeX, etc. And, although hard, you can make your final product look as polished and perfect as you want (and as you are willing to take the time). No other library for Python comes near in these aspects.

There are simpler tools and it's easy to get a good enough looking plot, but if you want to get that perfect one exactly as you need, there's no way around Matplotlib (at least amongst the well known Python plotting libraries).

Well I can agree with that, but it still doesn't change anything of what was said above, i.e. what you see and what you are allowed to discuss in HN is not what the community decides, but what the moderators decide.

> "On HN, the community decides what is acceptable having seen the comment."

Not really, that's just a common fallacy perpetuated from the ones that see their political views represented by the heavy handed moderation around HN, or the ones that actually don't pay attention to what is going on in HN.

Moderators in HN heavily editorialize the Front Page by removing the flags from some posts and flagging other highly voted ones by the community.

They do the same to comments that don't follow their personal views even when those comments don't break any of the guidelines but happen to be against the moderators political views.

Bottom line: You might be deceived by the appearances here, or you might be actually enjoying so see anyone that disagrees with you being shut up in HN, but factually, it's not the "community" of HN that is deciding what is acceptable, it's largely the moderators of HN.

You are setting up a framework of thought where no matter how much data you gather that shows some group is indeed more violent, you are allowed to just dismiss it on the basis of some situational perceived discrimination.

Are you actually putting newborn children in the mix to pretend that only 19% of Americans wanted Trump there?

Well, when you think that the Sun is now about 5 thousand million years old and happily living the quiet times of its middle age, you can see you "young" is Betelgeuse.

> "If the best example you can come up with is someone who literally got a blowjob from a hotel maid in his room "

See your way of reasoning in which you automatically assume that whenever a woman accuses a men in power than the men is guilty, is exactly the problem here.

Where can you tell Strauss Khan "literally got a blowjob from a hotel maid" in a case that didn't even go to trial because the accuser was found guilty of "repeatedly lying" in several of her statements by no less than a grand jury?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn#New_Yor...

Not in a culture like the one we we are living, where a woman only needs to accuse a men - without any evidence - of sexual harassment and automatically ruin all his carer and possibly his family life.

Even if the case never gets to trial or even if it does and it can be proved the woman was simply lying, your life is already over. Just see what happened to Strauss Khan from IMF (not that I actually liked that guy TBH).

I'm thinking about doing something similar, what do you use to write it down? Pen and & paper, or some digital format like Markdown?

I'm curious, but why didn't you rate your drivers 1 star rating evertime they would break the Uber agreement and try to coherce you into tipping them in cash?

I think because now they have AMD GPUs for some years.

I have a MacBook Pro from 2013 and I think it was the one before the last to have a Nvidia GPU.

Also, it's always an headache for me to get CUDA to work with Python/R libraries anytime I update the system and I have yet to find a straightforward guide that tells me exactly the steps to take... they all fail at some place.

> "And the best p-value they observed was p=0.02"

A p-value of 0.02 is quite good in physics and absolutely outstanding in medical sciences or biology.

I ride my bike to work and it's incredible how asinine and stupid some drivers are. Some of them don't even know (or at least pretend) that bicycles can occupy the rods along with cars. It's just ridiculous.

But in the end, I actually blame the police. Truth is police just doesn't give a damn. If police acted when they see a car disrespecting a bicycle (for instance seeing a car passing the bicycle without holding the minimum legal distance from it... which happens constantly a lot of times every day to me) or when they see a car ignoring a STOP or priority sign when a bicycle is coming, then the car drivers would learn the lesson and it would stop.

But no, the police just ignores those situations and this way nothing will ever change,