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> But when I read recent reports about arson, looting, windows smashed, trash cans overturned and lit on fire, businesses destroyed, police officers assaulted with rocks, explosives and firebombs, millions of damages caused, when I read about "burn that bitch down" - I think maybe this particular instance is not what I want to be part of at all. Maybe associating with this wouldn't do as much to combat either public perception of police needing to be tough or any particular prejudices.

If you really were deeply concerned about police brutality and its disproportionate application against black people, then you would wholly understand that and outburst of anger and violence is a likely reaction when people are pushed to their limit.

The current wave of protests are not those riots, they are organized action to protest this reality. Moreover, your approval means nothing while those lives are still destroyed and dominated by unjust systems and institutions.

> and he attacked the police officer and tried to take the officer's gun

This is disputed by witness testimony: same say this happened, others say it didn't. Other testimony indicates that Wilson may have instigated conflict when making the stop.

> Looking at Brown, we see a man who did something really stupid, and suffered pretty much the same outcome that we'd expect for anyone in that situation.

This is not at all the case. Wilson shot Brown when we was a significant distance from the car (100+ feet) and Brown was not armed in any way. We do not expect someone who commits a petty theft to be executed by the police when Wilson had a variety of other options at his disposal. Doing something stupid isn't and should not be a death sentence.

> Lumping Garner and Brown together, like these protestors are doing, seems to me to be an insult to the memory of Eric Garner.

These deaths are wholly related to the racism of police practice in the United States. Presenting disputed testimony as the truth is extremely misleading.

There are plenty of straight folks doing this same thing but there is no ban on people from talking about heterosexuality around minors.

The trouble always was being able to find all those missing pieces when the download took a long time. These scenes really encouraged a level of interaction with other users that is kind of missing today. Knowing someone who was consistently available and trading favors was somewhat common.

> Also, what was reported to Uber was allegations of "staring" and just generally making the passenger feel uncomfortable. While thats definitely not cool and not the experience anyone wants to have with Uber, thats hardly enough to fire someone.

Drivers that make passengers who are women uncomfortable due to harassment should absolutely 100% be fired. Sexual harassment is not tolerable for employees of a company, whether its to fellow employees and/or customers.

It's always amazing how people repeat this coal mine idea: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/03/28/sexism-in-tech-not-...

> Removing criminals from society is easy and straightforward.

This is one of the biggest misconceptions about prison. Prisons and incarceration do not remove people from society, those people are still a part of society even if their interaction and freedoms are restricted. Not too mention who and what defines criminality is a horribly messed up system.

> His racism probably isn't his fault. It's probably a factor of his condition.

I don't know if his racism is the result of or related to his condition. However, even if it is, so what? Why exactly does that behavior get to be overlooked as though it doesn't have a real effect on people who suffer from it? Why does he get assistance to find a job while non-white people struggle to find work in tech?

> but it's a shame people's dinner conversations or even pub conversations will be taken as their official edicts and sanctioned pronouncements --when lots of times there is boasting, bravado, nervousness and other times there are threats and other unsavory conduct.

Here's the thing. As someone who hears that conversation, I can't tell if you are just running your mouth or serious. Moreover, for someone who could feel unsafe in a space because of that, they can't tell if they really are safe or not. Lastly, if things like gamer gate show us anything, there are a whole host of people who will act on what you say when they hear it and hearing those things reaffirms their worldview and actions. Making idle jokes or claims about harassing a someone isn't appropriate.

> We know what happens when humans are free to have all the food we want. They get fat. Next question.

Nope, not even close. Access to food is not a causal relationship with being fat and fat people exist even when food isn't easily accessible. Fat people have existed since people have existed.

Bad behavior by some journalists doesn't justify personal attacks by companies against journalists.

> Juvenile crime rates are plummeting, and the leading theory is that it's because all the kids are too busy on their electronic devices to commit any crimes.

I have never heard that theory at all from any crime reporting, statistics, or books. Do you have any information on that?

While clearly some folks that get booked are harder to work with than others, do you even know what dehumanization looks like for someone like that? It's not safety procedures taken by officers, its getting the shit beaten out of you by a frustrated officer or getting shot before you are even apprehended.

> Most of the inmates in our prison system are treated "with humanity."

This is not true whatsoever. Fundamentally, if the system that feeds prisons treated people with humanity, a large number of people would never be prisoners in the first place.

Prison still sucks even if you can follow your diet. Its not like prisoners who have allergy reasons for avoiding things like dairy and honey are having a great time.

The fact that he went to high security holding and didn't have access to his normal diet are entirely related as part of the oppressive nature of prison that goes beyond just removing someone from society for a period of time.

In Material design, you are still intended to make use of proper cues for useable components. Interactive components are supposed to exist as another logical layer on top of static content. This is the change from Holo, do not use flat things so often for interactive widgets.

> as they passed the ACA, they simply changed to rules to use the reconciliation process to pass what they wanted without the Republicans being able to say a word.

Not quite. The Democrats had 60 Senate seats for a very brief period before Scott Brown took over Ted Kennedy's seat when he passed away. The main ACA bill in the senate was passed with 60 votes the normal way. A second bill that was to modify that bill was passed with reconciliation as a way to get members of the House to drop their version of ACA, accept the currently passed Senate version, and then modify that to appease some of the concerns of various congresspeople.

> Reid was pro at changing the rules to prevent opposing views, people need to understand just how much of the problems in th Senate were his doing and his doing alone. Mister Nuclear just got nuked by the electorate

I so very much hate the 'going nuclear' talk. Filibuster breaks at 60 votes is a shit idea in the first place, plus changing it only in one case for appointments is hardly shaking up the political order at large. In fact, the reluctance to do it for all types of votes shows how conservative leadership for the dems were being.

At no point since 2009 did the Democrats control 60 or more seats in the Senate, which would be a requriement to beat a filibuster from the opposing party. So no, the Democratic party did not have a free license for appointee approvals.

EDIT: Came to my attention that Democrats did have a exactly 60 seats in the Senate for a brief period before Ted Kennedy passed away and his seat was won by Scott Brown in 2009. However, the point still stands that there was a very brief period over a span of 5 years where control of Congress was even possible for Democrats.

Android Studio is always ahead in Android support, so if you want to take advantage of some new feature in a future update, you'll have to wait for Intellij to get it. That said, most common things like gradle support and SDK support are useable since version 13.

It's not just the privately run prison complexes, but also suppliers, consultancies, police equipment manufacturers, arms manufacturers, and so. That's the 'industrial' in prison industrial complex.

The broken windows theory is not accurate and is extremely controversial in its implementations. Moreover, the kinds of things broken windows fallacy argues against are not petty theft, but things involving infrastructure and the status of neighborhoods.

This already happens all the time for salaried employees, they often receive vacation time that doesn't reduce their yearly salary and this works perfectly fine for those roles. This isn't a tax scenario, this is more of a compensation adjustment for workers.

> Being opposed to gay marriage does not imply being against homosexuals.

How is that even possible? How is enforcing legal restrictions against a minority class of people not inherently discriminatory?

It's important for mere visibility and representation of MOGAI people in general. Everyone is generally assumed to be heterosexual by default, so people who are het don't need to make public announcements about it.

This is true, and you can easily view this as a form of abuse against userbases: your data will be exploited and not properly secured while a company profits and you suffer the consequences.

This is true, but generally aid and scholarships aren't enough to cover costs for one full year, let alone two. Many students will take out loans because of this.

> Have a 3.0? Dont have any drug arrests or convictions?

The first two things are the reason why a lot of people I knew had to go to community college instead of directly to university. Florida has a similar program (Bright Futures) that has similar GPA requirements (and also community service and test scores). These programs are nice and all, but a far cry from actually making education beyond secondary school reachable for most people.

A lot of apps are just API consumers, but apps with any kind of moderately advanced functionality will require some kind of entity model and business rules that need to be captured. Having those things go out of sync between platforms can be a source of bugs or slower development. For shops invested in Java or with a lot of Java engineers, something like this can be be useful so that the entity model and business rules can be encapsulated in a single code base.

> The author of this piece made the classic, and often unavoidable mistake of being between a rock and a hard place and not vetting the company she interviewed at and ultimately worked for for a day.

Vetting a place for a hostile work environment, esp. when the company is small and has had few employees, is really difficult.

> First, I didn't find Ajay's interview to be that weird, saying why you came up with the idea for your company and your qualifications should be expected, not interpreted as a way for the founder to diminish the potential future employee. If you don't believe in your leaders, and don't trust them, you are in a lot of trouble.

His attitude isn't troubling except in hindsight after we learn that sexism and sexual harassment are A-OK in the office and that service providers shoulder a ton of blame for little reward.

> 12 hour days is insane, and wrong. Having to provide your own device is not really that insane for small teams. Obviously it's great if a company provides it, and probably larger companies should always provide a workstation, but this doesn't come across as totally abnormal.

For the low pay those customer service people received, it is abhorrent that they must also pay for supplies to do their basic job. It's a safe bet to say that the programmers there didn't have to buy their own desktops for development.

> The constant "want to hear a joke" and racist/sexist tone at the company is also not acceptable, but clearly was supported by the people working there at the time, if the anecdote is taken at face value.

Uh, the author clearly related that several people seemed uncomfortable by the sexual harassment in the office. Did you even read the anecdote about 'Josh' being harassed in plain view of the office?!

> There appear to be a lot of growing pains at Handy, which isn't a surprise, but hopefully they can move fast and get their support/service wing to be as tight and focused as the rest of their team.

A hostile workplace, sexual harassment, demeaning low wage service providers, and being general assholes isn't growing pains, it's a sign that the company is horrible and no one should do business with them.

I'm not surprised that a company that would treat its service providers so shitty would also treat its employees that way. Between stories like this and the things I hear about other service startups like Task Rabbit it makes me never want to use one of these services ever.