Many of their potential customers would also benefit from increased wages as well though, so while you may have to drop the services, there are potentially many others who are now willing to purchase it.
Are you arguing that, because other industries also face exploitation, we should not be concerned about it in software development? Just because there are others who have it even worse doesn't mean that we should ignore exploitation in our field. That argument makes it very difficult to take any action, because you can almost always find someone else worse off.
The thing is, most laws already do this. They are proposed to affect some specific situation which has already occurred (like laws in response to online bullying, etc). The problem isn't that laws are just passed randomly without a specific case in mind: the problem is that they are often broad enough to have unintended consequences on other tangential cases. I don't think the problem is that no tests exist; I think the problem is more like bad test coverage. Laws can have wide reaching implications and it's very difficult to find every applicable situation before they come up.
People make mistakes. Every piece of software ever written has bugs: I don't think that means everyone's process is rotten. It just means they are human.
While I can see huge ethical concerns were this project related to the NSA, I don't think you can necessarily force that association here. While I agree with your frustration with the administration, especially with regards to surveillance and civil rights, I also would like to see the ACA do well and lead to a better life for most Americans. I don't think its wrong to want to work on solving this problem (healthcare) while disagreeing with other actions of the government, as the above poster is working on something that will directly help millions of americans. I see improving healthcare as a separate issue from the NSA scandals, and I think that, in refusing to help with fixing healthcare.gov, you are harming millions of poor and needy Americans without actually accomplishing much of anything.
I dont have a link, but I know the paper you are referring to (and have found it to be true to my own real life experience). Congrats to the author for using that as motivation to keep up writing.
If FB hired them for the team, though, there's no reason to keep the app around. Those people would be moved into new roles and the app would be sunset.
It's also not an opinion borne out by facts. Many children grow up with single parents and somehow manage to live healthy, balanced lives. Many children of gay couples also are well-adjusted and do very well for themselves. While having same-gendered same-oriented parental role models generally doesn't hurt children, its also not a necessity for them to grow up to be good people.
This wasn't like donating to a politician who you agree with one on issue, who happens to have other views that you might not. He donated to a campaign with a singular goal, opposing equal rights for gay people. Hatred isn't a word I would use, but it does suggest a level of disrespect and arrogance toward the other side.
If the opinion you're expressing is hateful and akin to calling fellow humans second hand citizens, then yes, you should probably censor that. Really, you should better yourself, but if not, then you probably want to be careful about making such statements in public.
Consider if he had donated to a charity trying to deny marriage rights to non-white people. I don't think you'd see much defense of his position.
This is like suggesting that, if Mozilla were a big supporter of child slavery, it would be fine, because that's not their market. Suggesting that anything an organization does or represents outside of their core market is irrelevant to their business is a laughable fallacy (and yes, I know that having Eich doesn't explicity give Mozilla an anti-equal-rights position, but the problem was that having him as a figurehead implicitly condoned his behavior, and does implicate them despite whatever statements they might make to the contrary).
Engineers are doing well, for sure. But compared to the profits of Google and Apple and their executives, engineer salaries are a joke. And yet, these cartels did not help to support the HR lady who lost her job, but instead served to further enrich the obscene wealth of the executives in charge of these companies.
How about send them to a psychiatric hospital which is equipped to deal with their situation, rather than locking them in a box? If someone is so mentally unstable that they cant handle the human contact of prison gen pop, maybe a psychiatric hospital is where they actually belong.
If you look at it from a more negative perspective though, lobbying for more H1-B visas is an even more effective way to decrease engineer compensation, because you can reduce your salaries further by increasing the pressure on US engineers by threatening them (implicitly or explicitly) with losing their jobs to cheap foreign labor. One could easily argue it looks like two sides of the same coin: using every dirty trick available to avoid paying engineers according to their actual value to the company
Just to play devil's advocate, I'm not sure your answer to number 2 is relevant. Sure, the US probably has the best ecosystem for starting a country, but why would that lead to the idea that the US should let anyone who wants come here to use it? Norway has a great health care system, but that doesn't mean that they should allow anyone to emigrate there who is looking for good medical coverage.
Also, for number 1, I dont think thats a fair comparison. If anything, the recent startup culture in the US has proved that theres an enormous ability here for citizens to start their own companies and fight against large, slow moving corporations. Additionally, there is no shortage of US citizens trying to start companies, who are well aware of the advantages. It seems like your plea is more from the idea of "its not fair that the US is the best place for this, so they should allow everyone to try it", which just is not how US immigration policy works.
I scored very well on the SAT's back in 2001 or so (better than 700 on each section) with no prep. I dont think anything on there was beyond the reach of a normal HS student. I went to public HS and took no advanced math or english classes prior to the test.
I would tend to agree. I mean, the point of those government programs is to encourage private investment in clean energy technology. I would say that Musk is basically the prime example of what the programs are designed to support. I would be willing to tolerate some amount of rent-seeking behavior if its in the interest of funding exactly the research we want funded anyway.
I dont think its really that different of a phenomenon. Item a) is a lot extrapolating item b) to everyone who doesn't share your race. Also, its completely possible to be racist against members of your own race, which still qualifies as racist behavior.
Basically, the general definition of racism is more about prejudice against one or more races, rather than about uplifting one specific race above everything else.
Do we actually have an exhaustive list of wallets controlled by Mt Gox though? That would seem like difficult to obtain and likely proprietary info they would not want to reveal.
You do realize that django is MVC, but that templates are not the C right? Their naming convention is kinda terrible, but the M is the models (obviously), the V is the templates (the "views") and the C is the views.py file (this is the poorly named part). If you compare to other MVC systems, those are the appropriate parts of django.
It makes me wonder if, as the article stated, its possible that the standards they are looking for are only really possible by very expensive studies funded by the industries they are supposed to study. Then again, given all the other nasty business conducted by the pesticide company in this article, regulatory capture is probably not something they would attempt...
Ive actually found the annotate framework can do most primitive GROUP BY queries (and in the next release or two will gain a lot more power, as its a big focus). Additionally, many of the other weird queries I need can be expresset with the queryset.extra() command, which means I get to keep working with querysets. All this support is only a few versions old though, so 5 years ago it definitely was much worse.
You dont have to use Ruby. I actually did it in Python because I dont know Ruby. Just had to change the !# and fiddle around a little with the input reading.
If you noticed though, the article constantly referenced the ability of both consumers and merchants to NOT possess any actual bitcoins. The actual bitcoin is so volatile, not to mention the gold-standard-like deflationary nature of them, that convincing most people that holding onto actual bitcoins rather than fiat currency does not seem to be a16z's goal (which is a good decision on their part). So its hard to argue the merits of the article while basically rejecting one of its main points (that you dont need to hold any bitcoins for it to still be super cheap).
They are pretty much exactly that. Every accusation of "well obv he has given everything to russia and china" is completely without evidence and has been vehemently denied by people with actual knowledge of the situation (such as Glenn Greenwald). It's really nothing more than yet another angle in the attempt to discredit the messenger.