lwhalen

G-G-GP said "When people complain about shitty urban areas ... they're basically complaining about the state of the urban center which white people created when they moved out decades ago."

I said, "Tell me how a person's absence means they're at fault for what happens to a place after they're gone". I've achieved some level of economic success since I moved myself out of 'the hood'. The implication I'm picking up on is that the blight that has continued/worsened since I've left is somehow, inexplicably, my fault for not sticking around. Please, explain how that is or is not the case.

Endemic discrimination while renting an apartment? Nope.

Owning a house? Haven't achieved that yet, but I haven't exactly been trying.

While shopping? Nope.

Walking around town? Nope.

Driving? If I'm speeding and/or driving like an idiot, I get attention from the cops. My driving record isn't exactly squeaky clean, but each infraction is because I was making the choice to not follow the rules of the road.

Sorry if my experience doesn't fit a different narrative, but in my experience if I'm looking/acting like an idiot I get treated as such. Nothing that is outside of my control though.

I don't know about you, but I am responsible for my own actions. I don't need a hug from Whitey or anyone else to know the difference between right and wrong, or hard work versus sloth. If you do, I feel bad for you son. I choose the action, I choose the consequence, same as pretty much anything else on this planet.

So what should white people have done in the past/what should they do in the future, to not be guilty of these terrible social sins that appear to be their fault no matter what actions they take?

So what should white people have done/what should they do, to not be guilty of these terrible social sins that appear to be their fault no matter what actions they take?

No, and yes. If I leave a location, I am so incredibly not-responsible for what happens to it after I'm gone. If you think otherwise, I suspect you have some cause-and-effect bits in your brain that are irreparably damaged.

Excuse me? I grew up in Detroit and Flint, and come from a broken family. I earned my way up and out of those particular hell-holes, making my way to the East Coast and lately the West. Please, do tell me more about how I haven't investigated the issues of Black families and communities being targeted for acquisition, etc.

I think your post and mine must have waved to each other when they passed in The Tubes :-)

Wait, explain to me slowly how it's white-people's fault that an area deteriorates after they move out. Generally the absence of a person means they relinquish responsibility for what goes on in a place that they aren't occupying, at least in my fragile, tiny mind.

I think if the alternative is a psycho/collection of psychos gaining access to the cockpit, a puddle/pile on the floor is a reasonable outcome in that situation.

www.pfsense.org; highly rated, well-respected in the routing space.

That's great, but where do you buy one? I see a lot of cheesecake media downloads but no "order here" or "buy now" buttons.

The article brought up one dissenting judge's opinion, and a whole lot of sour grapes at 'losing' the Heller case.

From the Oxford English Dictionary, and bracketed in the time of the writing of the 2nd amendment:

    1709: "If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated Appetites and worthy Inclinations."

    1714: "The practice of all well-regulated courts of justice in the world."

    1812: "The equation of time ... is the adjustment of the difference of time as shown by a well-regulated clock and a true sun dial."

    1848: "A remissness for which I am sure every well-regulated person will blame the Mayor."

    1862: "It appeared to her well-regulated mind, like a clandestine proceeding."

    1894: "The newspaper, a never wanting adjunct to every well-regulated American embryo city."

The phrase "well-regulated" was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the people's arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the founders wrote it.

Read the Federalist Papers (specifically #46), in which Hamilton, Madison, etc, give significant insight into the intent behind the Amendments. It is plain that they intended the 2nd Amendment to not restrict the people's ability to own firearms in any way, shape, or form.

Well, except for the 2002 Monash University shooting, the 2011 Hectorville Siege, Hunt Family murders in 2014, Logan Shooting in 2014, etc. That's just 'massacred committed with firearms'. There's a fair number of stabbings, arson attacks, bombings, etc since the 1996 gun ban too.

What part of "Shall not be infringed", in any interpretation, allows gun control?

What I'm about to say may be considered harsh, but I promise I don't mean it to be.

Quit. Just leave. Go back to coding. It's obvious you don't enjoy management, there's no shame in admitting that. Rather than inflict your misery on the rest of the team, get back to your wheelhouse where you can be happy, your team can be happy, and ultimately your company (current or future) can be happy.

I have worked in a job where the CTO (my boss) was in your exact position (in fact, if it weren't for your style of writing - English was very obviously his third or fourth language - I would almost bet money that you were him, your stories are that eerily similar) and it was a miserable experience. $CTO was an otherwise brilliant coder who was on his first cto-gig outside of 'team leader'. Outside of work, he was a great guy - warm, personable, funny. At work, he resented not being able to code in many different ways, often with the team bearing the brunt of his misery. He'd often make decisions for others to implement, then second (or third) guess himself days or weeks later, insist we throw out all the work, and start again. He'd often be irritable, make rash decisions, have temper flare-ups, ask for feedback then get upset when he got it, etc. It was a bad scene for all involved, but the dude was a walking personification of the Peter Principle. He would have been infinitely happier remaining a coder, and his team (myself included) would have been infinitely happier with a CTO comfortable in a leadership position.

Because $tech_forum and $language_forum are different environments for different topics. Topics for one would rightly be OT in the other.

I could not disagree more stridently. If the goal is clear, concise communication, the ask-er should be reasonably fluent in the language they presume to get a response in. If I had to start asking questions in a primarily-Japanese tech forum, you can bet I would make sure my written Japanese was pretty darned good before I start bothering native speakers whom I'm hoping will help me for free. Yes, that process might take years, but that's what I'm signing up for if I choose a primarily-Japanese supported widget. If I'm imposing on someone, the expectation is that I am going to bend over backwards to not waste their time, and that means communicating clearly.

See: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#writewell

Sales/lead generation. I'm an independent devops consultant at the moment, and while I'm doing well for myself 'now', I'd be a lot more confident about the future if I was confident in my ability to scare up work on my own independent of referrals, word of mouth, etc.

Tough noogies, public roads are public roads.

Apparently being a 'virtual CTO' is a thing these days. Might be worth looking into.

Harley Davidson has an e-motorcycle in development. I've ridden a prototype, they are quite fun. No word on when it's available for sale though.

Would love to see the outage writeup and RCA for this, if/when it's published.

They missed an opportunity to make a completely oblique literary reference by not calling it 'ptmux' (for the Pratchett fans in the audience).

Is there a way to buy and vet a legit Persian rug that doesn't involve travelling to Iran?

SJW 'weasel word' detected ('problematic'). Excessive whininess and pearl-clutching ahoy.

That... is awesome. Having done a Rift demo, that's the closest I can conceive of (right now) as real-life wizardry - a terminal for (virtual) reality.

Heh, looks like HackerNews hugs hard these days :-)

Nah brah, it's "Cali... brah!"

The old joke is, "Conservatives love humans but hate humanity. Liberals love humanity but hate humans."

More sex-culture shaming. How about instead of wasting all this effort on law enforcement, 'company policy', and (extra creepy) banner-ads that display right when the john searches for sex, how about legalizing, taxing, and regulating it? I hear that worked pretty well for another popular human pasttime that was outlawed in the 30s, especially in Seattle.