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Step 1: Establish disciplines that ridicule radical criticism.

Step 2: Hire undergraduate math/stats students who took criticism courses at gun point and hated them.

Step 3: ...

Step 4: "OMG Ponies and revolution"

Sir, you do not need a revolution, because it has already occured. You simply need employees who have read critical approaches to statistics AS AN INTEGRAL PART of their stats education. Those people are usually in

- feminist studies (did the requested stats revolution)

- gender studies (ibid, different name)

- women's studies (ibid, different name)

- lgbt studies (exploded feminist studies ftw)

- african american studies (ibid)

- critical studies (sociology, know of mainstream criticism only)

- american studies (good with convoluted language)

> Why do you want to move out of academia? Get a tenure and you'll be doing your research plus you'll secure a job for the rest of your life.

In short, the privatization (education for profit) and adjunct (severe labor exploitation) issues are horrible in that sector and I want no part in these.

These are the same issues both the non-profit and private non-academic sectors deal with too, but the private and non-profit sectors do not have the same amount of hypocrisy and blindness as academia when it comes to sticking a ten-feet pole on fire up one's ass.

Do you happen to have any open positions for techie non-programmer education / social sciences people? -Thanks.

> Windows is one of the top 5 most profitable software products in the world. Trust that they know how to make money.

Monopolization of the markets. I do trust it, but only when I do it. ;)

> Trees are a renewable source of energy / building materials.

You are too. :)

> So again, its not that much of a big deal.

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> EFF-card-carrying subset of the tech community, people who are most able and least ethically inhibited from piracy anyway.

Good rhetoric. They are evil because they believe in ethics. Go for it dude, who's holding you!

(I'm the OP, was on my phone so ended up with a diff account.)

Unfortunately, I am trying to move from academia to the private / non-profit sector's 'research associate' etc roles. Finding it to be truly difficult.

Thanks for the reply though!

That sounds like (GNU Social) + (Diaspora) - (Distributed Content)

Sounds great until your (sub)domain(s) gets censored or targeted.

How did you afford a 6-year long mac warranty?

This was helpful, thanks for the reply.

> An acre and a half of Amazon rainforest disappears every hour, and this is the deforestation you get upset about.

According to this logic, I ought to not get upset, nor criticize any policy, perspective, or activity that causes less deaths than a previous or current one did.

Assuming that for you, trees < animals < humans,

since the European colonization of Americas killed off about 100 million human beings,

I will have to wait for a catastrophe that kills off 101 million people to criticize anything that happens on earth.

Convenient.

Nope, the author says they pretty much had the trees chopped, in a later comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9503287

> They directly processed the trees to firewood, which they were intended for. :)

I honestly do not understand why you take video and pictures of a planet you do not care about. To try out your RPi toy, I guess? Or for some kind of publicity I do not quite understand?

A tree's function is not to "get processed." It is the terms you use that are failing you. By "get processed" you mean "to be killed." And by "function" you mean "the value humans commonly attribute to it." Politics is indeed the art of using this kind of language-bending. You follow these by coming up with a bunch of excuses to legitimize the unnecessary damage you caused to the flora of that region out of sheer arrogance.

> It's also very dangerous without climbing experience and without any climbing equipment to climb up such trees.

You either try, or accept defeat and design a better vehicle.

(1) I don't kill your partner just because s/he has parked her/his car at the spot where I wanted to park. (This is an exaggeration solely because we attribute more value to ourselves, out of arrogance, than to anything that we deem "other.")

(2) You don't burn the computer because your software has a bug. (This example is for those readers who persist on not shedding the aforementioned arrogance.)

> The local authorities helped us a lot, the forester aranged the cutting of two trees for us

We killed two trees for a 15 minute long youtube video.

Is this how little respect we all have for life?

> opening the box was unscrew the case and change the drive for an SSD

Does that not void the warranty?

> The police officer is 100% at fault here. The paramedic has medical equipment. The cop has weapons.

This is not a zero-sum game. They can be (and, I think, are) 100% at fault.

The paramedic has a medical responsibility to ensure the medical safety of the patient. He abandoned his job because he got afraid / didn't know better. These are not valid excuses.

> Did you read the article?

Yes.

> The patient did not go to jail.

The patient was almost taken to jail. The EMS left him there to be transported to jail.

> There was a 10 minute delay in care, until the patient became unresponsive and was transported to the hospital.

Please don't be apologetic for other people's screw ups. We have enough of that everywhere already.

"Oh it was just 10 minutes more of stroking and stuff. No biggie." It's a stroke, you die in that 10 minutes.

> Do you really see no difference in culpability between someone standing by and allowing torture to happen, vs someone who attempts to argue with, but eventually concedes to a guy carrying a gun?

No.

We are talking about the legal system, where such cases can be used as precedents.

When you are an EMS or physician otherwise, you were at fault, and it is pardoned because "I was so very much intimidated oh my," it will be pardoned as long as you can prove you were "intimidated."

"Oh judge it was a CIA agent, I was intimidated so I stayed and supervised it."

I find it disturbing and disgusting that (1) the defense attorney is using that as an excuse, and (2) the EMS allows his defense attorney to do that.

And where is the lawsuit against the cop for intimidation (civil) and misconduct (criminal)?

> After a long and complicated trial, the jury agreed that my client was not at fault.

The client EMS is as much at fault as the police officer.

He let someone whom he knew in his medical opinion to be having a serious medical problem go to jail because he was intimidated.

If he's not at fault, no medic ever is at fault for anything, even those who are present and supervise torture and police brutality, because "oh I'm sorry I was intimidated."

> Citizenship required.

Why?

> Technologists/Developers

Can you add a job desc please.

> all EU computers mandated to run OpenBSD

That kind of social change would require a change in the econo-political system.

> Specifically /r/programming vs HN.

HNers /behave/ more knowledgeably about startups and software.

> Is the user-base different?

No. White middle class men. Anything else is downvoted or not spoken of.[1]

> Is it just differences in karma/downvoting mechanics?

No, it's the YCombinator brand name that's making the difference. And the fact that HN is nowhere near as popular as reddit. (Popularity attracts even more white people, but especially those who would like to behave like spoiled brats.)

> Am I right to irrationally dislike reddit?

Yup. Find the right sub and you'll be fine.

(Edit) [1] As an example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451652 . Anyone other than that demographic, with some critical thought in them, have already abandoned the use of "riots" [along with its corrolary, "thugs"] to refer to the protests, and are using either #BaltimoreProtests or #BaltimoreUprisings . In that linked debate, not a single leading commentary disputes... wait for it... the very title.

Politicians in EU and US call various institutions a "NGO" when they disagree with it and want to ridicule it to intentionally reduce its public reputation.

EP is a high reputation organization and has force within the EU structure. Calling an EPRS study "something by the parliament's research service" is not only redundant (EPRS = European Parliament Research Service) but also short-sighted (do you do the same thing to the deliverables by your R&D department?).

So, this is an EP study that you can cite in order to support your arguments for switching to free software in your government / school / workplace / home / hobby group.

> systemd has replaced Upstart as the standard boot and service manager on all Ubuntu flavors except Touch. At the time of the 15.04 release there are no known major problems which prevent booting. The only service which does not currently start is Juju, which will be fixed in a post-release update soon; all other packaged Ubuntu services are expected to work.

> Upstart continues to control user sessions.

> If your system does not boot after installing or upgrading, please file a bug report and tag it with `systemd-boot`. Please see /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.Debian about how to debug early boot or shutdown problems.

Good article by Eagleton but I do wonder very much if it would have made headlines on HN if the title was "the slow death of the university as a center of humane critique" and the HN readers knew of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Eagleton#Literary_Theory

Their actual reason is probably related to the arguments presented at http://www.drop-dropbox.com/

Unsure why "they" would not come out and say that.

tl;dr

> The critical question is not whether the dog sniff occurs before or after the officer issues a ticket, but whether conducting the sniff adds time to the stop. [p. 3]

It's 2015. We have seen again and again the Black Rights Movement, Women's Rights Movement, various Third Word Rights movements, and the Animal Rights Movement interrogate and challenge, again and again, the ways in which human cultures assign value to various categories of living beings.

And here we are, saying

> OMG monkeys using "tools" as defined by humans! Golden ponies and red chameleons!!

Get over it already.

> Office 365 is such a good deal for $100/year compared to iCloud

o_O

Was the whole post in a sarcastic tone, or just this part? Serious question.

> The police have to know they can't win this battle and should throw in the towel and capitulate.

The police has already won this battle; that is why this EFF page exists.

In the last decade or so, the police has successfully and powerfully militarized itself, became (again[1]) progressively more violent, began (again[1]) handling protests and dissent more and more harshly. They won this battle, partially with the help of the congress and the intelligentsia, which imported the policies that were being applied abroad (again), and they will do their best to win the next one --the one where they need to be put back to their place (of "a good cop does not enforce the law, s/he serves the people").

Looking at the current political atmosphere, where no real choice exists and politics is but money laundering, they will most probably succeed in winning that war too (again[1]).

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[1] Just a reference to the Black Rights Movement in 1960s and the society's failure to change the institution (the police) successfully consequently, specifically during the 1970s.

> Hmm. That looks like a loophole the size of "stop resisting" or "I feared for my life."

Yup, it's an excuse that cops use the most in PINAC[1] videos.

Edit: [1] http://photographyisnotacrime.com/