Replying again to say: that actually makes sense. You should have said that upfront! Suddenly being locked out of critical software is definitely a risk worth considering

Why?

His actual goal is in the final sentence of the article and has nothing to do with moral intent.

It’s more about scale. Small open source projects might get one PR a month. Your average tech company is dealing with dozens of PR every single day. Review fatigue is real in these environments

He had an interview with Google and they asked him to invert a binary tree, which is essentially taking a tree of data and swapping the positions of all sibling nodes.

While most people agreed it was a pretty pointless question to ask at an interview, mxcl had a full “don’t you know who I am” shit fit on social media.

If anyone hasn’t made the connection, mxcl is the infamous Google interview binary tree guy

Great summary, but I want to point out that the reality of why they’re doing this is to pander to racist voters who were told their opinion by a highly effective villification campaign against this woman in tabloid newspapers.

Once these things gain traction, politicians always kowtow to the loudest public opinions

What in the actual fuck

I’ll give you 0.25

already paying more than 30% of their income — the standard threshold

See how they tried to normalize that hoping you wouldn’t notice?

They should change it to “reject and swerve”.

nothing purrsonal kit

Shave the beard from your neck, it’s draining your humanity

I hope he takes this firing as a window of opportunity. With the right attitude he can really ground himself.

Move then?

Woah, where does the US have preclearance? I thought it was nonexistent

Yes, this does strengthen my point

MAGA has nothing to do with passing legislation or running the country, so no.

Unfortunately I just get a black screen when I try to view it :-(