About a quarter of the company has signed the protest letter. I signed the letter just so people would stop nagging me to sign. I don’t care about ICE. I suspect there are others who got pressured into signing.
That’s amazing to me. It seems to me like creating a hostile work environment and a form of harassment, although political rallying is not a protected category, and the employer is likely hamstrung in making any sort of response.
I wonder about that, too - how far will the rabble-rousers go, if they can get away with it? Will they insist on the firing of the people who _didn’t_ sign the petition? Will they blacklist people who have ever worked with ICE in the future? Will this spread beyond github? Will we have an unelected, unaccountable group of “the woke” dictating the terms of our employment?
If you're seeing abuse on HN you should take that up with us at hn@ycombinator.com, not come to the threads to violate the site guidelines. If your concern is the truth, there are better ways to defend it that don't violate the guidelines. If you want to smite enemies, that's not what this site is for.
That's not quite true. Customers get to decide if they accept the profit margin that the business wants. If the business thinks the risks far outweigh the payoff, they decide by closing the business.
I’m in the same boat as the person you replied to. In the past I’ve read arguments for and against anthropogenic climate change. Both were compelling to me when I read them. I’ve come to the conclusion that I just won’t understand the climate models enough to evaluate them on my own without spending months or years studying the topic. If my opinion on climate change ever matters, I will side with the vast majority of climate scientists, but I will always have my doubts.
There are no credible arguments against the fact that an increased level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere gives a warmer climate. The physics is well known, we've seen historical evidence of how it's happened before, and it's easy to demonstrate experimentally.
We know pretty well how much hydrocarbons we burn every year, global production of both oil and other hydrocarbons are public figures. The oxidization process of hydrocarbon is high school chemistry. Anyone who went to school should be able to understand these processes.
Climate models are complicated, but they're something else. They are helpful to understand exactly how the climate changes. That may be where scientific discourse is, but very far from the public one.
I might agree with you that human rights are non-negotiable, but we're probably going to get into a fight when it comes time to list those human rights.
I had the same idea. I forgot about it before I was old enough to reason about it. At the time I thought the size of the mirrors would be the biggest issue. I guess I thought faster-than-light travel was easy.
