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If you've not read Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure I highly recommend you do [1]. Her podcast is also great [2].
[1]: http://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/ro... [2]: https://changelog.com/rfc
This is an excellent starting resource. As one of the maintainers of a popular open source project I was wondering how I could get help with the project by attracting new contributors as I work full time and find the balancing act hard. Users have previously enquired about donations and I didn't know the best way to set up the project to accept them in a responsible manner. This guide points me in the right direction…
This guide is really, really awesome. I maintain similar guides for companies and am excited to see a public version of most of what I've written.
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Restriction of freedom of speech only applies to the government and not to communities or private organizations. Just because you believe everyone should have the right to say these things wherever they want doesn't make it true. You're free to say these things, but you're not free from the repercussions of saying them in a private community. If you're unhappy that a community implements a code of conduct, you're fre…
> Restriction of freedom of speech only applies to the government and not to communities or private organizations That's not how morals work.
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Restriction of freedom of speech only applies to the government and not to communities or private organizations. Just because you believe everyone should have the right to say these things wherever they want doesn't make it true. You're free to say these things, but you're not free from the repercussions of saying them in a private community. If you're unhappy that a community implements a code of conduct, you're fre…
> Restriction of freedom of speech only applies to the government and not to communities or private organizations That's not how morals work.
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> Restriction of freedom of speech only applies to the government and not to communities or private organizations That's not how morals work.
But freedom of speech is a political concept which only makes sense for states. Any smaller community can add rules to the ones that hold by law. Be it you bowling team or software company. That's why clubs have by-laws/charters.
No, it's a principle. Morals and principles are not necessarily politics.
> Any smaller community can add rules to the ones that hold by law. Be it you bowling team or software company. That's why clubs have by-laws/charters.
This has nothing to do with my principles. My principles dictate that they are allowed to self-govern provided they don't, themselves, revoke the freedoms of anyone unable to consent.
From my (and other's) principles we can derive laws.
This works as follows: "Murder is unethical in specific cases because so we should and if this is broken ".
As you can see, the law is derived from the principle. The law is an enforcement of the group's principles. Laws don't generate principles, principles and morals generate laws.
This can easily be proven by asking the following: If freedom of speech is only a principle to be upheld by government, then what about the other essential freedoms of humanities? The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? If the common man does not need to uphold freedom of speech principles then surely it is ok for us to encroch on other freedoms such as life. It's surely ok for us to kill or own people. It's ok for us to steal. It's ok for us to pollute and otherwise destroy the sources of happiness that the world provides.
These principles, that are self evident, that all men are created equal, that all have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are what our laws are derived from. It's not only our government's job to uphold these principles. It's for every citizen of any civilized society to uphold them. If we loose the cornerstone right of humanity, the right to free discorse, then humanity looses all rights.
Just because something is legal doesn't make it right, and just because something is illegal doesn't make it wrong. Legality SHOULD be an expression of the common shared morals of all of our society. Sadly that is being lost and many people like you are now holding opinions that are the exact opposite of what was just stated. You seem to be of the mind that things that just because something is legal it makes it right, and just because somethign is illegal it makes it wrong. Why? I don't understand this. Just because "the government said so" isn't really a good reason.
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ditto. I was thinking it would be along the lines of Digital Ocean's curated how-to's/guides.
Ahhh that's interesting, especially because to a certain extent, people are already writing content on github organically (like this https://github.com/thewhitetulip/build-app-with-python-antit... ) but I always assume these are also hosted elsewhere, even if it is a github pages domain. What additional features or functionality would you want github to add to make writing/hosting guides better? Also, DigitalOcean ha…
They are quite good but why do I get the feeling the domain name was bought before the idea was decided on.