Posted by
Marcus G. Daniels on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-Major-bug-called-Heartbleed-exposes-Internet-data-tp7585135p7585161.html
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 16:38 -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
> The original (implicit) question was *does* Openness amplify
> Inequality as a matter of course?
Reading over the essay again, all she seems to notice are abusive
misogynistic trolls. I guess if they could be compartmentalized and
kept from seeing the evidence of each others fine work that would be
more like equality? Can't we just promise to make examples out of a few
of them from time to time and call it good?
I guess it depends whether you really care about norms in the larger
population, or whether you have the assumption that most of life (esp.
now) involves about filtering out the noise to find the signal, and that
it won't always be easy to find.
The opportunities for working in tech are way, way better now than when
I was a kid. Today a young person has at their disposal hundreds of
millions of lines of free source code to learn from, improve, and
exploit, and direct ways to engage with the companies that maintain that
code. Yes, there are still big distinctions between the haves and the
have nots, but there are more ways to move up. That's way more
interesting than worrying about the cretins that Ms. Taylor has
observed.
Marcus
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