Sexual assualt charges have ludicrously low conviction rates (rapes especially), they are usually a he said, she said affair unless there's a significant degree of violence. Going down a peso route would be a lot easier, lower burden of proof... And evidence that can be fabricated without bringing a victim or witness to court.
Secondly, if the us wanted assagne they'd have him, shifting to Ecuador is probably a lot less safe than hanging around an EU country IMO
Thirdly, he had his chance to go back to Sweden, he ran. He had his chance in the uk, he ran. He's not showing him self to be of good character if the acts of abuse of process he claims to stand against are being carried out by himself
Guilty or not, he's got questions to ask. Running away isn't going to make his issues disappear
And lets not forget, sexual assault is a serious allegation, and if you had any sense about you, someone lying about using protection would really piss you off. Apart from the fact it means putting a woman at risk of having to look after a brat for 18 years plus incubation, there's also the risk of disease, complication through pregnancy and common flipping curtosey.
$50 a year is a lot to a student, or a parent with kids, or someone without a job, or a family with inky one source of income, or if you are one of the billions of people that survive on $1-2 a day.
That's why in places like india, Africa a $500 phone is still seen as laughable. Even ignoring developing countries and emerging economies, charging 50 bucks is going to be a stretch and seems a bit crazy if you want to appeal to people outside of the silicon communities....
Good to see people trying something ew, but isn't this just a bit of 'it doesnt do what I'm used too, so it's broken'
"Funny thing. Adding arrays returns a string. Subtracting them returns NaN. Again, JavaScript devs will explain why. Maybe even try to convince you that it’s perfectly fine behaviour. It’s not"
Things like this in all languages, are what separates pros from tinkerers, in my opinion. It can be confusing, sometimes there are no good reason for this, other times there are.
I like JavaScript for all its quirks. It's the quirks hat have allowed it to be used in ways that were never envisaged.
To the OP, if you find something that doesn't work like everything else would, have a look at exploiting that difference before trying to make it conform
In this case, i dont believe we do have a right. Do you have a right to a facebook account?
Basically i reckon everything on facebook belongs too facebook inc. All your statuses, photos, comments. Complaining about a timeline is like complaining that the council changed the types of flowers in a public park.
Could people be a bit less naieve about facebook and realise it is in this for the money, nothing else. If people really hate FB that much, maybe instead of killing our accounts we should start pumping them full of junk data and destroy the SNR for facebook's business dev
The laws of where the alleged crime took place are a little more strict than the uk and usa. That said really if the alegation is made by a victim and the system want to prosecute, then he should fight the rap, not run from it. End of the day no matter how much or little we share in ideals should put anyone beyond scrutinity.
When that happens you get people sending a thousand kilos of high explosives into a school bus and walking away with a book deal and secret service protection for life. If u catch my drift
I reckon this is probably q bunch of patriot hackers operated by some shadier puppet masters. Ironically probably someone that's not friendly with the US
No allegation was made by the claimed victims. They were seeking advice on the possibility to force Assange to take a STD test, and a prosectuter independently decided to start the prosecution after reading the report. One of the victims has gotten so tired of it all that she now refuses to testify, and refuses to sign any old statements she made in regards to the whole affair.
Could this work in space or on other planets. I'd imagine this is the kind of tech that the military and NASA would be all over! If you could neatly pack the contents of your moon base and ship it ahead by a day.
Or even the military leave this just off the coast of some less than favourable country.
Great for setting up observation and living areas in hostile environments
Your profession doesn't make your opinion any more valid than anyone else's, or less valid.
There is a point in being nice, it's part of being sociable. We could have all the best solutions in the world, but if we can't share them in an agreeable way then they are going to be useless
Think of a world where parents mocked their toddlers for presenting them with a anotomically and structurally defective picture of their family and home. Would the child continue to create with happiness or just associate experimentation with negative response?
I'm comparing the act of creating and reviewing. More explicitly I wanted you to think about how a new designer would respond to overly harsh and non-constructive critisim in the early stages of developing their skillset.
I think HN has got to the stage were members are assuming to be knowledgeable on all, rather than trying to learn, experiment and educate.
Added to that a certain attitude of 'just because I'm right, I can be mean'
All just leads to an environment where trying new things is discouraged. The guy didn't follow the status quo, he tried something different. What happened wasn't quite a pitch fork smack down, but it felt pretty mean spirited.
I certainly didn't see anything constructive in the comments.
Im not attempting to single anyone out, your comments are 3 amongst 200+ (the link u send is actually a useful opinion which could be acted upon and something I'd agree with). So I and you shouldn't take yourself representive of the entire HN community right?
That said...
I responded to the OP who seemed to be making a general observation, based on a particular post. My reply was to be in generalisation too, so it may not be a correct view of the state of HN
Secondly, if the us wanted assagne they'd have him, shifting to Ecuador is probably a lot less safe than hanging around an EU country IMO
Thirdly, he had his chance to go back to Sweden, he ran. He had his chance in the uk, he ran. He's not showing him self to be of good character if the acts of abuse of process he claims to stand against are being carried out by himself
Guilty or not, he's got questions to ask. Running away isn't going to make his issues disappear
And lets not forget, sexual assault is a serious allegation, and if you had any sense about you, someone lying about using protection would really piss you off. Apart from the fact it means putting a woman at risk of having to look after a brat for 18 years plus incubation, there's also the risk of disease, complication through pregnancy and common flipping curtosey.