This makes me sick, because I could see myself and many people I know doing the same thing, under the right circumstances, without even very much coercion needed, just writing a bit of business logic...
Totalitarianism is sustained by ordinary people looking forward to shipping the feature and having a nice dinner out on the weekend.
Code like this doesn't happen unless a programmer sits down and writes it. You have a responsibility to refuse to write code which is morally wrong. This is the cost if you don't: real human lives.
There was another time, not long ago, when people justified doing or facilitating vile things against masses of fellow humans as “just following orders”.
Their point is valid—refusing might cost own life, and there's the prisoner's dilemma, etc. A situation like that seems unlikely to be resolved from within a system itself.
However, appeals to consequences aside, in the end each of us has a choice: write that code (slash architect that solution) or not.
That comment translates to: "charm value, -1 means invalid, 0 means not recognized, it ranges from 1-100 when detecting, higher the score means more charming."
This is absolutely disheartening. You would think, seeing how ferociously people attack Holocaust deniers, that we have learned our lesson but it is absolutely not the case.
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Totalitarianism is sustained by ordinary people looking forward to shipping the feature and having a nice dinner out on the weekend.
Their point is valid—refusing might cost own life, and there's the prisoner's dilemma, etc. A situation like that seems unlikely to be resolved from within a system itself.
However, appeals to consequences aside, in the end each of us has a choice: write that code (slash architect that solution) or not.
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I'm wondering what -1 could mean in that context.
And no one can do anything because a war with China would be worse, and because China is not attacking outside its own borders.
There's some quote I can't find about countries that only do atrocities inside their borders are never held to account for them.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs