actually I'm more for the plight of migrant workers here though

you will have people from poorer countries wanting to go to richer countries to work

exploitation isn't restricted to the US

but a crime is a crime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay

we don't do this anymore, usually we try to quietly sweep the matter under the table

but once it gets out to the media...

moral of the story, don't do stupid shit right?

It's usually a good idea to know what other countries laws are before you choose to go there

of course

but if you don't know, be respectful right

you're not going to someone else's country and say, shit on someone's car right

reminds of me the british guy that went to saudi arabia and got arrested because he had alcohol in his blood due to drinking wine on the flight

it's not always about common sense, some countries have laws that you need to know before going

the Kaite Bouman wiki page is up for deletion! woo small victories!

well it was basically a draft

it didn't even say the complete dob

tbh i have nothing against her, i just think her colleagues should have gotten recognition too

90% of the citations on that wiki page are news articles, which do not contain any actual information about the project, the whole thing is built with sticks and thats shameful in the realm of wikipedia

i agree

they all amount to "look! its a girl! she did this because we say so! praise her!"

but she doesn't deserve any hate herself

its why the page has no valuable information beyond public records

no she doesn't

and I don't want to underplay her contribution to the Event Horizon Project

but giving her this much attention and so much credit is wrong

The media is crazy.. She didn't may had even known

yup

last I checked she hasn't actually made ANY public statements in the last few days

There's was also a lot of misinformation being pushed

though several people have impersonated her on social media

That she was the head of the team

She wasn't

yea

shes a grad student for crying out loud... and she doesn't actually have any background in astronomy

I mean shes a great programmer for sure, but shes not actually a scientist

tbh she has contributed like 2400 lines of code on the project's github repo

there's a guy who has more than 850'000 and nobody talked about him

Lines of code doesn't tell much about it

The guy had made a statement about it

i know there's more than writing code to programming, but the time consuming part is writing, debugging and all that stuff