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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by waterhouse on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:16PM (#24646175)
Other examples:

- "master"/"slave" terminology in databases and such; most recently, even the "master" branch in source trees was deemed impious, and GitHub will be renaming it by default to "main" on new repos starting tomorrow

- there was a recent case where the author of RuboCop (a linter for Ruby, a pun on RoboCop) faced a lot of pressure to rename it because, I guess, cops are now considered verboten (!?): https://metaredux.com/posts/2020/06/08/the-rubocop-name-dram...

- adding codes of conduct to all public-facing projects, most of which are taken directly from the Contributor Covenant (a safely orthodox choice); this isn't a naming thing, but is pushed for in a similar way by similar people

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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by bpmarker on Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:14AM (#24649282)
For the people who have not watched the movie, the hilarious thing is that RoboCop is anti-police, anti-corporate, anti-autoritarian and anti-dystopian.

But since woke people are corporate, authoritarian and dystopian, I can see why they would object to the name.

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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by NikolaeVarius on Thursday October 01, 2020 @10:24AM (#24651151)
Holy shit. That was a wild ride, and in the worst way possible.
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