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Who are "the original Hawaiian people"? Tahitians? Marquesans? Society Islanders? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_and_settlement_of_Ha... Does it actually matter whose ance…

It's interesting that "Hawaiian" has a different meaning on the islands, and that people might not say "Hawaiian shirt" there just like people don't say "French bread" in France. H…

If you can't suggest a better word than "Hawaiian" when someone wants to say an adjective meaning "from Hawaii", perhaps you should keep your peace?

As an aside, those you refer to as "indigenous Polynesian people" are actually a later wave of Tahitian colonists who conquered and oppressed the previous settlers from the Marques…

That's a fine distinction, but what word would you use to describe something that's a product of Hawaii but not ethically Polynesian? Like Hawaiian pineapples, or loco moco? On the…

But it's not called a native Hawaiian shirt. Hawaiian culture didn't end in 1778.

Maybe we could get it "mostly" turnkey just for email, and charge $10/mo to fund 2-3 full-time devops to maintain and extend it.

Why am I not using custom AdBlock filters to block pesky social media users? I need to go write a bunch of Mastodon filters now.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/san-francisco-... > high taxes, inane regulations, petty nanny-state authoritarianism, tolerance for rising lawlessness and disorder o…

I would focus on patterns for remote collaboration (structured and searchable chat, VR hangouts) combined with old-fashioned face time (monthly or quarterly in-person activities).

A portable personal Internet server that runs as a turnkey no-user-maintenance image on AWS, Digital Ocean, and OpenStack. It hosts your email, federated social networking and chat…

Many argue the leftist policies of San Francisco's government have been a train wreck too.

Good point on reading multiple viewpoints. As for fiction, there are a few writers who say true and interesting things about the world but they don't write Star Wars novels. I'd sa…

Because history and biography are never fake or manipulative?

Unfortunately it's the young generation I'm worried about. 4 in 10 undergrads mistakenly believe "hate speech" is not protected by the 1st Amendment. https://www.washingtonpost.com…

> fundamentally recursion is syntactical sugar over loops and stacks, as assembly can show you. That's one possible implementation of recursion on commodity hardware. Recursion its…

> My only contention was that it was valid for someone to feel harassed because someone said they deserve less because of their sexuality. Ok. I agree people's feelings are valid. …

I don't think that's well-defined enough to unilaterally shut down debate. What if my religion tells me I can't work 6 months out of the year, and I need the same job protection Ch…

"You can say what you like, but if I don't agree then you've harassed me." You can't have it both ways.

> I do not think you can make an argument against gay marriage which treats all sexualities equally, by very definition. How can I reasonably be expected share my argument, if by y…

To be clear: my company offers a maternity benefit that's more generous than their paternity benefit. I want to change that. If you offer any disagreement, then you are imputing I …

> Do you imagine these people responding to "I don't agree with that" with claims that they are being harassed? Sadly yes. The logic works as follows: If you don't agree with me (l…

> Either you believe Red harasses Blue or you don't. That's a bizarre dichotomy. Neither "Red harasses Blue" nor its converse is true in all cases. You've fallen into the trap of b…