Not hacker, not news.
As per the HN guidelines, on topic posts = "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Maybe it doesn't qualify as news but the writing is fantastic & it certainly satisfied my intellect! I'm happy to see this here.
Walking While Black
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#12Not hacker, not news.
Unlike you, I found that the author discussed many instances of hacking in the article. He hacked social conventions in order to walk freely in places where otherwise it could be dangerous for him to walk. Social engineering is a very appropriate topic for Hacker News.
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#13Not hacker, not news.
Who put you in charge?
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#14great article. Very happy to see this on Hacker news even though it isn't the typical story found here.
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#15When I was growing up I remember the pride our educational system tried to instill in us and it seems so fake in retrospect. It's impossible to be proud of a nation that is only a land of opportunity for those who are white and middle class. Its not that I'm not proud to be an American so much as I don't consider myself one I'm just a person who happens to reside here because I don't have better options.
> It's impossible to be proud of a nation that is only a land of opportunity for those who are white and middle class.
I had a conversation with a black man who pointed out that North America was in fact the ideal that Hitler had aspired to. North America, Australia, New Zealand is the realization of Anglo Saxon lebensraum. South Africa and India was also supposed to be turned into similar places but the natives fought back and survived. Churchill even wanted to turn China into a lebensraum to be divided between Slavic people in the North East and Anglo Saxons in the South West. Quite shocking when you realize what designs they had on the world.
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#16Not hacker, not news.
Unlike you, I found that the author discussed many instances of hacking in the article. He hacked social conventions in order to walk freely in places where otherwise it could be dangerous for him to walk. Social engineering is a very appropriate topic for Hacker News.
> Social engineering is a very appropriate topic for Hacker News.
Certainly, if you take "hacker" to be the mainstream definition corresponding to "cracker".
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#17Not hacker, not news.
From the guidelines about what is on topic:
> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity
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#18When I was growing up I remember the pride our educational system tried to instill in us and it seems so fake in retrospect. It's impossible to be proud of a nation that is only a land of opportunity for those who are white and middle class. Its not that I'm not proud to be an American so much as I don't consider myself one I'm just a person who happens to reside here because I don't have better options.
I don't think its true that it only affords opportunity for the white and middle class. I think you would find many Americans who fit into other categories who disagree with you. Not to say cynically that 'if you don't like it leave', but I'm curious when you say you just happen to reside here for lack of better options -- is there a country in the world you consider to be the ideal, a place more just than America? I ask for the sake of discussion, not rhetorically.
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#19When I was growing up I remember the pride our educational system tried to instill in us and it seems so fake in retrospect. It's impossible to be proud of a nation that is only a land of opportunity for those who are white and middle class. Its not that I'm not proud to be an American so much as I don't consider myself one I'm just a person who happens to reside here because I don't have better options.
> It's impossible to be proud of a nation that is only a land of opportunity for those who are white and middle class. I had a conversation with a black man who pointed out that North America was in fact the ideal that Hitler had aspired to. North America, Australia, New Zealand is the realization of Anglo Saxon lebensraum. South Africa and India was also supposed to be turned into similar places but the natives foug…
North America is in fact nothing like the Third Reich. These truly incredible, bizarre claims require extraordinary evidence, not a supposed conversation with a random person. The random person's skin color doesn't make it any more or less likely.
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#20When I was growing up I remember the pride our educational system tried to instill in us and it seems so fake in retrospect. It's impossible to be proud of a nation that is only a land of opportunity for those who are white and middle class. Its not that I'm not proud to be an American so much as I don't consider myself one I'm just a person who happens to reside here because I don't have better options.
Is that what the educational system does? Maybe during the Cold War. Now, the goal of the educational isn't to install pride in America, the goal is to divide America into camps.