I saw the dreaded Cloudflare "one more step" page and closed the tab. I'm highly doubtful Cloudflare is kosher.
Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a passively cooled server
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#112B&H Video is shut for a day every week but also disallows online checkout. I've always found that interesting, like the website is an extension of their beliefs. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/HelpCenter/StoreInfo.jsp > Online Checkout Hours > Open 24/6 > Online checkout will be closed while we observe Shabbat from 8:15pm ET Fri until 9:45pm ET Sat. Although online ordering is unavailable, you may still add items…
I did my degree in Photography and spent money I don't care to sum up at that store both online and in person the few times I was in the City.
I always found their stance to be one of integrity instead of self-righteousness. They are situated in a little enclave - see HN articles about the Eruv, etc. - and are quite genuine and not exclusive to their Jewishness, but simply have a community and a point of view.
The no-shabbat-order-processing feels less like "we don't make the machines make money for us" than it feels like "Look, you can shop online, but we're not gonna load it and ship it until we get back from our families."
Like how I interpret the intentions of that commandment, it forces Photographers to think ahead and plan for that service outage. I may or may not encourage Rest, but again, the commandments weren't for the Egyptians.
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#113That's a lot of effort to do nothing. Does anyone know if there is some significance to it being calculated on Tuesday? Since Shabbat is from Friday to Saturday I would have picked Sunday or Monday.
Why work for 6 days and rest for 1, when you can rest for 6 and work for 1?
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with that thinking is that neither belief nor disbelief in a deity is rational. Ultimately the existence (or non) of said deity is a leap of faith either way, given the inability to prove the existence of G-D. I fully understand the complete belief or disbelief in a religion. That's the assumption of a system surrounding G-D, but as an Orthodox Jew I don't pretend that there's 100% proof that G-D exists,…
Where I disagree here is the idea that my view is “disbelief.” To me, believing or not is irrelevant. I don’t call a lack of evidence “disbelief,” it’s simply a lack of data. I wouldn’t make decisions based on not knowing. I wouldn’t plan to drive on interstate 90 to get to my destination if I wasn’t sure it existed. I don’t consider the rationality of assuming something is to assuming something isn’t to be equal. If…
Religions don't necessarily have the idea that faith as a trait is desirable. That very much depends on the religion.
However, every single day we make decisions based on not knowing. We make those decisions with the best available evidence at hand, both observable and non-observable. To wit, in your example I'd never drive on the interstate 90 to a non-existent destination, but you'd take the drive not knowing what you might encounter along the way; hence the road trip.
I can't prove the existence of a deity. Equally I can't prove the lack of existence. Today I can prove certain phenomena that in the past we were unable to prove. That didn't stop belief, it merely asterisked it.
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#115That's a lot of effort to do nothing. Does anyone know if there is some significance to it being calculated on Tuesday? Since Shabbat is from Friday to Saturday I would have picked Sunday or Monday.
> That's a lot of effort to do nothing.
Only if you exclude the creative and entertainment value of this work. In which case you have described most art.
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#116As on Orthodox Jew, while I don't have anything against this and it sounds like a fun hobby project, I don't like that it misleads regarding what Jewish law actually requires. As several others have mentioned, there is absolutely no problem with keeping a server running on the sabbath - computers aren't Jews (Jewish law only expects Jews to keep the sabbath). If it's Jews working to generate the electricity (most "mo…
Jews exist outside of Israel. Saying that an organization with majority non Jews probably has no Jews working on it is bizarrely innumerate.
Outside of Israel, there are enough people of non-Jewish faith to be able to arrange labor schedules around individual needs. I work in a diverse company with a number of co-workers who observe Sabbath, and it has never been any hardship to arrange on-call schedules so they will never be paged on their day of rest.
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#117hmm, and here i was thinking that the Shabbat is to disconnect and unwind... you know get away from the constant notifications and such.
Ok. A serious question here: Can some HN Jews, enlighten me (a 100%-proof agnostic) on what they actually do on Shabbat? Are you allowed to use the internet? If something in your house breaks, are you not allowed to fix it? Do you just sit around gazing into space just in case something you do is classed as 'work'? I find the whole concept quite interesting.
I wake up, go to shul (right now it's a social-distance service, we all wear masks and sit 6' from each other in a back yard). Then we have a few drinks.
Then I go home. Before COVID, we'd visit several friend's houses, walking around the neighborhood, eat a little, have lunch, talk.
Then we'd meet again for the afternoon service. Then I'd go home and read for a while.
Then we'd meet again for evening service and havdalah. Then we'd have a few more shots and go home.
(During the winter when days are shorter, things are compressed. This is "summer mode" with long days.)
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#118The lengths some people go to for religion... smh
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people live their lives for the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Some live their lives for the gods capitalism. I'd say the former is a lot less pernicious.
At least capitalism actually exists.
Hey @dang -- why are people allowed to mock other people's religion here?
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#120As on Orthodox Jew, while I don't have anything against this and it sounds like a fun hobby project, I don't like that it misleads regarding what Jewish law actually requires. As several others have mentioned, there is absolutely no problem with keeping a server running on the sabbath - computers aren't Jews (Jewish law only expects Jews to keep the sabbath). If it's Jews working to generate the electricity (most "mo…
Jews exist outside of Israel. Saying that an organization with majority non Jews probably has no Jews working on it is bizarrely innumerate.
Compared to secular best practices, here we're working with different logic and different epistemology, among other things. A religious worldview not just about agreeing to this or that proposition.