That all distinctions are arbitrary except with respect to a goal.
Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
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#102Reality check I got after being accused of having anti-minority opinion while arguing for protection of all categories of people, just without double standards and without giving priority to some over others. This got me instantly banned from a community I had professional interest and participation in, which made me realize the damaging effects of culture wars that are about to get worse for major corporations. With…
I think there are two points: first, 'all lives matter' is a typical dog whistle for a lot of people who are racist , even if you are not. If you're going to argue that line, you have to try and put some clear water between you and them. The second point is that, in an unjust society, not accounting for the effects of that injustice on people (say candidates for a job position) compounds that injustice. So like, if y…
> is a typical dog whistle for a lot of people who are racist
How do you know this? Do you associate with racists? Or did somebody tell you that racists profess basic unitarian universalist values? If so, why were they telling you?
Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
#103The concept of infinity. I believe the Universe was a collision of two older Universes that slammed together. Two Universes among an infinite number of them.
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#104Idk if you are referring to Severance, the tv show in Apple TV, but I haven’t seen a show so powerful as that one!
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is this even relevant to tech work? Minority, inclusion,etc... do you work in HR, legal or PR? If not how does writing code or engineering systems include that subject? Honestly curious.
There is nothing in the question that seems to imply that we should keep it strictly about tech work, and various answers do not seem to be about it either.
Fair enough, I assumed wrong since this is HN.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is really interesting... Are you able to describe more without undue distress?
Can do - part of the treatment is more or less about relating to the traumatic event(s) in a healthier way. It stemmed from seeing comments here about a book called 'The Body Keeps the Score' reading the book and subsequently self identifying as suffering from trauma. So I sought out an EMDR qualified psychologist in the city and started seeing them. It's been just over a year now. Benefits so far have included an in…
The Body Keeps the Score is a phenomenal book!
Happy to hear that your life has improved so much
Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
#107Possibly this is me misunderstanding things, but that all things move at a constant velocity (speed of light) through spacetime. So I’m moving at the same speed as light, it’s just that a lot of my velocity is in the time dimension, where as light’s velocity is fully in the dimensions of space (and zero in time).
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#108I'm a hardware engineer: The pitchforking on HN about "right to repair" issues. Frankly, those threads degenerate into what I'd expect on reddit. To clarify, I support the problems trying to be solved but a lot of the ideas are just the wrong way to go about it. I've thought of weighing in, but the way some other dissenting commenters get beaten down means I self censor and move on to other threads.
thats the trend now. its not enough that we may disagree, you must know you're wrong and you must suffer for it, for you have offended me.
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#109collyw's grey comment
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#110Bonhoeffer's theory of stupidity[1]. The theory being stupidity is a moral failing rather than an intellectual one. I'm still wrapping my head around the implications of this.