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Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by BizarroLand »

peyton wrote: post #102
pasabagi wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's a known thing and questioning common knowledge is generally the tactic of a contrarian or a manipulator with the intent of diffusing the conversation.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by WalterGR »

honkdaddy wrote: post #138
WalterGR wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No and yes, respectively. OP is just being coy; they fully know this and tipped their hand by referring to the demonstrations as riots. > If it's the second, well...

Would you not classify them as riots? What word would you use? I'm Canadian but was living in Seattle at the time. Businesses were burned, cars were flipped, statues torn down. I'm not trying to downplay the importance of what was being protested, but to pretend it was a peaceful demonstration is laughable. Riot is a perfectly reasonable word to describe it.

At issue is your word choice and how that goes to the answers of ant_li0n’s questions for you.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by BizarroLand »

valbaca wrote: post #134
danamit wrote: post #24

The HUGE influx of recruiters from developed countries that wanna go thru the whole recruitment process without giving me a a range of salary. The confrontational and accusatory tone when I state my desired range and say that I got paid similar with companies in my own country (when questioned about it) when comparing apples to apples (contracting), the gaslighting and excuses of why I should get paid less than I hav…

Fantastically put and exactly the same experience I've had. They're entirely preying on the "talking about money is taboo" that exists in our culture and it only ever benefits them. We have to all collectively (or through the passage of laws like in CO, WA, CA) draw a hard line and the sand and not give any recruiter 15 minutes or even 1.5 minutes before they provide a salary range.

It's really a nicety for them.

It saves them time so they can move on to the next target who may be more likely to give up a full time 6 figure salaried position with PTO and healthcare to take a contract job that requires a BS degree and 5 years of experience but only pays 150% of minimum wage, no PTO and no healthcare.

I get past the introductions and then say straight up, if this position doesn't consider mid 6 figures +/- $20,000 as its pay range then I probably won't be a good fit for it, and add $20,000 to that if it's not a direct hire.

They typically respond with, "We were hoping to pay more like $40,000" every time. I'm sure you were, but you need someone with an AA degree for that. With a BS they can make more, hell with a HS diploma they can make $40,000 a year working at a gas station. That's not even $20/hr. This is IT. You don't get to hire under $25/hr in a major city without either exploiting the newbies or tripping over the desperate.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by usrn »

neonsunset wrote: post #51

Reality 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 it's probably too late for this and you're better off bracing for the inevitable conflict.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by mcjoken »

radicalbyte wrote: post #50
markdown wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This, but with the added realization that I seem to be losing brain power and memory quite rapidly. I used to be able to contribute to intelligent conversations, but these days find myself unable to keep up with peers and elders who're still super sharp. It's terrifying.

If you have young kids.. that's it. Apparently it gets better. It did for me, had a big dip then came up smarter. Now with our third in the "terrible two" phase I'm in a terrible dip. This time next year I'll be back to my horrific smart, egotistical and demanding self :-)

Encouraging to hear it gets better, I have a 13 month old and feeling quite slow witted lately.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by [deleted] »

neonsunset wrote: post #51

Reality 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…

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Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by sofixa »

pasabagi wrote: post #141
sofixa wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It is until after I got better at English and started immerse into the Western medium of discourse, that it became apparent that my beliefs of equality by judging people upon their virtues/vices are considered wrong by many who prefer to insist on categorizing people only by their superficial features and use that as a basis of the debate Don't confuse mostly American language and culture with "Western". The UK som…

France just narrowly avoided voting in the daughter of a noted neo-nazi, running the nationalist party that neo-nazi founded. It's also got a hijab ban, which puts it in the company of places like Russia, or Xinjiang in China, not noted bastions of tolerance and diversity.

> France just narrowly avoided voting in the daughter of a noted neo-nazi

She's drastically less neo-Nazi than her father, just an empty far-right populist. But yeah, not great.

> It's also got a hijab ban, which puts it in the company of places like Russia, or Xinjiang in China, not noted bastions of tolerance and diversity

It's more complicated than that. The hijab ban isn't coming from intolerance or to force conformity. France has a long and proud history of laïcité, separation of church and state and irreligiousness in public life ( you don't get politicians doing photo ops with bibles or praising Jesus, thank god). Outright religious symbols, especially ones that are a symbol of religious subjugation for many ( many women, especially the young ones, are pressured/forced by family/husbands to be "modest"; plenty of others do it for themselves) have no place in irreligious public places. Religion is a private matter you practice however you please as long as you harm noone. And the ban isn't for hijabs, it's for face coverings, so a Catholic nun is also included; and it only covers public places like post office, town hall, schools ( not sure about that one).

But the gist of it is - religion has no place in public life, especially its (often) intolerant parts.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by mikewarot »

David Hoffman, interviewed by Lex Fridman [1], where he insists that spacetime isn't the base reality in the universe, but consciousness is.

It took me a while to realize the first part was true, but the second part was an assertion that I strongly disagree with.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reYdQYZ9Rj4&t=2170s

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by lamontcg »

The Washington Post being referred to as "Hard Left"

The Fed clearly deciding that it is time to crash the economy into the wall rather than allow workers to get raises... And everyone thinking this is clearly the appropriate policy action and very much past due.

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