Boris's 30th anniversary show. Japanese metal/punk at it's very finest.
I love Boris and also the Melvins. These bands should be appreciated more.
Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
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Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
#222Age. I turned 40 and realized I probably wasn't on the upswing of life anymore. I've developed a small but weighty sense of "time is running out" that I didn't have before. I want that to be a motivator to do good and meaningful things and not a growing sense of foreboding. That necessitates contemplation of life, faith, priorities, etc.
@rsyring do you have kids?
I'm also closing in on 40 and have been thinking about the fact that I don't have any strong meaningful relationships in my life. I'm curious whether you've built a family or are planning to?
Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I can say for certain that every muslim woman, whether they wear the headscarf or not, is oppressed by having this choice taken out of their hands. Game theory is complicated. Sometimes having a choice taken away from you is good for you... for example if it is a choice you never really wanted to take, but your environment would punish you for avoiding it voluntarily. When the choice is taken away, the punishment w…
Alternatively, literally every white woman I know has told me they find the pressure to appear presentable, to look in a certain way, oppressive and stressful. We live in a society that makes it easy for men to oppress women, in public or in private. Tackling domestic violence, exclusion of women from public spaces, women's wages, would make it much easier for women pressured by families or husbands to take the freed…
> Alternatively, literally every white woman I know has told me they find the pressure to appear presentable, to look in a certain way, oppressive and stressful.
Yes, it is oppressive and stressful, but the stakes are dramatically different, and so is the reason -- intrasexual competition.
In case of covering your face for religious reasons, the penalty for disobeying, in worst case, is death. Specifically, a murder, usually by your relatives, for reasons that are typically translated to English as "honor", although the meaning clearly is not the same.
A white woman who refuses to use make-up, will miss some opportunities in her life. Another woman will take the partner she wanted, or the promotion she deserved. She may get bullied by other women, especially at high school. Those all are impacts that reduce her quality of life.
But how is it related to domestic violence? I have never heard a serious suggestion that the real cause of domestic violence is lack of being presentable.
Similarly, what are the public spaces that exclude insufficiently presentable white women: streets? parks? cinemas? universities? trains? Okay, I am sure there are some parties where only the pretty girls are invited, but those probably exclude most men, too.
Anyway, I think that "you may be skipped for a promotion" and "someone quite likely will slit your throat" are not the same category of threat. Both can feel oppressive and stressful, but I am sure way more women would trade their problems in one direction than in the other.
Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alternatively, literally every white woman I know has told me they find the pressure to appear presentable, to look in a certain way, oppressive and stressful. We live in a society that makes it easy for men to oppress women, in public or in private. Tackling domestic violence, exclusion of women from public spaces, women's wages, would make it much easier for women pressured by families or husbands to take the freed…
> Alternatively, literally every white woman I know has told me they find the pressure to appear presentable, to look in a certain way, oppressive and stressful. Yes, it is oppressive and stressful, but the stakes are dramatically different, and so is the reason -- intrasexual competition. In case of covering your face for religious reasons, the penalty for disobeying, in worst case, is death. Specifically, a murder,…
My observation is that, in households where sexism is a real problem, the public-facing stuff isn't likely to be the meat of it. Nobody who has a husband who might murder them considers religious attire as the worst thing about their relationship. The worst thing is having a husband who is controlling and homicidal.
The point is, both muslim and non-muslim women face that in most countries around the world, because most countries are systematically patriarchal and domestic violence is largely normalized. In every country in europe, domestic violence makes up the vast majority of violent crime, and murders are most likely, especially for women, to be committed by family members.
So by focusing on the hijab and the makeup thing, you're missing my broader point: that muslim women face oppression as women, and not as muslims, except insofar as they are the targets of racial discrimination. The mechanisms that allow partners to coerce muslim women are the same as those that allow partners to exercise coercive power over white women.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes and no. It could potentially use the network. To do so, it would have to acquire an IP address, which in the case of IPv4 would show as ARP messages. More significantly, any attempt to call out could be detected at the router (IPv4 or IPv6). Now I know that most people don't look through firewall logs looking for comms from unexpected internal addresses - but some people do. And since this has been around since 2…
> we can be pretty confident that it is not happening. We don't _really_ know this. It could of course wait for a signal (say, in a certain memory region, depending on the host OS) and be activated only by remote control in collaboration with other vectors, for special use against, say, heads of state, or the rare meaningful dissidents against whoever it is who has access.
But the only way that signal would get to it would be with the connivance of a user level application or the normal OS. At that point you have spyware with extra steps - and it's easier to detect because of the unexpected IP address.
Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
#226I'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.
"HN [...] degenerate[s] into what I'd expect on reddit" is a no no ;)
I suppose I'm a supporter of the "right to repair" and curious. Do you have something (more on the general side) that one has to be aware about this topic when discussing?
Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
#227The vast scale of the organized child sex abuse activity among Catholic clergy. I have a hard time understanding how such organized activity can be performed by people who literally fear divine judgement, so I am alarmed by the number of clergy who are evidently atheist.
Obviously they don't fear divine judgement. In other words, it is evidence that a large percentage of Catholic clergy simply doesn't believe in God. There are websites out there dedicated to religious clergy who doesn't believe in God but has no choice but to continue spreading BS.
> There are websites out there dedicated to religious clergy
I'd be interested in reading that. Have a link?
Although it might be difficult to prove if those sites are legit...
Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Obviously they don't fear divine judgement. In other words, it is evidence that a large percentage of Catholic clergy simply doesn't believe in God. There are websites out there dedicated to religious clergy who doesn't believe in God but has no choice but to continue spreading BS.
> religious clergy who doesn't believe in God but has no choice In what sense they don't have a choice? Catholic church won't kill you if you quit. First, you can leave the religion entirely, then they have no power over you. Second, you can quit your job while staying in the church (as Pope Benedict did), and I think you probably can quit priesthood... but if even you couldn't, quitting the religion is always the Pl…
Generally speaking, I agree with you.
But I don't imagine it as straight forward (easy) as you describe it.
> quitting the religion is always the Plan B
No. Quitting the religion is 'quitting Plan A'.'Quitting Plan A' is not plan B - it's having no plan at all.
They put their life (probably decades) into a highly ideological field. Leaving that is not easy, I suppose. It's more than giving up convenience
Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
#229Trying to explore topics in arbitrary depth made me realize that I actually do not know anything. I know that I know nothing. - Socrates At some point, you need to be practical. Being overly philosophical robs your time. In an absolute sense, one can be argued not to "know" anything, except for the existence of one's own thoughts, as 17th-century philosopher John Locke pointed out. Even earlier, Descartes addressed w…
> Descartes was attempting to "prove" logically that the world exists [...].
Was he? I thought he wanted to prove that god exists. Pretty early in his meditations he gets the physical world out of the way.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was on Reddit, was not it? I got banned from a sub just because of having opinion that contradicted OP, when I asked which rule did I broke, My account was suspended on whole Reddit... I have been member since Digg exodus and never had any problem till that day. Unfortunately Reddit is ruled by moronic mods who can perma-ban your account, and admins can't be bothered. If your opinion is not in line, your IP is goi…
> your IP is going to get blacklisted This is easily circumvented by resetting your router and starting fresh with an account. Who cares about "karma" anyway? > so either you are extremely left wing, or you are out. Or don't participate in political/culture war subreddits that encourage idiots on two sides to sling text feces at each other all day.
It's not that easy. My ISP assigns static IP. As for not participating in subreddits - you can't really know which subs will popup on your frontpage, one might argue that you only use subs you are subbed to, but that destroys the point of forums as a principle. Where not forums designed to facilitate discussion rather than echo-chambers of propaganda?
It get's weirder than that, one of the top subs actually asks for your... SKIN COLOR https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/reddit-race-black-peop... otherwise bot removes your comment instantly.