rustler

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by rustler 8y ago
Who are "the original Hawaiian people"? Tahitians? Marquesans? Society Islanders? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_and_settlement_of_Ha... Does it actually matter whose ancestors colonized first? What
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by rustler 8y ago
It's interesting that "Hawaiian" has a different meaning on the islands, and that people might not say "Hawaiian shirt" there just like people don't say "French bread" in France. However, pointing out
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by rustler 8y ago
If you can't suggest a better word than "Hawaiian" when someone wants to say an adjective meaning "from Hawaii", perhaps you should keep your peace?
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by rustler 8y ago
As an aside, those you refer to as "indigenous Polynesian people" are actually a later wave of Tahitian colonists who conquered and oppressed the previous settlers from the Marquesas Islands. http://www.waimea.com/
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by rustler 8y ago
That's a fine distinction, but what word would you use to describe something that's a product of Hawaii but not ethically Polynesian? Like Hawaiian pineapples, or loco moco? On the islands you could just call it "local"
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by rustler 8y ago
But it's not called a native Hawaiian shirt. Hawaiian culture didn't end in 1778.
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by rustler 8y ago
Maybe we could get it "mostly" turnkey just for email, and charge $10/mo to fund 2-3 full-time devops to maintain and extend it.
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by rustler 8y ago
Why am I not using custom AdBlock filters to block pesky social media users? I need to go write a bunch of Mastodon filters now.
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by rustler 8y ago
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/san-francisco-... > high taxes, inane regulations, petty nanny-state authoritarianism, tolerance for rising lawlessness and disorder on its streets in the name of &
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by rustler 8y ago
I would focus on patterns for remote collaboration (structured and searchable chat, VR hangouts) combined with old-fashioned face time (monthly or quarterly in-person activities).
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by rustler 8y ago
A portable personal Internet server that runs as a turnkey no-user-maintenance image on AWS, Digital Ocean, and OpenStack. It hosts your email, federated social networking and chat, file sharing and ad-blocking web proxy. The user experienc
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by rustler 8y ago
Many argue the leftist policies of San Francisco's government have been a train wreck too.
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by rustler 8y ago
Good point on reading multiple viewpoints. As for fiction, there are a few writers who say true and interesting things about the world but they don't write Star Wars novels. I'd say "Disgrace" by Coetzee and "Demons
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by rustler 8y ago
Because history and biography are never fake or manipulative?
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by rustler 8y ago
Unfortunately it's the young generation I'm worried about. 4 in 10 undergrads mistakenly believe "hate speech" is not protected by the 1st Amendment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-chillin
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by rustler 8y ago
> fundamentally recursion is syntactical sugar over loops and stacks, as assembly can show you. That's one possible implementation of recursion on commodity hardware. Recursion itself is a mathematical method for defining a function
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by rustler 8y ago
> My only contention was that it was valid for someone to feel harassed because someone said they deserve less because of their sexuality. Ok. I agree people's feelings are valid. I believe if someone feels harassed because of my op
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by rustler 8y ago
I don't think that's well-defined enough to unilaterally shut down debate. What if my religion tells me I can't work 6 months out of the year, and I need the same job protection Christians get for not working on Christmas and
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by rustler 8y ago
"You can say what you like, but if I don't agree then you've harassed me." You can't have it both ways.
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by rustler 8y ago
> I do not think you can make an argument against gay marriage which treats all sexualities equally, by very definition. How can I reasonably be expected share my argument, if by your own criteria I'll be guilty of harassment if you
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by rustler 8y ago
To be clear: my company offers a maternity benefit that's more generous than their paternity benefit. I want to change that. If you offer any disagreement, then you are imputing I deserve fewer human rights, saying I am a "lesser
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by rustler 8y ago
> Do you imagine these people responding to "I don't agree with that" with claims that they are being harassed? Sadly yes. The logic works as follows: If you don't agree with me (let's say on gay marriage), you&#
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by rustler 8y ago
> Either you believe Red harasses Blue or you don't. That's a bizarre dichotomy. Neither "Red harasses Blue" nor its converse is true in all cases. You've fallen into the trap of believing that when someone const