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That's the theory, but not the practice:

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.771725

In plenty of cases, the outsider or convert better understands the religion than the native believer. I saw a documentary about Mount Athos, and all the young Greek monks were admitting that being a monk was just a way to get out of the everyday grind. I'm sure the non-Greeks had greater sense of purpose because they had to go further (not just geographically, but spiritually)

"In Israel, only Orthodox conversions are recognized"

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/10/10/445343896/i...

In the case of Judaism, Israel makes Orthodox conversion more useful since it doesn't accept you as a real Jew if you are a convert to a more weak tea version of Judaism. People who convert are usually stronger believers, so they would convert to the more undiluted version of the religion anyway.

On the other hand, 'cultural' Jews are more likely to marry non-Jews, and absorb them into Judaism that way. And I suppose this leads to cultural Jews leaving Judaism too. I think I read somewhere that the descendants of all the founders of Reform Judaism ended up outside Judaism.

I didn't mix Z and Parsi. I didn't even mention Parsi. I just can't find anything online which suggests Indian Zoroastrians accept converts. Just (dispassionate) explanations that they don't. And that's fine with me.

I've no doubt that there are some deracinated Parsis in the West that claim that "nobody minds" in order to make Z fit in with other religions. But that strikes me as almost a form of group suicide. If you feel that way about other groups it would end with their erasure. Why not just concrete over North Sentinel Island and turn it into a startup hub?

"Roberts isn't ... trying to speak publicly as a Hindu"

I'm not sure this sounds like a reasonable standard to join any religion. "If you're a convert, shut up". Sounds like second class status. This stuff is too complicated for me.

"the majority would consider them Z"

That's not what a few google results tell me. It seems, in India the answer is definitely No, while in Iran the answer is Maybe. The Indian No is presumably to stop the religion dissipating, while the Iranian Maybe is a kind of "well, they're ancestors were probably Z anyway." In the West, people would follow the notion that there is a spiritual supermarket, and you just choose which flavour suits you, so it's a Yes there.

I don't prescribe to your Turing idea. People are not black box machines pretending to be humans. Rachel Dolezal was not black on one day and white on another.

I don't know - but being a Hindu seems as much an ethnic thing as a religious thing. So I get the same feeling as reading about Rachel Dolezal.

Are these people really Zoroastrians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Converts_to_Zoroastri...

My eyebrows rose when I heard Julia Roberts was a Hindu, and perhaps these people are the same. In love with exoticism, but not authentic.

I wouldn't be surprised if Zoroastrian Parsis had the highest IQ of any group, even though I have no data to confirm that. Higher than Quakers, Ashkenazim, Episcopalians and even Unitarians.

In Brazil, American ideas of affirmative action have been imported. This leads to unsavoury situations where nose width and skull shape are being measured to determine who gets a job.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/05/brazils-new-problem-with...

The article addresses this question:

"Received wisdom is that the more diverse the teams in terms of age, ethnicity, and gender, the more creative and productive they are likely to be. But having run the execution exercise around the world more than 100 times over the last 12 years, we have found no correlation between this type of diversity and performance."

"Diversity in everything except thought" is the mantra.

The problem with this is that to solve problems you need diversity in thought: https://hbr.org/2017/03/teams-solve-problems-faster-when-the...

It's true the UK gov is not being helpful. But the UK gov supported remain. All major parties did. In the language of the vulgar tabloids, the British worker has been spit-roasted by both the EU and the UK government. One of those is withdrawing. The UK only has stop the UK gov fucking workers in the mouth now.

This is the crux of the matter. Giant companies hijack the hands-around-the-world narrative of the left for their own monetary purposes. In the US, the narrative is that there will be 'crops rotting in the fields' if cheap labour is not imported. Ironically, this is a very similar argument to pro-slavery campaigners who said the US would collapse without slavery.

It's a miracle that other top 10 countries like Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Australia managed to get anywhere without being part of the EU.

London will fall just like Switzerland, Norway and Iceland have collapsed because they are not in the EU. The UK will become like Somalia.

No wait, actually those 3 countries are in the top 5 countries to live in the world. Why do people wish for apocalypses?

I learnt on another HN thread that Ryzen is now working on Mac. 10.9 only at the moment, but hopefully that will change:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntJLxbwurK4

Wow - does that mean Ryzen CPUs could be coupled with Nvidia Pascal GPUs?

Yeah, good point. I don't think it was a particularly good design. I read somewhere that the philosophy was 'not to do the obvious thing and put the guts of the computer behind a large screen' - which is what they eventually did with the next iMac.

This desire 'not to do the obvious thing' is also behind the Trashintosh. And it's also why I'm worried about the future Mac Pro. The obvious thing would be to revive the cheesegrater case, but Ive and co feel they have to do something 'radical' to justify their salary.

What kind of Hackintosh can you get for $1600? Not as good as the Ryzen of course, but it might be nearly as good as the $5200 Mac.

You should pay less for that awful constrictive design. Apple's product history is littered with failures due to design-led development. G4 cube, round mouse, tube-shaped Trashintosh. Any time the object is based on a standard shape like a circle, cube, or tube you know it will fail. I'm surprised Ive hasn't done a globe yet.

Will the lights work with Home Assistant on pi - home-assistant.io - without the gateway? With perhaps a zigbee hat or USB dongle?

My google-fu seems to be failing, since I can't find an example of the larger e-ink displays being used with the pi. (excluding kindle and kobo hacks)

Now you understand. You feel defensive. As if you have to apologise. That's how mental illness is operationalised. That's the lever of power.

I'd love a pi with an e-paper display (larger than the lego Mac) which just booted into Raspbian CLI. Has such a thing been done?

"I don't think you have to worry about mentally ill people gaining power from it"

The Libreboot story contradicts this. Someone suffering from mental illness ("gender dysphoria") used SJW reasons to take over a project.

'Concise and precise' seems the be the goal of this language. Like assembly language. It doesn't seem useful for mere humans. I would prefer playfulness and ambiguity.

"Ride-hailing apps may increase alcohol-related health problems"

The ZeroPhone is based on the raspberry pi.

https://hackaday.io/project/19035-zerophone-a-raspberry-pi-s...

Reddit AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/5nwmfx/im_mak...

$50. Calling, SMS. Alarm clock, calendar, calculator, phonebook, file browser, web browser and music player. I expect these will be very simple given the screen.