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rustleron Hawaiian Style: The Roots of the Aloha Shirt

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's the difference between Hawaii's colonization by ethnic Tahitians and North America's colonization by ethnic English?

rustleron Hawaiian Style: The Roots of the Aloha Shirt

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 supposed insensitivity to ethnic groups is pretty much the main hobbyhorse of moralizing busybodies the world over in 2018, and unlikely to win you much affection. It's got to the point where the phrase "the n-word" strikes one as unseemly, and we'll start saying "the word that starts with the letter that comes after 'M'".

rustleron Hawaiian Style: The Roots of the Aloha Shirt

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?

rustleron Hawaiian Style: The Roots of the Aloha Shirt

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/people.html

So it's not automatic that this particular wave of settlers uniquely deserves to be called "Hawaiian".

rustleron Hawaiian Style: The Roots of the Aloha Shirt

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" but on the mainland that wouldn't make any sense.

rustleron Hawaiian Style: The Roots of the Aloha Shirt

But it's not called a native Hawaiian shirt. Hawaiian culture didn't end in 1778.

rustleron Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?

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.

rustleron Show HN: Pesky Adblock – Blocks site access to visitors without an adblocker

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.

rustleron Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?

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 "compassion"

rustleron Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?

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).

rustleron Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?

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 experience is pure Internet with no ads, surveillance or vendor lock-in, all for $6/mo (hosting + DNS).

rustleron Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?

Many argue the leftist policies of San Francisco's government have been a train wreck too.

rustleron Ask HN: What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?

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" by Dostoevsky are examples.

rustleron Ask HN: What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?

Because history and biography are never fake or manipulative?

rustleron Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)

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-chilling-study-sho...

You're free to say "Fuck this, I don't want to argue anymore" if you like. The mistake is believing that makes anyone still talking a "harrasser" in the legally actionable sense.

rustleron Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript

> 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 which may not even be computable, or may be computable using other primitives.

rustleron Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)

> 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 opinion, my opinions may be just as valid as their feeling of harassment, and society is better served by open discussion than sparing feelings at all costs.

I realize that some people may abuse this to hurt other's feelings without making a sincere and salient point, which is regrettable. I'd like to think all my points can be articulated without offending anyone, though that's probably unrealistic.

I appreciate that you respect the 1st Amendment. It's a common Blue trope that the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to speech involving supposed racism or sexism (which they refer to as "hate speech").

rustleron Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)

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 Easter? What if I'm asexual and I'm denied the tax benefits married people get? You're saying not only are these claims automatically granted, but that just discussing them is a punishable offense.

Also why is "religion, race, gender or sexuality" the holy quartet? Why not ageism, ablism, lookism, or my rights as a short person? Why are those open to debate while the others aren't?

rustleron Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)

"You can say what you like, but if I don't agree then you've harassed me." You can't have it both ways.

rustleron Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)

> 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 disagree?

That's the stifling effect of "disagreement is harassment".

Think about it. By your criteria, discussion can't even happen if anyone's rights are at stake. Yet any meaningful disagreement will involve someone's rights - what is the extent of a right, and under what conditions can it be circumscribed. All of this talk is now off limits.

Maybe you should try to make sure you can win these arguments instead of preemptively banning them.

PS: I'm really not interested in gay marriage. As I said it's just an example of suppressing debate. Compare to how Red evangelicals will invite atheists to publicly debate evolution, which I think is more constructive. I can give more examples of Blue debate-silencing through harassment claims but this seems sufficient illustrative.

rustleron Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)

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 human" than you, and thus you are harassing me. Correct? Nevermind which side is right: mere disagreement is harassment.

rustleron Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)

> 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're saying my belief is invalid. The things I believe constitute my identity; therefore you are attacking my identity and thus existentially threatening me.

On some forums this kind of disagreement is grounds for banning, no matter how politely expressed or well reasoned.

rustleron Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)

> 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 constructs a dichotomy, you must of necessity pick one of the two "sides". Do you support Hutu or Tutsi?