Hacker News: M_Grey

New comment by M_Grey in "A Look Inside James Baldwin's 1,884 Page FBI File"

M_Grey — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:30:35 +0000

A lot of that "thinking" is either wishful, or sculpted by people who need post-racial apathy to commit their very racially motivated crimes.

New comment by M_Grey in "BAE sold cyber-surveillance tools to Arab states"

M_Grey — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:19:30 +0000

>Did we learn nothing about history while our young people studied algorithms? Did taking "Computer Science" classes seclude us from the reality of how all of this would be used?

Obviously the answer to your questions is, "Enough people don't learn those lessons, don't believe it will apply to them, or simply don't care."

The time for analysis and hand-wringing was years ago, now it's just a pump-and-dump scheme at every level. The fools just think they have a place to run to, and that's the big flaw in the plan.

Near Eye Displays (NEDs): Gaps in Pixel Sizes

M_Grey — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:09:48 +0000

Article URL: http://www.kguttag.com/2017/06/07/gaps-in-pixel-sizes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14518207

Points: 3

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Women entrepreneurs talk about sexism

M_Grey — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:20:13 +0000

Article URL: http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/women-entrepreneurs-talk-about-sexism-in-silicon-valley.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14211621

Points: 28

# Comments: 9

New comment by M_Grey in "Drupal Confessions – An Open Letter"

M_Grey — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 17:04:12 +0000

No, but I don't see that as being remotely similar to someone who roleplays a bigot during sex. If I had a friend who liked to dress up like Himmler and get roundly spanked, I'm not going to judge him for it. If I have a friend who calmly remarks that maybe "Hitler really did nothing wrong," I'm going to be furious and horrified.

Lets really try not to judge people for their kinks, because they tend to be strange, inexplicable, and personal.

New comment by M_Grey in "Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit-node"

M_Grey — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:54:51 +0000

I suspect we'll do it here in the US too eventually, under a "national security" umbrella to, "protect ourselves some foreign cyber-terror" or such nonsense. The UK will probably do it first...

Edit: Remember that a huge portion of this country is demanding a 2000 mi long wall be built along one border... don't underestimate stupid and scared.

New comment by M_Grey in "Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit-node"

M_Grey — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:53:34 +0000

>And before you tell me Tor is nothing more than a privacy tool, remember that most sites ban Tor exits because the majority of users are troublemakers.

So... don't tell you the truth, because you've already decided that a bunch of anonymous people are "bad".

Have you ever considered a career in law enforcement or politics?

New comment by M_Grey in "Drupal Confessions – An Open Letter"

M_Grey — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:42:45 +0000

So often you get stories in which a certain type of person cries, "Thought Police!" as a way to deflect from the core issues, but... this really is an example of that. As you say, the thoughts you have and express on your own time, which in no way change your professionalism, are your thoughts, period. I can't even imagine the life I would have led, the friends and colleagues I would never have had if "What you think is unacceptable, regardless of how well you act," was some kind of standard.

I also wonder how the hell some people think minds are to be changed, if the way they want to deal with them is quarantine. Most of the time, you need have some mutual knowledge and respect between two parties for one to really reach the other.

New comment by M_Grey in "Take a feather and a candle: spring cleaning in 13th century Haggadah books"

M_Grey — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 04:50:56 +0000

Dan, I'm sorry that you've taken my attempts at diplomacy as a declaration of ignorance. However diverse a billion people may be, that diversity is limited when a requirement of the claimed identity is to recite the shahada with conviction. If you can explain how that can be done, "I declare that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah; and I declare that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah...." without belief in god and a divine prophet of that god, you're going to have to walk me through it.

As to the view on apostasy: https://islamqa.info/en/20327

New comment by M_Grey in "Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands"

M_Grey — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 04:49:52 +0000

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A17raUVX%2B...

That appears not to be the case.

New comment by M_Grey in "Take a feather and a candle: spring cleaning in 13th century Haggadah books"

M_Grey — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:46:22 +0000

It might, but I think the current climate in much of the Islamic world, while not the crazed image many have, is actually pretty brutal to people within the religion who are seen as blasphemous. From what I know, and I have to admit that this isn't as much as I'd like, the process of proclaiming your faith pretty much involves accepting the existence of god, prophets, the "punishment of the grave," that kind of thing. My impression is that if you're seen to have lied about that, you're lucky just to be outcast.

tl;dr It really doesn't pay to be seen as an "apostate" in Islam, at least in most places at this time.

New comment by M_Grey in "Lyft Closes $600M round at $7.5B Valuation"

M_Grey — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:34:50 +0000

...Not to mention that a ton of staff would probably bail before working in the Uber "family".

New comment by M_Grey in "Why Is the Pentagon a Pentagon?"

M_Grey — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:31:26 +0000

Of which the largest government body is... the military. "Healthcare" is the largest expenditure, but largely to a collection of unconnected private industry... the military is a different matter.

New comment by M_Grey in "Why Is the Pentagon a Pentagon?"

M_Grey — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 21:49:52 +0000

To be clear, I was hyperbolically trying to make that exact point... I'm not truly suggesting death as an option.

New comment by M_Grey in "Leaked email from United Airlines CEO blames passenger for violent removal"

M_Grey — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 21:13:59 +0000

>On average, the people being arrested are more likely to attack the cops.

Compared to... people with no contact with the police? You cant actually be saying that the average arrest is resisted, can you?

New comment by M_Grey in "Why Is the Pentagon a Pentagon?"

M_Grey — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:59:08 +0000

There is a certain irony, given that "The Pentagon" has become at least roughly synonymous with, "Unbelievably bloated and corrupt". If the F-35 were a privately funded venture, everyone involved would have probably shot themselves.

New comment by M_Grey in "Inside Blue Apron’s Meal Kit Machine"

M_Grey — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:01:38 +0000

You have to wonder if the bright young things who've been "disrupting" food really understand just how poisonously hard the food service industry is? Even if all they ever did was read Kitchen Confidential I feel like they could have seen some of these issues (supply chains, employees, vendor issues) coming a mile away.

New comment by M_Grey in "Take a feather and a candle: spring cleaning in 13th century Haggadah books"

M_Grey — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:13:23 +0000

To be fair, I'm not sure that Islam is too enthusiastic about atheists proclaiming for it either... to put it mildly.

New comment by M_Grey in "Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident"

M_Grey — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:12:46 +0000

Aggressively enforcing rules of various subreddits, no actual skullduggery that I've seen at least. So, while normally a subreddit might allow a repost, or a topic to be covered by more than one article, they crack down hard on that. In a sub like WorldNews they were being extremely quick and harsh with "US Internal Politics" for another example, which effectively kills the post.

In essence, it's just how police operate; if you were subjected to every reasonable measure police could bring to bear on you, all of the time, your life would be a misery; A legally sanctioned, totally acceptable misery, but the power of "discretion" keeps that from being the reality for "acceptable" groups.

New comment by M_Grey in "Take a feather and a candle: spring cleaning in 13th century Haggadah books"

M_Grey — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:54:57 +0000

Compared to the GP's "Jewish men..." notion, as though that were a useful group descriptor when it comes to behaviors. So, I suppose... compared to the often monolithic notions of Judaism that I so often encounter on and offline.