<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Oxitendwe</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Oxitendwe</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 20:12:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Oxitendwe" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Oxitendwe in "Under 'Kenyan Time,' You're Expected To Arrive, Oh, Whenever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How well did these cultures fare against the imperialist Europeans, exactly? How well do they fare against their more technologically advanced neighbors?<p>Incidentally, you may also wish to read "Industrial Society and Its Future" by former Berkeley mathematics professor Theodore Kaczynski.</p>
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<p>No. I am also skeptical of more modern cars with complex computers. The thought of being in one scares me.</p>
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<p>>Therefore, in order to attract a mate, logically women should try to attract a mate when they're younger, and try to improve the way they look. They should not be trying to get more educated or accomplish more in their careers.<p>Now that's ridiculous, why should women care about getting a mate, it's not like we have a sub-replacement birthrate or anything, or that having children later increases the chance of birth defects.</p>
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<p>Having a lot of single childless people is not good for society.</p>
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<p>You're supposed to raise your own children. This is inconsistent with having virtually every job an "educated" person can have.</p>
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<p>>Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this? One option would be to have the cultures integrate so there are not sub communities for PoC.<p>I find it a bit insane that people think that this is even something that needs to be fixed - why can't different ethnic groups live among themselves, instead of being required to lose their ethnic identity and become part of the larger group? Do you seriously think that's what they actually want? What you're advocating for is the destruction of their ethnic identity. I think that's wrong.</p>
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<p>>Why can't we treat people from outside our community as the same as people inside? If we better understand and critique what a community is and how it forms I think it's possible.<p>Your point is basically that we should destroy the very concept of community and ethnic identity. Groups and their corresponding identities are defined entirely by who is not in them.</p>
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<p>Or, to put it a different way, "You don't actually need to be racist in order to be racist."</p>
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<p>I don't think products like this encourage the "deep surveillance state" - if anything, they weaken it by loosening their monopoly on high-tech covert surveillance. These things can be used for good as well as evil - you could spy on a corrupt official or catch someone cheating just as easily as anything else.</p>
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<p>If you already know it's there, you probably don't need to go through the trouble of destroying it, unless you just want to fry random USB devices.</p>
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<p>I think it would be pretty easy actually, to keep up with the data - you could just get a Bluetooth headset and set your phone to automatically accept calls from your spying device, then listen in while you go about your day.</p>
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<p>SQLite is one of my favorite pieces of software for this exact reason, that it is actually a more or less "finished" program instead of a mire of shifting design requirements and constant security updates, a comfortably static and unchanging object against the chaotic backdrop of modern software development.</p>
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<p>>Yes, and I have completely lost faith in the US's ability, on a federal level, to staunch that failure, as long as the Republican party continues to exist.<p>The democrats have had control over the house or the senate for 62 out of the past 84 years, and both of them for 52 years (in total, not contiguously). There has also been a Democratic president for 48 of those years. If you're mad at the way things are, I don't think it makes sense to be mad at the Republican party, unless it's for constantly losing.<p><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Combined--Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives_-_Control_of_the_U.S._Senate.png" rel="nofollow">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Combined...</a></p>
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<p>>The point of constitutional liberty is that culture can change as much as you want but you'll always be free to retreat to your enclave where it never will.<p>This is absolutely incorrect, Americans do not have freedom of association, so people of other cultures can always live with you, work with you, buy from you, etc - by law. Whether you think that's a good thing or not, that is a fact: you can't have an enclave in any meaningful sense.</p>
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<p>Do you not realize the downside of having some shady syndicate controlled by rich and powerful people dictate which symbols people are allowed to use to communicate with each other electronically? Or do you realize it and you think it's great, because you expect them to act in your interests, and against those of people you hate?</p>
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<p>>For some people, race, fighting for for recognition, let alone equality, is a daily battle. You may live and work far from this conflict, but it exists, and in some part the diversity modifiers for emoji provide folks with empowerment.<p>Have you ever considered how condescending it is to these people to say that white people need to be the ones to give these people the ability to "reflect their world" via technology by encoding things relevant to other groups of people in the specifications they write? Why don't these people "fighting for recognition" write their specifications, and their own software? Making white people do it for them cannot be empowerment - it's charity, and with that charity comes dependence, which is the exact opposite of "empowerment". The only real empowerment comes from the self, not by other people deigning to give you things for free so their peers will think more highly of them.</p>
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<p>Are white people any more represented by the color yellow than black people?</p>
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<p>>moral facts<p>Could you perhaps list a few of these "moral facts"?</p>
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<p>>And it's political, which goes against the HN guidelines.<p>People violate this "guideline" so much that I literally did not even know it was a rule (and yes, I checked beforehand) until I was shadowbanned for it without warning. Apparently the rule is that you can talk about politics if you don't talk about too much, or exclusively, although I strongly suspect it had more to do with having the wrong views than posting about them too frequently (data on this would be welcome).</p>
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<p>>We have university professors condemning math, reason, and objectivity as inherently racist/sexist.<p>I agree with you completely on this, but do you have some sources for it? I'd be really interested to see how widespread the problem is, exactly.<p>>We assume that tech is susceptible to horrible gender/racial biases for lacking even distribution of races/genders, but somehow newsrooms and sociology departments are immune to this while being somewhere north of 90:10 liberal:conservative (especially when we know that political bias is much stronger than racial or gender bias).<p>This is a feature, not a bug. If you're a leftist, at least - this is the true purpose of the "diversity" push to remove white men from positions of power and replace them with left-leaning white women[0] and non-white minorities[1]. It is happening in tech specifically (and not any other male-dominated profession like truck driving, or female-oriented profession like nursing and kindergarten teaching) because tech companies have a vast amount of power and influence, and leftists want to stuff positions of power within those companies with people who will support them.<p>>These biases are certainly responsible for creating or fostering distrust for these institutions. Why should anyone believe anything about social justice when it is distorted once by a 90:10 sociology department and then again by a 90:10 newsroom?<p>"Social justice" is a fancy word for radical leftism. Again, it mostly seems to revolve around removing white men from positions of power, and replacing them with people of a more left-leaning demographic.<p>[0] <a href="http://news.gallup.com/poll/120839/Women-Likely-Democrats-Regardless-Age.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://news.gallup.com/poll/120839/Women-Likely-Democrats-Re...</a><p>[1] <a href="http://brilliantmaps.com/if-only-x-voted/" rel="nofollow">http://brilliantmaps.com/if-only-x-voted/</a></p>
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