sheepdestroyer

It almost feels like you're being misunderstanding and misquoting on purpose.

Genuinely voluntary apostasy, punished by death, happens. And it's clearly 'not succumbing to social pressure' to do it in countries that criminalize it and punish it by death.[1]

And then you replace 'integral part of your identity' by merely 'part of your identity', however that's the important word you're omitting.

When I was younger I liked some styles of music and felt them part of my identity too. Some used to mock and critisize them, and now that my tastes changed, I can see why.

However, particular musical genres were never an integral part of my identity the same way people are gay or not, or have a particular ethnical background.

Attributing some special powers to a class of mere opinions is wrong, misguided and often used as a tool of oppression.[2]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law

> Spare me the hair splitting, insulting and mocking people's integral part of their identity is insulting them too

This is flirting with integrism.

If religion was really an integral part of people's identity, apostasy would not be a thing. This is telling that it's cause of death penalty for religious extremists.

You're understanding of french values and society, especially of Laïcité [1], couldn't be farther from the trust.

Most french people take strongly to "Liberté Égalité Fraternité", and painting the whole country as hostile to minorities is extremely ignorant.

It is totally false to say that french freedom of speech permits to "constantly harass minorities by mocking them".

In fact our freedom of expression expressely forbids incitement to hatred. From wikipedia [2] : "Press Law of 1881 criminalizes incitement to racial discrimination, hatred, or violence on the basis of one's origin or membership in an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group.A criminal code provision deems it an offense to engage in similar conduct via private communication"

However, satyre of ideas/symbols like religions and prophets is not the same thing as mocking people, and is an integral part of what we call laïcité.

You are missing the point that people, in their individuality as human beings, deserve respect but abstract concepts do not.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism_in_France

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement_to_ethnic_or_raci...

> Most people claim that France and its school system are "neutral", but anyone who has visited a french school knows this to be untrue, it's clearly hostile towards, not only religion, but religious people.

As a French who went to french public schools, I take exception to that, as it is totally false and offensive.

France's egalitarian principles, on which public schools operate, respect people of all beliefs,

and history of religions is taught in schools from junior high.

Flipping with atheism is totally missing the point though.

Exactly, but I did not advocate for inculcating atheism either.

Developped minds should make their own choices once in age to do so, that's the whole point.

Teaching kids agnosticism plus a good dose of Occam's Razor should be good until 16yo.

I will not entertain that

"no public execution > public executions", or

"no street gay flogging > street gay floggings",

need to be rigorously justified from first principle.

Religion should be reserved for 16yo and more. Forcing it on susceptible children minds should be considered child abuse.

There is no freedom of religion if indoctrination starts from the earliest and most vulnerable age. This is what's really vile and bigoted here.

At least France's public school system aims to be a neutral ground free from this kind of influences

Why 250? It seems arbitrarily far in the past.

As a way to compare societies and their values, it seems to me best to exclude the distant past when everyone was basically unaware of their neighbors, and use something like "since tv in most homes", or better yet, "since internet available to most".

There's far less excuses in today's globalized world to justify cultural relativism.

Only two test cases, Isn't it the smallest scale possible?

Yes, the article was changed to :

"When I type https://<website address> into my browser, the computer translates it to send the traffic to the browser's IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on port 443"

I like to purposefully research and keep informed about things I don't like, that's how I recognized the name instantly. I'm just questioning the fact of tumbling onto this bag of hate on redhat.com

According to Wikipedia : "Gab is an American alt-tech social networking service known for its far-right and extremist userbase. Widely described as a haven for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right, it has attracted users and groups who have been banned from other social networks."

I'm a bit surprised (SAD) to see an otherwise quite informative article from Enable Sysadmin linking to this trash on Redhad.com

Beside voting and children, most of the time people need a permit/license to show that they are fit to do the things you mention.

I don't know what a way to show that you are a rational, well informed, mentally fit citizen able to responsibly vote without falling for basic fakes news and misinformation attacks would be.

At least denial of reality should raise serious questions. How can we expect a flat earther, 6000year-old-world believer, climate change and holocaust denier to rationally chose who to put at the helm of a country?

Politics should be about people disagreeing on the means to address a set of common challenges, not about those who imagine living in another world so far removed from ours that they can't have a valuable opinion.

Three builds published to Chrome Webstore without corresponding commits published to GitHub.

This Extension being GPLv2, is there a way to report this obvious license violation to Google/GitHub? Would they care?

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration:

"The declaration makes no mention of [...] Long Covid, which has left many fit and young people suffering from debilitating symptoms months after a mild infection.

[...]

the WHO say that the herd immunity component of the proposed strategy is undermined by the limited duration of post-infection immunity. The more likely outcome, they say, would be recurrent epidemics, as was the case with numerous infectious diseases before the advent of vaccination.

[...]

It was sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian think tank that is part of a Koch-funded network of organizations associated with climate change denial"

Enough said

Hu?

I grew up in France and I have always cleaned my plate as my mother told me. In my familly, it's the polite and sensitive way to eat. Same expectation when visiting friends. Really few are overweight.

Since I moved to Japan, I learned that here too food is treated with the same deference : "you shall not let a grain of rice left in your bowl" is basic table decency. Few overweigh people here either.

Both France and Japan have their food recognized as UNESCO cultural world heritages. In both countries people LOVE to eat and hate to waste.

Maybe people should treat their food and themselves with respect and only put on the plate what they should and can eat?

The proper locution is "it's worth noting".

Try powertop, there are some useful toggles for power savings there. I apply all saving settings automatically with a systemd service

Use a thinkpad and avoid problems

Disposable plastic bags have been banned from super markets in many countries. The same could be done for plastic bottles.

Why are you counting from 0?

What do you mean by not authoriative in this context? This is just how the Gregorian calendar works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini#No_year_zero:_star...

He said both "New Year's Eve, 2000" and "starting on Jan 1st, 2000".

I'm not sure why he contradicted himself, but the first one would be 24h early, and the second one a whole year.

Sorry but no.

"It began on January 1, 2001, and ends on December 31, 2100"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century

Equating nudity with porn is maybe understandable as a business minded precaution ; It's not less revolting to do so. The fact that many non-european countries would like to deny the freedoms hardly won decades ago is not something that american companies should be happy to share value with either. Cultural relativism will have you banning much more than a nipple if you decide to go that way. Good for business, but not what we should thrive for.

From the guidelines :

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Of course the topic of Uighur's genocide is political. It's even -extremely- so. That you seem to not percieve it so underlines your misconception that any issue linked to the human condition could possibly not be.

"Everything is political" should not surprise you, it's not a new concept.

There's no such thing as being apolitical or not taking a stand, it's basically just endorsement of the status quo.

The fundamental principle of Human Rights is that they are "Universal and Inalienable". They by definition apply equally to everyone, everywhere, at all times.

I'm all for respecting cultures and traditions, right until it gets in conflict with the above. We live in a global world and it is a good thing that some basic fundamental values should be expected from everyone.

I would cite Japan's "tradition" of cutting kids from one of their parents after a divorce, thus not respecting the UN's Child Rights Convention, as an sallient case in point that it's not OK to just let circumventions go on the basis of "it's their culture".

That's Deep Mind's "Algorithms for Causal Reasoning in Probability Trees" released on October 23rd. It got posted on HN a few days ago but I am surprised that it did not get more traction.