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"Worst of all, PIH is probably not trying to make the world a better place through technology. He's basically exploiting a narrow arbitrage opportunity and is p
by guard-of-terra 13y ago
"Worst of all, PIH is probably not trying to make the world a better place through technology. He's basically exploiting a narrow arbitrage opportunity and is probably either unethical or lazy."
Is this serious? It's epically funny if it is.
Even if PIH is trying to make world a better place, he doesn't have to do that on his "billed" time. He has a lot of time to spare for that.
- adregan 13y agoTrue. Maybe he/she mentors a child in his/her spare time.
- glugglug 13y agoWe do have gender neutral pronouns of a sort: "True. Maybe they mentor a child in their spare time."
- jastreich 13y agoThey is technically plural. There is no good singular gender neutral pronoun. So, "he/she", "s/he", "he" or "they" are fine by me; we know what the author means.
- steveklabnik 13y agoWhere 'technically' means 'people have used it as both singular and plural but some people like to argue' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
- nobodysfool 13y ago'One' may be a good choice also, although singular they also works. "Maybe one mentors a child in one's spare time."
- adregan 13y agoPerhaps. Some might disagree with that, but the "gender neutral pronouns" debate is both long and boring. After all, he and she have both been used throughout English writing to denote all people male and female. Certainly a person using he/she his/her is well aware of the possibility of using they their instead, and perhaps said person is making a stylistic choice. I do not object to the use of colons, but if I did — insisting on the use of Em dashes instead — and I were to comment that there were perfectly fine alternatives to the colon on every post that used one (such as yours), I might be considered an overly pedantic nuisance.