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by Crake 14y ago
Well, the HN link sent me to a paywall. The one provided here let me through to the article.
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by Crake 14y ago
Thanks.
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by Crake 14y ago
Not trolling. I've seen my female friends do this many times/seen my male friends have to do this for their gfs/fiancees/etc. People have really different standards of what's acceptable based on a person's biological sex. Again, note that i
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by Crake 14y ago
Thank you.
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by Crake 14y ago
Plenty of people without any access to programming classes manage to teach themselves. If she was interested, she would have found a way. Just having access to college classes puts her ahead of most of america, honestly. Most people in Ame
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by Crake 14y ago
Men have to earn enough money to support themselves and their potential spouse if they want to attract a mate, or even just generally be considered not a complete and total failure. Women can just marry someone after college and make the hu
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by Crake 14y ago
Single women age 20-30 actually make more than men do. The 77 cents thing is an oft repeated myth based on an old study with shoddy methodology.
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by Crake 14y ago
IMHO this is BS. I'm GLBT and I'm 100% cool with nice looking ladies on slides. People don't read me as heterosexual male (not even close), but just because I'm not one, doesn't mean that I can't have the same interests. I feel sort of invi
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by Crake 14y ago
"This isn't activism, this is emotional terrorism." That's a great quote. People like this woman make it harder for women to integrate with tech guys. :/
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by Crake 14y ago
"However, I must emphatically and proudly express that I do not support the negation and devaluing of women's (as well as ethnic, [other] cultural, LGBT, etc.) rights by way of reactionary countering with a "men's rights" movement." As GLBT
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by Crake 14y ago
Lacking historical knowledge doesn't mean being doomed to repeat it. Having human desires means being doomed to repeat it. You don't see wars started for lack of history majors (we have more today than we did for most of human history). gro
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by Crake 14y ago
Ah, that's where I found my EE girlfriend, actually. I don't think I'd have had even that without OKC.
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by Crake 14y ago
I actually relate rather strongly to your post...I've eventually come to the conclusion that there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to stay single. I feel that sometimes people put too much emphasis on sex and relationships as a man
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by Crake 14y ago
Sounds like an upgrade.
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by Crake 14y ago
I live here. It's the best place in Ohio, for sure.
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by Crake 14y ago
Hi, I live in Ohio. And what I just read was a PERFECT description of human behavior around temp controls during Midwest winters.
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by Crake 14y ago
"I say this because Tumblr is influential and powerful." * snort* Wait, he was serious?
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by Crake 14y ago
The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorite scifi books...I've been meaning to read The Dispossessed but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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by Crake 14y ago
It's unfortunate from the fundamentalist parents' perspective.
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by Crake 14y ago
"I graduated high school in a rural, fundamentalist town." Me too. Also lots of abstinence only education encouraging you to wait until marriage. What were gay people like me supposed to do? Oh, right. Not exist. Got it.
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by Crake 14y ago
"Obedient students who do exactly as they are told and nothing more, who only learn what their teachers expect them to learn, receive the best grades." I always completed my homework, and then went on to learning the more advanced things. I
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by Crake 14y ago
I really love the music analogy. I wish people would view math in that light, too, because I feel like it translates extremely well.
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by Crake 14y ago
In many public schools, "oh you'll have a calculator for that!" is the common response. You don't need to memorize them, so many kids won't. But if you want to be good at foiling later on, you need to know them in your head automatically. R
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by Crake 14y ago
A lot of memorization that people feel is pointless actually isn't. I was drilled to death on my times tables, and it's served me well in my later math endeavors, even though I wasn't too thrilled about it at the time. On the other hand, me
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by Crake 14y ago
"In the U.S. today, homeschoolers are generally rebels, defying the system in order to do right by children." Or to shove creationist propaganda down their throat, as in my case. A significantly large part of the homeschooling movement is d
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by Crake 14y ago
Oh, they'll accept them. They just won't count towards your major. They're sneaky like that.
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by Crake 14y ago
I mostly find it hilarious.
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by Crake 14y ago
Whoah, wasn't expecting to see CVA mentioned on HN. I know someone who decided to go there thinking they'd get paid $60,000 a year after graduating with their fine arts degree. Of course, I'm pretty sure they thought the same thing about th
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by Crake 14y ago
Does she have health insurance? If so, have her talk to her PCP about antidepressants. You can be the best spouse in the world, but sometimes you're fighting a chemical equation that will render your best efforts in vain. (It's not your fau
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by Crake 14y ago
"I respect the fact that most transgender people are better served by keeping that information private than by wearing it on their sleeve" Uh, what are you saying here exactly? If someone's FTM they're just not going to bother with your pos

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