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by Crake 13y ago
>I don't think either of us is capable of making definitive statements on the harm of women-only education programs Well, it's pretty much a given that they're increasing sex based discrimination in the world. Both as a pr
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by Crake 13y ago
>Part of it is rarely seeing a person of color in a computer engineering role. It's sad that we live in an age where it's acceptable to avoid a career field because you don't want to be around people of a different skin co
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by Crake 13y ago
>But the thing about pretty girls is that they often find it is more immediately profitable to be pretty than to be bright. 100% agree with you. I also think a lot of the difference in the gender ratio can be attributed to the fact that
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by Crake 13y ago
Wearing a nice suit != being obsessed with popularity, beauty, and fashion.
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by Crake 13y ago
I get mine from amazon for about $.50/each. Once I found a bunch on clearance at kroger's, and then I had $.10/cup coffee for about half a year.
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by Crake 13y ago
> And single. And white. And male. And a programmer. Ok, asshole childless person is at least mildly related to the topic at hand, but the rest of these just seem like irrelevant ad hominems. >Now do the world a favor, and shut up. Fo
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by Crake 13y ago
>Then at age 10-11 some foundation for underprivileged kids gifted me my own computer with free unlimited dialup and a separate phone line. Nowadays we'd just give a scholarship to a rich PoC female.
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by Crake 13y ago
You have to be the right gender, race, or sex these days to have an opinion these days. Not judging people based on their sex would be extremely sexist !
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by Crake 13y ago
>I'm less happy about excluding people who are coming into computing late, though. I don't think she's doing that. Note that she doesn't say that you haven to have been programming since age 2, just that you have to h
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by Crake 13y ago
I don't think that's what she's saying. Note that she defines the personality type as an interest in "solving the puzzle or building something." Even if you don't have access to computers to tinker with, the so
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by Crake 13y ago
>On the other hand it has a pretty strong "I got mine" component to it, where she laments the negative effects these changes have had on her personally but doesn't acknowledge that while she's in a position she likes
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by Crake 13y ago
>Maybe it's possible that there are plenty of people out there who care about "ephemera", and yet are also capable of programming a computer or soldering things together? Did you even read the article? The point she made i
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by Crake 13y ago
Absolutely wonderful article.
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by Crake 13y ago
>The culture of achievement is a privilege reserved for upper strata of society. How classist of you. There are plenty of people from working class backgrounds who achieved great things. Just because you started in poverty doesn't m
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by Crake 13y ago
>There are some benefits to living in a rural Indian village- you get more exercise then I do in my natural habitat. Speak for yourself. My natural habitat has great public transit, so I get my exercise built into my commute.
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by Crake 13y ago
I absolutely adore what I've read of Frederick Douglass. I plan to ransack the local library system for more of his writings at some point.
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by Crake 13y ago
It's interesting the way these people never try to apply this sort of "logic" to any other situation. Probably because original sin was first popularized by the Catholic Church, and outside of white guilt and religion (where
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by Crake 13y ago
>unique in the history of the world. Hardly. People have been enslaving each other throughout the entirety of human history. To suggest that America is somehow exceptional in this regard reeks of ethnocentrism. The Arab slave trade is ar
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by Crake 13y ago
So, it's okay to enslave people if you're black?
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by Crake 13y ago
> The fact that simply by virtue of the state of being white, they were immune to being enslaved within a culture of slavery White people were slaves, too. Both in the Americas and elsewhere. In many places, they were treated more harshl
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by Crake 13y ago
Interesting how you define millions of the global population entirely by their race. >Because it lets white Americans...[shift] the focus away from them and their ancestors. Not every white American had ancestors that owned slaves. In fa
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by Crake 13y ago
I think it's sad, mostly. The rug is really cute. I hadn't seen it before; I wish they'd kept it.
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by Crake 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reasoning
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by Crake 13y ago
Cheaper than birth control?
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by Crake 13y ago
The anti-depressants comment was unnecessary. SSRIs are most effective when used in non-situational induced depression anyway.
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by Crake 13y ago
>"I have also several times encountered the idea that "there are no more software jobs, they all went overseas". Of course that has no basis in reality, but that is one of the themes about the tech industry that is perpetu
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by Crake 13y ago
The midwest is very aware of the tech industry, even if large numbers of hackers in one place are harder to find there (due to population density). Awareness is probably lower among working class people, but even they usually have smart pho
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by Crake 13y ago
>You think a vacuum, dishwasher, mixer, blender, washer/dryer and microwave reduces the work that much? Yes.
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by Crake 13y ago
I've lived almost my entire adult life on a minimum wage budget (and/or close to it). I think it really depends a lot on where you live. I live in NYC now, and fruits and vegetables here are about 75% cheaper than when I lived in
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by Crake 13y ago
I think you need to listen to minorities more instead of attacking and talking over them. You're no ally, that's for sure.

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