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by DINKDINK 12y ago
>For many feminists, feminism absolutely is about "overthrowing patriarchy," which in practice means taking retribution against all men Patriarchy is defined as "a system of society or government in which men hold the powe
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
>One of my problems with feminism is that it elevates women to a priviliged status while leaving males with low status behind I disagree. You're confusing Misandry and Feminism.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
As a parallel, just because white people treat other white people poorly doesn't make institutional racism of white treating people of color poorly acceptable.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
“why she did not just stay home and take care of her child instead of having a career,” because asking a female coworker this question has a subtext behind it that is, "I find it peculiar or odd that you chose to have a career".
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
>it's been "2-3 years" away for 2 years now. Technically that's still in spec. Example: Date: Message 2010: We are 2-3 years away from launch. 2011: We are 2-3 years away from launch. 2012: 2013: We launch.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
>what do they lose? Simply their bets. They will definitely lose their bets but it would be excessively simplistic to assume that if a bunch of VC's bust, their bust will not affect the market (stock market, etc) in any way.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Solar panels would only affect the revenue of coupled utilities. Depending on the regulatory framework of the state, Decoupled utilities [0] would be unaffected by solar (and may even benefit if they supply the capital investment to instal
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Why would you be a coward if you had a terminal illness? Because you want to transcend reality beyond your pain? If so, that's the same logic people use to discredit any psychedelic experimentation; saying that people who use substanc
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
The United States was founded by a group of revolutionaries attacking the British state.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
>Normal exercise will not cause weight loss What do you define "normal exercise" as? You cannot break the 2nd law of thermodynamics: if you calories in is less than your calories burned you must lose weight.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
If you show how to break a system, don't you implicitly show the parts that are broken that need to be fixed? The entire protocol is so poor you should probably just not use the tech anymore. The cryptography method uses a key of 4 by
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
As impressive as this hack was, I almost expected him to say that the LED was transmitting the keystroke data over LiFi ;)
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
The laws absolutely scream to be mocked.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Why would they have any incentive to contact you? From their perspective the problem is solved -- the material offending statist is out of sight, out of mind. You're the one who wants a different situation to exist. Governments aren
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Why is complaining bad? If no one ever complained, we'd still be riding horses.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Why is that a bad thing?
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
I think if iOS developers were able to brand and band themselves together and build clout with consumers they could make an effect on certain policies. If they notify consumers that they want to provide the services that customers want, an
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
If things are really bad enough, why not create a federation of developers to build developer clout and threaten Apple with counter action based on Apple's action?
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
I meant to say doesn't have 3 and have updated the comment to reflect the equation I believe is correct.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
So why don't we keep all laws hidden? One could expand your argument at any and all laws. Why write down the laws for "money laundering" as it would <s> only allow people to skirt the laws </s>. If you don
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
It can be a April Fools video and still be correct. Basically it's a moot video because you can use the same logic to prove that any digit has the same properties or converse property (that three exists almost NO where because the pro
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Why would the private market want to go to Mars? I can't think of a convincing reason, other than say maybe tourism
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
One could make the argument that the organizations that manage their processes with the least amount of in-fighting will be the ones that survive.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
"Should companies be taking advantage of low wages in other countries instead of paying market value?" If someone leaves a programming job in India to take a programming job in the USA, they're implicitly saying, This is a be
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Can anyone explain the downvotes? or does the Upton Sinclair quote hold "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
What about the (cost to hire a local) + (costs of employing that local person annually) = (cost to hire a H1B) + (costs of employing that H1B person). The cost to hire that h1B person is going to be much higher and hence the lower wage.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Why would you expect them to be paid the same. Should something that ships from Alaska cost the same as something shipped from your next door neighbor?
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Sidecar has had this functionality for a long time.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
>I can't understand the desire to go back to the bad old days. There's nothing in the comment you're responding to that advocates for regressing back to a Regulated Taxi paradigm.
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by DINKDINK 12y ago
Unfortunately it does not take acute accents. Such as the sentence: Ceci n'est pas écriture humaine.

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