GFK_of_xmaspast

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3421.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
"Wanting to be able to draw has nothing to do with being willing to do whatever it takes to be able to draw." "Gee I wish I could run a marathon" *sits on couch w/ bag of cheetoes"
3422.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Transcription is highly specialized, and still makes lots of errors.
3423.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
That's not at all the same kind of thing. Here's some male nurses talking about their experiences: http://allnurses.com/nursing-career-advice/you-ashamed-being... """ I'm not "ashame
3424.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
How does your "gender-based difference in interests" explain the last thirty years of (proportional) decline in women majoring in CS?
3425.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
"eh" The rates looked to be tracking pretty closely until the housing bubble burst: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/womens-unemploy...
3426.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
What's your angle on the usage of "third wave feminism"? It always seemed like a legit thing to me, and a marker for caring about things like intersectionality and trans issues.
3427.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
"female" as a noun is, generally speaking, a usage for assholes. use it as an adjective.
3428.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
"and that's exactly the kind of label that women slaps on tech jobs" what kind of world are you living in because it's not one I've visited.
3429.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Ain't no schaden in this here freude, pal.
3430.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Personally I consider a stack of (non-counterfeit) twenty dollar bills to be 'useful.'
3431.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Didn't you ever see 'The African Queen'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_East_Africa
3432.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Maybe you're not old enough, but I am and I remember a huge stigma against men who wanted to become nurses because it was a job "for women" and what kind of man would want to do that kind of thing.
3433.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
I'm not comfortable with microloans for a number of reasons, most importantly because I don't want to be a usurer. (forex: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/world/14microfinance.html )
3434.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
I don't see why we need to be shackled to the bounds of countability.
3435.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
So I have a phd in math and I do tend to think less of other mathematicians who argue against infinite sets or uncountable sets and such, the argument's been over for a hundred years, you lost, deal with it. It's mathematical geo
3436.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Guys like that in general have never seemed all that convincing to me.
3437.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Hacker News right here, everybody.
3438.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Bitcoin's only interesting for laughing at the true believers and shaking one's damn head at all the scams.
3439.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
I wonder what the PUAhate forums are thinking about this, but like fuck I'm gonna go check. ( https://twitter.com/puahate_txt )
3440.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Gotta say, this reads like you got a screw loose in your own self.
3441.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
The highest paid public employee in something like 49/50 states is a sports coach.
3442.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Bleep bloop.
3443.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Hasn't California's primary been in like freaking June.
3444.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
"The only reason California is so diverse is because of immigration" Time was, California only had indigenous peoples.