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by Mz 9y ago
People also wrote fiction about traveling to the moon for a very long time before it actually happened. And Star Trek is credited with inspiring a lot of modern developments that are now ubiquitous, like cell phones and automatic doors. (Th
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by Mz 9y ago
Some years back, the federal government in the US decided to get strict about protecting certain natural areas. This resulted in a build up of dry brush because people were not allowed to do things like collect firewood. The end result was
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by Mz 9y ago
FYI: Legalization and decriminalization are two different things. The first involves heavy regulation. The second involves making it not a crime, basically. And making it a crime creates all kinds of problems. I support decriminalizat
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by Mz 9y ago
I thought of your site as soon as I saw this, though, tbh, I don't think of it is a site. I know it from Twitter and somehow it is weird to me to think of it as a site. I can't quite put my finger on why that is.
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by Mz 9y ago
This "I'm bored with my life. I shall appify it and travel to random countries" stuff is a whole level beyond First World Problems. It is something like First World Problems of the Jet Set. Yet, this article doesn't cast
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Giant oarfish(en.wikipedia.org)
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A study finds promising results from ‘pink noise’(wsj.com)
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by Mz 9y ago
Contrary to what people like you routinely assume, I don't publicly admit to being homeless in order to garner sympathy from internet strangers. I merely do so in order to make it clear that I have first-hand experience with the proble
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Portraits of Guatemalan refugees in limbo(theconversation.com)
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How affordable housing can chip away at residential segregation(theconversation.com)
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Milwaukee Shows What Segregation Does to American Cities (2016)(nymag.com)
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Why Detroit exploded in the summer of 1967(theconversation.com)
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Soundscapes in the past: Adding a dimension to our picture of ancient cultures(theconversation.com)
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What Bloodied This Teen's Feet? Tiny Marine Flesh Eaters Had Scientists Stumped(npr.org)
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California mulls creation of a pot-industry bank(latimes.com)
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Why some pot businesses hide their cash(latimes.com)
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by Mz 9y ago
So, about 40% more women are poor than men and you think this is not substantial? We have expressions like the feminization of poverty and the pink collar ghetto for a reason. This has been studied and there are scholarly resources on t
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by Mz 9y ago
A tldr of what I think is that the world has radically changed in the last 100 years and society has become openly hostile to people in ways that are more problematic for some people than others. Rather than wondering what the hell has happ
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by Mz 9y ago
Edit: The comment I replied to has been substantially edited, as has the follow-up reply to me. Thus, for people reading this, it may look like what I have said is "crazy" or reactionary or otherwise bad behavior on my part. I ass
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by Mz 9y ago
Some studies make it quite clear that parents treat boys and girls different from the get go and even outright interpret identical behaviors differently depending on the gender of the child. Recent HN discussion about that, with citation:
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by Mz 9y ago
I have spent a lot of years working on changing myself. My default preference is to focus first on what I have the most immediate control over. A) I think it is debatable whether or not it is easier than changing the world. B) For things li
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by Mz 9y ago
I often default to taking people literally. Because of that, people who don't like me sometimes suggest I am autistic as a faux polite way of publicly calling me a social retard. Although ASD individuals are prone to being very literal
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by Mz 9y ago
Soldiers are usually highly valued but earn very little. My father and ex husband were both career military. You are misinformed. In the US, soldiers get relatively little cash pay because they are provided free room and board, free medic
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by Mz 9y ago
Yes, that is why nannies and so many other Pink Collar Ghetto jobs are paid so poorly: Because we value these people so much.
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by Mz 9y ago
This post is by some guy who calls himself Donald Clark and I see zero credentials given. I am not "in tech." Posting to HN says nothing about one's profession. At one time, I was Director of Community Life for The TAG Projec
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by Mz 9y ago
People usually do not have to proclaim things that the larger culture implicitly agrees is simply so true that "it goes without saying." You will tend to not be aware of such implicit assumptions, because they aren't typicall
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by Mz 9y ago
Assuming you are male, that may be the real sex difference: Girls aren't supposed to be good at anything, they apologize for not being "good enough" even when they perform as well as the guys and then if they are excellent, n
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by Mz 9y ago
But the big statistic is that autism in all of its forms is around four times more common in males than females. In other words the genetic components have a biologically sex-based component. Does this account for the fact that women tend
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by Mz 9y ago
I have probably two dozen blogs and initially wrestled with the same thing. If you want to blog, I would be happy to help you find a process that works for you. I am sure you could find an audience. You sound like a rich source of much-need
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by Mz 9y ago
(ML looks like magic to me and involves lots of math, which I suck at). Math is taught pretty badly in most American public schools from K-12. Many people have terrible math experiences in elementary school, in part because the U.S. activ

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