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by Tichy 13y ago
Yeah, and along with that I'd like a course in kicking the gun pointed at my head out of the holder's hand, then using it to shoot the three other guards watching over me. They do it on TV all the time, can't be that hard.
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by Tichy 13y ago
If it is not sustainable, this saving of a billion lives might have come at the expense of killing several billions of future lives.
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by Tichy 13y ago
I measnt not use the phone network, because the SMS could be diverted.
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by Tichy 13y ago
So now males with daughters get special entitlements, too?
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by Tichy 13y ago
Hm, the point of authenticator is to not use the phone, because phjone numbers may be more vulnerable. wasn't there a case of social hacking where the telco forwarded to hacker's phone?
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by Tichy 13y ago
That link isn't really relevant. It's about probabilities. Of course women can pick up a gun, or make fancy careers, or murder people, or abuse kids, or whatever else you can imagine. The likelihoods for them doing it is differren
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by Tichy 13y ago
Of course, but the claim was heroines are only shallow because they are written by men. Also Bella's case might indicate that it's simply not worth it for Hollywood to create deeper characters, because the shallow ones sell better
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by Tichy 13y ago
"provide an equal number of counterexamples, then." Equal number to what? What is the number we are looking at - did anybody even count anything here? I already mentioned several female action heroes in other comments, like Underw
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by Tichy 13y ago
If that were the case, the solution would be simple: just skip reading comments. On the contrary I often learn useful things from HN comments. Sometimes I even submit stuff to HN because I am curious about the opinion of HN commentators.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Except for Firefly I don't know these characters you mention, and I am not going to watch My Little Pony just so that I can understand your comment... Don't recall what was specific about Zoe from Firefly.
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by Tichy 13y ago
There are many, many movies with women as the main actrice. Even female heroes. What do you mean by hero, somebody who carries heavy guns and mows down lots of enemies? Even those exist, for example Resident Evil (totally unrealistic of cou
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by Tichy 13y ago
Great example to illustrate that the whole discussion is somewhat pointless. Although it really seems likely that there are too few female villains in movies, skewing people's perception of women.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Haven't the expectations usually formed from experience? I don't understand how that is a problem. Is the theory that if there were more movies about female bank robbers, there would be more real bank robbers, in turn making us be
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by Tichy 13y ago
Jodie Foster, Sigourney Weaver, Merryl Streep come to mind - are they the wrong kind of strong? Miss Maple was a famous literary detective.
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by Tichy 13y ago
You mean they were actually enforcing the stereotype of weak women by emphasizing the exceptionality of strong women?
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by Tichy 13y ago
I'll have to take your word for it - I missed that, and HN search doesn't turn up anything (looking for the phrase "innate aversion", sorted by date: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q
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by Tichy 13y ago
What is "feminine personality" in that context, though?
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by Tichy 13y ago
Funny sentence in the first paragraph: "I agree that female characters in pop fiction rarely get to be full, complex people". Maybe she shouldn't be reading so much pop fiction if she craves complex characters...
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by Tichy 13y ago
Bella from Twilight was written by a woman, and consumed mostly by women.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Use of booth babes is a somewhat different case. I personally don't like that practice, but it seems likely to me that women on tech conferences are assumed to be booth babes because it is so often true (apparently - I haven't stu
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by Tichy 13y ago
Edit: Downvotes for what? Is it really enough to select a few movie posters with more men than women on it to confirm a theory? How many thousands of movies are there? Does this analysis really hold any water at all? I seem to remember movi
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by Tichy 13y ago
I don't understand what you are saying. Do you mean while Storm is "strong", she has no depth, whereas male X-Men character are both strong and having depth? Or what is the problem (apart from judging society by a Hollywood m
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by Tichy 13y ago
The flaw in that study seems to me that for starters, boys don't need to be convinced to go into CS. And those stereotypes are mostly just stereotypes - there were no such things at my university, for example. It was a rather ugly buil
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by Tichy 13y ago
"if the professional environment also embraces cultural norms that treat women as eye candy or playthings." I think sexual attraction will always exist between the sexes, so any professional environment will have to deal with that
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by Tichy 13y ago
You assume that females are put off by that. That's sexist.
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by Tichy 13y ago
If you say "not enough x" the question is always "for what?". That usually isn't even answered in those articles. Not enough developers to defeat cancer and world hunger? Or what?
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by Tichy 13y ago
How often is that "genetically unsuited" theory really pushed, though? I think it might be more a myth than reality ("people always try to argue with genetics").
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by Tichy 13y ago
To be fair from his point of view he would still be correct - there are not enough developers available to push the price below his threshold.
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by Tichy 13y ago
I'm a freelancer who is available and I don't have the impression companies are desperate for software developers. I get requests from recruiters, but they offer significantly less money than a couple of years ago, and they seem t
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by Tichy 13y ago
It sounds to me as if you are saying average wages are not increasing because of the influx of young developers. Isn't that exactly the point the article makes, that the non-increasing wages indicate that there is no shortage of tech w

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