VarFarYonder

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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> Bitcoin was supposed to be a medium of exchange. Who decides what it is supposed to be? If serves as a place to store value, then it can do that regardless of what people think it is supposed to be. Maybe bitcoin will never be used for
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> How much of that is that we (1) socialize women to be that way; and (2) impose disproportionate parenting obligations on them to begin with, which causes them to seek more flexibility? I cannot speak to (2), but cross-cultural studies
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
> I think OP is just saying that being a male primary caregiver, or supporting other men who are, is one way to help with this problem. I'm not sure where the coercion is -- what's the threat being made? I don't think ther
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by VarFarYonder 9y ago
States tend to act like psychopaths. It should come as no surprise that the US doesn't honor the original agreement if it's in their self-interest to not honor that agreement. I'd be interested to know how the US came to hold
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by VarFarYonder 10y ago
> It's horrible that these were taken down, but it's far more horrible that disadvantaged populations are ignored, and put at further disadvantage. What about blind people? Or people who cannot afford internet access? Or people
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by VarFarYonder 10y ago
> While I understand wanting to make things available to the deaf, making them unavailable to everyone else is nuts. Especially as they're being offered for free. The "If X group cannot have it, nobody can have it" reasoni
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by VarFarYonder 10y ago
> One point that it looks like Curry takes aim with more generally is the degree to which there is a consensus about global warming among scientists. She says that 97% of scientists can't believe in it because they haven't stud
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Climate Models for Lawyers(judithcurry.com)
62 points by VarFarYonder 10y ago|52 comments
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by VarFarYonder 10y ago
God damn it. Titor was right.
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by VarFarYonder 10y ago
> Its just not something we're familiar with, and that's really the only problem. Its hard to force language on people, when everyone learns language effortlessly as they grow up, nobody is used to putting effort in how they ta
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by VarFarYonder 10y ago
> Please consider replacing all the "he"s with a word less gender-defining ("they", "s/he", "ve" etc). The entire gender spectrum can code if they want to and they should feel included rather
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by VarFarYonder 10y ago
> Then the developer threw a hissy fit a few days later and created a fork because his patch wasn't accepted right away. According to the Geoff Greer, they didn't fork Vim. The fork happened a couple of months after their patch