aklemm

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by aklemm 8y ago
So true, but the near term is the struggle.
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by aklemm 8y ago
8 and 5
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by aklemm 8y ago
My friend and I discussed this today and are still left without a lot of good ideas for our kids (who are mostly normal), but show shocking levels (to us) of materialism and lack of gratitude. What’s developmentally appropriate? When is a k
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by aklemm 8y ago
It had remained undiscussed until you and I showed up.
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by aklemm 8y ago
Imagine the shitstorm if drunk men were assaulted at the rates drunk women are.
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by aklemm 8y ago
That’s like a liberal saying NPR is objective. There is no objective. They might be serious and mostly honest (just like NPR), but Quillette definitely has a bias.
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by aklemm 8y ago
Do babies with too-big heads regularly die at birth if C-section isn't available?
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by aklemm 8y ago
Quite maybe, but that doesn’t make it easy to treat.
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by aklemm 8y ago
Which is the preferred version? There's a newer 2nd edition available there, but not many updates and lots of warnings about it being a draft.
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by aklemm 8y ago
HN brings me the best of what I'm interested in on the Web, so I appreciate that. The comments I find useful for filtering and previewing the linked articles as well for links to other related material that augments the linked article.
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by aklemm 8y ago
Calm down.
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by aklemm 8y ago
Downvote unwarranted for this reasonable answer. Refutations welcome.
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by aklemm 8y ago
Two reasons: 1) Women make less than men often because of career choices. If they make that choice because of shitty behavior in well-paying industries, then we have an injustice on our hands. 2) Underrepresentation of any group puts them a
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by aklemm 8y ago
Could you share your top 1-3 ideas for solving this problem?
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by aklemm 8y ago
Besides the history and baggage of patriarchy, men bear the responsibility because women still run into double standards of behavior (not allowed to be angry, critical, etc.), inequity of where they can comfortably hang out, and men are mor
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by aklemm 8y ago
Why aren't they choosing STEM fields?
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by aklemm 8y ago
Only if enforcing quotas is the only solution put forward. But realistically what's happening is that girls are being offered lots of STEM enrichment down into elementary school now so we'll know soon enough if they decide to purs
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by aklemm 8y ago
Exactly.
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by aklemm 8y ago
Male nurses are stronger and sometimes perceived as lower drama. Male teachers bring balance to classrooms; lots of kids respond better to one gender or another, so it helps a school to have some male teachers on staff, and yet they're
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by aklemm 8y ago
I'm just guessing, and I get the sense that you're open to that, so bear with me. I think the fields have sorted out by gender because of intrinsic interests/tendencies, cultural expectations (to your point about self-image),
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by aklemm 8y ago
Not exactly, because I'm not saying we must have more women in STEM at all costs. I'm saying we need them if they want it and will contribute. If the women are truly empowered and being treated fairly and then choosing against STE
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by aklemm 8y ago
Interesting, but I think this flirts a little too close to the fallacy that this goes both ways equally. In your examples of nursing, education, and psychology I would suggest that a man in each of those fields is actually advantaged compar
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by aklemm 8y ago
"If enough software services rely on a specific cryptocurrency as payment, then it has actual intrinsic value" I wish I'd seen this earlier. Pretty sure this is false, but it is an excellent summation of the thought behind wh
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by aklemm 8y ago
No, but using them to ignore injustice is wrong.
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by aklemm 8y ago
You either have to believe that there is a meritocracy and that it's under attack by an unnamed mob of truth-haters or you have to believe there is a pattern of shitty behavior (against women in this case) that people are--sometimes cl
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by aklemm 8y ago
Being able to make the connections between different philosophical positions is pretty neat. Good work!
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by aklemm 8y ago
But if those cryptocurrencies keep never amounting to anything, then the bribing won't keep working, right?
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by aklemm 8y ago
It's like Apple welcoming me to "iPhone"...it should be "your iPhone" or "this iPhone" or "an iPhone". iPhone is not a state of being.
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by aklemm 8y ago
This is certainly the question in general, and I'd like to know specifically what they thought the first six years at Facebook should look like.
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by aklemm 8y ago
Is there any interesting work going on with blockchain for identity management (Internet or other, I guess)?

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