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by araneae 16y ago
Sure, I'd buy that sex stories, like all sexually explicit material on the internet, is read more by men. But you didn't say sex stories. You said the erotic romance novel. And that is just decidedly wrong. My point about the essay, whi
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Humans ARE animals. The only thing humans do that animals don't is abstract reasoning. But the whole span of love and sex are covered pretty well by other animals, and the physiological and even psychological mechanisms are pretty much th
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Apparently you didn't read my post carefully, because I said "innate or otherwise." Your point would be about the otherwise bit. However, since you wanted to argue this when I was specifically avoiding it, I would point out that females ar
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The only form of literature that women ever invented was the erotic romance novel, and they're even trying to take that away from us. Will wonders never cease? In dead tree form, yes. In electronic book publishing, yes. In fan fiction, y
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"But if you look at what men write, and what men want, when they are free to produce their own written erotica, then you find that the rise of the Internet has created, from scratch, the genre which I think is now known as the "erotic roman
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Two blog posts from affected authors: This first one was on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007395 Another: http://jamthecat.blogspot.com/2010/12/boycott-amazoncom.html
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I would rather order it from anyone but Amazon, who has been started removing "offensive" books from the Kindle store left and right.
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I guess it's partially ignorance. For years I was making "instant" pudding, which was a packet combined with milk. It turns out that you can make homemade chocolate pudding with only one extra ingredient; cocoa powder, cornstarch, and mil
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I was actually thinking of specific compounds, one being resveratrol; it and other antioxidants are present in greater or equal amounts in fresh grapes and work as effectively in that form. It's true that some things need to work in conjunc
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A) This is entirely irrelevant to my point. The point was, the body takes in things it finds useful, and discards the ones it doesn't. Ethanol gets filtered out. And it's rough on your organs if it has to do it too often. Those are the f
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From first principles, it wouldn't make sense for alcohol itself to be beneficial. After all, the body treats it like poison, the liver filtering it from the blood stream. Drink too much poison, and the liver gets tired and shuts down, and
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I quit Reddit cold turkey by deleting my account. I have only occasionally looked at the front page since then, but it hasn't re-hooked me; getting rid of the orange-red compulsion and the karma score was really effective at breaking the a
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In the example of this post, the male is perceived as being higher status because he has a desirable woman with him. The woman herself in this position isn't holding anyone by the balls. So the relationship is tenuous at best.
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Downvoting requires a certain karma threshold.
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I don't know, do graphing calculators and html count? If not... really 18 and college.
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The exact reason for this is actually very well detailed in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which was published this year. For one, one man did, but he was a con artist that made the family hesitant to ever talk to anyone again. Wh
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It's terribly sad this is on "Today I found out." I learned about HeLa cells in high school biology, and the story really stuck with me. But when I took The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks out of the library (published this year, and a
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I AM a biologist, and a specialist on social insects, and sure, it's not understood perfectly. But this guy's statement is valid.
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And from someone who studies neurobiology and animal behavior with a specialty in social insects... This is bullshit. The dance is a solved problem. There are plenty of mysteries about honey bees, and this isn't one of them. A few summer
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The dogs are to keep any stray sheep from escaping. Before that, they used behavioral methods on the sheep. If a lamb wandered off, the shepherd broke the lamb's legs and then carried it around until it healed. I think the sheep probably
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I suppose one never does know oneself.
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It might not even be simple over-reporting; women have more diagnoses than men. Women go to the doctor more. This isn't to say it isn't still bullshit. I know two women with OCD diagnoses, but neither present typical symptoms. One is the
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2010: The Year of Whining About Women In Tech(zdnet.com)
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On a mostly unrelated note, I installed rapportive and discovered that someone had signed up for a social network with my e-mail address that wasn't me. So I had the site send me a new password and deleted the account. Why do people do
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Why, is he a better writer than this Kevin Connolly?
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Do what you love and the money will follow is pretty cheap advice. Some people love watching TV all day. I also find it hard to believe that there was absolutely nothing of interest to you in college, given the pretty broad range of choi
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The other thing that isn't the same is the external validation- or failure. Most people who are learning on their own don't have the same hard deadlines and pressure to perform at a particular level. That pressure pushed me to work harder
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I'd be wary of hiring a college drop-out simply because college can be a filter for stick-to-it-ness. Only a very few college drop-outs do so because they can do better elsewhere; the majority do it because they've failed. And they don't
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Also unethical is not automatically given them a refund, and then verbally trying to humiliate them over their choice of reading when they request one.
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It's really more a translation of karma. At any rate, I vastly prefer it to the "Golden Rule." Whenever anyone goes on about it, I always say, "what about masochists?" It may sound a trite response, but I think it's a really important aspe

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