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by araneae 12y ago
Case. In. Point. It's not really about gender, but rather a confrontational style of communication that can sometimes be not very productive. I have a tendency towards this style of communication myself, but I've worked towards co
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by araneae 12y ago
I have an opposite experience. When I start an article, it gets flagged for deletion. Then I have to defend it. If I expand an article no one seems to notice.
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by araneae 12y ago
The gender of the original author is irrelevant. There's no evidence that women are less sexist than men. In fact, all the evidences is that women and men discriminate equally against women: http://ideas.time.com/2012&#
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by araneae 12y ago
I've been a Wikipedia editor for ages, and I have noticed this. You can't wait around for other people to reply. Generally if I'm about to do something potentially controversial, I write a comment on it in the talk thread, an
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by araneae 13y ago
Very cool! I use cycle for this which only does averaging, which works okay but it's seriously old and clonky. I was wondering why someone hadn't done this already.
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by araneae 13y ago
It's breast cancer. Those who have a pregnancy before 20 years of age versus those who have a pregnancy after 35 years of age show a 50% reduction in their risk of breast cancer. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/
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by araneae 13y ago
Breast cancer is one of the more common cancers in woman. Having your first pregnancy before 20 versus after 35 lowers your chance of breast cancer by 50%. For each birth, breast cancer risk decreases by 7%. For each year of breast feeding,
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by araneae 14y ago
My neighbor has 5 hens- he gave us eggs when we first moved in. I ate them, but honestly I could not get over the visible smears of poo on them. So for me, they tasted icky, but I'm sure it was entirely psychological.
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by araneae 14y ago
I went to Cornell, and I never witnessed any sort of collaboration of this sort. I did have a professor tell us an anecdote of discovering such "collaboration" in his classes and tell us he wouldn't stand for it (and yes, they were Chinese)
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by araneae 14y ago
As the new mother of a 3 month old, I'm really getting a taste of how much it must suck to be in a wheelchair. The stroller can't go into half the places I try to visit. Even the bank wasn't wheelchair accessible. And in many stores, even i
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by araneae 14y ago
>Unfortunately, all continuing to enforce how special women are (either positively or negatively, in this case) is to keep women thinking they need specialised tools to succeed. It emphasizes it to you. As a woman, it painstakingly ob
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by araneae 14y ago
As a female Django dev, I'm glad I wasn't there. That would have made me feel extremely unwelcome.
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Ask HN: Best host for e-mail servers/mailman?
1 points by araneae 14y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 15y ago
>my point was just that wearing low-cut tops and dressing for sex appeal are usually correlated. I didn't start wearing low-cut tops and dresses until I started breast-feeding because they make it easier to pull out your boobs.
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by araneae 15y ago
>Why do women wear low-cut dresses if not to attract male attention (in the majority of cases)? I would say for the most part it's not all that conscious. We buy the dress if we like it. In some cases we might not buy it if it looks too
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Ask HN: Why did YC fund two startups that do exactly the same thing?
19 points by araneae 15y ago|14 comments
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by araneae 15y ago
>My personal well-being (as well as my privacy and, I truly believe, my safety) are not worth the risk and grief. Jesus. Melodramatic much? I've been a low level Wikipedia editor for many years. I have edited and written a smattering of
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by araneae 15y ago
I wish it allowed you enter an hourly wage, since that's what I make. I could annualize it but I don't actually work full time so that wouldn't be accurate.
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by araneae 15y ago
When I took cs 100 as a freshman in college, I had never programmed before. I was in the "bottom hump." I would have failed that little quiz if I took it my first semester. Unlike every other discipline, programming is a completely differen
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by araneae 15y ago
Oh no, I'm going to be that person. Thank science! (And also those people who participated in a campaign to help him get a match.) My mom was diagnosed with a rare variant of AML (APML or APL) in April 2011. When she was admitted to the hos
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by araneae 15y ago
Yup, AML sucks. My mother was diagnosed with APML in April 2011, which is a variant of AML with a much better prognosis (more like 90% than 50%). I was so relieved when we found out it wasn't AML proper and she wouldn't need a transplant, b
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by araneae 15y ago
My mother is in great physical condition, and certainly not overweight, but she still managed to destroy her shoulder doing yoga. So while it's true that people in poor condition shouldn't do yoga, there are still risks to people in good co
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by araneae 15y ago
You can believe that something is both heritable and flexible. Most personality traits are at maximum about 50% heritable; I don't think that's so bad.
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by araneae 15y ago
This one is free: http://ipsur.org/ I haven't really looked into it though, so read at your own risk!
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by araneae 15y ago
>Now use what you’ve learned in a project. For the love of pete do not use it on a project you get paid for, unless you have an explicit understanding with your employer that you are using something you’ve never used before, and will pr
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by araneae 15y ago
>and your viral coefficient > 1.0 ! Unless you're an epidemiologist, and then let your R0 be < 1.
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by araneae 15y ago
I notice there's some random guy on there named Paul Graham. He seems confused as to why so many people have added him to their circles...
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by araneae 15y ago
As a non-designer doing all my own design, I appreciate these "copy paste this nice looking CSS" posts.
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by araneae 15y ago
I think generally this might not be about relationships per se, but simply what kind of person you are. It would seem weird to me to be in a relationship with a person and not get involved in their field; but that's just because I'm that ki
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by araneae 15y ago
I do find it a little bit odd, though. I guess some careers aren't that interesting or you don't spend that much time thinking about them at home so there isn't any reason to share it with your SO. But my husband is an academic, so his acad

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