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871.
by araneae 17y ago
I'm talking about the submitter. The section header that the submitter linked to (#MM) is entitled "On Marshmallows and Gender Differences: Rereading Self-Discipline Research."
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by araneae 17y ago
Given that HN loves gender differences, he probably did. And on that note, I'm not sure the marshmallow study is particularly relevant to his point. The reason girls do better in school is probably for a number of reasons, maturity probabl
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by araneae 17y ago
You managed to offend me here, but not for the reasons you think. I have two very close friends who are transgender, one of whom got transitional surgery less than a week ago, so you can go fuck yourself.
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by araneae 17y ago
I did. The point still stands. It's akin to how people say that we need Mexicans in the country, because who else is going to do the farming? You can declare a group of people both necessary and inferior all in the same sentence.
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by araneae 17y ago
Oh whatever. People are continually obsessed with being "real"- being a "real" atheist or a "real" Christian, being a "real" submissive, or a "real" man, or a "real" whatever. What it really comes down to is that some people think they are
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by araneae 17y ago
I guess what is obvious to me is that conspicuous behavior != conscious behavior. No one is really thinking "this will impress the ladies" or "this will impress the guys" when they perform these behaviors, but that's really irrelevant. Mos
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by araneae 17y ago
I think that idea that men use wealth to attract mates is pretty damn obvious, but I never really considered that women use displays of altruism to attract males. But makes sense that women would want to say "look! I'll make a good mommy!
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Pyvm 2.0(students.ceid.upatras.gr)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Google Nexus One Phone Likely to Launch Jan. 5(wired.com)
4 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Study: Rumors of Written-Word Death Greatly Exaggerated(wired.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
My expectation when I went to grad school would be that I would have more freedom to do what I was interested in than I ever had before. What I found was that what I had to do was far more constricting than undergrad; I had take take cours
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by araneae 17y ago
What would be cool would be if all the high performing kids had to tutor the low performing kids. The nice thing about that solution is that it is both a) cheap and b) helps both parties, unlike this policy. Unfortunately, the low performi
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by araneae 17y ago
Yes, but Catharsis commented on the video in the post, so it's not equivalent.
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Ira Glass on storytelling(catharsis.tumblr.com)
59 points by araneae 17y ago|20 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
The implication is that "instinct" knows better than you do. But my instinct sucks. I have no usable skills, and yet I'm not nervous at all- I'm fairly fearless in general. It's reason that's telling me that this is probably a bad idea, no
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by araneae 17y ago
Are you Russian Orthodox Christian?
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by araneae 17y ago
No real advice, but I can tell you exactly what I did with very little background (not that I'm any good at it.) 1. Took a biology class that involved using matlab. Found the matlab part more fun than the biology. 2. Went through this cou
888.
by araneae 17y ago
Since we're going on tangents here, I've taught an animal behavior class.
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by araneae 17y ago
The humane society has a much better fur recycling program, I think. Also, they aren't PETA http://www.hsus.org/furfree/campaigns/c4c/
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by araneae 17y ago
One with very little return on your investment.
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by araneae 17y ago
I got more ram, pocky, a gift card to amazon.com, and money. Also lots of bdsm gear from my SO, including some really nice suspension cuffs. (Is this TMI?)
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by araneae 17y ago
Or you might be sad when no one ever e-mails you, because then you'll know you only say useless things.
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by araneae 17y ago
8. OkCupid I have several friends who have gotten an endless series of dates from there. I've only met one person from OkCupid, but she was pretty amazing. All the other sites I've tried (otakubooty, aff, cl, some other ones that have alre
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by araneae 17y ago
One criticism of the levels; there should be automatic browser resizing. I have a small screen, so I had to scroll down to see all the possible answers, and then I couldn't look at the word and what the character looked like at the same ti
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Writer of "Of Geeks and Girls" responds to some HN comments (likearadiotelescope.wordpress.com)
32 points by araneae 17y ago|72 comments
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Hackers Brew Self-Destruct Code to Counter Police Forensics(wired.com)
12 points by araneae 17y ago|3 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Just something I noticed: "If your potential programmer didn’t do any programming before university, and all his experience starts when she got her first job, she’s probably not a good programmer." This is the only time he uses the female p
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by araneae 17y ago
Repeat, sort of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994797
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by araneae 17y ago
The irony is that there are fewer females on HN than reddit and most other online communities. Maybe it's popular here because the female presence is notably lacking.
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by araneae 17y ago
It's also amusing that the author is displaying blatant sexism towards this woman and at the same time complaining about sexism against her. Women can still be misogynists.

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