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by ausbah 6y ago
this isn't quite what I was trying to say, I should've been more specific. I was more trying to say that I think bodily autonomy is a such a important part of a person's identity that a person should never feel pressure to un
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by ausbah 6y ago
I think the message of telling a person what is and isn't acceptable behavior based only on their gender / sex does nothing but reinforce harmful stereotypes and expectations
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by ausbah 6y ago
I am all for letting people do what they like with their bodies, but if people are trying to makes ends meet and they believe the only way of doing so is via selling pictures of their bodies - I think society has another massive moral faili
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by ausbah 6y ago
the funniest thing is how some people view simply discussing biases and such as a form of oppression or discrimination in and of itself
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by ausbah 6y ago
cybersecurity professionals are the closest things to superheroes we have
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by ausbah 6y ago
if Racket was built on top of immutable data structures, recursion, and the likes - why were imperative-like features such as mutation added to the language?
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by ausbah 6y ago
risk is very alluring! the higher the stakes the higher the draw for some!
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by ausbah 6y ago
well there are some who do believe "biological differences" between the sexes IS the reason for disparities in workforce representation. to them these are the "facts" and people who disagree are those ones politicizing f
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by ausbah 6y ago
"genuine debates" on conservative outlets, like what? Fox News? talk radio? a dingy YouTube channel?
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by ausbah 6y ago
attributing underrepresentation of woman in STEM probably needs a significantly higher level of evidence than just "biological differences"
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by ausbah 6y ago
as someone in this thread mentioned, being a "gamer" has a very strong group identity despite varying wildly across different genres and platforms however despite the label being so shallow that literally anyone who touches a ga
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by ausbah 6y ago
Economic mobility is down in most wealthy nations, especially in the US. Not to mention the demonstrable differences in outcome people have based on familial wealth, race, location, etc.
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by ausbah 7y ago
this is a good example of people saying the response was overblown, because the response had its intended effect
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by ausbah 7y ago
I think informal social pressures are just as fallible as formal legal systems, a billionaire can donate everything to philanthropy where the philanthropy is controlled entirely by them - effectively subverting the point of philanthropy
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by ausbah 7y ago
everything may be sunny on the outside, but it may pouring rain on the inside. most people's "life experience" with Amazon is most likely limited to shopping, but they likely don't see or consider other criticisms of Ama
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by ausbah 7y ago
this definitely tops the list of crazy things musk has said, it would be funny if so many people didn't take every word he says as absolute truth
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by ausbah 7y ago
this 3blue1brown video might answer your questions https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8idr1WZ1A7Q
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by ausbah 7y ago
> not necessarily to the Ivy League (everyone knows that's just luck of the draw), but the "second-tier" schools (Carnegie-Mellon, Rensselaer, Duke, Cornell, etc.) Cornell is an ivy league school, and calling the likes of
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by ausbah 7y ago
well yes, the whole first part of the article before he gives opinion on how to fix it is what he believes (I think rightly so) the root cause is - institutions of power giving more say to those who wish to slow or halt change because they
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by ausbah 7y ago
constraints breed creativity!
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by ausbah 7y ago
I don't think just plopping all the subject material in front of a student and expecting everyone to immediately "get it". Some people may have the intuition to read a group of definitions or a proof and suddenly understand t
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by ausbah 7y ago
Even if media is to blame for helping fueling anti-intellectual sentiments in the US, it's more likely an unintended byproduct than a massive conspiracy by media companies to purposely dumb down their consumers to buy more of their pro
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by ausbah 7y ago
I partially did. I think the article puts its finger on the main "pulse" of the general problem most people feel with American, perhaps more broadly Western, society- but doesn't offer anything more substantive then a vague &
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by ausbah 7y ago
success in one sphere subconsciously molds people to believing their opinion matters in other spheres - even if they are completely disjoint?
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by ausbah 7y ago
"Just following orders" isn't a valid excuse. Following orders means you are still compliant in making those orders happen, I don't think it's more complicated than that.
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by ausbah 7y ago
"Guns rights" for minorities in America has rarely ever been about personal protection or what not, it has been about keeping those in power in power and keeping the. Large swaths of American history of American history are likely
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by ausbah 7y ago
That still isn't an excuse to completely destroy unions tipping the business vs labor competition completely in favor of business. We don't completely dismantle businesses whenever they exhibit "corrupt behavior".
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by ausbah 7y ago
I wonder what adopting the idea of subspecies to evolutionary algorithms would look like, and if any benefits would be encountered.
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by ausbah 7y ago
the sense of self entitled heroism near the end is truly amazing
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A Modest Proposal: Tax Worthlessness (2018)(democracyjournal.org)
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