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by b6 12y ago
I don't think I'm proposing to ignore tribes. I'm calling tribes out as harmful. If people promote the old idea of declaring themselves distinct from the rest of the human family because of various body attributes, I'm g
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by b6 12y ago
I would be overjoyed if people would stop capitalizing "black", "white", etc. It feels like I'm reading something from Stormfront. Do we want body attributes and tribes to be less important in the future, or more?
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by b6 12y ago
> Or they meant, "Hi! Mind if I backhandedly point out you don't belong here (again?)" Because, you know, that's how people interpret it when you remark upon their presence or skills. I don't think you're ri
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by b6 12y ago
You're right, if taken literally, but I'd bet that the person who said the remark just meant that far fewer women than men are into tech/programming.
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by b6 12y ago
We often say thoughtless things, because we're on autopilot. We don't sit down and think quietly about how our words will seem to others before we say them because we don't want to spend that much time, or that much energy, a
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by b6 12y ago
Sorry, I know I have some remedial reading to do on this subject -- I'm trying to fill in the gaps. One thing I never see in these articles is why the movement people are seeing in this indicator necessarily means that something bad is
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by b6 12y ago
This is more or less how all frats seemed to me, admittedly, from a distance, so I never got involved with them. Isn't it obvious that they're a throwback to tribes? Chanting, ritualistic violence, binge drinking, etc. I can'
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by b6 12y ago
I started thinking that English was pretty weird after I started studying Mandarin. I would say something like "it was a sad situation" in Mandarin, and the other person would be like "how could the situation itself be sad? D
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by b6 12y ago
I was really puzzled by this comment. At first I thought maybe you were joking, but you don't seem like you're messing around. In case you're really not aware, "jail" is long-standing terminology for a restricted en
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by b6 12y ago
I want a world where ethnicity, sex, and other body attributes do not matter very much. In that future world, body attributes would matter much less than they do today. So I advocate paying as little attention to them as possible today. O
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by b6 12y ago
I really can't stand this stuff. > To which some people in Portland, echoing antifluoridation activists around the world, reply: We don’t believe you. I don't think that is what they say. I think they may be saying something cl
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by b6 12y ago
It seems to be a scope with a range finder that adjusts a virtual reticle as appropriate. It also has an electronic trigger system that probably prevents spoiled shots. While I wish everyone would stop being interested in developing weapons
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by b6 12y ago
Hey, I was sad to hear how you feel, but really glad you said something. I've been feeling pretty down, too. In the past there were times I felt so bad that the main thing stopping me from hurting or killing myself was that I couldn&#x
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by b6 12y ago
Wow, I'm surprised to hear you feel that way. I usually feel as if language, even when used very thoughtfully, is able to provide only the barest sketch of a lot of thoughts. I especially find it frustrating when talking about feelings
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by b6 12y ago
Sounds like this tech could be really disruptive! Do you plan to make use of React?
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by b6 12y ago
> Why do most Americans hate paying their taxes and go to such extreme measures to minimize the amount of tax they pay? Hmm, it seems hard to know for certain, but I don't think it's true that "most" Americans "h
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by b6 12y ago
I donate to the EFF whenever possible. What else can I do to fight these bastards? I think the NSA is a threat to humanity and I feel helpless.
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by b6 12y ago
I recall reading a mathematician say that after solving a difficult problem, he would force himself, now with the answer in hand, to reexamine the problem and think about what questions he could have asked, or what techniques he could have
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by b6 12y ago
> I do sometimes wonder what's added by focusing on sexism in tech, in particular, and suggesting it's uniquely a problem with tech. Same here, especially when I think back on _years_ of solving computer problems where it was j
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by b6 12y ago
I first ran into this idea here[1] where one of the best ways to "push back against privilege" was "shut up". [1] http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2014/02/4-ways-push-back-p...
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by b6 12y ago
You seem certain that that you know exactly what the problem is, and exactly how to solve it, down to a list of steps. You even seem certain that a stranger on the Internet is part of the problem. Well, give me a break -- that's really
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by b6 12y ago
I don't know why people find it so tempting to compare brains and computers. Maybe because it seems like computers are figuring things out? But they aren't, they're just scooting numbers around and adding and whatnot. They&#x
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by b6 12y ago
I hope justice was done. I also hope that someday we won't particularly care about the ethnicity of the judge, or of the victim, or of the perpetrators of the crime. In my view, that would be moving even further away from the way thing
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by b6 12y ago
No, that's not what I intended at all. I'm sorry if what I wrote made it seem that way. I intended more like a gentle criticism of hipsters. Could you consider applying the principle of charity to the seemingly nasty things people
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by b6 12y ago
> Though some foreign collectors are ready to pay up to €10,000 for the unusual car, Karavkin says he is not ready to sell “a part of his life”. Unfortunate. Seems like it'd be a smart play to sell it to a hipster and buy two modern
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by b6 12y ago
> you don't understand how reserve currencies work You seem to be making a statement of fact about the contents of the author's mind. Do you really have a way of knowing for sure whether the author understands reserve currencie
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by b6 12y ago
Write and perform music. Maybe write books or articles. Maybe something with languages like translation or tutoring. I could do OK in any shop with tools that makes or fixes things. I'd probably be happy working with animals.
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by b6 12y ago
> Obviously your sentences are parseable. Millions of humans around the world understand what you are saying. No, I mean parseable in the way that source code is parsed. I'm not aware of any human language that is parseable by a com
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by b6 12y ago
When I was younger I was very lucky to have a great dog. He was my best friend. He's been gone a long time, but I still admire him and try to be more like him. He did everything with complete devotion. When he was tired, he slept. When
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by b6 12y ago
The author says this is progress. Maybe it is, in a way. But to me it still means we're very primitive, still very tribal, that we still care about any of this crap. On forms, I never answer any question about my supposed ethnicity. Ho

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