bayesianhorse

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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
That's BS, I have to say. Trade agreements can't bulldoze constitutional freedoms.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
TPP or TTIP don't allow any jailing. It's just not their jurisdiction. In fact, both the European Union and the US have strict opinions on free speech, and it is unlikely that the EU would try to force US legislators to put away m
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Well, technically, if it wasn't a journalist, but a police investigator, who wired the restaurant without a warrant, people would have been outraged about the privacy breach, regardless of the success of the recordings... So, in part,
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Battery cages do constitute animal cruelty in most senses of the word. The natural behavior of the hens is widely modified, injuries from the equipment/cage are the norm rather than the exception, and you could go on and on. So, "
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
The problem with these ages is that the cow's maximum productivity is reached around the sixth year. If she is culled before that, it's because of a medical issue which is not economically treatable. If that happens all the time,
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Exactly. If +300 employees are too many to be effectively supervised by himself, he should consider hiring "supervisors" ...
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Though I can't understand why someone wants desperately to switch from Python to Javascript, I do believe open source projects or at least side projects are very useful. They show what you can do, and that you are able to solve problem
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Obviously, women do want to be programmers, unless they are told by society that they shouldn't or couldn't. If that weren't the case, movements like DjangoGirls would be far less successful. The comparison with fashion desig
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
White male privilege doesn't mean you have it easy. It's just that as a black person or woman or both, you have it a lot less easy. DjangoGirls is no "silver spoon" by any means. It's hard work and many of the parti
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
As far as I understand it, there is a misconception that women are bad at programming, or don't like it, or whatever. So yes, motivating women to learn Django is a necessary task if diversity is to be increase.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
It's a BS argument. A lot less than 50% of programmers are women, so there is no way 50% of open source projects (as a sign of merit, as I understand you) could be started by women.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
You should research feminism in general and diversity movements in technology some more. Also Lynn Root's talk at EuroPython was a good recapitulation of current diversity trends. There is evidence which prooves discrimination and unfa
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Actually this is already happening. I wanted to motivate some friends of mine to maybe attend a DjangoGirls workshop and they objected to "Girls" and the girliness. But in general, women can bear "girliness" even if they
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
The point is that the armed forces don't need the PT requirements, and they are mostly a way of selecting recruits. There are good reasons for increasing diversity, and if that means women, with their naturally lower muscle mass get a
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
The point is that there is evident discrimination, even if we (as men) don't perceive it as such. Many of it is subconscious.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
DjangoGirls is very good at on-boarding women. They provide a non-threatening and positive environment to get over the first hurdles in developing. They focus on that area, they are great at it, and why should we criticize them for this? I
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
It's not about "dominance in most areas of life" but rather in a team of developers or communities of developers. Programming is still lucrative enough for most people that they chose this over the job they were originally tr
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
One of the points of the fable as I understood it is that the badgers often aren't actually badgers, but all sorts of other individuals trying to mimic a badger.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
It seems like Uber drivers often don't understand the economics of driving for Uber. Fulltime driving for Uber only seems to make sense for people who have no other choice and are very frugal (or negligent) about their car. Part time m
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that such a trial would come out within years. The wikileaks and Snowden affairs have shown that it is virtually impossible for a reasonably democratic state to keep such secrets for long.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Actually the few cases (out of a population of a couple hundred thousands) of any symptoms would be well within the tolerance of a drug trial today. First stage clinical trials have a much higher risk for the subjects, arguably stage two an
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
To their defense, they seem to have thought that they were using harmless bacteria. The background seems to be that they wanted to test the distribution of the bacteria rather than the effects on humans (which they thought to be zero any wa
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Actually, cheating is not really breaking the contract. The unconditional promise includes "bad times". It's not really "his house" and "his money" anyway, because without a marriage contract, these where
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
The usual wedding vows do not contain these conditions. Seems unfair, but then again, you don't need to marry, and not without a marriage contract...
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
It's hard to argue he was forced, though. And child support mainly takes into account who's the parent of whom, and well, he is the father of the child. Seduction of teenage boys by adult women is both ridiculously easy and quite
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
"Sperm theft" and "rape of father" are so rare that this argument is utterly ridiculous in the face of persisting sexual violence against women.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I really don't think this will even be an issue 20 years from now.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
So you promised to take care of your wife and children, and now you are held accountable to that promise? Buhu.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
It's probably time to start a "Old Boys&Girls Club" movement in technology.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
De facto he can. Pretty much more than women, actually. Men can choose to not have sex, and that choice is more rarely violated. There are contraceptives galore for men. Of course he can't violate a woman's right to her own body a

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