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by beeboop 11y ago
TLDR: Helicopter parent pretentiously humblebrags about how his daughter is the only one in the country to get a 100% on a standardized test, since no one else answered "9^9^9" (I am guessing this was a "none of the above&quo
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by beeboop 11y ago
It's really a matter of how long, in time, the race is. Someone in your link even mentions this. The 24 hour record for humans around 180 miles, whereas for horses it's about 100 miles. Pretty huge difference there.
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by beeboop 11y ago
Also major contributor is the mild weather. Make this race take place in dry 110F heat and you'd probably see very different results.
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by beeboop 11y ago
Again, the issue isn't the dance club or what the women were wearing. The issue is that Microsoft chose that as their venue. "No one had to attend" isn't the point, the point is that Microsoft was alienating people that
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by beeboop 11y ago
I could be remembering wrong, but I believe the last time I checked, the FAA required people operating RC planes/quadcopters to maintain a physical line of sight to their machine, with the implication being you need to do so to remain
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by beeboop 11y ago
The outrage isn't at women dancing, it's at having a professional event that should be inclusive of everyone who's a developer in the industry and alienating anyone who's uncomfortable with mixing sexual content with the
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by beeboop 11y ago
I would assume a lot of this isn't about the gender/sex of the dancers, but rather they are taking a professional event and making it sexually charged. This is uncomfortable for a lot of people, and awkward when viewed from people
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by beeboop 11y ago
That, along with "Donny would have liked this" posts both seem rather nice to me. It's seems a little cynical to assume they're doing it for likes from other family members. I think it's a nice and natural way to re
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by beeboop 11y ago
Cool site, I added info. It doesn't display as you probably intend it on high res screens though: http://i.imgur.com/2NZZoln.jpg
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by beeboop 11y ago
It seems like having dancers at after parties is a somewhat annual tradition for GDC. Here's [1] Nvidia doing it in 2013, and again [2] in 2015. Neither got any media attention that I can tell. Interesting how fast public opinion and i
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by beeboop 11y ago
Your website seemingly doesn't load at all for me. Firefox on Win7 with uBlock Origin and Disconnect plugins. Just shows a search bar that doesn't work and the rest of the page is blank.
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by beeboop 11y ago
Addictive pay-to-win mobile games aren't exactly glamorous, and in some social circles are pretty heavily frowned upon. Maybe bad PR, not sure.
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by beeboop 11y ago
Would you be looking for anything different in people who applied with a video game versus a more traditional startup service? Would you expect the game to be very different in some way from traditional games, or does genre/mechanic no
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by beeboop 11y ago
Do you think YC would have been interested in something like Minecraft back in its infancy if you saw how fast user base was growing? Does YC have any interest at all in startups (if you can call them that) whose main product is a video gam
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by beeboop 11y ago
That's like saying RT.com is unbiased when it doesn't involve Russia, which is very much not the case.
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by beeboop 11y ago
It's interesting, or perhaps sad, how ripe for abuse this is. Funnel billions of dollars into a black box that then results in some amount of "stuff" being delivered to various places. The fact that they are using a system so
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by beeboop 11y ago
The directors for these agencies are appointed by the President. He hand picks them, and has the ability to fire them with adequate cause, of which there is recent precedent. I am not sure how you can argue they are not controlled by the Pr
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by beeboop 11y ago
I poorly worded the parent comment. I agree with everything you said. It's when you take "nobody should feel uncomfortable in their workplace" to the absolute extremes that things become difficult, which is what a discussion
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by beeboop 11y ago
A poorly calibrated sense of self preservation. Plus it's a pretty foreign concept, it's hard for someone to evaluate the danger of such an abstract premise that is unlike anything else they deal with in life.
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by beeboop 11y ago
I think most people with your opinion would change their mind if they listened to honest answers as to why people voted for who they did. Most people don't have a reason other than gut instinct, or perhaps one or two big social issues
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by beeboop 11y ago
This is the view most people have, and why trying to stop micro-aggressions is a difficult subject. It's really more of a societal and moral question - how much should we change our behavior to prevent offending people? To what extent
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by beeboop 11y ago
I don't believe in even the most strict enforcement of an anti-micro-aggression policy would you get fired for a single instance of it, but the point is that you can make similarly innocuous comments, each aggressing in a unique way, t
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by beeboop 11y ago
Again, you're missing the point of what a micro-aggression is. Micro-aggression is not about the repeated use of language to a specific, individual person, who has shown previous discomfort to that language. That is pretty much the def
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by beeboop 11y ago
I have obviously made the mistake of mentioning comments on appearance as being a micro-aggression, since it's frankly a terrible example and you seem to have latched on to it. Commenting on appearance in such a way it makes someone un
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by beeboop 11y ago
The article in the original post that prompted this entire discussion, and was quoted in the parent-most comment, was: >This is not a company where micro-aggressions will fly. This is implying that micro-aggressions are a fireable offens
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by beeboop 11y ago
I think you are missing the original point of the comment that started this discussion. We are discussing "micro-aggressions". Examples of micro-aggressions: "I like your new haircut" "Why are you so quiet?" &q
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by beeboop 11y ago
I don't think people are advocating for blatant sexism and harassment you see in dorms. They are advocating that a company shouldn't have an essay-length corporate policy on what their personal definition of a "micro-aggressi
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by beeboop 11y ago
I think you will agree a tyrannical workplace that stifles honest conversation and criticism is a pretty shitty place to work, and perpetuates the unhealthy power imbalance between employers and employees. A workplace shouldn't be a ki
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by beeboop 11y ago
The issue is that the NSA, FBI, etc are essentially controlled by the President. These groups have and will continue to have extremely creative interpretations of the law, to the point of essentially ignoring it and doing whatever the fuck
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by beeboop 11y ago
I guessed as much, thanks.

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