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by biofox 9y ago
I agree with you that sexism exists in tech, but it seems like a huge leap to say it's the primary cause of the gender gap. Gender imbalances exist in many professions (teaching, nursing, social work, counselling). I'm not sure se
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by biofox 9y ago
Should employees be allowed to raise concerns about practices that appear to waste resources or lower morale? (I'm thinking of things like compulsory diversity / bias training)
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by biofox 9y ago
I'd also be interested to know what MBTI type other HN readers are. I keep switching between INTJ and INTP every time I do the test.
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As I understand the situation, it was an internal memo to try and open up a debate within the organisation. It was never intended to impersonate the company or be externally distributed. It contained nothing extreme or explicitly hateful.An
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by biofox 9y ago
There is a fantastic British film along those lines: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341167/
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I have no problem, in principle, with the prevent strategy. If impressionable children are at risk of being brainwashed into a dangerous ideology, then the state should step in, just as it does with any other form of abuse. Hasn't &quo
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by biofox 9y ago
You just described my life with uncanny accuracy. I have suspected for some time that my problems were due to social isolation, but I have been too apathetic to make an effort to do anything. You've just given me the motivation to chan
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by biofox 9y ago
Maybe the fact that these opinions exist is evidence that p-zombies walk amongst us?
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by biofox 9y ago
It depends where you fall on the issue of rehabilitation vs punishment. Being inclined to utilitarianism, my personal view is that if a person isn't a risk to society any more, we probably shouldn't be using resources to prove a m
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by biofox 9y ago
Without knowing anything about Tim Morton, other than what's in this article, I'm struggling to see what's novel here. It sounds like the exact same stuff that came out of the environmental movement of the 60s. What am I miss
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by biofox 9y ago
I suspect it started with multiple companies creating PC clones to capture some of IBM's market, eventually leading to a defacto standard, with multiple vendors working for interoperability. I might be wrong though.
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One of the first consumer cars is considered to be the Benz Patent-Motorwagen [1]. Adjusted price: $3,998 Maximum speed: 10 mph The improvements in performance and price are not even those seen in computers. [1] https://en.wikipe
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by biofox 9y ago
Having previously volunteered for an LSD study, it probably isn't as much fun as it sounds. The study I was on was conducted on a cold hospital ward with bright fluorescent lights, and required having vital signs measured throughout --
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by biofox 9y ago
Same here. I had an acute bleed from using NSAIDs, lost consciousness and came within an inch of dying. I now get extremely emotional when I see articles or comments recommending them without any disclaimer. There's a dangerous misconc
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by biofox 9y ago
A voice of reason! I don't know why these discussions become so polarised, so quickly. Most of the time, it seems if two competing theories have supporting evidence, then there's probably some truth to both of them. Nature or nurt
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Church of Virus(churchofvirus.org)
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by biofox 10y ago
For those interested in Terence McKenna, I highly recommend his lecture on the Voynich Manuscript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTBOaaeTxm8
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by biofox 10y ago
If the current state of security screening and customer service hasn't changed people's behaviour, not much will. Unfortunately, for a lot of people there are no viable alternatives.
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by biofox 10y ago
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1wqlvw_harry-and-paul-s-st...
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Link to a transcript of Hamming's talk on the subject: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
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by biofox 10y ago
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLgfSDtHFt8
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by biofox 10y ago
It really depends. In some cases I can understand the local government requiring homeowners to mow their lawn. I saw a similar story in the UK [1] (Photo-only link [2]). There's no way I'd want to be living next door to that. [1]
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by biofox 10y ago
I'm not sure the outcome for option B is so clear cut. Removing access to medication doesn't remove the primary cause driving people to seek drugs, be it pain or psychological issues. I suspect people with high abuse potential wil
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by biofox 10y ago
I had a similar experience before when trying to get painkillers in the UK. There's a deep institutional narcophobia here. Thankfully I was eventually able to get a prescription for an effective opioid, after an NSAID-induced bleed alm
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by biofox 10y ago
Perhaps police should be licensed like professionals (doctors / lawyers) and be required to have malpractice insurance. Premiums could be based on their prior conduct. Gross misconduct would result in them losing their right to work in
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by biofox 10y ago
I used to have a print-out of this on my bedroom wall as a teenager, next to the Hacker Manifesto. Looking back at this as an adult, having not read it for many year, I'm shocked at how antisocial it is. Did I really believe this stuff
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by biofox 10y ago
On the point of internal colonialism: it might have been true once, but certainly not true today. All of the countries in the union have seats in Westminster, dedicate ministers and committees, as well as their own devolved parliaments. I&#
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by biofox 10y ago
It has nothing to do with nuclear power failing catastrophically. As another commenter points out, the failure of damns can be even more destructive. I think the issue is that nuclear power is intimately linked to nuclear weapons. As a resu
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by biofox 10y ago
Off the top of my head, here are some guesses for possible toxins that could accumulate: 1) Advanced Glycation End-productions (AGE) from normal metabolism 2) Trace levels of heavy metals, dioxins, etc. from the growth media 3) Reactive oxy
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http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/showcase-of-beau...

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