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by boboblong 14y ago
"I think that the evidence strongly supports the notion that the differences between large populations is generally miniscule when compared to the differences within those populations and that if you compare individuals across populations y
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by boboblong 14y ago
"The Chinese citizens are certainly socially notably different from Western nations; it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with culture..." Probably not. Why would it be 100% cultural and 0% biological? Because it makes you un
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"I could reply by pointing out similar behaviour in countries all over the world, it is a common human trait, not something that is somehow peculiar to China." Maybe, maybe not. I see no reason to give the privileged position of "default" t
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by boboblong 14y ago
It actually takes courage to disengage from a group setting in order to signify romantic interest in someone you don't know very well. The comfortable thing to do is remain in the group setting.
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by boboblong 14y ago
Settle down. It's just the logistics of socializing, not predatory.
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"Black students, even adjusting for poverty, routinely score lower on average than white students nationally." This is because black students, on average, are less intelligent than white students. Mystery solved.
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by boboblong 14y ago
The United States, for instance.
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by boboblong 14y ago
> In essence, I (and many others) would posit that [p1] if you can't measure it, then you can never know it exists. So, [p2] the smallest length any object can have is the Planck length. p2 doesn't follow from p1.
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by boboblong 14y ago
And it isn't even true of digital computers. Binary data can be interpreted as ones and zeroes, but it isn't inherently numerical.
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by boboblong 14y ago
I'm not talking about programmers. Learn to read.
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Hard to argue with that.
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by boboblong 14y ago
The same few women are always used as examples because there are only a few examples.
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by boboblong 14y ago
And how many women were taking their expensive, useful degrees, working for perhaps a few years, and then essentially retiring to get married?
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by boboblong 14y ago
Technology IS a male field, though. 99.9% of all technology was created by men, and not because of some conspiracy (i.e., The Patriarchy). Whining, on the other hand, seems to be a female-dominated field. Women will be whining incessantly t
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by boboblong 14y ago
That would be harassment and stalking. One of the purposes of the justice system is to prevent people like you from taking revenge and holding grudges forever. Yes, the boys probably got off light. No, we shouldn't promote vigilantism every
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by boboblong 14y ago
The article didn't say that she was raped. The boys were charged with first degree sexual abuse.
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by boboblong 14y ago
"Do you have any idea of the trauma and agony the poor child must be going through?" Probably not that much, really. She was "sexually assaulted" while she was passed out drunk at a party. She wasn't raped. She probably didn't experience an
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by boboblong 14y ago
Courts issue gag orders all the time and have done so for centuries. They can be constitutional.
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by boboblong 14y ago
I knew the comment would get downvoted. I just hope I don't get arrested. After all, I just comment-raped everyone who had to read what I wrote. Of course, I'd just get bailed out by my connects high up in the Patriarchy. There's nothing yo
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by boboblong 14y ago
No. Irresponsible, immature child.
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by boboblong 14y ago
You can only get honest opinions on politics on anonymous, unmoderated forums. /pol/ is a cesspool, but it's real.
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by boboblong 14y ago
Perhaps you could contact the company you want to work for via a throwaway email so that they don't see you and prejudge you as an "old guy"? If you can fix someone's product and business model on a whiteboard, you should be able to use the
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by boboblong 14y ago
> Average it out and it's the same. Nope. It appears that way if you test people under the age of 25, because women reach maturity much earlier than men do. If you only test people who are at least 25, the male average is 3-5 points hig
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by boboblong 14y ago
"Placing cupped hand on shoulder of a stranger, with squeezing or stroking, with "friendly banter" = really not okay." Nope, still not worth jail time. Move away from the person or grab their hand and remove it from your shoulder. I'm sorry
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Tell HN: The "sexism in IT" bit is getting old
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by boboblong 14y ago
"Did you open by sexually assaulting this woman, such as by unwanted touching?" Touching someone on the shoulder is not sexual assault. Let's try to keep things in perspective, please--if simply touching a member of a particular group warra
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by boboblong 14y ago
Not really. There are only a few great apes that people are familiar with, so the term "ape" is fairly precise. It's also alliterative.
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by boboblong 14y ago
I have this creepy feeling that this post is part of an attempt to attack the iPad trademark (trademarks can't be enforced if they come to refer to a type of product rather than a specific product produced by the trademark holder). Of cours
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by boboblong 14y ago
Wait, so it's the voters who are clamoring for the use of open auctions to determine what bank to invest public funds with? Um, no. As for "[hiding] what they're doing", what do you mean? The article mentions nothing about the municipalit
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by boboblong 14y ago
There will always be incentives for corruption. For instance, your money is not flowing to me at the moment, which I find to be highly inefficient. Giving me all your money would remove the incentive to rob you. Also, are you seriously appe

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