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by crassus 13y ago
You can turn any political belief into "someone's rights". There are people who believe abortion is a woman's right, and others that believe legal abortion is an unprecedented holocaust. I believe we should be able to wo
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by crassus 13y ago
Interesting, Silicon Valley has been called a reprise of Renaissance Florence, and that was male dominated as well.
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by crassus 13y ago
Because progress means making girls do boy things
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OKCupid cofounder made donation to anti-gay Utah politician(dailycaller.com)
3 points by crassus 13y ago|1 comments
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by crassus 13y ago
If you want to be a Senator, go to Harvard. You'll be playing beer pong with future big wigs. Stanford and MIT are both great engineering schools. Stanford has a unique startup culture and great weather. MIT kids seem to dive deeper in
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by crassus 13y ago
Progressives have never given up their love of the struggle session: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session Righteous anger is as American as apple pie. This is the same psychology you see behind witch hunts w
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by crassus 13y ago
America was founded by Puritans. Keep this in mind when Americans crusade for righteousness, and you'll be less confused.
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Okcupid directs Firefox users to switch browsers (visit in Firefox)(okcupid.com)
4 points by crassus 13y ago|0 comments
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by crassus 13y ago
Mencius Moldbug traces back the lineage modern progressivism to the Puritans, and you can still see the effects of this lineage in its illiberal totalitarian righteousness[1]. They were briefly the supporters of liberal principles like free
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by crassus 13y ago
Some caution about throwing out the moral foundations of our culture that have served for 1,800 years is not unreasonable. The assumption that Christianity, monogamy, or even the nuclear family can be removed with no negative consequences i
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by crassus 13y ago
As a conservative-ish person in tech, I'm glad I made the decision to hide my politics beginning a few years ago. You people are vicious. I'd love to have an open debate or conversation, but that doesn't seem to be your game.
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by crassus 13y ago
How many Elon Musks are there? Most billionaires seem to spend their money on fancy yachts and high-profile charity projects that make them look superior to their peers. Few are deploying their resources to push the technological envelope.
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by crassus 13y ago
We should give American citizenship to everyone in the world with an IQ test below 80. There is no way this policy would cause any social problems. Can't make a living in the information economy? Uncle Sam wants you!
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by crassus 13y ago
The brilliant Ivy League kids that go into finance are still going into finance. The pay after 3 or 4 years of experience is way better than in the software industry. When Harvard grads start choosing Google over Goldman Sachs, I'll be
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by crassus 13y ago
What are all the filthy rich people in Silicon Valley not named "Musk" doing with their money?
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by crassus 13y ago
Despite democratic propaganda, government is a particular institution within society with its own particular capabilities, faults, and goals. It is not an avatar of the will of the united people.
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by crassus 13y ago
This is fantastic. Now I'd like to see the people with the capital to fund the series As and Bs of these companies make a similar commitment. Don't leave the future entirely in the hands of Musk and Thiel.
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by crassus 13y ago
How do you know sexism is a particular problem in the tech world? Unequal representation of some particular demographic group is not sufficient evidence for discrimination.
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by crassus 13y ago
One of the many downsides of the "sexism in tech" scare is the growth of hypersensitive white-knighting. Romance is the most commonly used metaphor in the history of the English language. I suggest you avoid Shakespeare.
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by crassus 13y ago
"""Far too many offers come through as: $Xk/year 10,000 options This is literally equivalent to: $Xk/year $100bn in monopoly money and bingly bongly bangly boo""" It is incredibly dishonest and disres
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by crassus 13y ago
Ok, you win. You're holier than me. I must confess, I never thought of searching people's repos for crimethink comments and variable names. Take me to the inquisitor. I'd take it as a mark of pride to be assaulted by this gro
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by crassus 13y ago
> "And it seems like every single one of these problems could have been solved by a halfway competent manager." One of the hazards of un-management
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by crassus 13y ago
According to social justice logic, if you claim you have a meritocracy and your demographic ratios aren't perfectly balanced, then you must not have a meritocracy. I.E. the perfect equality of all human groups is assumed.
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by crassus 13y ago
A very puzzling point of view. She claims to have been harassed all along at GitHub while she was promoting it. This goes to show the limitations of the twitter platform for serious discussion. I'm sure she'd have a more logical c
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by crassus 13y ago
Oh, that's cool. It makes GAE a lot more appealing.
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by crassus 13y ago
The fact that feminists still rally behind Adria discredits the movement. Meanwhile, all sane male engineers will be walking the other way when they see Adria at a tech conference.
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by crassus 13y ago
"Differentiation between what is ‘good’ and ‘bad’ requires discrimination. This is a capability no younger than life itself, which it serves as an indispensable function. As soon as there is behavior, there is discrimination between al
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by crassus 13y ago
I consider it performance art. It's the legions of +1 commenters that are depressing.
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by crassus 13y ago
It works until you want to use PIL or LXML and need to compile a python library with native extensions, or if you want to use a datastore other than google's. At least, you couldn't do those things a few years ago.
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by crassus 13y ago
Now how about an Intel Mac binary?

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