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by derleth 14y ago
> "American" is a language. "American" covers a number of very distinct varieties of English. It isn't considered its own language for political and cultural reasons, not necessarily linguistic ones. (As another example, look at the div
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by derleth 14y ago
Don't call them 'gold diggers', just mention that they're uninterested in people unable to financially provide for them. It's a perfectly valid concern in this wintry economic climate.
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by derleth 14y ago
Remixers give credit. This is actually an interesting part of the culture around copyright: People seem to think copyright law is actually about plagiarism, so as long as they explicitly say they don't own something they're in the clear. It
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by derleth 14y ago
> f(x) = x - 1 for \alpha = Z What? The whole point of what you're replying to is that \alpha remains undefined. Once you specify \alpha, of course you can specify more interesting functions. IOW, write a function that works even if \al
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On the one hand, it's important to realize that Linux doesn't have a single command line. It has multiple possible command lines, each implemented by a different command line shell; each shell, in turn, is almost certainly entirely capable
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> Love, affection, contentment, happiness, connection. Technology has addressed these more than you will ever realize. As has been said already, technology greatly reduces isolation for anyone who isn't young, healthy, heterosexual, c
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by derleth 14y ago
> but also change how the network stack, etc. respond to various passive and active attempts at fingerprinting. I can't see how you could do this without swapping out part of the OS, which is where the network stack lives these days. A
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by derleth 14y ago
> Like I said, there's no need to craft Straw Feminists from whole cloth. Make your points without these fabrications. I'm not lying and your need to claim I am damages your case. An example from Reddit, which is very much the non-acade
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by derleth 14y ago
> Generally, it's because MRAs tend to find gains for women zero-sum. The stereotypical MRA does. > There are issues with regards to divorce, child support, and custody that can be discussed, but all these can be addressed as a femi
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> As I stated, it does by lessening strict gender roles. But that's also true of looking at gender equality from the male perspective, yet whenever someone attempts that the old MRA strawman stereotypes get thrown around.
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> Harping on straw "Feminists" won't improve our situation. Mentioning they exist is not the same as harping on them. And this points out an asymmetry: Whenever a man focuses on the male perspective of gender equality, people drag out t
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by derleth 14y ago
This again? Every so often, the Church of Scientology goes up against the Internet. Every so often, the Church of Scientology gets its ass handed to it. This has been going on since 'the Internet' meant 'Usenet' for most people on the Inter
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by derleth 14y ago
> Feminism benefits men as well. It depends on how it's applied, doesn't it? > Patriarchy DOES exist to the detriment to men Thank you for restating my point. > your anger is misapplied. How? I don't understand how my anger is m
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by derleth 14y ago
> This is a perfect example of how restrictive gender norms (or, what some might call "patriarchy") can harm men as well as women And this is why I hate the term "patriarchy" in this context: It implies men always get the best of it, th
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by derleth 14y ago
> accept the consequences Everyone has to accept the consequences. Reality doesn't allow you not to. There's no way to 'log out' of the real world; the most you can do is kill yourself, and then your suicide becomes the consequence. W
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by derleth 14y ago
> I am a woman. I go around telling women to "woman up". Well, the difference between "woman up" and "man up" is that, for men, showing emotion is a sign of weakness, so "man up" means "don't show emotion". That's a very dangerous thing
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> Aaron should man up And now we see the consequences of our society's sexism. Nobody tells women to "man up".
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> I don't see how this actually teaches how multiplication actually works. [snip] > It's a clever method to avoid solving the problem the classic way of using a memorized multiplication table Do you think multiplication actually w
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by derleth 14y ago
> This is non news. What else were they going to do? Dig him up, put his corpse on trial, cut off three of his fingers, re-bury him in a graveyard for foreigners, dig him back up, and dump his body in the Tiber? http://en.wikipedia.org
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by derleth 14y ago
> Sure, you can write in something which has all the greatest features you love, but it will still be cross compiled to JavaScript, with all of its pitfalls right? By this logic, no bignum library could exist because machine code doesn'
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by derleth 14y ago
> Next time you see someone using floating point types for money ... apply that logic to their paycheck and let them deal with being underpaid by a bizarre amount because of rounding. Or apply it to their investment accounts so the erro
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by derleth 14y ago
> There is no expectation of depth There is in some subreddits. Not the big ones, but that's the point of having subreddits, isn't it? Any time you want to generalize about all of Reddit, think of New York City: "There's no expectation
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by derleth 14y ago
In academic writing, "TL;DR" is an "Abstract". I'll start deriding TL;DRs as unnecessary when academic writing no longer uses the Abstract.
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by derleth 14y ago
> If the Linux compose key supported more of the common mathematical symbols, Google '.xcompose github' (without quotes) and see what you come up with. I use this one, myself: https://github.com/kragen/xcompose but there are a lot o
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by derleth 14y ago
Why in the world was this downvoted?
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From vor_, who is dead > This article might interest you: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesl...
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by derleth 14y ago
I have a grandmother who can debug knitting patterns. The patterns in the books are, apparently, sometimes wrong somehow. She debugs them when she knits. I can only imagine every competent knitter can, if only because those books must sel
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> I certainly understand why it's a degree option. So that people can learn how to do it. So nobody learned how to do it before it was a degree option? What does a degree give you that an apprenticeship wouldn't?
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> by anyone with a soul And a lot of people without souls, such as myself.
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by derleth 14y ago
> The truth is, it's all state. All of it. Lisp represents mutable state the same way Python and C++ do.

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