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by dgabriel 17y ago
You don't respect any women at all because some of them like to have sex, and can sometimes be convinced to have sex with men who flirt well? And there are no other reasons to respect any women? I can't imagine writing off an entire gende
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by dgabriel 17y ago
I noticed the DC characters, too. I will give the author the benefit of the doubt, though, and assume he did not select the accompanying images.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
They can't solve the cancer, but there are a plethora of other problems they can help solve on the way. Having a terminal illness introduces a great number of issues, and sometimes just talking helps determine the problem space.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
You win. :)
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by dgabriel 17y ago
In the course of this conversation, I am the only one who has been attacked. If you can tell me a way I can interpret that comment that is not insulting, I'd be happy to hear it. I have been quite civil, I have presented two sources and co
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by dgabriel 17y ago
This person meant to insult me. There is really no positive spin you can make on that comment. I didn't bring up feminism, nor did I make anything like a claim that men and women are biologically identical. He made up some things, and th
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by dgabriel 17y ago
I'm pretty sure. It seems quite hostile & derisive, and makes no salient point. It's a drive-by snark. To make my own position in this thread clear: HN, and the wider hacker culture, is often unwelcoming to women. I speak out when I
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by dgabriel 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule
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by dgabriel 17y ago
This phenomenon is not limited to women.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
For some varieties of NSFW, I agree with you. However, I would prefer it if my 9 year old didn't see a lot of the stuff out there. Playboy spread, sure. A woman being choked by an enormous cock? Not so much....
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by dgabriel 17y ago
I'm going to get my mother one. She only uses email, Facebook, and Bejewelled, and is often mystified by her PC.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
I had to abandon twitter for the sake of my productivity, and I generally think it's filled with a ton of unimportant noise. However, I'm a reasonable person who knows that some smart people will be able to make new and interesting apps th
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by dgabriel 17y ago
You don't need a world-class art department to make something people will buy -- you need a clean, usable interface, an original idea that fills a need, and well written code. If you're a one-person shop, you're writing niche applications,
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by dgabriel 17y ago
As a woman who has in the past dabbled a bit in online dating, if I had received that message from someone I didn't know, I would think he was an asshole. Context is hard in email, and some people are assholes online. If she's getting e
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by dgabriel 17y ago
"Diapers.com's customer focus is slightly different than Zappos - eventually at some point in time Diapers.com's present customers will no longer have any reason to continue shopping there (it's true for us today - we don't need anything f
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by dgabriel 17y ago
That was excellent. Thanks.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
I'm with you on the sans-serif (it's french!). A lot of designers dislike Verdana, but I (as a programmer) have never been exactly sure why. Maybe someone can explain? I find it's readable and neat, even when small. The Georgia font seem
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by dgabriel 17y ago
With a solid C average coming out of high school, I got into Carnegie Mellon (not Brown, though...), but wound up going to a state school that gave me a free ride for 4 years. There are lots of ways to hack the admissions process, but none
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by dgabriel 17y ago
Right, but a cartoon about an action hero nurse who goes on exciting adventures might open you to the possibility that this was a career for men, too.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
You missed "poorly-dressed, sex-obsessed, socially blunderous". If I choose to avoid people like that, it does not make me equivalent to a racist. It doesn't even make me intolerant. But perhaps you enjoy spending time surrounded by unat
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by dgabriel 17y ago
Blaming a whole group of very disparate people for one's own flaws is poor reasoning at best. The parallel to racism is ridiculous here.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
There are many women in math & science undergrad programs; I'm sure you didn't scare them away. There aren't many women in engineering, and computer science in particular. My theory is that regular computer science and programming educ
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by dgabriel 17y ago
I agree, the "assigned bully" method works marvelously.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
I'm not taking a stance on the inherent goodness or badness of porn at all,I'm merely pointing out that sex work is in no way equivalent to factory work.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
Of course I have, but that appeals to maybe 10% of the market. The vast majority of porn is created for and consumed by men.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
> The idea that all porn actresses are clueless feather brains who were tricked into this trade and continue to be victimized is condescending. That's not what I'm saying at all. You are not a realist if you think a resume that include
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by dgabriel 17y ago
The vast majority of porn is created for men, and the men in these films are not objectified in the same way women are. This has nothing to do with chivalry.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
That argument doesn't hold. No one ever lost custody or a subsequent job because they were formerly a factory worker. A former porn actress is treated by the bulk of society much the same way a sex offender is treated.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
The social stigma applied to porn actresses is enormous. Working a factory job will not exclude you from other lines of work later in your life, nor is it necessary to hide former factory work from your parents or acquaintances. Even a br
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by dgabriel 17y ago
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99921,00.h...

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