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by elohesra 13y ago
>Unless you have some magical way of forcing everyone to suddenly drop their prejudices, then there is a need for social activism. Predicated on what? What's your proof that such prejudices exist, or that they're applied more s
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by elohesra 13y ago
Yeah, it definitely can. I've lived in Europe all my life, and traveled over Europe since I was kid, and I've seen mainland European police openly abusing people on the street. I've seen cops randomly firing their firearms in
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by elohesra 13y ago
Does he? Because I read it as the latter, and with the amount of internet bravado that surrounds any talk about the police, I'd be unsurprised if it was meant as the latter.
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by elohesra 13y ago
This is really the crux of it for me. Boys aren't coddled or soothed, they're expected to learn self-restraint, and expected to just get on with it. They're also expected from a young age to put up with being treated somewhat
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by elohesra 13y ago
I disagree with your position. When we regulate free speech -- in any way whatsoever -- we open ourselves up to greater regulation of free speech. Free speech is a special privilege in that only unrestricted free speech can argue against re
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by elohesra 13y ago
> All the puritan whining about dogs assumes its a standard issue frat boy bringing in his basset hound, but the puritanism melts away like ice from a blowtorch when its the blind lady instead of some frat boy antics. Well yeah, for obv
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by elohesra 13y ago
I can see that you clearly meant no harm, but the problem with the term is that it creates divide between men and women where there need not be one. It attempts to gender the concept of being clueless and patronizing solely with men. For th
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by elohesra 13y ago
Can we please drop this 'mansplaining' bullshit? It's as offensive as referring to feelings of being othered as 'girlfeeling'. These kinds of sordid, petty, gendered derogations have no place on HN. There is literal
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by elohesra 13y ago
Maybe the correct solution would be to do more than just cringe? If you did indeed confront them, then I apologise for assuming otherwise, but it seems to be the case that there's an awful lot of posturing as a warrior for social justi
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by elohesra 13y ago
> only to hear you mansplain to me that well Nice, you just ruined any legitimacy your argument may have had by using the word 'mansplain'. You can't argue against potentially sexist or othering words by using a deliberate
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by elohesra 13y ago
Yes I really did try to answer as soon as possible. Why would I not? Because it might give me a 'bad' evaluation? Why would I care when I don't even feel that it's valid? In fact, attempting to answer quickly is what lea
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by elohesra 13y ago
Well, I took it and it determined that I don't associate gender with science or liberal arts. It also felt extremely contrived, and felt as though it functions largely on cheap tricks, like building a clear pattern of a theme being pre
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by elohesra 13y ago
Recursively apply Joyeuse's point until you hit a generation that wasn't coerced into making bad choices. Joyeuse's main point was that we can't blame a younger generation and simultaneously vindicate the preceding gener
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by elohesra 13y ago
How nice that you can afford to pay extra to ease liberal guilt. Do you think that the poorest in your country can afford to pay extra too? For the relatively monied -- and software developers usually count among that number -- it's ea
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by elohesra 13y ago
This assumes that people are going there for the drinks. Given the statement by the parent poster, it seems that they're hanging around long after they've finished their drinks, so that's probably not the reason they're
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by elohesra 13y ago
Is the cafe very loud? Are people generally respectful of each other? These are the only real concerns I'd have with using such a cafe as a working space.
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by elohesra 13y ago
This sounds ridiculously frugal, but if you're hard up for cash but have a freezer and a toaster, then freezing bread and toasting it up again can make some pretty awesome sandwiches. You can also stick really cheap bulk-buy cheese on
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by elohesra 13y ago
> In recent years I've seen what feels like a dumbing down of e.g. the Proms - indeed, of the whole BBC I can't argue whether this is the case or not, because I rarely watch TV. I've heard that BBC4 is quite cerebral, but
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by elohesra 13y ago
> A paternalistic intervention [...] might well result in people living lives they were happier with than the lives they would have chosen for themselves The problem with this argument is that it assumes that the pater making the decisio
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by elohesra 13y ago
Yes, that's how it reads to anyone in the know, but how does it read to the general public? To you future employers? To your electorate, should you ever run for office? You're basically saying that you're happy for someone to
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by elohesra 13y ago
There's a reason that the Daily Mail is held up as a figure of ridicule. EDIT: While amusing, my glib original answer ignores one important point: the Daily Mail sells, and it sells extremely well (it's the most circulated UK news
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by elohesra 13y ago
Wow, that's possibly the most hilariously offensive idea I've heard of in some time. Given your lionization of the man, you clearly care about Mandela, so imagine the product you're suggesting: a big picture of Mandela with s
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by elohesra 13y ago
Startup culture in general seems to have forgotten that option.
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by elohesra 13y ago
You keep using that word 'meritocracy', I do not think it means what you think it means. It seems the author, Joseph Epstein, picked up on the idea that using privileged education as a proxy for merit is probably a bad idea, yet w
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by elohesra 13y ago
Hear hear, it was very eloquent, and I'll be using it in a letter to my MP. Seriously people, pester your MPs about this. They listen if people pester in volume because it literally takes up their (or their aides') time to go thro
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by elohesra 13y ago
You know what I find far, far more offensive than someone using gendered pronouns? The kind of smug, pandering post that deliberately strives for gender neutrality through tortuous 'he/she' verbosity. I happen to think that m
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by elohesra 13y ago
This isn't necessary. Just notify your immediate manager every time you hit a milestone (e.g. complete a piece of assigned work), and notify them every time you've run out of work. Part of the issue with the perception of develope
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by elohesra 13y ago
More anecdata: We've actually had exactly this problem on a team, where our manager had a rudimentary understanding of database design and became very insistent that the team should do things his way. It eventually got to the point whe
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by elohesra 13y ago
They shouldn't measure either of those things: they should find a valid proxy for those things, such as the output you produce. Frankly, if they're measuring the process instead of the output, then they're likely to just ulti
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by elohesra 13y ago
Hang on now, at no point did the parent comment state that he was looking for a more conservative government, nor did he state that there was anything politically wrong with Mujica. Instead he rebutted the homely, nice, old man image that w

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