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by etrabroline 5y ago
>cycle where women put more effort into these skills, thus demonstrating them more often That's a good one. Lets see the patriarchy try and disprove that!
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by etrabroline 5y ago
Sorry, I'm not responding to anything specific you said. I'm just adding my thoughts. Many women are attracted to certain careers like technology because of the prestige attributed to them by the media. Being a 'hacker'
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by etrabroline 5y ago
Feminism is not just about giving undeserving women an advantage for no reason, it's about equality. All careers and professions need to be at least 50% women otherwise that is definitional proof of sexism. The sex-gap in tech is not a
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by etrabroline 5y ago
Both sides of the Jewish-non-Jewish intra-semitic conflict in Palestine have committed or supported terrorism. Several anti-Arab Jewish supremacist terrorist organizations became part of the Israeli government upon the creation of the Jewis
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by etrabroline 5y ago
Only if you value not getting cancer more than not having electricity.
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by etrabroline 5y ago
Can we have a version of this article that doesn't mention blockchains?
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by etrabroline 5y ago
The numbers are in the video itself. Neither Dr Mason nor you get to chose what numbers to use.
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by etrabroline 5y ago
Ok. What else do you think he gets wrong and why? I don't think this argument is disingenuous because if he knew more about that particular cleanup effort he would not have used it as an example. You can't ever know more about at
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by etrabroline 5y ago
I'm not following. What did Dr Mason say that is wrong? What assumptions are you talking about?
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by etrabroline 5y ago
>Nuclear incumbents aren‘t upset that billions of dollars are thrown away on waste disposal and unnecessary cleanup projects—they are getting those contracts. For instance, 8,000 people are employed in cleanup at Hanford, Washington, cos
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by etrabroline 5y ago
These are not aliens. Media love to insinuate that they are because it gets clicks. (or even outright say they are aliens) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3viYcYPR
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by etrabroline 6y ago
You have given me no reason to believe you are the author, but if you are, I think you may have given away a key piece of information that is unsurprisingly absent from the article. >Only options are to either shine a bright light on you
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Four paragraphs in: >Not only did the software fail to recognize black faces more than half the time, it wasn’t particularly good at recognizing faces of any ethnicity — the highest hit rate was under 75 percent Surely 30-50% of students
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Or even "everyone has a right to a bank account". Obviously freedom of speech means banks have a right to close your accounts if they don't like your politics and think no one will stand up for you.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Sounds like work. Running hackernews is already a lot of work. Not every good idea rises to the level of someone taking the time to actually do it right away. Updating the bookmarklet would probably be easier and superior at this point than
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by etrabroline 6y ago
I don't think academics like this one somehow convinced wealthy donors to support their work and starve all other work. I think the people who have come into wealth recently are pushing their agenda for political reasons independent of
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Fortunately academia is supposed to be immune from that because you can write academic papers in response to one another without a time limit as in oral debate.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
I have never heard "whataboutism" outside of hackernews and I have never seen it accompanied with an actual argument of _why_ an analogy doesnt apply. Any use of analogy can apparently be dismissed with that one word like its a ma
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by etrabroline 6y ago
>People need to be accountable for what they say, not what people believe they think. This sounds like a very Orwellian way of saying people shouldn't be fired for wrong-think if they profusely apologize afterwards. Is that what you
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by etrabroline 6y ago
> Luckily, another co-author on the book has spent a lot of time pondering inclusion, women’s rights, children’s rights, and free speech. Her name is Nadine Strossen and her credentials run deep. She served as the first female President
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Great quote. I think a large fraction of male programmers would disagree with Selam Jie Gano's characterization of RMS's statements. These kinds of "culture war" battles should not be happening in GNU. Free Software shou
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by etrabroline 6y ago
>thoughtless / mean / an ass This is precisely what people with autism tend to be like because of the difficulty people with autism have empathizing with others and seeing things from other people's points of view.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Not to my knowledge and he most likely never will. Attacking traditional social values is more important to some people than Free Software. Having people with stronger beliefs about unrelated issues that take precedence over the goals of th
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by etrabroline 6y ago
How much electricity is used refrigerating frozen desserts in the US? It's probably a lot. Probably more than a small country. Is ice cream an unnecessary and "dangerous" trap that we will all pay dearly for in the end? Proba
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Almost every major American periodical in the public domain is available here: https://www.unz.com/print/All/
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by etrabroline 6y ago
This author takes the perspective of Great Britain's war planners. This is not an unreasonable starting point for an understanding of the military readiness of the nations that would eventually go on to fight in the war, but a full und
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by etrabroline 6y ago
My African American friends are always very excited when a black politician wins an election. I can't imagine they would accept having even fewer black voices than they do now just so that every district can have the same "local w
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Great video. Basically they have extra LEDs in them so each LED can run at lower power which is more efficient.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
>LEDs from Dubai These LEDs were invented by Philips, a Dutch company, and probably manufactured in China. Gulf states love having impractical things to brag about though: https://hackaday.com/2017/10/16/du
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Nerds think trust is something that can be created with technology. If only that were the case.

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