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by facepalm 11y ago
I must admit, I am unsure how to properly encrypt phones anyway. Currently I am using a 4 digit PIN on my phone. Surely if an attacker had access to my phone, that would be trivial to crack. It seems unrealistic to use a lengthy PIN (10 dig
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by facepalm 11y ago
It's not actually the hardest job in the world, by a long stretch. For starters, look at jobs that actively put your life at risk. Giving birth is very risky, too, but once the baby is out I think the risks go way down - however, the r
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by facepalm 11y ago
So you think it is plain stupid to pause your career so that you can breastfeed your kids? Obviously kids grow up without breastfeeding, although that alone doesn't tell us much - kids tend to grow up no matter what you do, and in some
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by facepalm 11y ago
That would only work if you would pay parents for the money they lose while they are not allowed to work. Otherwise you would mainly make families poorer.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Unless you ask who is a better boss. Then the feminists will happily tell you that women are the better bosses because they have more empathy and so on... (For what it's worth, I don't subscribe to the 'women should take care
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by facepalm 11y ago
My preference as a father would be to spend as much care-free time with my kids as possible (care-free as in not having to worry about earning money). But I fully accept that my wife has the greater claim to having that time. I was present
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by facepalm 11y ago
"Women tend to find themselves funneled into specific career paths" Why the passive - couldn't they actively be choosing specific career paths? "This is in large part because care for family members(children and elderly
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by facepalm 11y ago
I found it readable, but I am glad I didn't have to learn reading like that. Maybe then I would never have reached a level that allows me to read that.
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by facepalm 11y ago
That's just a claim you make. And I doubt people like assertive men so much. In what context, anyway? So if you have an assertive male boss, you go "thank god I don't have to make decisions myself, he is so great", if yo
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by facepalm 11y ago
The claim in question was "societal pressure placed on women to be accommodating and not be rude and how this can be manipulated to constrain female agency". It seems to me the links you provide are only marginally related. The fi
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by facepalm 11y ago
You really exaggerate. Most such interactions happen in public spaces. A man can not just beat up a woman in a public space on a whim. Most woman don't walk around in constant fear of men, either. Perhaps the opposite is true: we are a
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by facepalm 11y ago
I think you have changed the subject, though. Interrupting somebody in a group discussion may or may not be rude at times, but it is hardly the same kind of rude as brushing off somebody who invites you to a date. Taking a woman's idea
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by facepalm 11y ago
I can see the rationale of the publishers - they don't want Amazon to become a monopoly. Their counter-strategy will fail, but that is besides the point. What is really puzzling is the many authors who thought the publishers are fighti
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by facepalm 11y ago
Maybe, but in general it is a bad idea to provoke a conflict without good reason. Even if you are very strong, there is always a probability > 0 that you receive some damage in a fight.
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by facepalm 11y ago
I have been screamed at by women, too (for example once I asked one who was struggling with a vending machine if I could help her). As I said - in general we try to be polite to prevent escalation of things. And it doesn't sound from t
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by facepalm 11y ago
No, a rude man is typically described as rude or as being an asshole. And women can be tough, assertive and confident, too.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Can't people be put into a psychiatric ward at some point?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Sarah Palin - I think that is the standard reply to trotting out the example of Donald Trump to prove X about men?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Links?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Um how is the "societal pressure" not to be rude different for women and men? In general people try not to be rude. Not only because of societal pressure, but also to avoid escalation of conflicts. What is different is that women
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by facepalm 11y ago
I was also thinking "isn't libel a crime/illegal"? So I guess I (and maybe the author) just don't really know how the legal system works, meaning that in the case of libel you don't go through the police, you g
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by facepalm 11y ago
It's not a compute engine, more a verification engine. The idea is to have transparent contracts that everybody can verify on their computer at home.
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by facepalm 11y ago
A lot of these things could be borrowed for the occasion, or you could go to a co-working space that has the right tools. But granted, sometimes it is more convenient to own certain things.
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by facepalm 11y ago
It seems like a safe bet that they will try to learn as much about people as possible. Not so different from classifying them into people who are likely to buy a new car or nutritional supplements.
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by facepalm 11y ago
HN still works if you belong to the right school of thought. Quality has gone down in the sense that variety of viewpoints has been diminished. Within the filter bubble, there are still enough interesting articles to make it worthwhile.
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by facepalm 11y ago
What makes you think it wasn't a very good reason? I think most problems of that kind boil down to economic issues. In some cases traditions might live longer than necessary (original reason has ceased to exist), which is another probl
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by facepalm 11y ago
Short answer: because wombs are more valuable than sperm.
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by facepalm 11y ago
I am not advocating diamonds, just pointing out that they serve a need. Generations before us had a very different way of getting into relationships. Maybe our modern lifestyle made diamonds more important. I am also not saying that diamond
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by facepalm 11y ago
Hooking up might have worked very differently in 1938, though. I don't think relationships and marriage were the same as today. Maybe because we have more freedom in our relationships now, we need diamonds. As an extreme case, take a c
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by facepalm 11y ago
What articles like this miss is that useless products like diamonds actually serve a real need: they enable signalling of commitment. Especially if it costs several months of income of a potential partner, it might be a reasonable indicator

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