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by facepalm 11y ago
Can https hide that you look at a web site? How?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Who says that has to be the use case of Twitter? HN is not very useful for interacting with friends, but it seems to do fine.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Facebook is pretty hard to use, though. I started using it late and it was tough. You just don't notice the complexity of FB because you are used to it by now. Also, I am not convinced Twitter has to be liked by everybody. No product h
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by facepalm 11y ago
Maybe you could argue that the likelihood of having to put up or maintain a web site at some point in your life is ever increasing. Throw a birthday party for your kid? Make a web site... So general coding skills could be more on the level
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by facepalm 11y ago
She's right, except that the criterion "browsing Twitter is more fun, and if I really wanted it I would have learned it long ago" is probably flawed. These days, everything is an uphill battle against the temptations of the i
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by facepalm 11y ago
Depends on what metric you choose. If your metric is "likelihood to study a technical subject and get a high paying job in the tech industry", maybe. That's pretty meaningless, though, and narrow - there are lots of other way
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by facepalm 11y ago
He could be a Latino, profile says he is from Puerto Rico.
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by facepalm 11y ago
What I wish for is an algorithm that can identify topics and allow me to filter away said topics.
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by facepalm 11y ago
I can't deny that I feel some amount of Schadenfreude. And also a strange longing for popcorn.
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by facepalm 11y ago
If you don't like it, don't have children. Use protection, have an abortion, give your kids up for adoption or send them to boarding school. However, some people actually enjoy spending time with their kids...
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by facepalm 11y ago
Go to Netflix and make a list of your favorite TV shows. Then every evening, instead of watching two episodes from your favorite shows, read papers and implement stuff.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Maybe somebody could create an app for that, somehow optimize the radiation for killing sperms...
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by facepalm 11y ago
I am not a biologist, so you shouldn't draw any conclusions from me not knowing good examples or the state of verification. Your Wikipedia link seems to mention evidence for the "modern evolutionary synthesis", are you sure t
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by facepalm 11y ago
You make a model, then you make predictions. If they fail, your model was wrong. You can do that in evolution theory, even though you are mostly looking at history. Maybe you predict that all birds should have tails at least 30''
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by facepalm 11y ago
Just because many people make up evolutionary just so stories doesn't mean that there can not also be valid evolutionary explanations. If you just say "anorectal angle evolved so that people poop squatting" it is a just so st
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by facepalm 11y ago
These days I struggle to find a lot of use cases for non-IT-people to use programming. It makes a fine hobby, but not better than another hobby. For a while I was enthusiastic about things like Greasemonkey which would have allowed people t
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by facepalm 11y ago
Advertising is a very old profession, it predates humans. Flowers are mostly advertising, and most people consider them beautiful. Perhaps there is hope for a startup that could make advertising more like flowers.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Have to make sure the family has still enough income, as women often choose lower paying jobs. Also take care of the desire for part-time work, sick children and issues like that. Lastly, this would actually take away privileges from women
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by facepalm 11y ago
By making it illegal, governments simply weaseled out of the issue and put the burden on business owners. If they really would have wanted to solve the issue, they should have compensated business owners for the risks of hiring women instea
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by facepalm 11y ago
It's a neanderthal idea that women get pregnant? Funny... Did you get your biology education in the bible belt? Neanderthals are deemed to have been gentle and intelligent, btw, their reputation as brutes was misguided. Men did not inv
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by facepalm 11y ago
No, we are talking about career women here, so they are more likely to have children later in life. I don't think the typical female CEO candidate had her first child at 18 years old. If you had your first child age 35 (I think the off
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by facepalm 11y ago
You make many claims that are not really validated. And what does "like themselves" even mean. People can be different or similar in many aspects, gender being just one of many. Is a man who hates math and loves football more like
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by facepalm 11y ago
Why shouldn't women quit at age 50 because of children? If they sacrificed family time for their career before, they might realize that suddenly there is not a lot of time left with their children before they will leave the house. Mayb
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by facepalm 11y ago
Whereas men don't need to survive, they are carried along by a wave of applause and cheering? That must be the reason almost every man ends up being CEO eventually, and women are stuck doing all the work.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Too complicated...
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by facepalm 11y ago
I guess it is true that the time it takes to lose is the real issue. Still, I played a lot of Monopoly as a kid. Nowadays it wouldn't be my first choice for a game evening, but I have brought it out occasionally for my preschool kid. I
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by facepalm 11y ago
I don't see why a factor of chance makes a game unworthy. We want to learn for real life from games, and real life is full of chance. And there are strategies for dealing with chance, like hedging your bets. For Monopoly, mathematician
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by facepalm 11y ago
I find it a bit weird that address and even credit card number are confidential information. Credit card numbers are not really secret, you hand them out to random waiters in random restaurants. Maybe part of the fault lies with the other c
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by facepalm 11y ago
Self hosted blogs miss the social graph, which drives traffic. That's why Tumblr took off, and I suspect it is also what is driving Medium.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Actually those 60% were not from a random sample.

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