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by facepalm 11y ago
Or maybe even sell it through HN - so many people know patio11, maybe a buyer could have been found through the network?
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by facepalm 11y ago
"In America one person dies by suicide every 13 minutes." Odd statistic to cite. Could you help us out and tell us what percentage of young people commit suicide?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Raise them to be diligent workers who never complain about boring tasks?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Almost every kid learns to walk and talk. But there are huge differences in how elaborate kids and adults can express themselves. And reading about super successful people, it seems they often started with their job as kids (writers, musici
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by facepalm 11y ago
Of course peer groups matter a lot. That's why concerned parents try to stir their kids into the right peer groups.
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by facepalm 11y ago
It just says daughters of working mothers are more likely to become working mothers themselves. They consider working moms to be a good thing, and prove it by showing that working moms have working daughters, which is in their opinion a goo
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by facepalm 11y ago
The point is that the situation is not created by patriarchy, but by biology. That women tend to be the caregivers is simply an extension of the beginnings (pregnancy, higher investment in bringing the child to life). Personally I suspect t
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by facepalm 11y ago
The article was about suicide statistics. Your belief that welfare moms should be the most prone to suicide is probably false.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Where can you get an education for sitting on important boards? I'd like to sign up for that. All the article says is they have an education. It doesn't say in which field - business administration, literature, engineering? I don&
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by facepalm 11y ago
All we know about their status is that they "graduated". That doesn't imply that they are capable of becoming billionaires. If you think about it, the same is true for men - not every men who graduates in something becomes we
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by facepalm 11y ago
Simone de Beauvoir, famous feminist thinker, said that no woman should be allowed to stay at home with her children because it would be too easy and comfortable. (quoted from memory, not sure about the exact words).
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by facepalm 11y ago
At the very least she lost credibility as an anthropologist when citing a select few tribes and their dealings with women. Surely there are many, many more tribes and situations with different approaches to solving the problems the environm
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by facepalm 11y ago
That's like saying an apple will never be an orange. These woman are where they are because of the life choices they make. The theory that there are barriers preventing them from doing something else is not at all supported from the ev
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by facepalm 11y ago
Another thought on welfare moms: if you are a welfare mom, you still have your children to care for, which makes you useful. What does a man on welfare have to make himself feel useful?
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by facepalm 11y ago
It couldn't have anything to do with women risking their lives for 9 months carrying the child to birth in their bellies? Or that they tend to breastfeed their children for months after birth, which men simply can not do?
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by facepalm 11y ago
I wasn't talking about male suicide specifically. But if you want, I think there should be a lot of data about that already, too.
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by facepalm 11y ago
What do you mean? Is it incorrect? I am not a native speaker of English.
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by facepalm 11y ago
The frequency of stories is irrelevant to the frequencies in real live. It's just your perception. And where are the stories about men on welfare? And I am pretty sure that you depend on society (the people around you) a lot. You sound
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by facepalm 11y ago
"You may be right, you may be wrong, but it is in any case too early, maybe even defeatist to talk about that now" After hundreds of thousands of years of existance of humans you think it is too early to talk about that? I conside
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by facepalm 11y ago
The difference is that women don't need to prove their worth to society. They can bear children. What can men do? If they can't find a way to make themselves useful, what is their place?
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by facepalm 11y ago
In Germany there was a funny incident recently: the Green political party decided to change all the wording in their publications to be gender neutral. In German often jobs have two names, somewhat like "captain" and "captain
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by facepalm 11y ago
Just because one story in his book was wrong, it doesn't invalidate the whole book. That's like saying evolution theory is wrong because you have found some paleontologists wrong interpretation of a random artifact. I suppose scie
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by facepalm 11y ago
She reported receiving an email a month after a conversation about investing, not a funding meetup. I think a lot of fantasy tends to play into discussions of this topic. Women are not being called sluts just for flirting or being attractiv
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by facepalm 11y ago
I don't think you are obliged to have sex when you agree to go on a date, or when you are being approached because you are attractive. And supposing wealthy men would try to take advantage of their wealth (promising money for sex and t
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by facepalm 11y ago
So you are saying women get all these advantages for being attractive, but can not use them because they would be called sluts? Bummer. Also, when/where can men sleep with women to get ahead? And: going on a date with somebody does not
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by facepalm 11y ago
But the guy didn't pretend to want to give investment. He clearly said it is about dating, not investment.
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by facepalm 11y ago
So what - as I said, being a founder is not such an emergency situation that you are forced to sell your body. She can still decline to have sex and be merely reset to the status that is normal for men (which is not to be invited to the par
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by facepalm 11y ago
She wrote "Another never followed up with me after our meeting, but a month later invited me to an event his VC was holding" - it doesn't sound to me as if there was still the option of investing on the table. Besides, let&#x
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by facepalm 11y ago
I think that's bullshit. Rich people are not allowed to date anymore? Actually there was recently a study that showed that upward mobility has severely decreased because fewer women are marrying richer men (used to be a major way to be
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by facepalm 11y ago
Because she is a movie star investors are not interested in having sex with her anymore?

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