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by flaviusb 14y ago
Okay. Fair enough. I usually wouldn't notice things like the HN slowdown features, as it usually takes me a while to compose a reply - but I don't post here much, so it is possible that this forum's set-up just hasn't had time to annoy me y
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by flaviusb 14y ago
Would you mind if we continued this here? One of the useful things about it is that it preserves (at least for some period of time) an internet accessible log of the conversation in tree form, which people can (at least in theory) interject
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by flaviusb 14y ago
I wasn't born a feminist, the culture around me isn't predominantly feminist, and no one slipped me some kind of feminist pill or magical feminist indoctrination. I got to my current ideological position by questioning things when the evi
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by flaviusb 14y ago
It isn't popular because of 'some kind of siege mentality'. It is popular because there is an observed structural power imbalance, which means that 'not joining a side' does not have 'no effect', as the 'silent' are assumed (by all involved
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by flaviusb 14y ago
No, it is about power. The reasoning goes as follows: 1) When there are two sides, and one side will clearly win by default, choosing to stay neutral becomes de facto support for the 'default' winner. 2) In this case, the 'default' winner i
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by flaviusb 14y ago
For style, there are points of style that no automated tool that currently exists can enforce, such as 'good naming'. At the moment that looks like an AI-hard problem. For your point about sharing knowledge, your argument works against all
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by flaviusb 15y ago
I think of it like Sturgeon's Law applied to humans. Most humans just are not very good at most stuff. Look at the percentage of programmers that are basically not any good at programming all and yet are able to continue being called progra