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by hoopd 11y ago
Eich leaving Mozilla was absolutely not voluntary and I wish people would stop saying it was. He "voluntarily" resigned in response to coercive threats against the company he founded and spent 15 years building.
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by hoopd 11y ago
It's not speech but coercion that forces people to lose their jobs. Threats of boycotts and premanent brand destruction involve speech but it's an overly broad definition if you classify political action as speech.
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by hoopd 11y ago
> I think that’s something you have to allow groups of people who were oppressed and specifically excluded from science for centuries, you know. I disagree with this on so many levels. He wasn't attacked by women, in your argument
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by hoopd 11y ago
Here you show your difficulty perceiving men as victims. He didn't just apologize, he broke down crying. He was being tried in a court of public opinion where he was not allowed to explain or defend himself. Look at what happens to
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by hoopd 11y ago
When it's the lead scientist of a 10 year project to land something on a comet 100 million miles away and he decides to wear a shirt a friend made for him, yeah his feelings are important. But that's not the point, the point is t
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by hoopd 11y ago
He wasn't internationally labeled as an inappropriate dresser, he was internationally labeled a sexist. That crossed a line and the fact he had to give a tearful apology on one of the biggest days of his career without making that dis
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by hoopd 11y ago
> The only real rule is Don't be a douche. The fact that you use a gendered pejorative[0] that refers to men while claiming to have a "healthy diversity of cultures" is both ironic and representative of modern PC-culture.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Your point couldn't be that biological underpinnings are being socially reinforced because you didn't mention the biological underpinnings at all. Your 4-point history is also off because it implies there was a gender neutral comp
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by hoopd 11y ago
Do boys tinker because they're socialized to tinker, or is the socialization process built around natural tendencies of boys to tinker? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/
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by hoopd 11y ago
I provided a link to the definition I'm using.
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by hoopd 11y ago
I agree the number is probably a coincidence and it looks bad to focus on it. But the lawsuits in her husband's past are important to keep in mind due to the similarities with her current case.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Since you open with an inflammatory ad hominem attack and never really move beyond it I'm not sure how much you get to talk about civil discourse. http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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by hoopd 11y ago
It's a good try to connect it to the two-slit experiment but it doesn't work for several reasons: double-slit is about a particle passing through two holes at the same time and the waves go in the direction of the motion instead o
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by hoopd 11y ago
The backwards bicycle one is awesome because he actually spent 8 months learning to ride the ridiculous thing, and then filmed himself trying to ride a regular bike: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0
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by hoopd 11y ago
Professors are supposed to challenge the thought processes of their students so this is more like a trash collector facing lawsuits for dealing with trash in a way that makes a few people angry. It does students no favors to coddle them th
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by hoopd 11y ago
I reject the feminist narrative of history, the feminist view of gender and the feminist idea of patriarchy. Basically the majority of the social critique that is the backbone of feminism. I'm also deeply suspicious of the notion tha
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by hoopd 11y ago
So, the university was asking for it?
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by hoopd 11y ago
> I am one survey point for you. I believe women should have equal political and social rights, which makes me a feminist. I also believe women should have equal political and social rights, yet I'm not at all a feminist.
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by hoopd 11y ago
The social justice movement demands we be sympathetic to poor people. Using the word 'poorly' might arouse that sympathy before it's established that the subjects of the article are dog-fighting degenerates unworthy of it.
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by hoopd 11y ago
To a moderate leftist in a fight with radical leftists, libertarians are "far right" which roughly translates to non-mainstream right. The point is the policing powers of the radical left are such that when a member of the moderat
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by hoopd 11y ago
And that's the problem of being a moderate leftist trying to defend yourself against radical leftists, unless you can get the ACLU to pick up your case you have to turn to outside groups like the far right, who you don't understan
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by hoopd 11y ago
If you look at ex-feminists who have strayed from the group they're treated much like (many) Christians treat ex-Christians. People who "knew the truth but turned their back on it" get a special level of disdain from groups w
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by hoopd 11y ago
That only works if this issue is isolated to NWU, but it isn't. Members of the social justice movement using claims of victimhood to stifle free speech is a national and in some cases international problem. Since the political beliefs
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by hoopd 11y ago
> Unfortunately, as you point out, it's hard to reform those laws, because when you have people who want to repeal progress entirely, it's hard to distinguish (and, practically, there might not be any difference) between "
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by hoopd 11y ago
Why do you think society gave them that badly written law?
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by hoopd 11y ago
I've noticed this with other services, apparently it's difficult to distinguish between "love thing X so much you share it" and "hate thing X so much you complain about it"
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by hoopd 11y ago
Almost an interesting except the author found it necessary to (attempt to) shoehorn it into a feminist narrative. > "The dead hand of male domination is a problem for women, for society as a whole—and for men like those of Tallulah.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Getting hands dirty == interfacing with reality where mistakes are possible You could hold Proust's greatest work upside down and read it backwards but nothing bad will happen. If a neurologist makes a mistake they could kill their pa
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by hoopd 11y ago
Wouldn't that make all microeconomics bad economic thinking?
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by hoopd 11y ago
> It's like neurology. Yes, it's a terribly interesting field, but you'll learn more about the human mind from reading Proust. I think this is a great metaphor but for very different reasons than you. Reading Proust will

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