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by isitdopamine 5y ago
That’s a very inappropriate comment and the professor who made it must be reprehended. However, in order to get a PhD you must face much harder challenges. Whoever left engineering because of that comment is not fit for a PhD.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
> there isn't really any compelling evidence to suggest that men are more drawn to engineering because of biology. It’s a well established fact that, even in children as young as a few weeks old, males and females have different pre
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
> why might that be Man and women having different interests had innate, biological roots. It has been observed in children only a few weeks old. I am not saying this explains the whole imbalance, but for sure it can explain part of it.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Why work to do? If the imbalance is the result of different innate preferences (and there’s a great deal of evidence it is) then working against nature is a waste of time and money!
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Friendly reminder that Europe is not European Union.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
…and Bitcoin is a revolutionary technology, providing a censorship-resistant money-exchange system. We can discuss if this is worth more or less than <insert some other activity that contributes to global warming> and also discuss the
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Supporting heating in the winter == supporting global warming Supporting agriculture == supporting global warming Supporting any kind of traveling and international trade == supporting global warming Reading the NY Times == supporting globa
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
I don’t see how something not deliberate can be rude, to be honest… The fact that someone is offended doesn’t make it rude. People get offended for pretty much everything these days, yet not everything is rude!
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
> US centrism is so rude. Are you sure rude is the right term? Usually you would define rude something deliberate. As annoying as it might be, this is not deliberate.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Roughly: if there’s one job per person in the field, and for each opening there are 100 applicants, it will take 100 applications for the average person, on average to get hired.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
…and again you repeat the ad hominem logical fallacy.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Hacker News is a place for rational, informed and open minded discussion. I suggest you avoid ad hominem attacks and discuss ideas, independently of who is expressing them.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Using them it’s not, forcing people to use them it is. It’s the argument Jordan Peterson was making, and probably one of his most misunderstood points. He’s fine with people asking to be called in a certain way, and he would most likely obl
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
> and that there's nothing left to challenge. Also, I would add that history is not linear, it’s not the progressive challenging of old prejudices. Sometimes, in our efforts to strive for better morals, we make terrible mistakes. Ph
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Do you feel compelled to go to the library or to the chess club as you are talking to a friend? I am sure the vast majority of people don’t, while so many people feel completed to check something on the Internet. Do you feel uncomfortable i
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
There’s very convincing evidence that the average intelligence is the same for man and women, but the variance is slightly higher for men. This means that you’ll find more males at the tails of the distribution, and guess where the chess ch
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
To be honest I have no idea of how good and bad can be defined without a strong value system (be it religious or secular). It’s pretty much the definition of value system, actually!
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
I am not sure I get your point. One can have a range of opinions about religions, but I think it’s clear most of them provide some strong guidance about what’s good and what’s bed. I mean, some of them literally contains lists of what’s goo
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
> With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion. A great physicist without any doubt, but this quote in my opinion is symptomatic of a very shallow
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Ban knives to fight murders!!!
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Please make telemetry opt in, not opt out. And please honor the disableTelemetry setting by disabling the ping.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
The long-term solution is decentralization.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Since some very popular languages (Python) actively discourage using tabs, this is most likely related to a difference in language choices, rather than in a genuine indentation preferences.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
I stopped reading after 5 or 6 tweets, pretty much when she started talking about politics and politicizing Bitcoin, and assuming all Bitcoin users share the same political beliefs. Sounds like a rant to me.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
In Germany there’s no Goodwill, but often (particularly in some cities or quarters) people will put stuff they don’t need on the street, maybe with a sign “zu verschenken”, meaning “take it for free”. You can find nice stuff this way, even
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
How do you bridge in?
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
> Diamonds are really ugly and boring. Ehm... They are still selling diamonds, just lab-grown. Optically identically to the ugly and boring ones.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Scientific journals do not perform medical tests.
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by isitdopamine 5y ago
Interesting read! It’s essentially the opposite of Aaron Swartz’s famous “Bits are not a bug” writeup.
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by isitdopamine 6y ago
I’ll leave this here: https://me.me/i/barber-what-do-you-want-heaviside-you-heard-...

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