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by jb17 13y ago
Do you really think societal structures that privilege men are a myth? Apart from being quite obvious to anyone who is not extremely biased, there are whole academic branches that study this. I'd say calling that "mythology"
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by jb17 13y ago
I agree that it is written a bit casually, but can you explain what the "easily spotted lies" and the misconstructed arguments are? Also, who is "they"? I know this is not on the official line of most articles that make
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Edward Snowden’s Parasites: Evo Morales, Julian Assange & More(thedailybeast.com)
2 points by jb17 13y ago|2 comments
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An open source Google Reader replacement: Sismics Reader(sismics.com)
55 points by jb17 13y ago|49 comments
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by jb17 13y ago
> Were tens of millions of Germans really involved in a conspiracy to industrially murder millions? Of course. They just weren't aware of it. This isn't true. There has been quite a bit of research and when Germans say they did
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by jb17 13y ago
The title is misleading: the city wants to distribute around 2000 linux CDs at events -- that's hardly making it a norm.
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by jb17 13y ago
This reminds me of the following study, that had similar results but a better title: How fast does the Grim Reaper walk? http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7679
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by jb17 13y ago
You don't like "lighthearted jabs", but you call yourself waffle_ss!?
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by jb17 13y ago
I watched your video, but I feel like it didn't quite tell me what 'bohr' actually does to help me write (or read?) papers.
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by jb17 13y ago
I just wanted to submit this: it's the best informed article I've seen so far.
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UK business secretary: Google should police the internet(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by jb17 13y ago|0 comments
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by jb17 13y ago
> Pause. This doesn't make sense. If you have a polynomial algorithm then it's in P. If you've reduced HC to MSP then you've already shown MSP is NP-Hard. This actually makes sense, although it wouldn't be necessary to point out. If the
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Netflix starts streaming Arrested Development(netflix.com)
2 points by jb17 13y ago|0 comments
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by jb17 13y ago
I'm not sure, but I think I did understand what you were saying. I was genuinely interested in undecidable problems people might run into and that are easily seen to be at least as powerful as the halting problem. Thanks for the example!
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by jb17 13y ago
I think it's usually just called the pigeonhole principle. It's a special case of the Infinite Ramsey Theorem.
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by jb17 13y ago
> E.g., there are regularly people that are sure they have > solutions to problems that are reducible to solving the > halting problem, but that don't have the theoretical > background to realize it is reducible to the hal
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by jb17 13y ago
Have you considered that muscle atrophy might be part of your weight less as well? It sounds like you were bound to a hospital bed.
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by jb17 14y ago
It's also important to note that the supervising culture varies a lot between subjects. Computer scientists are usually spoiled by good supervision, but in the humanities you might see your supervisor only twice a year.. (and I do know peop
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by jb17 14y ago
OK.. It wasn't clear to me from what you said before that you even viewed disproportionate representation in tech as the problem. I agree with that. However, as I said below, I think having tech conferences with women present might be more
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by jb17 14y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed answer. We might actually disagree less than I thought. However, with your main point I still disagree. If I understand you correctly, you say that the problem can only be fixed bottom up:
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by jb17 14y ago
> Professional technology workers are not half women. > If disproportionate representation is not discriminatory, what exactly is it? You seem to answer your own question.
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by jb17 14y ago
I suppose you are not talking about disproportionate representation of women in tech here?
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by jb17 14y ago
I don't think ending discrimination is a simple thing and that in this case increasing the visibility of female experts in an area can have nontrivial antidiscriminatory effects (e.g. encouraging young women to go into an area, making women
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by jb17 14y ago
That one of them is the norm and the other one isn't.
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by jb17 14y ago
OK, you're right, maybe I'm interpolating her argument because it is the only thing the article mentions her saying about why women don't join the gaming industry (or become engineers in general). Saying the problem is that there aren't eno
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by jb17 14y ago
Maybe it's just the low quality of the article that leaves me puzzled, but the Gabrielle Toledanos argument doesn't make sense to me. According to the article she says that sexism is not the problem, but perceived sexism. So women don't joi
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by jb17 14y ago
I'm not sure Mother Theresa is a good example for anything, but regarding the general argument you are making here: There is a huge difference between helping one person (decreasing the general suffering by a tiny but attainable amount) and
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by jb17 14y ago
I use xflux on a 64-bit Debian system and it works. I'm not sure, but you might have to specify the location parameters when starting it.
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by jb17 14y ago
You do realize that the video critiques gender roles in pop culture?
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by jb17 14y ago
> Emergent phenomena don't have "objectives", mate. GDP is a derived statistic. Either you are nitpicking (an economic system doesn't have goals ("objectives") in the same way you do), or you're making a pretty strong claim here. If you

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