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What 'Lean In' misunderstands about gender differences(aei.org)
1 points by jerrya 14y ago|0 comments
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by jerrya 14y ago
Very interesting article. And it's telling why Johnson didn't reveal what Nixon was doing. He orders the Nixon campaign to be placed under FBI surveillance and demands to know if Nixon is personally involved. When he became convinced it
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Boys' classroom behavior impacts grades, study finds(today.com)
2 points by jerrya 14y ago|0 comments
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by jerrya 14y ago
Well my apologies then, and thank you for the clarification on the flagging policy. I do seem to note my ability to flag stories seems to have vanished if only temporarily.... I don't understand why you think it's boring for participants to
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by jerrya 14y ago
I raised that point b/c people on Twitter were characterizing your remarks as representative of HN as a whole, when in practice I've found that we debate this issue carefully (again, as opposed to your blanket statement calling them sexist
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by jerrya 14y ago
Whoa. There is a huge gap between my disagreeing with clearly sexist based policies and saying that sexism, even so called benevolent sexism is a bad thing, and your claiming I am misogynistic or that my point of view is insane, or even idi
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by jerrya 14y ago
Without checking the link, and assuming you are correct, I think Hacker School would be advised to make the grants from Etsy known, and leave it at that. Make them known so that students who are accepted can apply to Etsy for the grants, bu
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by jerrya 14y ago
"Apparently you think this is (i) sexist but (ii) within their right to do. That's unusual… even if you believe this, why would you bring it up?" Basically, I think "we" have a right to freedom of association. And so many distasteful behavi
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by jerrya 14y ago
I am flagging this. I am flagging this precisely because I believe the Hacker School experience is valuable and yet you offer a sexist and discriminatory grant to women. Hacker School is valuable due to the experiences, the education, and t
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by jerrya 14y ago
Fwiw, I'm in the habit of sending thank you emails but I always change the subject from: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit to Re: Lorem ipsum dolor sit -- Thanks! (On disqusish comment systems, I often upvote a re
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by jerrya 14y ago
I think you're asking the wrong question.
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by jerrya 14y ago
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/keep-calm-rape-t-shirts-mistake-041... When Solid Gold Bomb withdrew the 'rape' garment it also posted a statement on its website which said: "We have been informed of the fact that we were selling an offensive T
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by jerrya 14y ago
It's always fun to read Joan Walsh, "Editor at large" for Salon, a for profit company that does not pay its interns, complain about wage disparities she perceives at other companies. Charity begins at home, Joan. Pay your damn interns, then
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by jerrya 14y ago
I find evernote tremendously helpful and I pay the $5 per month for a premium service, REGARDLESS, a google of https://www.google.com/search?q=evernote+two+step+authentica... says little good about how Evernote respects me or their many m
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by jerrya 14y ago
Why are there so many posts about people selling ebooks? Is there truly an enormous market for these ebooks? Do Klout scores go up with ebooks? Should I be writing an ebook?
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by jerrya 14y ago
I started using adblock plus filters to remove the worse portions of space.com and it was a pretty good experience. Got rid of social networking crap, got rid of their top bar, their bottom bar, the sidebars, the header, the masthead, the n
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by jerrya 14y ago
Back a month or so when Quora announced blogs, I said a better move would have been for Quora to pickup the Posterous service.
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by jerrya 14y ago
So what is the state of the course? Is this basically a self-paced, self-taught series of notes? Either way, looks like a nice resource, so thank you.
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by jerrya 14y ago
Yes, but you have to know it's a privacy leak, and then you have to change it. And in the meantime, WordPress and Gravatar insist it's not a privacy leak at all.
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by jerrya 14y ago
Hey, I don't know you at all, and I'm truly only pulling your chain, and maybe I am missing your natural humor but shortly before you write of the privilege of values, and how you knew Anthony was wrong in thieving candy, you were using "a
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by jerrya 14y ago
Apart from all the space they waste, most implementations of avatars that use gravatar are a privacy leak, associating the MD5 of the user's email with every post on the net anywhere.
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by jerrya 14y ago
Am I misreading this? You bought a tablet for a little kid's birthday present?
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by jerrya 14y ago
Most of the cartoons I watched with my daughters have girls and women as scientists and doctors about 100% of the time. And exploit the trope of boys are stupid, fathers are bumbling. These days, well for the past several decades, I would s
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by jerrya 14y ago
What explains the gap? Andreas Schleicher, who oversees the tests for the O.E.C.D., says different countries offer different incentives for learning science and math. In the United States, he said, boys are more likely than girls to “see s
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by jerrya 14y ago
I've wanted to see something like the BRAC Commission but run out of the President's Economic Advisor's Office or similar. Annually, this commission would put out a list of any company in any industry deemed too big to fail. That could be a
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by jerrya 14y ago
One problem with taxing on profit is that you encourage accounting tricks. Consider the reputation of the movie industry where actors and authors and everyone up and down the line are screwed because they took a percentage of the profits an
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by jerrya 14y ago
Quora hate aside, given the supposed reasoning behind this, The Internet is full of experts with no one reading their insights. It takes a lot of work to build a following. So today Quora launches a blogging platform that automatically dis
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by jerrya 14y ago
Complaint: HEY WEB DESIGNER, WHY DO YOU STICK AN AUTO-ROTATING SLIDESHOW AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE, AND THEN FILL THAT SLIDESHOW WITH INTERESTING BUT DETAILED MATERIAL AND NO WAY TO PAUSE IT? I HATE YOU WEB DESIGNER AND I CLOSED THE TAB. Ther
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Flying is a right, not a privilege(tsanewsblog.com)
2 points by jerrya 14y ago|0 comments
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by jerrya 14y ago
Semi-related: I like reading the Volokh Conspiracy. I disagree with them on at least half of what I read, but their posts and the comments almost always teach me something about the law, and interacting with lawyers, especially when they ar

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