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by jkot 10y ago
> Men being with many woman during college is considered experimenting Or it is considered a rape. General advice today is to treat college as a workplace and date girls outside, who are not students. > A blond woman does the same
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by jkot 10y ago
And that's why today 60% of students are women (and raising). But it hurts women too, because they will not find husbands to marry.
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by jkot 10y ago
I think I will go with discrimination and sexism.
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by jkot 10y ago
> Woman have certain standards they need to live up to that aren't necessarily expected of men. Could you name some? I have opposite experience.
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by jkot 10y ago
> was fired from to a field in territory controlled by Russian-backed rebels. > "...that came from the Russian Federation," chief Dutch police investigator Wilbert Paulissen said I think the wording 'territory of th
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by jkot 10y ago
> fewer than one in five CS degrees are earned by women Boys born today are 40% less likely to graduate than girls. I think this 'problem' will solve itself. EDIT: I was not very clear. This is not success rate after joining
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by jkot 10y ago
For $0.5B you can buy some reputation :-)
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by jkot 10y ago
Location independence, 60% time without work...
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by jkot 10y ago
> two early twenty year olds.... Even though their job advertisement called for the passionate, opinionated, and entrepreneurial-type, they really wanted someone who could become that under them. Both were solid, but according to Linked
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by jkot 10y ago
Consulting business is pretty low risk. I started my own business when my wife was pregnant. I found it much more family friendly than 9-5 cubicle job.
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by jkot 10y ago
> I’ve published a dozen articles ... build software with thousands of paying customers. ... work on open source Python. ... read almost 40 business books, and I live and breathe HackerNews. Why not start your own business or become CT
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by jkot 10y ago
Most bugs in Android 4.4 are not fixed. That is just three years old branch. Upgrading to latest 7.x is not an option for everyone Linux has LTS support for 15 years. WinXP was supported for 13 years.
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by jkot 10y ago
I think this is great idea. Many users are watching youtube offline.
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by jkot 10y ago
There is a really scary side of that, users are being punished for doing software upgrades.
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by jkot 10y ago
It would be interesting to return notebook after 1 year, because you disagree with Windows EULA.
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by jkot 10y ago
It has highly eccentric orbit, tidal forces must be enormous.
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by jkot 10y ago
> There is tons of money in science! Of course there is tons of money in science. But it does not go towards scientists. Some of my friends have PhDs in oceanography. Most of them are working in the lab, cutting fish (sampling) for min
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by jkot 10y ago
Gimp source code is pretty old. Adding stuff like 16/32 bit support is not easy. On other side Krita is newer, uses QT, is developing faster etc..
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by jkot 10y ago
But the original article is treating it as separate issue. It does not even acknowledge bad career prospects and low salary as a problem.
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by jkot 10y ago
Great! Problem is not that scientists are often paid less than McDonald's burger flipper. No! It is social and gender issue! Lets push even more students into this career path.
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by jkot 10y ago
Similar in Czech republic. We buy equipment which is 3x more expensive than market value. Nobody cares because it is paid from public money.
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by jkot 10y ago
By iron I mean whatever dissolves easiest. Some metals will be very rusty after two weeks in water.
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by jkot 10y ago
> I couldn’t check my email or refresh my Instagram > ... trying to describe what I was feeling. The two words “extreme suffering” won the naming contest in my head...
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by jkot 10y ago
Hmm, results would be different if iron (not steel) nails would be used.
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by jkot 10y ago
I think you would also have to verify resulting binary, compiler, libraries... It seems more manageable to verify a few KB of assembly or C
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by jkot 10y ago
Makes sense, I am Java/Scala guy, we have different audience
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by jkot 10y ago
I am surprised it does not mention Psion. With better management we could had iphone 10 years earlier. Psion Series 5 has no replacement even after 19 years (keyboard, display, battery life..)
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by jkot 10y ago
Could you post more details? I get offers from London, but not many from Berlin. Berlin has some startups, but not many big corporations.
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by jkot 10y ago
There is also third side in this story; people who jump through hoops to get legal option to work in US. We had to fill mountains of paper work, spend thousands of dollars, wait for years... But every illegal immigrant seems to have more ri
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by jkot 10y ago
> Conversation between two bottlenose dolphins recorded for first time For the first time? Should not be 1950 in the title?

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