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by kaitai 10y ago
I understand the sentiment, I just don't understand the facts. People keep saying "if anyone but Clinton did this they'd be in prison", but there's a bunch of people who used private servers and had email reclassifi
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by kaitai 10y ago
Like Colin Powell?
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by kaitai 10y ago
Agreed. People here are mostly thinking "brilliant computer scientist" or "will cure cancer," but many universities have degree programs that are revenue generators, requiring full tuition payments from students and attr
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by kaitai 10y ago
Math lectures from Russian mathematicians also work (unfortunately well in a lecture room, too).
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by kaitai 10y ago
These discussions are always a mess :)
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by kaitai 10y ago
isis agora lovecruft among others has put her name explicitly on this: "Sometime around 5 o’clock in the morning, I woke up very confused and startled because my pants were unzipped and Jake’s arm was wrapped around me, his hands in my
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by kaitai 10y ago
That does not seem to be an evidence-based recommendation. Pap smears are recommended every 3-5 years, pelvic exams are not recommended by the American College of Physicians for healthy asymptomatic adult women, HPV test is recommended ever
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by kaitai 10y ago
I figured I'd share it here because I don't think most men have any idea what many of those visits involve. They are not so fun to talk about.
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by kaitai 10y ago
I have had friends on "birth control" for acne, polycystic ovarian syndrome, migraines, endometriosis and a host of other non-child related issues.
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by kaitai 10y ago
A lot of people have had bad experiences with doctors, and in particular sometimes bad experiences around discussing sex and sexuality with doctors. Teenage girls trying to get birth control are told they are irresponsible or are sluts; par
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by kaitai 10y ago
Yep. To make it even less likely, I get my nicer clothing tailored for me, making it less likely to fit others and a far higher replacement cost if damaged. But who'd want to wear my less-nice clothing? No one. Guys, can you truly see
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by kaitai 10y ago
Because if something goes south, who is going to back you up? It's just a probabilistic calculation based on experience. A lot of guys won't step up if another guy starts harassing you, because they'll be bowing to the pressu
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by kaitai 10y ago
I got the committee to argue among themselves about the snake, and then another class needed the classroom (2 hrs after start).
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by kaitai 10y ago
Are you saying that Hillary should avoid the female pronouns? I have to say, ImWithHer seems pretty innocuous to me. Gerald Ford had, "He's making us proud again." Goldwater: "In Your Heart, You Know He's Right.&quo
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by kaitai 10y ago
The rights granted by Nordic countries to forage are not limited to the citizens of a particular nation -- that's why a lot of folks from Thailand fly in each year to pick cloudberries. How is the right to forage a tax on private incom
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by kaitai 10y ago
There are plenty of outreach efforts in the US targeted at students who might not get exposed to coding in school. I guess I wouldn't consider them special victim treatment; after all, golf and tennis also have outreach efforts to comm
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by kaitai 10y ago
This is a tech site. Is it any surprise that there aren't a lot of discussions about getting men into macrame? There are no discussions of macrame, period, on HN. More's the pity -- it involves lots of cool knots. But somehow on a
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by kaitai 10y ago
As my husband always reminds me, if he doesn't clean I'm the one who will be judged! - signed, a messy female
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by kaitai 10y ago
There are actually a number of national legal frameworks that would disagree with you. See "everyman's right" in Finland, Iceland, Scotland, Norway, which has law backing it up. Just because in England such a right wasn'
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by kaitai 10y ago
There is a whole family of plants called "bedstraw" that were traditionally used for stuffing beds, and they do have slender tendrils all over. This name is quite old in english (medieval-ish).
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by kaitai 10y ago
Recognize rejection, and then not retaliate. A flirter who flirts with me and makes it clear it's all in good fun, there's no pressure for more, if I need to go catch a bus I'm not an unfeeling b*^%$, if I don't feel lik
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by kaitai 10y ago
I think it's interesting that you phrase things the way you do in your first paragraph. When I moved to California for college from a cold place, I was young and female. (Still female, less young now). Sometimes in southern California
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by kaitai 10y ago
Agree with much of first paragraph; will also point out that Finland (for instance) adds in -- time to run around every hour for littler kids -- hearty lunch cooked from scratch at school every day -- social services that ensure your family
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by kaitai 10y ago
Not to be at all flip... but it's another good reason to bike instead.
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by kaitai 10y ago
I would disagree, actually. I am a woman who loves powerlifting, actually, and I think that the attitudes of many women in the United States toward lifting heavy things renders them less likely to actually do it. Many women believe they&#x2
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by kaitai 10y ago
Amen. Everyone knows; it's just a kid getting out of punishment to say otherwise. Readers might be impressed at just how resistant some people are to learning what's offensive: they can learn calculus, botanical names, database ma
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by kaitai 10y ago
Why would you go to the police?! This is an employment matter, not a criminal matter. And she needs to tell the boss, because she wants to head off retaliation in the workplace. I get tired of hearing these excuses about age, background, I
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by kaitai 10y ago
The problem here is that in a workplace you are thinking about whether his seduction technique is abysmal or whether she "likes a little spices". THAT'S THE PROBLEM. By definition, things have gotten dreadfully unprofessional
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by kaitai 10y ago
Yes; most employment agreements in the US are at-will so you can fire an employee at any time without cause no matter what your seniority :)
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by kaitai 10y ago
Would you do the same for embezzlement? Jobs are jobs, not training programs. It's not wrong to expect someone to just be able to do their job without opening the company up to lawsuits. People are fired for incompetence of all kinds -

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