knowitall

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by knowitall 13y ago
What would you say does "I want to be a woman" mean? I doubt it is as simply as "I want to play with dolls and use lipstick". Through this discussion I wonder if it is more about how you are being valued in society. For
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by knowitall 13y ago
Well there is the case of ducklings, who think the first thing they see after leaving the egg shell is their mother. So if you are there instead of their real mother, they'll follow you around until they become independent. Just to sho
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by knowitall 13y ago
Help me out then, because I don't see it? A fall is deadly, whether you fall from a skyscraper or a tree. You mean there might have been something else like nail polish, and people evolved a preference for that? But what would that hav
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by knowitall 13y ago
Maybe, but my point is that lipstick and nail polish are very likely learned preferences. Perhaps there is some mechanism by which a child picks the people it learns it's preferences from. I've read for example that kids learn the
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by knowitall 13y ago
Seriously? Monkeys live on trees... Mountains exist for longer than humans.
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by knowitall 13y ago
I don't know, and certainly the brain seems to be very amendable (ie taxi drivers have enlarged regions for dealing with maps). However, I'd like to point out that there apparently is a genetic difference in male and female bodies
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by knowitall 13y ago
I seriously doubt preferences for lipstick and nail polish are genetic. For most of human evolution, there were no such things around.
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by knowitall 13y ago
water/dust: presumably the devices I want to connect to the internet won't be happy with that either, so I have to avoid those anyway. Charging: not sure about that one either. Either there is a power source or there isn't?
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by knowitall 13y ago
So what is the special technology it provides, perhaps you could give us a quick summary? Any advantage to using my phone as an access point?
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by knowitall 13y ago
Are most languages really a big loss? I suppose there are some interesting variations in grammar, but what else? What can we learn from some obscure languages?
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by knowitall 13y ago
Why not move the domain?
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by knowitall 13y ago
Actually society adores and idolizes women. I suppose you had some unfortunate personal experiences that made you believe otherwise.
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by knowitall 13y ago
Of course - the reverted commit seems to be much more likely the result of personal differences rather than sexism. At least to me.
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by knowitall 13y ago
So it would be a reverse pump and dump - sell a lot, count on falling prices, then buy again?
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by knowitall 13y ago
How so? As a noob in trading, I find it fun to ponder all the psychological factors. People buying fuels mania leading to more people buying fueling more mania. Until some turining point when too many people start to sell fueling a depressi
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by knowitall 13y ago
I've read lots of papers explaining the wage gap. The wikipedia article is too long for me to read right now, but thanks for pointing it out. I may update it if applicable. Also what you don't take into account is that "wage
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by knowitall 13y ago
They want to determine who I hire, or who I am attracted to (the subgroup of feminists who campaign against certain beauty ideals). As for "the feminists", it's true that some people who haven't really given it much thou
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by knowitall 13y ago
The joker in me wonders if now would be an opportunity to become the biggest contributor to GitHub of all time by running a script that changes the pronouns on all repositories. Nobody can afford to reject such a pull request now... Or what
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by knowitall 13y ago
It's not that surprising that the presence of a diverse mix of people makes it likely for imaginary people to be less stereotyped. I must admit as a non-native speaker, I am still not quite sure how to properly use "they". I
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by knowitall 13y ago
In a way that is the essence of political correctness, it tries to establish a general law for your preferences. The article here is a case in point - it's not enough that everybody has their own list, now there has to be a public list
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by knowitall 13y ago
It's all just about wanting power. Such a list would be a nifty device. Edit (there was one upvote before I wrote this): Another issue: could such a list enable people to sue for getting a job, on the grounds that they had been discrim
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by knowitall 13y ago
I'm not a git expert. I wonder didn't the guy who accepted the commit kind of offend the guy who had already publicly said he wouldn't merge it? If so, reverting the commit would much likely be about something entirely differ
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by knowitall 13y ago
So have you been using "they" in you comments from the very beginning, or have you used "she", or "he"?
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by knowitall 13y ago
How are you sure about that? For example I don't know if the people involved ever communicated before and how they relate to each other.
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by knowitall 13y ago
I'm not from the US. I wonder, isn't this overly dramatic? So it takes a while to fix the web site. People have presumably been waiting for health insurance for decades, what is one more month? Also, really, people get worked up a
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by knowitall 13y ago
We never even heard the back story on that one... I suspect it's not so much about the gender of pronouns as about being patronizing, which people tend to resent.
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by knowitall 13y ago
Perhaps Amazon could add a checkbox to the shopping cart: [] pay 10% more that will go directly into the pockets of the packers. I wouldn't even mind a picture gallery of everybody who handled my package.
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by knowitall 13y ago
Did you invest 100000k $ in Bitcoin? I suggest investing 1k as an anti-black swan option. Or something like that. (If the economy crashes, BTC might be worth a lot. Or not. But the option doesn't cost much).
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by knowitall 13y ago
What are you even talking about? Buying bitcoins and mining are not the same thing. Just keep the bitcoins you bought and thank HN in 10 years for making you rich. Btw Bitcoin is also very interesting from a technical point of view.
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by knowitall 13y ago
I think the "deflation can't work" people are making the same mistake as the "interest can't work because one penny will eventually be worth as much as the weight of the earth in gold" crowd ("Joseph'

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