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by kofejnik 9y ago
> Gender (and, likewise, ethnic, etc.) studies is an interdisciplinary domain ... Yes, like astrology and homeopathy
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by kofejnik 9y ago
> empirically study social behavior or legal structures, but they definitely do study it. Astrologists study stars, too. Empirically.
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by kofejnik 9y ago
> science around those, there's no science around those, just word twisting and mental gymnastics. "Gender studies" and such are not science in any form.
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by kofejnik 9y ago
I honestly cannot tell if you're being serious now
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by kofejnik 9y ago
> She was kicked out of the sauna. She said "At this point I don't look very female", and that her drivers license reflects a male identity and she hadn't started hormone therapy. As a non-American, I don't under
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by kofejnik 9y ago
> it's pointless you're starting to get it
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by kofejnik 9y ago
To the contrary, this is market functioning properly - people have something which they are reluctant to share with other people, so they don't. Do you suggest to force them? This will not be a "proper functioning market", yo
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by kofejnik 9y ago
I ate a burger for lunch, was it selfish and immoral? I'm pretty sure some other guy would've liked that burger, too
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by kofejnik 9y ago
it hurts some people (those who want to live in SF), but it helps other people (those who already live there), pretty much like any other resource with finite availability
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by kofejnik 9y ago
what's so wrong with NIMBYism?
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by kofejnik 9y ago
it's also owned by FSB
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by kofejnik 9y ago
>And don't give me any of those "slippery slope" arguments. is it because you have no counter argument?
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by kofejnik 9y ago
There basically never was 'before drugs and alcohol', beer dates back to at least 9500 BC, and coca leaf chewing shouldn't be much younger. As for coffee, according to heart.org, "moderate coffee drinking (1–2 cups per d
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by kofejnik 9y ago
... which seems very un-logical to me, since sugar addiction is quite real and quite bad for your health, unlike caffeine
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by kofejnik 9y ago
even if Guido denounces 2 completely, I'm ready to bet some $$ that 2 will be alive and well long after that date
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by kofejnik 9y ago
> Switching to default Py3 is a breaking change Not only breaking, but also completely unnecessary
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by kofejnik 9y ago
Checked it out. Actual math is trivial (too trivial, in ex-USSR most of that is covered by 5th-6th grade, or 12-13 y.o.), but the test itself is horrible imo. Multiple-choice sucks for math, by design it tends to focus on minutiae of defini
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by kofejnik 9y ago
your view of economic efficiency borders on Marxism-Communism, and I bet you have never actually experienced living in a communist country
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by kofejnik 9y ago
Your argument can be applied to any industry. So yes, it's better to make the system more efficient so millions of people can enjoy safe and effective transportation
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by kofejnik 9y ago
> How about Uber for drug dealers? Or Uber for prostitution? yes and yes, prohibition is idiotic and does not work, so legalize and tax this shit
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by kofejnik 9y ago
but in reality there isn't. In Athens, Greece, a 15 minute ride to the airport in 45 euros, in an old crappy cab reeking of tobacco smoke and driver not speaking English. Average salary there is 1100 euro/month. This racket is imm
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by kofejnik 9y ago
I am currently vacationing in Rome, and loving it, except for two things: tourist-oriented restaurants; and taxis. Those are seriously horrible. 16 euros for a 5 minute ride? Not a problem for out budget, but this is racket, pure and simple
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by kofejnik 9y ago
it still beats sleeping under the bridge, though edit: what makes you so sure about what's good for society?
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by kofejnik 9y ago
same in Ukraine, street posts are plastered with ads for Uber drivers, meaning they give you a car and you get to keep ~50% of fees and ~10% of bonus
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by kofejnik 10y ago
Could not afford a Soundblaster so I used 8 resistors to solder together a crude 8-bit DAC (called Covox iirc) which plugged into parallel port and was amplified by a cassette deck, which was good enough for games
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by kofejnik 10y ago
take a look at https://github.com/dddomodossola/remi , which transpiles python into html (kind of)
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by kofejnik 10y ago
tell this to people who serve real time for reposting the news about someone being jailed for a repost (I am not exaggerating)
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by kofejnik 10y ago
pay for it, with prison time
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by kofejnik 10y ago
this is simply not true, please read up on Holodomor, forced Chechen relocation, etc. Stalin was pretty much as evil as Hitler.
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by kofejnik 10y ago
why hadn't you installed fail2ban?

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