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by maximusprime 15y ago
Yes it's obviously both. It's genetics, and sometimes bad stereotyping parents/upbringing.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Depressing to see people blaming advertising and marketing as if they as parents are powerless to buy their daughter a lego set unless an advert says they can. If adverts have more of an influence on your kids than you do, then you're a ter
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by maximusprime 15y ago
BS. Utter BS. It is marketed to everyone. (Speaking as a father of a daughter who has a massive Lego collection and plays with it lots). It's depressing to see so many comments that seem to believe we're all powerless to go against marketin
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by maximusprime 15y ago
You state these things as if they are fact. I disagree. People are born with different strengths and weaknesses. They may have particular skill in certain areas. If brains are just "general" "maleable" "matter", then why as a man am I attra
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by maximusprime 15y ago
I expected people would take issue with it. Unfortunately some people really really want it to be the case that girls and boys are only different because of their environment. Given the way evolution works, doesn't that seem ridiculousl
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Lego Star wars is MASSIVE. It sells by the boat load. Kids lap it up. Same with the other movie tie ins. Why would it not? I play Lego star wars the game, and obviously I now want all the characters in real Lego. Doing movie/character tie i
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by maximusprime 15y ago
I agree, but I really don't understand how or why scientifically minded people could claim that they believe male and female brains to be absolutely biologically identical. We evolved to have specific gender roles. We have obvious physical
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by maximusprime 15y ago
You assume people want a change. I do not think they do. Do people want an end to gender specific toys? Certainly some do. But the vast majority do not. I firmly believe, through interacting with people in general, and my own children, that
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Megablocks are awful. They stick together for a second, then pop off. You end up with cracks everywhere and pieces falling apart. Do not buy...
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by maximusprime 15y ago
BS @ trend. Go back 50 years and it was dolls and toy guns. Nothing has changed, boys still like building and destroying, and girls still like caring about things and craft things. You can try all you want to make boys play with dolls, and
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by maximusprime 15y ago
This is really really really boring. Yes LEGO make LEGO "sets" that make a specific model. They also make a ton of generic building sets which teach you a ton of stuff. They even have walls of bricks in the shops where you can pick and choo
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by maximusprime 15y ago
why? That's a pretty basic level salary for a senior developer.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
> " today's most most popular working comedian" Are you serious? Most popular on Reddit and other liberal political communities maybe. I don't think anyone would claim he's the most popular comedian working today.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
This is clever marketing, and it worked - Although it is not innovative, new, or even news, it's top of HN. The story here is how to market to Reddit/HN rather than anything else. IMHO It would also be a stretch to call him a comedian.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
> "I look forward to the day when all billion of us appear to be arriving from the same place." Yeah nothing bad could happen there could it rolleyes
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by maximusprime 15y ago
I think some of the same culture Reddit has, unfortunately spills over to HN. But what do I know....
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by maximusprime 15y ago
I just think anecdotally and based on content on here, that the majority are far removed from "mainstream". I'd expect people here to not hang out at the mall, watch american idol, eat at mcdonalds, own a TV, watch fox news, click on ads, a
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by maximusprime 15y ago
I don't think micropayments will ever be a viable alternative to advertising. The internet started free. The cat is out of the bag. Most people won't pay for access to websites. The distinction between ads and content is one that is ridicul
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by maximusprime 15y ago
* try websocket * on failure, fallback to comet It's fairly easy to implement.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Maybe you're way too easily distracted and should solve that issue. Edit: Come on... life is full of distraction. When you go shopping do you shut your eyes in case you see "SALE AT PENNYS!!!", or do you just ignore things that don't inte
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by maximusprime 15y ago
I don't think it's related to how 'techie' you are. It's more to do with culture. Let's not pretend this is a "early adopter tech people know how to block ads, the masses will surely follow in time" thing. It's not. You'd find similar massi
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Very true, but IMHO That was Reddits own making. Had they put up advertising at the start, they wouldn't be stuck with such an anti-corporate non-marketable audience. I don't think you can compare to the music industry. Blocking all 'adve
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by maximusprime 15y ago
They do a lot of CPM now.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
* It's not becoming popular. It's about 1% of users. * It's trivial to get around. Other options would be for webmasters to give Adblocking users a watered down version or just serve them up crapply encoded videos/images
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Microsoft didn't become an evil monopoly by having the top talent. If anything it was the reverse. Maybe if they'd have some talented hackers working for them, they wouldn't have sucked quite so badly at making software. Success isn't relat
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by maximusprime 15y ago
You really think a very small number of hackers who know what they're talking about, boycotting companies is going to have an effect? Most of the people buying smartphones can'e even spell "patent".
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by maximusprime 15y ago
I don't think attacking the companies is productive though. Lobby the government to change the law.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
Surely it's the rules of the game that are at fault here. You can't blame companies for using the rules of the game to their best advantage. The answer is to tell everyone how much of a ridiculous unfair idiotic idea most patents are. You s
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by maximusprime 15y ago
The majority are pedestrians cyclists etc. Those deaths wont suddenly be solved.
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by maximusprime 15y ago
afaik it's usually about 4k but more in modern browsers.

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