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by mfoy_ 9y ago
You'd probably get a decent understanding by studying how fetuses develop, as it's the same fundamental process.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Must it though? What if all children are naturally inclined to "feel like boys", whatever that means. But then society dictates that some are "girls" and are put in dresses, hair plaited, and told to behave a certain w
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Well, the idea is that boys and girls are actually anatomically identical in the womb and then various hormones / enzymes / whatever make the various base structures develop into what we'd recognize as either male or female s
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Framework churn sucks. It's a shame you're being down-voted, I can totally understand where you're coming from.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Well, I wonder about that. Maybe it's more like all children wanted to behave like "the boys" but girls were discouraged and put in dresses, etc. I wonder if the "normal" girls also didn't feel that way-- wan
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Huh... I wonder if there could be some sort of intervention therapy that could keep them a girl, in that case, or if it's really set in stone that they will transform. If so, there could actually be a sort of "third sex" on t
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Wait... are you trying to tell me that scratch tickets aren't essentially the same thing as stock certificates?
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Yeah, they also didn't include a lot of proprietary platforms. For example if you have 5+ years of customizing and implementing a specific enterprise platform you're probably highly in demand, but it's hard to approach that f
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
There are even "illegal" numbers.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I wonder if, in an ironic twist, they try to play the ignorance card and use the breach itself as proof. "Of course we were ignorant of the breach, we're really just not on top of things, I mean, look at how we got into this situa
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I mean, on one hand, I wouldn't want this to go unnoticed and unpunished, but on the other, I'd rather that the feds be more focused on the actual breach part of things. Then again, was any part of the breach actually criminally n
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
So the only defense is to sleep under mosquito netting... even sleeping on a bed (with legs) on a higher floor doesn't help you... Well, shit.
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And their approach is: "Well, let's just throw more money at the problem, so long as you don't expect me to change the lifestyle to which I've grown accustomed."
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And the initial, tone-deaf response of parading him around in front of therapist's for "internet addiction". Seriously?
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
"Whether the Palm Pre was truly ahead of its time, or whether elements of the interface had been plucked out of a carefully planned Cupertino 10-year roadmap will be a story for Valley historians to unpick." Anyone care to start a
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The iPhone X reveals why Tim Cook was so mad about Palm(techcrunch.com)
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Academia is largely political-- and politics has a long-running "tough on crime" stance.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I'm not sure the statement that "women were given the opportunity to be homemakers instead of laborers" really jives with reality.
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Phrasing and tone aside, you're not making any point about the content. To deconstruct your comment: >Just that your opinion is different from others and happens to currently match the majority view doesn't mean you should be r
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
More than that, even when they discovered an interesting result, they couldn't go back and create an objective based algorithm that could return to that result... even though it was known to be possible. (I mean, they obviously knew th
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Somewhat related, consider the expression "putting the cart before the horse".
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Or the English one: "Life is what happens while making other plans."
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The "objective" part is a bit confusing. Evolution doesn't have objectives like "create the turtle, elephant, and man". Which is what is meant by "The Myth of the Objective". Evolution has two eyes on the
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
It's called sarcasm. You must be old if you don't get it.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
One interesting side effect someone was postulating w.r.t. the Equifax leak was that it may provide bad actors a handy list of "people with credit issues that may be more amenable to blackmail and/or bribery".
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I think if those generalizations let us draw a useful parallel to a historical example, we can note the similarities (and differences) and apply lessons learned from that era to our own. (Not that Sartre included a chapter called "How
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I'm not saying anyone has a monopoly on bad faith. Your rebuke isn't overly harsh. If your criticisms were more pointed I may have a more directed response... but I'm not sure exactly what you have in mind when you say "
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Valid or not, it was a Nirvana fallacy-- just like the idea that there was no point in banning the subreddit because they would move platforms. Just because you can't achieve an idealized scenario doesn't mean you should not try f
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Reading the "Bad Faith" section of the wikipedia entry was especially interesting when you compare the profile of your average alt-right person with the mindset Sartre is describing.
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Well... I think you can have "fun" without it being at anyone's direct and unwilling expense for reasons beyond their control. That aside, even if most of the users "weren't taking it seriously" it creates the

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