mitcheme

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by mitcheme 15y ago
I think the two-sentence explanation was enough for me to get the idea. I knew a guy like that when I was a teenager, very smart, decent guy but problems getting along with people. (I think he made his money doing freelance programming actu
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by mitcheme 15y ago
I think you're mistaken about the model of family that "most of the rest of humans" have. There is way more variation than arguments like this tend to give credit to. Traditional Hawaii, everyone your age is a sibling and everyone your pare
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Maybe you're right, that it makes no difference to him. To me, it matters a great deal. None of these systems are static; they are constantly changing, and we have some control over how they change. You can compare the systems that already
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Why aren't we talking about the 1950's? If you're correct, that the problem is a lack of glamour, then the 50's should not have been a problem. Motherhood was the ultimate glamorous profession for a woman in those days. Sure, you can go to
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by mitcheme 15y ago
nocipher, his analysis of women's creativity is wrong because we know women have created art throughout history. We don't actually know how much art, unfortunately, because historically, the bulk of women's creative expression was not con
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by mitcheme 15y ago
It would be nice if someone would actually address this instead of just downvoting. I knew my comment wouldn't be popular when I made it, but I was hoping to get some actual answers out of the deal.
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by mitcheme 15y ago
There's very little actual substance there to invalidate, and I did discuss some of issues. His analysis of women's creativity is wrong, and is his talk about relative sex drives is spurious. I also think it's a huge mistake to label cultur
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Again, so if women lack those motivations, where did feminism come from?
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by mitcheme 15y ago
What I dislike about these kinds of "evolutionary" arguments is that they tend to assume that the differences between the genders are genetic, even when there's no evidence for that. Even as late as the Victorian ages, several of the traits
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Re #5, when I was looking online for laptops it was really annoying how some retailers just would not have pictures of the keyboards. Given how terrible some laptop keyboards are, this is kind of important. I hate when the important keys
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Cool. :) If it's not too rude, why unemployable? Does homeschooling just create people who are too independent to be a good fit with a lot of employers, or do employers/college admissions see a homeschool education as less valuable than pub
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by mitcheme 15y ago
I have to say it would be pretty awesome if there was a sudden influx in bored SAHMs learning to program / contributing to open source / starting their own company.
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by mitcheme 15y ago
If open source is so important to our hypothetical you that you'd turn down an otherwise-great job over it, why did you marry someone who is so unsupportive of it? Even if your SO is 'bad with computer', presumably they know how much you va
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by mitcheme 15y ago
At one point my college campus was a "Pepsi campus" and you could not buy anything but Pepsi. I think I bought it once, and I drink far more Coke than is probably healthy. That stuff tastes bad . I would bring my own Coke from home or buy
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Still, it sounds a lot better than some of the 'healthy eating' vending machine gimmicks. Most (in)famously, in my area, are the ones that introduced the "heart smart" stickers by raising the price of unhealthy foods by 50% and raising the
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by mitcheme 15y ago
OK, thank you. My high school math teacher was dyslexic but as he told it, it was an issue with letter rotation, flipping, and swapping, which is what I've heard from other sources (including local SLTs). Maybe that's something that depends
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Could I have a link to the M/P thing? I googled it but all I could find was stuff about M[agnocellular] and P[arvocellular] processing in dyslexics.
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by mitcheme 15y ago
"[Zuckerberg] recently bought his first house in Palo Alto for $7 million, a fraction of what he could afford... Skeptics may wonder whether all this conspicuous self-denial is scripted." This skeptic wonders on which planet a 7 million dol
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Paying money to work for anyone is absurd. I don't care if your company is the best thing since sliced bread. It isn't worth going homeless, nor is it worth taking on tens of thousands extra in loans to (a) support myself while providing yo
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Don't feel too bad, that's what I thought too.
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by mitcheme 15y ago
In my school, we call them "co-op jobs". If you sign up for co-op, you get college credit for them, but either way you get paid. And of course if you're any good, your co-op employers will want to hang onto you after you graduate. I didn't
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by mitcheme 15y ago
A lot has changed Canada since the late 1970s, which is why I say you'd need more information than just that little map or even stats of the kind I got off statscan. You could probably come up with a half-dozen stories why that fit the map
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Men are already the majority of programmers so this wouldn't be necessary, just reactionary (and you know it, too). I have no problem with workshops for men for skills which are traditionally dominated by women, since in many cases it makes
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by mitcheme 15y ago
I recommend Emily Short's fractured fairy tales (Bronze, Glass) and Galatea. They're all well-written and pretty well-programmed; Glass is funny and the other two are a bit trippy/strange. IIRC they all have multiple endings.
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Oh, I see. When you said 'directions', I thought you were talking about the page text. The directions are on the Directions page, and the number is on the Place an Order page. The banner could probably be better, but the only thing I'd comp
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by mitcheme 15y ago
And as a sidenote, if you look at e.g., Africa, you can see women's rates are going up faster in many countries, and in fact globally: "Across the world the rate of diabetes rose by 18% for men and by 23% for women"
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Or Canadian men were eating way more than their fair share of Skittles in 1980 -- their rates of diabetes are still higher than women's. http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/health53a-eng.htm I would guess that Canadian men have had problems
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by mitcheme 15y ago
Unless it's changed in the last 2h, the directions and phone # are both plain text.
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by mitcheme 15y ago
I have Google Web History turned off and I'm seeing a pretty good mix of things in my results. E.g., I'm heavily left-wing, somewhat pro-gun control, with no personal interest in shooting, but my results for 'gun' are pretty much all gun sh
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by mitcheme 15y ago
It would be hilarious but I'm not so sure it would work that well. I think one of the big reasons the scigen papers passed for real was because a lot of people will assume that if they can't understand a paper, it's just gone over their hea

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