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by mklim 11y ago
Oh, I didn't realize the visualization was adjusted like that. That makes more sense.
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by mklim 11y ago
There's enough women in the profession to have female -> female lines originating out of them, though. The implication is that there's a huge majority of queer women in them, to the point where heterosexual ones won't even
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by mklim 11y ago
EDIT: Nevermind, some commenters further downthread pointed out that the visualization was adjusted to always show same sex lines. For me it was some of these jobs not having heterosexual lines in both directions. "Electrical Power-Lin
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by mklim 11y ago
My point was more along the lines of—failing a course is goes beyond being just a "minor academic setback" for a lot of people. It's really only that if one of the following applies to you: [there are multiple thousands of
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by mklim 11y ago
Anecdotal experience vaguely related to this—when I was in college (2010-2014) most people I knew weren't there to learn for the joy of learning, they were there to get a job they could support themselves with. Most of them believed th
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by mklim 11y ago
1. No it doesn't still stand. If a mother's presence is biologically necessary for her child's development in the same way her uterus is necessary for fetal development, then the OP is right and childbirth does innately biolo
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by mklim 11y ago
My impression that the first post I replied to was speaking of things in general, not locked to any kind of specific post-birth time frame. Even if it was though, I disagree with the mother's presence specifically being "ESSENTIAL
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by mklim 11y ago
I mostly agree with the idea that women in modern society are given general priority/encouraged to spend time with their children vs their male partners. What I disagree with is that this fact of modern society is biologically inherent
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by mklim 11y ago
> Whose belly do doctors put fresh-born babies on, their fathers? I wasn't the one who downvoted you, but I think it's unfortunate that you're citing a social practice to try and establish biological fact and claiming to u
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by mklim 11y ago
> Women can bear children, men can't. This gives women the first choice to spend time with those children, and also gives them bargaining power in relationships. Your second sentence doesn't follow from your first. There isn&#x
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by mklim 11y ago
> That’s why you can now block specific email addresses in Gmail [...] Future mail will go to the spam folder (and you can always unblock in Settings). It's nice to have a one-click button for it, but this was already available by c
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by mklim 11y ago
The current body of evidence suggests that we could and did, since Neanderthal DNA is present in some modern humans [1]. [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33226416
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by mklim 11y ago
From the article: > Here’s what ends up happening. To game the system, applicants start linking to virtually empty GitHub accounts that are full of forked repos where they, at best, fixed some silly whitespace issue. [...] Outside of tha
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by mklim 11y ago
1. I agree, this would be preferable and a great step for the initial screener. But that leaves the problem of the actual interview—the studies that I've seen test written resumes, because it's possible to ensure that two resumes
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by mklim 11y ago
The counter argument that I've heard most is that minorities are less likely to be hired than equally qualified members of the majority because of subconscious bias. Enforcing a quota is a sort of equalizer—formal discrimination in one
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by mklim 11y ago
Just in case you're not being sarcastic—the level of resources you have access to as a child is much more tightly correlated to how much money you make as an adult than individual IQ, at least in the United States. https://e
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by mklim 11y ago
Source Tree ( https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ ) is great. Good visual layout of your diffs at any given point with the ability to stage/discard/unstage specific lines from within the program.
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by mklim 11y ago
> But after I left school and started The Commute things got hairy. > I switched to Google Fi about a week ago and the service is already much more incredible. Do you mind explaining this further—you mean calls/texts were gettin
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by mklim 11y ago
I grew up just reading whatever I could pull off the shelf from my local library—finding the SFF short story scene in my late teens was a huge and welcome discovery. Not sure why, and it could just be confirmation bias, but in my experience
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by mklim 11y ago
What was your company doing before switching to Agile?
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by mklim 12y ago
Adding to this, from going through their website, it's not as simple as "old" books are free and "new" books are a premium. I did a cursory look through their catalog and it looks like any book that is still selling
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by mklim 12y ago
The average cost of a public, 4 year university was $16k per year in 2012 [ http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76 ]. It's expensive everywhere. You can definitely rack up higher bills at some places than ot
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by mklim 12y ago
Reminds me a lot of The Lifecycle of Software Objects, by Ted Chiang ( http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the_... ). It makes sense that people would bond with AI specifically designed to act as
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by mklim 12y ago
> And it's also about trends.More and more users use addons that block javascript by default,just like more and more users use adblock. Do you have any data to back that up? In my experience it seems like the number of people who tu
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by mklim 12y ago
Good catch, my mistake. Thanks.
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by mklim 12y ago
> requiring actual mastery of the game as it was intended to be played I agree here, but I just want to emphasize that Any% speedruns (runs where you purposely exploit glitches or flaws with the game engine to trigger the final cutscene
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by mklim 12y ago
You can also identify rings by dropping them down wells—different rings fall down (or don't fall down) the wells in different ways—and identify wands by writing on the ground with them. Definitely hard to pick up any of that on your ow
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by mklim 12y ago
Aaron Reed and Emily Short are also both worth checking out also, two of my favorites. Blue Lacuna and Sand-dancer are my favorites from Reed ( http://aaronareed.net/ ), and honestly everything from Short ( https://
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by mklim 12y ago
> you have to work hard, you have to do the tough job, you have to know every tiny part that can go wrong during the show I absolutely agree. My intent wasn't to describe programming as magic in the sense that it's easy or as s
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by mklim 12y ago
> There's really no reason to otherwise, unless you like to gamble. That's really not true. There's a ton of fantastic restaurants/coffee places that don't exist in the suburbs (Mudgie's, Slowe's, Great

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