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by nbouscal 14y ago
> No objects = no subtyping. That statement is patently false.
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by nbouscal 14y ago
Yeah, you're entirely missing the point. I haven't rendered any opinions regarding current laws other than to say that they are not relevant in this particular issue. I'm saying that the concern is the culture, not the law. The reason I'm t
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by nbouscal 14y ago
See my reply to you elsewhere in this comment tree re: law vs. culture.
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by nbouscal 14y ago
> You're absolutely right that I'm talking about the law, and that I'm not talking about if the joke is sexist or not. That's what this discussion should be about, shouldn't it? No. Absolutely not. The law defines things for the legal s
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by nbouscal 14y ago
It exists, but if you read past where you clipped the quote, you notice that all he's saying is that in the valley demand is extremely high. Demand in other places is significantly lower. (Speaking partly from personal experience, as I do n
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by nbouscal 14y ago
Consistently throughout this thread you go off into a legal discussion when that's not what anyone is trying to talk about. We're talking about sexism. The question is whether or not the joke was sexist. The answer is that it was not. Jokes
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by nbouscal 14y ago
Interesting how well this aligns with http://paulgraham.com/identity.html . You basically seem to be saying that you are more trusting of people who follow pg's advice in that essay, and I'm inclined to agree with you on that particular po
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by nbouscal 14y ago
The jokes were not sexist. I've had to type that sentence so many times the keys are starting to wear in. The jokes were not sexist. They were not about women, directed towards women, or discriminatory towards women. They didn't have anythi
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by nbouscal 14y ago
They were not sexual jokes at Adria's expense. They were not sexual jokes about women. They were not sexist jokes. They were jokes about dongles. Men make dick jokes. Women make dick jokes. They're usually in bad taste, but they are in no w
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by nbouscal 14y ago
That's actually really not accurate at all. If feminism were that simple of a concept, discussing it would be a hell of a lot easier. First off you have the whole "wave" notion, where feminism has changed dramatically over time. Second, mos
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by nbouscal 14y ago
Depending on the context, I might do the same thing. What I wouldn't do is act as though I was the defender of a righteous cause and that the guy making the dick joke was somehow oppressing my <minority group>. Dick jokes may be in
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by nbouscal 14y ago
Okay, I understand the disconnect now, but I still disagree with you. First off, you've consistently used the word routinely without establishing that that word applies. This event does not count as a routine. I'm sure that other people hav
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by nbouscal 14y ago
I find this one to be much more amusing, and also isn't somewhat inaccurate like the other. Good stuff.
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by nbouscal 14y ago
This makes absolutely no sense to me. Watch how fast my friends stop making gamer jokes when our sports-fan friend walks up. Is that "jock-ist"? Of course not. It's taking into consideration that the topic being discussed isn't likely of in
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by nbouscal 14y ago
This is exactly why I feel like the only person actually guilty of sexism here is Adria herself. She's belittling her own gender by acting as though women cannot be around sexual humor.
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by nbouscal 14y ago
That's what I don't understand - where the hell did sexism come into this? Telling dirty jokes is not sexist. Women tell dirty jokes too. This whole thing doesn't make any sense at all.
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by nbouscal 14y ago
Your pinky shouldn't have to stretch to reach Ctrl because your Caps Lock key should be remapped to Ctrl.
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by nbouscal 14y ago
The movie glossed over some details. In the book, Soylent was a variety of different things, with a soya and lentil base (hence the name), and only Soylent Green specifically was the problematic one, it being the newest release. (I haven't
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by nbouscal 14y ago
What, exactly, is your point? Are you actually using anecdotal evidence to try to state generally that people don't need the mail? I certainly hope not, because I thought the level of discourse was at least a little bit higher here than tha
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by nbouscal 14y ago
Because people should be able to send things through the mail affordably regardless of where they live. That is a value that we used to hold as a country. Admittedly, that was back when at least a few of us actually viewed ourselves cohesiv
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by nbouscal 14y ago
What does this day and age have to do with it? Things still need to get from one place to another. It is still a laudable goal to have the cost of that process be socialized; that aspect has not changed. Yes, many things have gone digital,
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by nbouscal 14y ago
It's not a straw man if the views being ascribed to the movement at large are the views being conveyed by the movement at large. If you were to try to learn about the paleo diet from the perspective of someone who had never heard of it, you
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by nbouscal 14y ago
I find myself typing `sudo !!` on a daily basis. You'd think I'd eventually learn to remember to type sudo the first time, but nope.
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by nbouscal 14y ago
I'm still too new to Lisp to answer this question, but I have seen the book Let Over Lambda recommended as having answers to that and similar questions.
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by nbouscal 14y ago
I think you're dead on and that's the factor a lot of techie people seem to completely fail to understand. We look at this stuff through a completely different lens than the typical consumer. Back in the awful days when I was retailing comp
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by nbouscal 14y ago
I've been using my Cr-48 with Linux for development and it's actually pretty doable, and it only has 16GB and obviously much worse specs. This is, of course, going to depend very heavily on what kind of development you're doing.
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by nbouscal 14y ago
He's not claiming otherwise, he's claiming that they frequently aren't used for anything more than that.
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by nbouscal 14y ago
I'm still using mine (got it December 2010), but I replaced the ChromeOS with a Linux. It actually works great, especially for a free laptop that's over two years old. I agree that the last several updates to ChromeOS made things worse rath
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by nbouscal 14y ago
You can also just map <c-c> <esc> and not have to ever worry about the edge cases.
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by nbouscal 14y ago
Yeah, there are really two major problems with the story. First, that he drove off with 32 miles left. Even if they did say it was okay, a rational consumer would be pretty skeptical. This also creates the problem that the story depends on

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