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by needacig 12y ago
A bohemian skirt, a headband, and some flats.
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by needacig 12y ago
This exists: https://blocktogether.org/
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by needacig 12y ago
She explains that she could not have reported the rape without destroying most of her personal and professional relationships, because the perpetrator was someone who was central in her social circles (possibly even considered a friend befo
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by needacig 12y ago
She explains that she could not have reported the rape without destroying most of her personal and professional relationships, because the perpetrator was someone who was central in her social circles. See her comment here: https:/&#x
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by needacig 12y ago
It would be great to know if this is still useful to get as an adult older than the age 26 mentioned in the article.
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by needacig 12y ago
I think you're reading too much into the question. It's not really ambiguous -- he is asking if any citizens of Mexico been accepted to Y-combinator. It's a yes or no question that could be answered more fully with a single n
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Mission District Supervisor Campos proposes market-rate housing moratorium(sfhac.org)
3 points by needacig 12y ago|0 comments
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by needacig 12y ago
"if the species had to rely completely on neurotypicals, we'd still be living in caves and wearing hides" That's incredibly rude and condescending, and patently untrue.
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by needacig 12y ago
The names of the cities in the charts on the y-axis are cut off.
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by needacig 12y ago
What's so alarming about being thought female?
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by needacig 12y ago
Funny, on my FB feed just last week a woman posted an X-ray or some such image with the caption "perforated uterus due to IUD migration" and another woman commented on her photo that it had happened to her too. I don't know h
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by needacig 12y ago
Adium connected to Google Talk and AIM. It's possible to connect other chat services but I don't.
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by needacig 12y ago
There is a related HN post a few pages away for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7686491
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by needacig 13y ago
This is way more useful than the original post, thanks.
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by needacig 13y ago
So, a bakery that delivers? The tech industry sure is expanding its scope.
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by needacig 13y ago
People who are working for equality are trying to equalize military involvement.
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by needacig 13y ago
Thank you for saying something this time. I agree this "impressionability is a character flaw" business is bull. As if reacting badly to other people behaving negatively toward you and excluding you is something only worthless peo
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by needacig 13y ago
You have explained perfectly what I also believe. My experience supports this. I wish I could upvote you more.
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by needacig 13y ago
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken I'd add to that, that there are many, many examples of successful produ
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by needacig 13y ago
Props to you for owning up to being a sexist. I am too. Pretty much everyone has sexist and racist biases. It's the sea we swim in. I wish more people would face up to it like you. Some conversations would be easier if people didn&#x27
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by needacig 13y ago
"And Darwinian evolution has been cited as justification for letting the poor starve. So what?" So that's f*cked up. Those people should not do that. And that kind of reasoning is not even good scientific reasoning, which is
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by needacig 13y ago
Why do you make the implicit assumption that innate performance gaps (in things like math and editing prose especially) fall along gender lines? A better null hypothesis is that there is no connection between gender and these skills. By the
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by needacig 13y ago
"On the other hand, that's a tyrannical society which forcibly boosts girls and women at the expense of boys and men." First of all, as others have pointed out, equality does not mean forcing everyone to have equal abilities.
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by needacig 13y ago
``Differences in biology'' are consistently cited as justification for sexist beliefs. (An example of a sexist belief is, ``women are better suited to careers requiring nurturing and communication over logic and leadership.'&
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by needacig 13y ago
"I don't know why the notion of different brain chemistry is so threatening to some groups, but it is what it is." Maybe because such notions have historically been and still are used to justify biases that underly sexist beh
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by needacig 13y ago
tl;dr More "proof" that men are biologically superior to women.
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by needacig 13y ago
Can you give more hints about this word? I want to know and I don't get the hint.
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by needacig 13y ago
+1 for experiencing negative effects on memory after a while. I had that too.
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by needacig 13y ago
+1 to feeling more sociable while on these drugs. Whether that is a good thing depends on your personal preferences. I don't generally like being talkative and I don't really like talkative people, so in retrospect, I don't a
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by needacig 13y ago
I've taken Modafinil in the past for this reason, for about six months. It made me temporarily more productive, alert, and able to focus (for the first two months, I'd say), but then I started to become habituated and the effect w

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