nightspirit

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by nightspirit 9y ago
> If less than 25% of CS graduates are female, which is currently the case, it strongly suggests that attempting to make the engineering team 50% female will result in a lower hiring bar for women. If Google is anything like Redacted, th
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by nightspirit 10y ago
The Great Firewall blocks porn so China probably isn't the country parent would use.
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by nightspirit 10y ago
I guess my original post wasn't very constructive. I wanted to say that seeing ads probably doesn't cause alcoholism, but OTOH, being unable to handle the thought that your precious snowflake could get to know about X too early is
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by nightspirit 10y ago
VPN hosting country, these are drones. Drones, meet the VPN host country... Or heck, just strong-arm them into adopting think-of-the-children laws one way or another.
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by nightspirit 10y ago
If you have something to say go ahead and enlighten us.
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by nightspirit 10y ago
Internet won't fuck up your children half as much as your intolerance of reality and their feelings will.
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by nightspirit 10y ago
The less you talk about drinking the more he'll hide it from you. Ditto with gambling and sex. My parents talked about everything besides sex and I never drank or gambled in excess. And I'll leave this post at that.
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by nightspirit 10y ago
> That's a great thought experiment: Is a site that serves ads that might contain 'adult' ads at times a porn site according to the British government and would need to verify that the visitor is of age? The simplest solut
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by nightspirit 10y ago
> initially looking to find some "HOTCHIX" to... solve an urge.. to 6 months later only getting off to really extreme stuff Been there, done that. Went away once I realized how fake and asexual porn actually is and that 90% of
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by nightspirit 10y ago
Yes, it is equivalent. The fact that you are deluded to think that you can change anybody's mind by repeating this "racism xenophobia sexual assault" mantra which literally everybody has already heard million times by now j
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by nightspirit 11y ago
I come from a Christian monoculture in Europe and find it hard to believe that other religions are any better. It's hard to argue with people who have been brainwashed that everything good comes from gods who also demand all those supe
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by nightspirit 11y ago
Reportedly, there are places in UK which don't recognize UK laws. edit: I mean practically, not formally. It's enough that violations of host country's laws stay unreported and violations of whatever other norms are punished
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by nightspirit 11y ago
I suppose parent may have been extrapolating their willingness to integrate from that of other immigrants from Muslim cultures who have been living in France/Germany/UK for decades.
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by nightspirit 11y ago
Don't worry, it'll take at least 15k years to blast a hole that big, unless the AI is really smart. And life seems to be quite resilient and eerily altruistic at times. We still haven't wiped this planet clear despite havin
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by nightspirit 11y ago
I tried to support accq's point that Einstein's "schema violation" was a joke compared to what's happening in case of Syrian refugees mentioned by the article. Those people migrate between vastly different culture
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by nightspirit 11y ago
It seems that most of the time people point verses 2:190-194 as example, but frankly, they only tell to "fight those who fight you" [1]. However, in practice apparently some leeway in definition of what constitutes an attack on be
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by nightspirit 11y ago
Your post is borderline offtop and I can see it downvoted to hell, but you actually touch an important issue. Using the Internet for two decades I came across countless campaigns against systematic human rights violations or violence agains
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by nightspirit 11y ago
It's sad that a woman who, if she remained a part of this conflict she joined, was in position to experience and realize its sheer insanity and maybe slowly weaken the frame of other participants, instead got killed for desertion in pu
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by nightspirit 11y ago
> something that never happened to me with incandescents happened with halogens ... the halogen had blown up scattering little glass shards all over the living room I've had one incadescent explode. Maybe it didn't scatter glas
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by nightspirit 11y ago
> If a child goes routinely to school I would not call this an action under coercion I'm actually young enough to remember what school looked like and I'm sure as hell many of the kids wouldn't attend if they didn't k
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by nightspirit 11y ago
> I would add that I'm not exactly a Christian, although I find a lot of inspiration in the gospel and the writings of Christian thinkers -- so one doesn't have to go "all the way" and believe in life after death and
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by nightspirit 11y ago
> 3. Or maybe many of the people I know are in fact this unhappy, but they never tell anyone except their psychiatrist all of the pieces necessary to put their life story together. 4. Or maybe many of the people I know are in fact unhapp
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by nightspirit 11y ago
> Anyway, why would you want to go back? Like, curiosity? People used to think that God floats in clouds above flat Earth. Wouldn't you like to understand how exactly the belief in supernatural can make people happier and whether th
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by nightspirit 11y ago
> Kind peoples said 'ooh look! so bright! so more advanced than Jonny or Bea!' I said that I didn't think that she is going to be any better at walking than Jonny and Bea ultimately. Now you reminded me how I hated when pa
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by nightspirit 11y ago
> I've had some similar anecdotal experiences in an education franchise, where I've found that it's very difficult to convince boys or girls that math, physics, programming, or computer science is fun or worthy. I think ki
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by nightspirit 11y ago
And if you click the "Ellen Ternan" link there you will see that they lived together for 10 years and are even suspected of having a child (who died early).
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by nightspirit 11y ago
Reputation damage control. Same with telling the wife to stay with him even though neither of them saw any benefit in it, the children were already cared for by their aunt and Dickens was apparently "cared for" by a lover.
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by nightspirit 11y ago
It's something I call creationism. You give something a name ("insults"), ask some grammatically-correct questions about it ("where did it go?", "to whom did it stick?") and now you created this magic, m
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by nightspirit 11y ago
But the schools themselves are voluntary. I utterly fail to understand people who attend them and complain. (In fact, also those who don't complain, but that's another rant for another day...)
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by nightspirit 11y ago
Everyone is making such decisions on his own, obviously. It's bullshit to expect that people will seriously consider all ideas out there, no matter how weird or outright stupid they sound.

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