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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
I understand why you are not happy about exchanges like this, but why do you tell that only to me, and not to pvg? Surely insulting other users is against the guidelines? I tend to shoot back in the same tone that I am addressed with. Calli
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
I didn't consider ti flamebait, I considered it ridiculous. Not just one Twitter comment.
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
But that would not halting climate change now, but in a few decades when all the current vehicles have been replaced? Also afaik the CO2 difference between electric vehicles and fuel based vehicles is not even that great? The scary part is
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Again - I was referring to her tweets, commenting on the real US. Not her fiction. There were demonstrations inspired by her fiction. In the real world. She commented on those. Since then she has released a whole book about the US becoming
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Here in Germany we have an airport that has so far cost 5 Billion to build, and it doesn't even work yet. So you are saying, for just the cost of 200 of those airports, climate change could be halted? I find that extremely unlikely. I
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
What they want is that you need a diversity counselor for every action or endeavor you undertake in daily life. So it is deliberately confusing, to make it impossible to navigate without a gender studies degree.
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Again, that is not what I said. I said she endorsed a specific claim about the development in US society, that is absolutely ridiculous. It has nothing to do with Trump or her age. And what do you mean by "it is not even clear"? T
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
That's just gibberish designed to justify theft. A community (like a nation) can also have shared property, and defend it with a border.
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Same for property rights. So get rid of property rights? But then that would have to include sexual access to other people, which would also be violence.
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Yes I know that, but it confirms that it is now a realistic scenario for her. But as I said, my information was from her comments on "Handmaids Tale" demonstrations she made on Twitter, which she made before publishing the novel.
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
I forgot I mentioned the age - but still, it is in the opposite sense. It is not part of the reason I "dismiss" her now, I only mentioned it to soften the criticism. In any case, why shouldn't her actions be relevant? To me,
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
What about my "dismissal" is generic? I gave a specific reason for my dismissal. "Ok Boomer" or "she is old" would have been generic, but that is not what I wrote. I didn't mention her age at all.
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Thank you for taking the time trying to explain! Obviously, I disagree with many things about the approach HN has taken, but of course it is your site, you can do as you want. For starters, if you say people can just skip things that don&#x
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
It's not about Trump, it is about claiming the US is close to devolving into the state of handmaid's tale. I don't know how many people here have read it (the book, I mean). I have read it. It is a ridiculous claim.
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
I learned about it from her Twitter account, not sure if she talked about it elsewhere. Edit: it is also right on top of the article - "her long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, was released, and she became something else entirel
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
I honestly don't understand the distinction? The article is legit, because somehow it has authority by being published in a random media outlet? Is that it? Whereas my opinion is "flamebait" because I don't have authorit
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Doesn't that apply to the submission about Atwood, though? It seems to me the "political flamebait" rule is applied rather selectively on HN.
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
I'm still flabbergasted that she and others seriously proclaimed Trump's election would bring about the scenario of the handmaids tale. I guess she should be excused for being ridiculous because of her old age, but I've lost
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
OpenGL seems to have coexisted with DirectX for a while. I don't know enough about OS development to be able to judge if Microsoft prevented OpenGL from achieving the same performance as DirectX. Given the abysmal security history of W
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
I can't really follow the article. Too much paranoia, or negativity, I guess. All I care about is having a usable Linux shell and Linux tool on my Windows machine. What else can you expect from Microsoft? Yeah, they are doing it so tha
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Your story seems to indicate that it is not necessarily the school, though.
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Does where you worked depend that much on where you went to school, though? Sorry if I am not convinced. In my country most schools are considered somewhat equal. Maybe in the US it is very different.
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Does where you went to school really still matter when you are 30?
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
I said "if society wants it". At least society has a democratic choice. I grant that it can still amount to exploitation for some people. Also for society as whole perhaps even an economic argument could be made, like the benefits
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Why should talented kids be forced to sacrifice their progress and happiness to help the poor kids (or rather, for the odd chance it might help some poor kids)? That is tyranny, right there. The government is using their bodies, against th
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
Curiously, he doesn't seem to present any numbers on the outcome for the gifted children. All he says is that it is better for the other children if they learn together with the gifted children. I think parents of gifted children are f
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
That could also be explained by feminists aiming to list as many female academics as possible, so perhaps they are also likely to list many who are less noteworthy. It would be surprising if there was really a bias to delete entries about w
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
"for minorities, sometimes they (we?) must deal being talked about in nothing but soft articles" Rather than "deal", they could take it upon themselves to improve those articles. Who should be responsible for doing that?
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
That's not the point. The point is that it is a lie to claim she was forgotten because she was a woman.
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by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
No I get it, her formula is about ideal shapes (of bridges). It is still misleading. They could have written "who reshaped bridges". I suppose Grothendieck reshaped Mathematics - he invented a new way of looking at things, that ma

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