rectang

47 ms·

931.
by rectang 4y ago
My sense from reading the article is that they're not "pretending" so much as "not addressing". I'm persuaded that in terms of access to resources, equality brings benefits — for example, integrating women into
932.
by rectang 4y ago
> advantaged group members misperceive equality as necessarily harming their access to resources Equality may not harm advantaged groups materially (more likely equality brings material benefits), but the sense of your group's p
933.
by rectang 4y ago
> Is Italy, a country 200 years old, the heir of ancient Rome? This is an interesting question. The answer is hard to pin down precisely, but sometimes when there is a change of governance the culture continues to exist. For instance
934.
by rectang 4y ago
I use iOS Firefox, because I love desktop Firefox and I have Firefo set up with account sync across all my devices. But there's a feature of desktop Firefox which isn't available on the iOS version: remember zoom setting for a do
935.
by rectang 4y ago
The "Zamboni Goalie" David Ayers, provided by the Toronto Maple Leafs when both goalies for the visiting Carolina Hurricanes went down, notched a win for the visitors.
936.
by rectang 4y ago
I'm inclined to agree. CSVs which are well-formed (escapes within fields handled consistently) shouldn't be that hard to parse. I can't think of a reason your algo wouldn't be logically sound for good CSV files, although
937.
by rectang 4y ago
I'm an open source dev myself with lots of experience in remote collab in both open source and commercial, and I agree with EricE that there are downsides — and serious ones at that. However, there are benefits which are just as signi
938.
by rectang 4y ago
> Yup, and when they get to my age funnily enough they will be sounding much like me. They won't have all of your biases and hangups, though. They'll be out of touch with succeeding generations, but not for the same reason
939.
by rectang 4y ago
"Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey", LOL. Any other D&D-adjacent novels on your bingo board?
940.
by rectang 4y ago
> Any reason why Kindle edition is not available? Dunno why it's not on Amazon, but it's available as an eBook on SmashWords in several different formats including mobi (Kindle). https://www.smashwords.com/boo
941.
by rectang 4y ago
> Why would I want to do that? I only mention it to support the assertion that the gender imbalance exists. You wouldn't do it ordinarily. > I would like to see some data supporting the assumption that male-focused gender iss
942.
by rectang 4y ago
Anecdata: I advertised that I was only available part time on an HN "who's hiring" thread and got picked up by a startup (Smarter Dx). They weren't necessarily looking for someone part time, but I was a good fit.
943.
by rectang 4y ago
He's written a few. Damnation Kane , the story of a time-traveling pirate, is my favorite: https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Damnation-Kane-I/dp/138779... > Damnation Kane: Irish pirate captain, born in
944.
by rectang 4y ago
I played back in the day. I was terrible, insisting on omnipotent characters and unable to accept misfortune. If I were ever to return to play, I would aspire to have disposable characters die glorious deaths and weave an epic tragic tale
945.
by rectang 4y ago
> I aspire to a society where gender expression is independent from societal roles. Brilliant. We're all in this together struggling to be generous to each other. There will always be tension between men and women and divergent
946.
by rectang 4y ago
I submitted this link because I realized I was browsing dang's comment feed frequently, having found it both intellectually engrossing and a pleasing read. There are the occasional mini-essays where dang conveys philosophical tenets he
947.
Dang's Comments(news.ycombinator.com)
23 points by rectang 4y ago|3 comments
948.
by rectang 4y ago
I've deliberately used the generic term of "outgroup" because I think that the loophole present in "assume good faith" can be exploited to drive away any outgroup. The "outgroup" could be "horrify
949.
by rectang 4y ago
It's an example of the harms that emerge from hidebound gender roles, preconceptions about the desirability of male dominance and female submission, and stultified ideals of attractiveness. Just as women benefit when society learns to
950.
by rectang 4y ago
We'd be in a better place if we started from the assumption that everybody is prejudiced, it takes work for any of us to overcome it, and the work is never complete. I've seen hypocrisy and cruelty from people of all backgrounds.
951.
by rectang 4y ago
One day in my teens, it suddenly occurred to me that I preferred notebooks with no lines. Somehow I liked imposing my own form in the page. Sideways, slanted, crammed, big, small… whatever struck me in the moment. You’d think that lines w
952.
by rectang 4y ago
The point is that regardless of reason, women are by and large not well represented on HN. This is easily discovered by looking through the profiles of the top 100 posters and following the breadcrumbs. I recall that a few years ago, Dore
953.
by rectang 4y ago
To troll on HN, you just need to operate within some constraints. Two criteria need to be satisfied. First, to prevent your troll from being greyed out, you need to be in alignment with the dominant Hacker News zeitgeist. Downvotes don&#x
954.
by rectang 4y ago
The difference seems to be that the other person gets the last word and anybody who actively seeks out the conversation will see it, it just isn't promoted? Because if I understand correctly, once someone has been approved once in a R
955.
by rectang 4y ago
Allowing people to decide who they're going to engage with is freedom of association. Platforms which allow unlimited brigading prevent unpopular subcommunities from holding conversations amongst themselves. Hyper-polarization is not
956.
by rectang 4y ago
Yishan is bothsides-ing. It's a cop-out. I do not believe or claim that dang is personally biased against "my side". I think he tries incredibly hard and is rigorously driven to avoid bias because of the grand social exper
957.
by rectang 4y ago
Over the years I've left a couple hundred comments on Jezebel and TheRoot. I'd say a third or so have gotten ungreyed — almost exclusively replies on existing threads that have been either approved or replied to by the author of
958.
by rectang 4y ago
> I wonder how often you have made comments that others would consider "low grade harassment" and exclusionary I'm quite certain that I have done so on this very thread. I'm seeking an environment (a private forum)
959.
by rectang 4y ago
Well, the HN guidelines for downvoting consider disagreement a legitimate criteria. I take the downvotes as connoting mostly disagreement rather than a judgment that I was commenting in bad faith or posting something substance-free. The di
960.
by rectang 4y ago
A lot of the most provocative conversations I've read have been in siloed forums, where people are not constantly getting shouted down and interrupted and can actually string together coherent lines of thought. I would like it very muc

More ›