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by s_baby 14y ago
It's not something you can completely measure economically. A coal miner makes decent money but how do you put a price tag on black lung or being crushed to death? >When I did the research for a book called The Myth of Male Power I dis
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by s_baby 14y ago
What about women in coal mines and crab fishing boats? It's true that a man has greater mobility towards the top of the career ladder but this "privilege" also exposes him to the much more likely risk of ending up on the bottom of the ladd
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by s_baby 14y ago
-Learn x86 assembly (to start). Or better yet build a single bus architecture in something like Logisim[1]. It's much easier to learn a simple instruction set architecture down to the logic gates then it is to learn x86 assembly. http://o
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by s_baby 14y ago
>If you redefine any word into a fine enough mist, you can make it mean anything you want. Yea, that's my point. >So does cream spreading out in a cup of coffee. Is that teleological, too? Absolutely. Otherwise my previous juxtapos
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by s_baby 14y ago
I don't know the answer but this is "mission critical" code. Averaging inputs is more testable than having a process for passing control and managing edge cases. Every branch in mission critical code is tested for all possible permutations.
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by s_baby 14y ago
>We can say that it very likely isn't a teleological process, because, one, we have no evidence it is; two, we have a lot of evidence that seems to say it isn't; A) Even an organism "at rest" is actively moving against the direction of
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by s_baby 14y ago
>in any event, it's not helpful to provide disincentives for companies to own up to mistakes. This is why the 99%( particularly left ) have trouble creating political capital. The rabble of the mob doesn't always provide rational incen
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by s_baby 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_developmental_biol... Biological systems are highly coupled but also very "fault" tolerant if manipulated at the right pivot points. That's why you can move a fly leg from the torso to the head b
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by s_baby 14y ago
So is instilling self-limiting beliefs.
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by s_baby 14y ago
I mean it works rhetorically. I don't agree with the level of victimhood Women's Studies imparts. It's dis-empowering and leads to bitterness.
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by s_baby 14y ago
>Painting men as super villains in some grand 'Dan Brown'ian plot of conspiracy against women will NOT work. It works because it plays into traditional gender roles. You don't have to be a bleeding heart liberal to believe women are th
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by s_baby 14y ago
There's a difference between making a kid feel capable as anyone else and making them feel they're special. The latter leads to narcissism.
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by s_baby 14y ago
Cliche boomer, blaming the generation before them. /joking
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by s_baby 14y ago
Since when are "zero tolerance" policies a good idea. They always end up marginalizing someone.
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GNU code has been recommended to me. SQLite
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by s_baby 14y ago
>Derailment is a purely rhetorical technique, so I'm not seeing the problem. The problem is you made an appeal to authority to "derailing for dummies"... >It's to devalue the given examples of sexist behavior so that the privileged
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by s_baby 14y ago
>I'm sorry you've received crap. Due to your gender or anything else. But understand that jumping into a discussion of sexism with "but that happens to me too!" is such a common problem that it's listed in the "Derailing for Dummies" gu