sinity

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by sinity 4y ago
> Really? I know people who specifically chose their entire major based on the ratio of women in that major. I've chosen my high school (CS-profiled) and major without any such consideration and ended up having ~0 contact with femal
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by sinity 4y ago
> Seems extremely stupid of us to be kicking out highly educated individuals basically randomly. I don't understand why the US won't allow me to migrate*. Presumably someone from the EU making above-average salary should be net
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by sinity 4y ago
> This idea that it’s more worthwhile to wail at the sky about how the world works rather than acknowledge it and seek to take advantage of other areas of life where the scales are tipped in your favor fucking mystifies me. Yep. This dis
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by sinity 4y ago
> Less attractive girls get less male attention no matter what. Why would it be any more demoralizing if that attention comes with tutoring? Why would it be distracting? And fuckton of men get literally 0 attention. That's, of cours
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by sinity 4y ago
> These are vulnerable people that the app users are taking advantage of and trying to manipulate into an intimate relationship. Of course. Men should just stay alone, unless they are hyper attractive. Because _attempting_ to get to kno
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by sinity 4y ago
> to engage with a drunk girl who can't properly consent Shouldn't we disallow girls from drinking alcohol, then? It's rather weird to allow parties with alcohol, and then claim that rape occured "because someone was
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by sinity 4y ago
> why do you think several of the women are demoralized by this environment if there's nothing going wrong here? So if some woman is demoralized solely by my presence, I should move out of her sight? Oh, also: these demoralized wome
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by sinity 4y ago
> why are they relying on such disturbing tactics to meet women in the first place? Seems rather ingenious, frankly. What tactics should they rely on, exactly? "Intelligent and decent" alone aren't traits that are necessar
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by sinity 4y ago
> Sensible women want to get to know friends in a gradual, natural fashion and perhaps be a little wowed in non-obvious ways. How do you befriend these "sensible women" if it's apparently not okay to go where they are -- b
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by sinity 4y ago
So, the social norms are that men are supposed to approach women to form relationships. But they can't even offer women free tutoring lessons... because other women feel bad about it? Wat? Or women are offended, supposedly rightfully,
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by sinity 4y ago
> "corporations are people" argument that convinces corporate lawyers and judges but literally no one else. Ok, I just have to link this here; https://youtu.be/dKFunwOzEos?t=711
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by sinity 4y ago
GPT-3 is learning from ridiculously dense data through. Also, about volume of data processed by the brain: https://gwern.net/Differences
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by sinity 4y ago
It's not in any danger, unless US is truly r-d. And if so, if EU somehow isn't that stupid, they won't reverse rules they already made about data mining & scrapping. Which explicitly allow ML stuff. Also Japan - and they
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by sinity 4y ago
> American students are taking on enormous debts to pay for an ever increasingly size of administrative busy bodies who come up with nonsense like this to justify their existence. Now also taxpayers, because of debt cancellation. It&#x27
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by sinity 4y ago
> I don't see an end to this, I think it's getting worse. It looks like a revolution picking up speed. The places that stopped revolutions did it with very heavy measures. If there is a way to stop this that is not that, I don&
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by sinity 4y ago
Relevant: George Carlin on euphemisms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc
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by sinity 4y ago
> Some people recognize that language has impact on others, despite the intentions of the speaker. Fine; can we ban "nail polish remover"? I'm a Pole, and this reminds me of Nazis killing millions of poles. When will someo
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by sinity 4y ago
> That's not going to happen, because these fascist nutjobs are teaching our children to think the way they do. Eh, that'd cause children to be innoculated to these if anything.
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by sinity 4y ago
> Moving away from "slave" was reasonable It wasn't, because it didn't make any sense. Using 'slave' as a metaphor doesn't imply slavery is good.
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by sinity 4y ago
> I've been told I wasn't allowed to color code anything in a UI I worked on because "someone might be living with color vision deficiency". Refuse to do GUI at all - surely terminal is better for blind people.
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by sinity 4y ago
Suggesting that women are less likely to want to be plumbers? (Nothing) Suggesting that women are less likely to want to be programmers? Get fired, and yelled at by the media.
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by sinity 4y ago
> Doctor’s and lawyers have specific value in being restricted because the harm is so high. Nah. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional > The notion of a professional can be traced to medieval Europea
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by sinity 4y ago
> "I'm black and find the usage of 'slave' problematic" is, I think, more than reasonable, and a concrete situation. I don't think so. If it is, then so is being offended about 'kill' command. Why
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by sinity 4y ago
> Unfortunately, there's no way an institution is going to push back If everyone pushed back harder, perhaps things would be different. From what I remember, HN reacted mostly positively to someone's speculation that 'mast
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by sinity 4y ago
> Touchy metaphorical language like "slave replica" Why is that touchy? It doesn't make any value judgements about slavery. It's just referencing the concept. If referencing the concept is bad, then I guess schools sh
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by sinity 4y ago
Sure, but crypto allows these because it's not as easily controlled by the governments as other things. Same with cash. Which governments increasingly constrain, for this reason. Yet there are not as many people commenting enthusiastic
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by sinity 4y ago
> Lots of average Joes saw a superbowl ad, put their money into a large, well-respected exchange that didn’t promise impossible returns, and lost everything! Happens in everything. Corporations can fail. Trad-finance institutions can fai
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by sinity 4y ago
Well, I _might've_ used it for a few illegal transactions. Like purchases of prohibited substances. (also some legal ones, tho) It's a feature, obviously. Why is "useful for illegal transactions" supposed to be a bad thi
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by sinity 4y ago
He seemingly backtracked on the claims it will be "letter of the law". He confirmed that he will keep moderation of "hate speech" and so on. But then, his enemies also flip their position all the time, synchronized to al
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by sinity 4y ago
> Funny... I think the exact opposite. The spammers and bot-herders will flock to buy blue ticks in order to look more legit. The rest of us don't basically give a fuck. $8/m/bot is a lot compared to $0. > The rest of u

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