sololipsist

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by sololipsist 9y ago
First of all, I was commenting on the quote out of context. That's why I objected to "the way it's phrased." I don't like the phrasing, whatever the context. There is no reason whatsoever that games need to give up
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by sololipsist 9y ago
I don't like the way it's phrased like an exclusive dichotomy, and that games must stop "pandering" to mastery to "embrace" intellectual life. This reads like someone who just likes film but doesn't like v
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by sololipsist 9y ago
> and while as a white man I experienced most likely much less of this I think you might be less confident about this if you examine your framing. Examining your own framing is difficult, so humor me while I examine the author's fra
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by sololipsist 9y ago
I'm noticing that, which is a little bit of a bummer. One of the other things I disliked about reddit is "science" or "technology" articles about things that are theoretically pretty cool if they exist , but don&#x
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by sololipsist 9y ago
The real question is: Why should it be fair? We don't live in an ideal world, we live in the real one. A "fair" tax rate, even if fairness could be quantified and applied, might very well be a rate that causes businesses to f
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by sololipsist 9y ago
Jesus, I just found this place while looking for a reddit alternative, and seeing comments like these are making me soooooooooooo happy. This is going to sound pretentious as fuck, but I'm gonna say it anyway: I'm so tired of the
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by sololipsist 9y ago
You don't understand. If women are better coders than men, then there are differences between the sexes. If men are more interested in coding than women, regardless of their relative skill, then there is no difference between sexes and
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by sololipsist 9y ago
Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell, the first author is an undergrad CS student. If I had to pick anyone to do a study like this, it wouldn't be someone who studies CS, it would be a social scientist. That b