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by sridca 11y ago
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Lambdaconf_incident > In March 2016, the organizers of [LambdaConf] announced that they would include neo-reactionary Curtis Yarvin on the program despite widespread protest. ---
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Comment from a Uber driver: > you know this is bullshit, this is so sexist and honestly very offensive. I am an UBER driver and im an excellent driver and treat all my riders with respect and equality. This app is basically saying that
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by sridca 11y ago
> This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but you don't even need to track calories. Just have a mindful sense when you eat,[...] I neither track calories, nor have "a mindful sense" when eating. My trick is to have no
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by sridca 11y ago
> It's a bit disturbing to me how enthusiastically the SlaterStarCodex crowd latches onto this "fuck you, got mine" essay, gushing with praise and admiration about telling it like it is. The entire thing is a rationalizat
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He had come to believe that the arrival of the birth-control pill, in the early sixties, which he’d originally celebrated, encouraged many men to expect sex on demand: “Women had won the legal right to choose but had lost the right to choo
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What's different however is men hardly get the equivalent empathy for the said hardships.
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> Then why is it excluded as an option for Xamarin.Forms or iOS/Android projects in Studio? Try the preview version (6.0) where F# is enabled for those project types as well: https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion&#x2
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This is great to hear. The prospect of writing cross-mobile apps in F# is very exciting.
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Phantasmagoric visions of smugness, homeopathy and, now, panacea notwithstanding - what this "someone who needs to get out of bed and struggles with it" can do (unless they are somatically inept) is just move their limbs and get o
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The "do it" part refers to the physical action of moving ones limbs and getting out of the bed after the alarm goes off. And the qualifier "just" refers to one doing exactly that (and only that). Whereas you have gone as
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> Does anybody have any actual advice for getting out of bed? The only advice that is guaranteed to work: "Just do it."
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Unless the customer intends to be a regular, that is.
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Ah OK, yes that is fucked up. So there are subconscious biases at play in tipping, which is all the more reason to get rid of it. You'd think the social justice folks would be at the forefront of advocating such a thing, but alas ... I
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> Removing tipping removes a fundamentally personal element from the service economy. What is the nature of this "personal element" exactly[1]? All I expect from a waiter is that they bring what I actually ordered, and bring th
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by sridca 11y ago
> What kind of a fucking awful system do we have where hot white girls are better coworkers simply because they're hot white girls, and not because they do a good job? Uh? Is that just your opinion or are there studies to back it?
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I eat out every day, and always tip the recommended percentage out of nothing more than it being a social norm. There was a period (about a month) wherein I decided not to tip out of principle[1] and it only made me feel guilty. I support t
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If not investors, then who? My point would still remain, and it getting down-voted to oblivion is not going to change the factuality of it (else, someone would have contradicted it by now).
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My feeling is that it is impossible to achieve autonomy in the workplace for no other reason than the fact that the factors for what you end up doing in day-to-day job is, ultimately (if not immediately), dictated by the investors of the co
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by sridca 11y ago
Oh, it is Mark Watson! When I first came across your blog (via Clojure stuff) what fascinated me most about you was your sustained passion despite age. It actually gave me further assurance that my current passion for programming need no
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Why don’t I know any single men?(blogs.harvard.edu)
10 points by sridca 11y ago|6 comments
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I am noticing a clear trend. Why are articles like this less likely to stay in the front page?
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> Plus the gender ratio is much better for men almost anywhere else. Could you elaborate?
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I simply don't get it. There is no sensible reason in using the various patterns -- such as to " start humbly by saying you might be wrong / you're not sure / ... " -- " to dull the edges of an opinion &q
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Okay. That's in fact how the nytimes article started: > One engineer, for instance, had told researchers that his team leader was " direct and straightforward , which creates a [psychological] safe space for you to take risk
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I would like to hear about more about point number two. Specifically, is "talking about our insecurities, fears and aspirations" (quoted from the nytimes article) part of it?
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I have a similar arrangement (live in a furnished apartment, don't own stuff, etc) except there is no gift problem - as in my culture (India) reunions are more common than gift-giving. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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That's interesting. Could that be because those filters are imaginary in nature? After all, no specific brain activity can be detected on a person imagining Santa Claus to be real either.
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India not to allow software patents(business-standard.com)
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> First: What do you mean when you talk about Stoicism working - What do you think is the goal of Stoicism? As the goal of Stoicism is maintaining happiness -- and I'm referring to living in peace and harmony 24x7 -- via virtue, the
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Let me rephrase the question such that evasions via Tu quoque are rendered impossible: is there a known case (as in, a person) where Stoicism does work consistently? And if there is no such case (as in, no such person) where Stoicism wo

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