sunahsuh

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by sunahsuh 15y ago
> The fact that women (and children) are getting screwed by our societal norms/policies does not prove men really have it much better. But economics does. And yes, how many men would be happier if society didn't try to tie so much of th
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
The role-model issue is huge. When you look at the kinds of people doing certain things and realize none of them look anything like you, it's easy to cross it off your list of possibilities because we're reasonable beings who conclude, "w
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
I'm sure biology has something to do with it but that's another simplistic assumption that hasn't been adequately tested (and is convenient for some to believe), and there's a lot of evidence that immense societal pressures push women to do
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
However, the fact that the patterns of behavior aren't random does clue you in that there are systemic factors involved, which can be analyzed and tested. Yes, every person makes an individual decision based on countless variables but that
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
This is the same individualistic fallacy that comes up over and over again. Yes, individual actions matter for your own personal integrity, but focusing on those as a solution to what is essentially a systemic problem ignores root causes. S
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
> Anyway, these measures are treating a symptom. The real problem is that the federal government is vastly too large in size and scope. Reduce the power and programs run by the federal government, and radically simplify the tax code, an
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
I think this was on the front page not too long ago: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o... When an org gets to a certain size, it tends to self-organize into a dysfunctional hierarchy...
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
It's not an easy fix, but there's been a lot of scholarly work that points to some of the "societal beliefs" you talk about reverse engineering (grad school protip: that reverse engineering is called "deconstructionism" and there's an entir
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
I dunno, their recommendation engine was scary good -- the technology Ebay's acquiring isn't anything to sniff at. They reportedly have a defensive portfolio of pending patents: http://www.formspring.me/hunch/q/169651283274266480 Ebay's b
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
Well, no, I think the parent's tone is a bit paternalistic whomever the audience, so I'd say the author should consider writing differently regardless of who's reading. I guess there are several things that rub me the wrong way about the co
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
I'm certainly not disagreeing with what you're saying or the core of what the parent meant to say regarding images of blacks in the media. What I'm reacting to is an "Othering" of blacks on HN implied by the comment. A phrase like "these gi
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
...you write this like you don't expect any black people to be reading your comment. I'm offended by reading this, so I can't imagine how black readers of HN that come across this feel. Also, they're African-American. And no, that's not n
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
My friend Eric's courteous.ly (featured on lifehacker and mashable a few months back) does something similar except it uses rolling data points to determine what "normal" is for you, as opposed to a single absolute scale for everyone. The a
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
I think it probably belongs here because of what it portends for Facebook's future plans with project spartan and not for its actual content..
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
My family didn't own a computer until after I had read my first programming book (I was in 2nd grade, the computer in my classroom fascinated me, and the public library had a book about BASIC.) Curiosity always finds a way.
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
It's been a while since I did my IRB training but I believe activities here are exempt since there's no federal funding involved. Privately funded research (for instance, the social sciency papers involving human subjects that come out of M
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
If you find this interesting, I'd highly recommend "Racing the Beam" by Montfort and Bogost, which talks about Atari development from both a technical and a cultural perspective. It really goes into detail about some of the landmark games t
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
I've been looking for something like that as I've been thinking about restarting an investment account. Want a founding partner? ;)
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
I refuse to grow some fucking testicular fortitude and resent your implication that fortitude is masculine ;)
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
A couple of issues: -I suppose as someone that gets the majority of my food from a local CSA, the farmer's market and a food co-op, I'm allowed to challenge your point in your reckoning. But I very fortunately live in a community where such
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
Yes. Because it's not called bias, it's called ethics and they help me sleep at night. And while the Apple issue was not applicable to me (I can't remember the last dollar I spent on an Apple product), I do, for instance, make a conscious e
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
I had a similar problem for an HCI project where we used a Greek word as the name and we got reamed in our reviews for the name being "unusable." I'd say change it -- it doesn't evoke any connotations for the user nor is it easily pronounce
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
...and that's why I'm a bit of a socialist ;) Textbook free market theories make a lot of idealistic assumptions that just aren't true in the real world. The best product doesn't always win, particularly when your competitor sees easier rou
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
Just wanted to plug the FSF's documentary "Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system" -- actually watched it this past Friday. It's only half an hour long: http://patentabsurdity.com/
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
I can think of at least two pragmatic, immediate reasons the patent system needs to be addressed: -The HTML5 video codec wars and the rise of patent pool companies like the MPEG-LA (which, besides licensing H.264, is reportedly forming a pa
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
Calculus and RSA -- two things that I think most of us would agree are "non-obvious" and were invented independently.. and may I add that the documented independent inventions were generally with a few years of each other? The evidence sugg
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by sunahsuh 15y ago
While I agree that the second case is often the norm, I do have one counter-example -- I used to work for Riverbed Technology, a 9 year old company which does WAN optimization and competes against Cisco and Bluecoat, among others. Riverbed