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by tbrake 13y ago
> Why can't we accept that a lot less women are interested in entrepreneurship and technology than men? Because "accepting" it means conceding that it's an unalterable and permanent condition - often times expressed a
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by tbrake 13y ago
All of these sound like symptoms of a total loss of control. Whether through poorly negotiated contract or necessity, you're in a position where decisions of any importance are taken out of your hands. Not being the master of your own
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by tbrake 13y ago
83 intrigues me. Even with the move by many sites of having to pay to message, there is still a huge problem with the experience for women dating online. Very few of my female friends even want to try it, given the horror stories they'
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by tbrake 13y ago
> Once 50% of software engineers are women, and once women have exactly the same interests and values and beliefs as men, I'm struggling to interpret that sentence in a charitable manner. Could you clarify what you meant? Are you sa
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by tbrake 13y ago
No, it's read left to right. In 1928 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk started a plan[1] to ditch the old form of written Turkish (Ottoman Turkish which was RTL[2]) and implement one based on the latin alphabet in order to fight a huge illiteracy
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by tbrake 13y ago
1 beard trick, surely?
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by tbrake 13y ago
They would. The traveller has accidentally doomed them all. edit: this is based on an unfounded assumption because of the wording of the problem - they may only know they don't have blue eyes. But when I read "100 have blue eyes a
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by tbrake 13y ago
IMO we're past the point of the layperson being so technically hopeless they'd swallow this whole. I grant the numbers are still out there, but I think the people convinced/reassured/calmed by this kind of PR are that wa
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by tbrake 13y ago
If the author was really being asked to implement features in a codebase that were expected to go live at end of day that's just exploitative and they have every right to be upset at being asked to do that for free.
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by tbrake 13y ago
I'm halfway in the same boat. I can't totally empathize with this scenario, but I can definitely understand that someone who sent someone else intimate pictures would feel violated at them finding their way into the public and top
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by tbrake 13y ago
You're right in that there's a mess of openings and endgame theory to know if you want to start competing seriously, but it's also possible to improve your tactical vision - which is the bulk of your practical playing strengt
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by tbrake 13y ago
Probably not. I think that battle is over I enjoy the pragmatic stance of Anand on the matter http://www.chessquotes.com/player-anand : There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tact
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by tbrake 13y ago
Fortunately for Vishy, Magnus is a fighter who wants to play interesting chess, and this will at least give him a chance as in the 3rd round. Carlsen has unmatched playing strength and I feel if he truly wanted a draw in each of the last si
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by tbrake 13y ago
I feel like there's probably an unironic tumblr out there, mad at the doge meme, and it sounds exactly like this.
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by tbrake 13y ago
You could keep multiplying m by itself, sure, but in practice you're dealing with numbers so huge that it rapidly becomes impractical to test all values in the range m^2 to whatever (e.g. m^49863657239487123495780934672309687239458732
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by tbrake 13y ago
This doesn't seem to be what the article is about at all though. It sounds like you accept evidence whereas he's trying to draw a parallel between the difficulty of arguing with people who reject evidence. But you're also fra
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by tbrake 13y ago
I wasn't intending to be nitpicking or pedantic when I wrote it - it was just something I remembered off the top of my head - but those aren't, strictly speaking, pterodactyls. I hadn't considered that the use was the generic
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by tbrake 13y ago
Pterodactyls were small. They had roughly the same wingspan as the modern bald eagle.
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by tbrake 13y ago
It was more a meta comment about (the myth of) informed consumers than it was an attack/call to action on GMO foods or food labeling ((spoiler alert: I like GMO foods)). In fact, I explicitly made mention of an alternate reason for wan
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by tbrake 13y ago
Maybe they disagree with GM business practices and don't want to buy them. Is such information available from the stores? On the packaging? At a kiosk somewhere? Where? It's the flipside of the oft proposed "let them vote wit
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by tbrake 13y ago
Reminds me that webtender is still going strong. The younguns at work were terrified of its layout and design when I showed it to them but it's a solid site.
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by tbrake 13y ago
I think it's quite clearly satire : "Hell, look at me. Other than my affluent Orange County family, my Stanford bachelor’s degree, and the $10 million that my uncle invested as seed capital for my innovative advice column start-up
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by tbrake 13y ago
Disrupt Health!
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by tbrake 14y ago
Though it wasn't described in the post, I think how the line was delivered would matter - unblinking eye contact with negative body language? probably bad. Half smile with a little incredulity and palms up? better. Although, if you're tryi
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by tbrake 14y ago
Good stuff. Reminded me that the Postmodernism Generator is still out there as well, and as equally, gloriously incomprehensible : http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/