tim_chevalier

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by tim_chevalier 14y ago
It's named after a fungus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28fungus%29
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by tim_chevalier 14y ago
There's plenty that's been written about trans issues and gender issues, much of which is available for free on the Web. Trans people are not unpaid tutors or teachers for cis people (if you don't know what "cis people" means, look it up).
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by tim_chevalier 17y ago
On this point, I recommend Douglas Hofstadter's "Person Paper on Purity in Language": http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html Hofstadter makes the same point (that words that claim to be both gendered and gender-neutr
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by tim_chevalier 17y ago
So if somebody raped your mother, it would make you happier if they felt no remorse than if they said they were sorry about what they'd done?
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by tim_chevalier 17y ago
puzzled My name, as the author, is at the top. Do you know a lot of women named "Tim"? (Kake, the original author, is a woman, but I contributed that particular item. Yes, I know that's not obvious from the list, which is why I clarified.
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by tim_chevalier 17y ago
The second point was meant to be about inanimate software constructs: for example, "This guy jumps to that guy without pushing a new stack frame." The difference between "hi guys and girls" and "hi guys and girls, I guess, too, if you want
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by tim_chevalier 17y ago
Sorry, I call bullshit. Under some theories (not particularly more or less credible than yours), rape is an "evolutionary urge". As is sex between adult men and 13-year-olds, as are all kinds of violent acts. Part of being an adult human is
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by tim_chevalier 17y ago
I'm a guy.
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by tim_chevalier 17y ago
Interestingly enough, the maintainer of the checklist (me) is a man who went to Wellesley.