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by traderjane 7y ago
What if you ask what somebody does and she explains she’s a mom? You don’t obtusely ask, “But I didn’t ask if you were a mom. I didn’t even ask about your gender.” Life is gendered. It’s okay to reveal gender. And in the workplace, or even
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by traderjane 7y ago
Yes, you're saying you wish some people would stop analyzing badly. I presume you have more confidence in HN moderators who analyze personal history. There are some people you trust, and some you don't. I guess the deep distinctio
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by traderjane 7y ago
Compared to an Alzheimer's perspective? How does one even remotely discuss a history of unwell behavior? Obviously through a documentation of a person's history. Or does one somehow incredibly discuss a person from a single snapsh
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by traderjane 7y ago
I think it's more clear-headed to judge somebody from the perspective of history than as if you had Alzheimer's. What may be unfair is information asymmetry between the strong and the weak. As for the erroneous judgment stemming f
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by traderjane 7y ago
Cloudflare's Warp VPN service is provided under an app of that 1.1.1.1 name, which may be the confusion here.
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by traderjane 7y ago
The culture of "fake it till you make it" is sustained by the inability to tell real from fake; scammers are sustained by those who believe. Bad politicians are sustained by "bad" voters. Bad business practices are susta
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by traderjane 7y ago
Just the aggregate of the conservative population. It would be similar to saying that black people suffer discrimination in the US, to which I suppose you'd incredulously reply, "All of them? All black people? But I have a black f
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by traderjane 7y ago
If you call yourself not an accountant despite doing the bookkeeping I’m pretty sure other accountants wouldn’t bat an eye at that language. It happens all the time in startups. Yes the work isn’t “free” but everyone wears many hats in a st
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by traderjane 7y ago
This is but Man in High Castle-inspired fantasy. Maybe if Britain had taken over the world, there would be nothing to Brexit from.
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by traderjane 7y ago
What is the end game to your advice? China can successfully plant saboteurs into the movement and will win that game. The only people watching HK with sympathy are outsiders, and any intervention must be weighed against war. We already have
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by traderjane 7y ago
Sending the country through impeachment for a recording about President Trump grabbing women's vaginas is different from organizations evicting Richard Stallman. It is a difference of magnitude.
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by traderjane 7y ago
> So you're saying that the only people qualified to be "a leader" are the ones who subscribe to your particular flavour of groupthink and no other? Nice thought policing there. > Yes, I believe publicly advocating for
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by traderjane 7y ago
Gay rights are admirable to you. Rights for minorities like Latinos or blacks are admirable to you. But you don’t speak for places like America, which is diverse enough to politically contemplate whether gay people should be married or have
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by traderjane 7y ago
So people were right to suggest that black people need special policing at the time when it was the right political message, or Bernie Sanders was quite mistaken to advocate for gay rights at a time when it was a bad issue for any candidate
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by traderjane 7y ago
The truth is in the middle for all nations on this earth. Adopting reality as a context is not nihilism.
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by traderjane 7y ago
Here's the HTML version of the same thing: https://leanprover.github.io/theorem_proving_in_lean/
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by traderjane 7y ago
What about the US president? There's a recording of the president saying that he grabs women by their vagina. Surely it's not surprising to think that there's a critical voting demographic that believes such sexual violation
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by traderjane 7y ago
That's how the mainstream thinks all around the world; it's the rare position that believes principles rule society when consensus on any kind of vision for the human condition is so far out of reach.
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by traderjane 7y ago
Would it be less condescending if it didn't discuss requirements or difficulty?
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by traderjane 7y ago
In order for people to be in a town permanently the town must provide sufficient and affordable living opportunities for all its citizens. The town must also have a robust vision for young professionals, family life, and senior care, otherw
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by traderjane 7y ago
You don't need a government approved license to wait outside places where you know celebrities will show up and take pictures of them to sell.
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by traderjane 7y ago
It sounds like Harvard deals in merit and not egalitarianism, where merit considers the power you bring to the table and not merely your academic skill.
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by traderjane 7y ago
Just because there's the word hacker here doesn't mean this is a hacker space for hackers now, and nor that it will ever trend in that direction... Some people just want an emotionally calm place to discuss ongoing industry trends
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by traderjane 7y ago
Those areas where students are stressed out studying for their futures is probably not what this person is talking about. There are schools where scientific theories of biology and sexuality are discounted, as well as discussions on climate
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by traderjane 7y ago
How is this different from a clinician who has to diagnose autism without even such a handy instrument.
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by traderjane 7y ago
But the example you posted has more to do with whether a language or author has the aesthetics of preferring succinctness and symbols (Perl-like) to words (Ruby-like).
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by traderjane 7y ago
Jeffrey Epstein also met with presidents and other top level elites. Talking with academics is the expression of his power and not the source. Otherwise academics is the doorway into the social circle of presidents and other power elites, w
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by traderjane 7y ago
Some people enjoy secularism even if it brings a hard edge to those who desire a religiously wholesome society.
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by traderjane 7y ago
A lot of outsiders can agree that American tech has been vibrant, but what about America outside of tech? Do the other parts of American society smell intellectually vibrant? Other jobs outside of tech appear extremely de-skilled, so I wond
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by traderjane 7y ago
But how something is deployed is often not the job of the code author, as deployment has become its own technical craft. The argument should largely go to whether a tool can fit the domain given typical resource constraints (team size), not

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