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by tropdrop 6y ago
> It seems natural that they'd construct a system that's more suited for females than males. Public School Education in the US is not a hotbed of innovation – we are largely riding on the coattails of a system constructed by me
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Have you been to a dry-cleaner's? A bakery? A hair-dresser's? All of those were startups. Actually, South Korea has recently seen an influx of female entrepreneurs because their barriers to entry in tech were so high, it encourage
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by tropdrop 6y ago
No, the basic assumption is that women have equal rights. Most of the movement acknowledges real differences from men, aside from a subset of the movement that subscribes to the gender assignment idea, and its mutability. I would say it&#x2
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by tropdrop 6y ago
I've always maintained that women seem to me subtly more susceptible to peer pressure for most things, and a bigger part of that seems to be representation than for men. This is grounded in the massive shift in how the population of US
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by tropdrop 6y ago
I'm oddly delighted at the prospect of seeing new mail delivery vehicles creep around a corner, even if the design seems a little ... odd (to me).
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by tropdrop 6y ago
> There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People. A nice prediction – note the frequency with which news organiza
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by tropdrop 6y ago
> Working the actual Tom Stoppard into her novel Trieste, [Drndić] called him out as a “blind observer.” Having learned of his exterminated relatives (including all four grandparents), she contended, he then returned to “his lovely Engli
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Good point – we need not marry careers to color. People always forget "pink" used to be a color reserved for little boys (as a derivative of red) and baby blue for little girls (derivative of indigo).
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by tropdrop 6y ago
On an episode of 99pi, I heard even visiting New Yorkers are shocked.
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> Dostoevsky had himself adopted an attitude of ‘gentle and total resignation’ that brought him – like Molinos and Schopenhauer before him. As can be gleaned from the ending of Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky's version of quietis
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Wayback machine luckily has a copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20040319114336/http://www.hirokia... For me, this text didn't just illuminate Murakami as an artist – it significantly altered how I t
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by tropdrop 6y ago
It is an insidious assumption to me, personally. I have been living on my own since midway through the pandemic, and have been enjoying it. My productivity has gone through the roof, and I feel grateful to be alive – I've enjoyed the a
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by tropdrop 6y ago
> “Many of those who reach us say they have no place to go when they’re told to stay home,” said Jun Tachibana of the Bond Project. “Many are having problems with their family, friends or boyfriends. I worry they may be feeling more lone
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by tropdrop 6y ago
The more productive conversation isn't around the tone of this particular "outrage piece," but the bombshell it references: The New York Times article about McKinsey's proposal of paying pharmacy companies rebates for Ox
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Thank you, Dang! It's hard to believe that the quality of HN rests on the shoulders of just one man – a Herculean feat!
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by tropdrop 6y ago
> The AMA has a Chief Strategy Officer who was paid $1,130,000 in 2018. > The AMA has a Chief Operating Officer who was paid $1,350,000 in 2018. > The AMA has a Chief Financial Officer who was paid … huh? … only $730,000 in 2018. W
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by tropdrop 6y ago
> Some scientists point to the dramatic rise in rates of obesity — from 13.4 percent of adults in 1980 to 42.4 percent in 2017-18, again per the NHANES — since excess weight depresses kidney efficiency, and to the likely not unrelated in
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by tropdrop 6y ago
I'm surprised the company chose this route, and not Adobe's (e.g. Illustrator): to let you cancel auto-renewal any time, but to charge you a cancellation fee that is more than 2x your per month membership fee... unless you wait to
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Let's not forget the very real phenomenon in 1999 of many assuming the world ends in 2000 (some shadow of that again in 2012 with the Mayan calendar). It did not happen. In fact, whatever happens, life finds a way...
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by tropdrop 6y ago
No, I can't imagine someone trying to sell the idea that anyone can design and build a bridge. But a website is not a bridge – the stakes are low, and yes, for many basic use cases, Squarespace suffices as the intermediate that enables
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by tropdrop 6y ago
George places an immense amount of emphasis on that one word (us), and thereby on the importance of he and Mary remaining together, of being numerous. And he does so fully aware of the uncertainty and the risk of failure—“or we drown.” Th
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by tropdrop 6y ago
On the contrary – I have read Crime and Punishment in both Russian and English. Where other translators eschew nuances for readability and "story," Pevear and Volokhonsky really try to somehow carry that nuance over across the cul
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Perhaps further evidence of too reductive of an approach: >The LSD has an estimated $5B in annual revenue, with an estimated $100B in funds, and protestants can make claims to nearly every US president. Importantly, this is the LDS , no
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Echoing kgermino's statement, I also live in a (small but dense) city on the East Coast, in a very walkable neighborhood where the train station is a ten minute walk away from my house. There are kids bicycling and playing outside, lot
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by tropdrop 6y ago
This is why they chose Barcelona, where the use of 2 languages (Catalan and Spanish) was "highly variable" and everyone in the city spoke or at least understood 2 languages: "We wanted to take advantage of this variability,
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Remember that the vote that matters here is not the presidential one, but the congress one. So specifically, the hope is to elect the correct representatives.
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by tropdrop 6y ago
What is this ranking site (QS world)? Not to dismiss it outright, I'm just usually suspicious of any rankings aggregator of universities at this point.
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Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response(news.yale.edu)
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Very interesting. Can you tell me what specific brand this is?
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by tropdrop 6y ago
The "what" is exactly my point. One would assume dishwashers are supposed to do this for you, but what actually happens is the plate comes out with the (yes, small) bits of food hard and stuck to the plate (someone else mentioned

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