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by unalone 14y ago
People who talk a lot about "patriarchy" will point out that a society in which men are made out to be strong and aggressive and dominant doesn't just hurt women. It hurts all the men who would rather be reasonable and mild-mannered and eff
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by unalone 14y ago
I enjoy this weird HN approach of taking ordinary life, applying weirdass labels to everything, and then trying to somehow "optimize" all of the various little categories. This is about treating other people like their grievances are legiti
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Shut Up and Listen(whatever.scalzi.com)
89 points by unalone 14y ago|111 comments
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by unalone 14y ago
Ah, the old "quoth PG" routine. You know, Paul is capable of saying things which are not entirely correct, and quoting his words does not immediately make you in the right. What Paul misses, in this case, is that there's a difference betwee
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by unalone 14y ago
Genuine question! Do you believe, sincerely, that there is no good reason to complain about anything? Because, leaving aside the fact that your comment makes you a "complainer of the world", I think there are a lot of things worth saying
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by unalone 14y ago
Except that in this case, the "player" is the one who's using certain words in a pejorative context, giving the implication that anybody to whom that word applies is somehow lesser because of it. This is why we don't use the words "nigger",
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by unalone 14y ago
There's a certain type of guy who will use anything about a woman that appears vaguely sexual to a) assume she's "up for grabs" and hit on her/make inappropriate remarks since they feel she's given permission and b) call the same woman a sl
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by unalone 14y ago
I agree with you. It's an ambiguity that leads to lots of people ignoring the real problem, because they're convinced the people talking about it are really just looking for an excuse to be bigots – as here.
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by unalone 14y ago
Well, it's an argument that one side does win by default, and that "racism" should be used to acknowledge that power imbalance. "Minorities saying racist things", by this theory, doesn't hold a candle to, say, the fact that minorities are
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by unalone 14y ago
It's really easy to sneer at anybody trying to talk about something impossible to put into words, any experience which cannot be recreated through language. Yet this is the subject of some of the greatest works of art in every medium. If yo
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by unalone 14y ago
I don't know anybody who only bought a Mac because it was expensive. They bought it because it was worth the expense. Chrome OS is an unproven platform that doesn't have nearly the popular support of Apple's products, and it's coming fr
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by unalone 14y ago
Yeah, if you're living a decade ago. By 2005, MySpace was such a big deal that if you were a student without one, you'd feel like you were missing out on something important socially, and by 2008, Facebook had pretty much everybody, includi
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by unalone 14y ago
Unfortunately, our economy influences our culture, media, technology, and celebrity. The book Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything , published 2011, makes the argument that economy is the underlying force that defines everyt
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by unalone 14y ago
Yeah, see, this is the sort of argument that even freshmen College Democrats think isn't worth arguing. Yeah, my computer's a result of that capitalistic model. That computer was made in a factory that attracted a lot of controversy for hav
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by unalone 14y ago
> Regarding atheists lacking empathy: for centuries atheists have been tracked down and exterminated and there are still religious people, today, calling them atheists "disciples of Satan" and calling for their extermination. > So a
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by unalone 14y ago
> because Capitalism is a system that has put millions/billions of people out of misery and starvation throughout the world And meanwhile, it has systematized the misery and starvation of millions and billions of people itself, while –
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by unalone 14y ago
If you're going to read the Bible for pure enjoyment, please avoid the King James. Versions exist which are indeed enjoyable to read, yet faithful enough to the original texts that you get something interesting out of them. I think my fav
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by unalone 14y ago
Hacker News's upvote-only policy for stories means that unless a story is flagged so much mods remove it, it will hit the front page so long as a significant minority of users thinks it's interesting. There's no "critical" crowd control of
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by unalone 14y ago
If the only distortion possible was "heat of the moment", then yeah, the more emotional person in this situation would be overreacting. Unfortunately, there are systematic and structural faults in the way our society is constructed, which i
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by unalone 14y ago
Your assumption is that there is a "best of class" which can be easily identified and sorted from the rest. Given that most conferences aren't going to consist only of the absolute paragons of an industry, we can conclude that in planning c
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by unalone 14y ago
> I used to think that words were just words, logical things with defined meanings. Well, they are! But those defined meanings are different for everybody who has a history with the word, and oftentimes you don't know that history going
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by unalone 14y ago
> it should be 100% understandable why a recruiter cannot imagine someone wanting to stay when viewing the opportunity as an outsider What? This is absurd! A city's qualities cannot be pared down to such an easy evaluation. "Better nigh
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Dan Harmon: Why You Shouldn't Take the Internet Seriously(youtube.com)
1 points by unalone 14y ago|0 comments
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The Heiress(newyorker.com)
2 points by unalone 14y ago|0 comments
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by unalone 14y ago
I agree generally with what you said, but: > Even $6 premium games like Infinity Blade. Compare that to $60 games like Halo 4 There is a huge gulf between Infinity Blade and Halo 4. What iOS developers do best is beautiful, simple gam
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by unalone 14y ago
> if you accept that not all religions can be true I think, actually, that once you accept that no one religion contains Ultimate Truth, it is much easier to see that every religion is a facet of something true and powerful. Dogma is
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by unalone 14y ago
Funny, most of the people I know who drop acid become more interested in philosophy, not less. Methinks you're looking at this the wrong way: it's not that neuroscience "solved" philosophy, it's that neuroscientists invented something tha
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by unalone 14y ago
> Most previously interesting philosophical questions are now interesting scientific questions. Well, not "most", but certainly many of them are. > There's not much left for philosophers to actually talk about. What? This is silly.
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by unalone 14y ago
I like the name, the typography's decent, and I'm fond of that shade of green. The layout is very, very messy. It feels like a poorly-styled tumblelog, what with the huge emphasis on snippets and the constant centered-ness of everything. Fo
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by unalone 14y ago
That's quite an interesting read. Now I want to read Discourse and see if that's how I see Descartes' arguments myself. Bleh... so damn much to read.

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