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by wvoq 15y ago
> the OP on the ticket seems to have daddy issues. Just bookmarking this for the next time someone insists that the folks on hacker news are an egalitarian bunch who would never tolerate casual sexism.
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by wvoq 15y ago
Presumably so students will have no advance warning to flush their diplomas down the toilet.
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by wvoq 15y ago
It's not really as benign as you're insinuating it to be.
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by wvoq 16y ago
First of all, I think you are conflating prior and posterior probabilities. P(brown skin | illegal) != P(illegal | brown skin). The standard for a police stop is reasonable suspicion. Do you think having brown skin in Arizona is reasonab
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by wvoq 16y ago
Police are allowed to take into consideration factors like "race, color or national origin" when deciding whether to ask for your papers.
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by wvoq 16y ago
You're aware that you live in a state where the police can stop you and ask for your papers if you're brown and speaking Spanish, right?
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by wvoq 16y ago
When you describe rail and green energy projects as "uneconomical in the free market", are you intending to compare these projects to existing options for energy and transit like coal and cars+highways+oil?
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by wvoq 16y ago
There was just a presumption of incompetence and an insinuation that Mayer's accomplishments are not _really_ accomplishments, without any given reason. The OP didn't state "Mayer must be incompetent because she's a woman", but that's not
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by wvoq 16y ago
I can't help but notice that, with nothing in the way of demonstrable evidence, you are _presuming_ a female engineer to be incompetent and referring to her by her first name to boot. You're further implying that design is trivial work ("O
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by wvoq 16y ago
If you're trying to copy a non-trivial amount of code from a web page, you're doing it wrong. In 2010, I think sharing code over the internet is a solved problem.
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by wvoq 16y ago
I am curious about your understanding of "the needs of the journals to make money". As I understand it, the purpose of an academic journal is to communicate new research. For about 300 years, a published print journal was about the most r
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by wvoq 16y ago
A data point: I have actually tried this. As a student at No Name State, I often found myself travelling to nearby Prestigious Research University for books and journals which weren't in circulation at NNS. PRU only had reciprocity agreem
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by wvoq 16y ago
Do you just not believe that there should be such a thing as anthropology?
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by wvoq 16y ago
Cost disease.
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by wvoq 16y ago
>For example, if you know Java, you won't get a lot out of learning Java Sound advice.
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by wvoq 16y ago
You understand that you're assuming everyone here is a straight man, right?