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by xor1 10y ago
I've never thought about modeling to that extent, or about how many more samples women are provided with and able to process. Makes sense.
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by xor1 10y ago
I don't see how you think that it wasn't personal given the preceding sentence.
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by xor1 10y ago
I've heard, but that's not what this discussion is about.
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by xor1 10y ago
I don't like using a 10-point system because it's so ambiguous, but I guess I'm talking about going from 5-8 to 8-10. The way I mentally do rankings is Ugly - Acceptable - Exceptional, so going from Acceptable to Exceptional.
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by xor1 10y ago
I am going to assume that you don't consider yourself to be exceptionally attractive. Correct me if I'm wrong. So, with that assumption, if you were able to wake up tomorrow morning and be on par with a "Brad Pitt" looka
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by xor1 10y ago
>But if you're still insecure or unhappy inside, it's going to come off as unattractive. What makes you think that I'm insecure or unhappy to begin with? I see this as an investment in myself.
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by xor1 10y ago
>Please stop, you are wrong. Im attractive and people hate me. Have you ever considered whats its like to be attractive? People are instantly jealous of you and hate you. And they make sure to lay judgement into you -- if you arent whip
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by xor1 10y ago
>And for whatever reasons, I'm more attracted to talking to these (unattractive) people than some Brad Pitt look-a-likes. They tend to make me feel more at ease. I'm actually really interested in why you feel this way, if you c
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by xor1 10y ago
I have substance. You're completely delusional if you think that being good-looking will ever be anything other than a benefit. An extremely significant one at that.
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by xor1 10y ago
I think the article severely downplays the importance of attractiveness. If the other party finds you attractive, the bar is lowered to the point of you simply being normal/average in terms of intelligence, wit, and whatever else you w
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by xor1 10y ago
>How do you fix that without blowing everything up and probably destroying the lives for a huge group of people who's only crime was being born in a certain set of years? A huge number of millennial college students who weren't
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by xor1 10y ago
Funny that you bring up Gangnam Style, since modern South Korea (the Seoul metro region in particular) is the closest thing to how William Gibson imagined Chiba City in Neuromancer, right down to the unregulated black clinics (though specia
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by xor1 10y ago
I love how the first conclusion you jump to is "marrying into money". Really? You know that there are plenty of single-earner households outside of SF/SV, NYC, and the other tech hubs, right? (That aren't rich, if that n
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by xor1 10y ago
>Men seem more likely to do this than women because of the societal pressures on them to get a job and run the rat race of dating and climbing a nonexistent corporate ladder. Women also have more options.
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by xor1 10y ago
>Game designers often deploy a technique called “dynamic difficulty adjustment”. In many games, the software assesses a player’s skill and rebalances various attributes of the game accordingly, to keep the game fun and manageable for tho
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by xor1 10y ago
>mediocre service, such as having to ask many times for refilling the tap water bottle or get condiments, and struggling to get the waiter's attention in general. This is already the case at the vast majority of restaurants I freque
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by xor1 10y ago
I don't see how you inferred that from my post.
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by xor1 10y ago
Didn't even realize this article was 4 years old until I started reading the comments. Dating apps are the ultimate hunting ground for individuals with borderline personality disorder. They provide an endless supply of one-night-stands
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by xor1 10y ago
Richard Stallman and Hideo Kojima were right.
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by xor1 10y ago
>concern trolling Thanks, I was looking for a way to call people disingenuous without actually using the term, since it's apparently become a no-no word on HN.
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by xor1 10y ago
>There's a difference between racism and bias. We're all biased, but racism is an ideology that subordinate races are inferior, and that's why they're subordinate. Yes, that's what I consider the true definition
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by xor1 10y ago
>The same people who call attention to gender diversity also speak out for racial diversity Why don't I ever see it being discussed on HN?
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by xor1 10y ago
Plenty of people actually have this position, "you can only be racist or sexist if you have power", i.e you belong to the dominant sex or race. The truth is that power is based on wealth and class, not your gender, race, or ethnic
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by xor1 10y ago
HR in the US is overwhelmingly women. Maybe it's an issue of women negotiating with other women.
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by xor1 10y ago
From what I've seen, there are less African-American and non-white hispanic men in tech than there are white and Asian women, yet I never see this discussed. Is this not an important issue as well? Will skewed racial ratios only be han
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by xor1 10y ago
This post from the comments does a pretty good job of describing why outing fraudsters is a noble cause: "Lastly, and why I donated, is that this is a nod to the spirit that every serious, non-professional athlete carries with them. Ea
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by xor1 10y ago
Once again, you are unable to grasp the real problem. Guess what -- men can be victims of the abuse of power too, whether that's at the hands of men or women. >I have zero power now but have the potential to have it. If I don't
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by xor1 10y ago
There's something wrong with the way you think if you view an accusation directed towards a statement as an accusation towards the person who said it instead.
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by xor1 10y ago
>I think women just are naturally or at least culturally (does the difference matter in this case, really?) more social This is really sexist.
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by xor1 10y ago
I prefer Alien Blue to the new Reddit app. I hope I never end up losing it, since it's no longer on the app store.

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