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by zasz 15y ago
I don't understand it when people think that someone should just suck it up when they get harassed. Why is it so hard for them to give the woman the benefit of the doubt that these are indeed extremely frightening, and disturbing enough tha
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by zasz 15y ago
Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't alone in his civil rights work. Unfortunately, judging by your commentary, this poor woman is.
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by zasz 15y ago
Okay, so there's this problem with there not being enough work that people enjoy doing. I don't see why stuff like Etsy is going to be a solution to that. I don't want 99.9% of the stuff I've seen on Etsy. Most of it is crap. I don't thin
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by zasz 15y ago
Daycare for grownups? Are you fucking kidding me? You have never known any kind of privation in your life, have you? The kind of privation where there is no goddamn food available--not now, not tomorrow, not next week? It wouldn't be daycar
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by zasz 15y ago
Wow, no! Not if that dull job was the only way I was permitted to get food and shelter!
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by zasz 15y ago
Uh...if every member of a species happened to be immortal, that species would be the most successful species ever. Natural selection is all about getting rid of individuals who can't hack it. An individual who can't die is clearly one that
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by zasz 15y ago
If you don't have the money upfront to pay for something, you will have to take out a loan. Many people have no goddamn choice but to take out a loan. Sometimes bettering yourself requires taking on the risk of a loan--for example, college
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by zasz 15y ago
I think the culture argument is bullshit. I assure you, there are a lot of dumb and lazy Asians out there. The US has been good at importing the grad students, the hardworking creme de la creme, that's all.
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by zasz 15y ago
Regarding the hamburger thing--you might be getting enough calories, but you'll be missing out on a lot of important vitamins and minerals that are only available in fruits and vegetables, which tend to be expensive. Vitamin supplements hav
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by zasz 15y ago
If she's getting paid by the hour, every time she takes time off for a job interview costs her over $30. In a state with 15% unemployment, she'd have to roll the dice multiple times, and the likelihood of finding a higher-paying job isn't g
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by zasz 15y ago
You pour it on when the Teflon is hot. The liquid is permanently trapped in the micro-cracks and bubbles formed by the cooling Teflon.
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by zasz 15y ago
So if you're willing to grant the point that not everyone is going to be capable of creating good art, then what do the non-producers do? Just sit back and consume? The problem is that we use productive output as a heuristic for determining
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by zasz 15y ago
I don't think anyone would want to pay for the art I can make. I don't want to pay for anyone else's either. Given how much music piracy there is, and the vast skill disparity between casual amateurs and dedicated professionals, and the nea
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by zasz 15y ago
It might not be "feeling useful" so much as the social stimulation. The days when I work from home and don't talk to anyone at the office are soul-crushingly lonely, sometimes, even if I'm very active over IM.
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by zasz 15y ago
Countries with more gender inequality have more female IMO contestants: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/22/8801.abstract If you change the gender of a name and leave everything else constant on an academic CV, acceptance rates go down fro
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by zasz 15y ago
He doesn't have a problem with passive entertainment. He even says that he goes to concerts sometimes. He just thinks it's bad that people do it too much, which is a very uninteresting point.
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by zasz 15y ago
It's not that using "he" is sexist, so much as it's an indicator of a society where being male is the "default" setting, and it's always a little bit surprising to see a woman doing something. So I would argue that no, it's not really sexis
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by zasz 15y ago
Uh, typically when society "values" an industry more, they show their appreciation of this value through a higher salary.
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by zasz 15y ago
If you're not a student and don't know anyone who is, don't go to a campus event, unless it's explicitly meant for the public in general. It's sketchy. Events are for the Stanford community unless they say otherwise.
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by zasz 15y ago
If this guy wants to play with the physical sciences, he could build a potato cannon, electroplate a cup with silver, or hack an Arduino board. Radium is just inherently dangerous. I would like to know where you get your evidence that we ar
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by zasz 15y ago
When the practice involves potentially killing yourself and poisoning other people, the principle would seem to be not the same.
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by zasz 15y ago
Yup. And then he ran it on his own for a year or so before getting into YC.
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by zasz 15y ago
It makes sense that people's ability to detect true emotion is capped, though. It's useful to be able to successfully fake an emotion. Social skills are an arms race. 50-50 is somewhat lower than I'd expected in terms of the skill of the av
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by zasz 15y ago
How is it not a gendered issue? Women are generally expected to be the primary childcare providers, and if you can't afford a nanny, the wife is going to be the one who does most of the childcare.
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by zasz 15y ago
Yup, same here. I exercise quite a bit. I get antsy if I don't do it, but it's never stopped me from feeling terrible about life.
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by zasz 15y ago
I don't think there are necessarily enough firms who are intelligent enough to gain a competitive advantage by hiring the unemployed. Some sort of blanket government protection might be useful.
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by zasz 15y ago
I have a friend at Stanford who got a $100k fellowship for graduate school, and is interning at Tesla this summer. He's doing the exact same thing as you're proposing Asteroid Miner Kid would do, but through the completely traditional route
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by zasz 15y ago
Yeah, it did, plus you were downvoted, so it seemed like other people agreed. Sorry.
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by zasz 15y ago
Driverless cars could: 1. Save lives by eliminating drunk, distracted, and sleepy drivers. 2. Greatly increase fuel efficiency. 3. Permit commutes where people can work, sleep, or watch movies, enabling greater freedom to live where they wi
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by zasz 15y ago
Where does he say that in the article? I can't find it. He says that he grew up in a suburb where there were no other Asians, and then went to Rutgers. Rutgers isn't good enough for most Asian parents, but it's still pretty good. Looks like

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