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by zasz 15y ago
That's cool, but some people in this thread are arguing that you shouldn't have to pay for music at all, beyond a small Kickstarter investment. I disagree with that. And apparently, so do the majority of pirates.
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by zasz 15y ago
Schindler saved a bunch of Jews. More than zero, which is what would have happened if all he said was "hang in there." It's not like your choice is between learning how to cope and trying to assassinate Hitler. There are many options in the
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by zasz 15y ago
Can you prove that those projects wouldn't be healthier if people were happy to pay money for them?
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by zasz 15y ago
OP said that there would be less of it, not that it would be nonexistent. Linux is probably an exception, and not the rule, and it is such an exception that large companies are willing to subsidize it. I've been looking for some good sound
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by zasz 15y ago
Okay. Suppose I am a secretary, but my job has now been automated out of existence by Microsoft Excel. I have a $300 computer to browse Hacker News with, but no job. How did I benefit? Unless I have steadier access to food, shelter, healthc
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by zasz 15y ago
Can you eat a computer? Will it treat your hernia? No. You need a job that gives you money for those things, and not everyone can hack it as a programmer.
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by zasz 15y ago
I've never done anything but have just a single room to myself, with up to 4 roommates sharing the apartment/house together. I've always had to sign a lease and have a deposit. What are these rooms with roommates you're talking about that h
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by zasz 15y ago
So what makes this better than Polyvore?
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by zasz 15y ago
Women are penalized more than men are for negotiating. http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/03/commentary/everyday/sahadi/i... If you are a woman and you ask for a raise, you have to be much, much more careful about how you do it than a man does.
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by zasz 15y ago
Because it makes it sound like you're more interested in hitting on that person than interacting with them professionally. And unless you're inclined to call everyone, regardless of gender, "sexy," it shows that you can't work with members
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by zasz 15y ago
Not everyone who is suicidal does so because they are mentally ill. People kill themselves for political causes, too. It's kind of a thing for monks to set themselves on fire as a means of political protest. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012
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by zasz 15y ago
Chinese people generally are not allowed to own land. Most people are renters from the state. That doesn't sound very capitalist to me. http://www.economist.com/node/5660833
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by zasz 15y ago
Okay, let me see if I got this straight. Foxconn workers are picking between two shitty jobs. Job A is worse than Job B. Job A is so bad that they are threatening to commit suicide. What kind of choice is this?
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by zasz 15y ago
I think some degree of affirmative action is good. Racism still exists, and explicit quotas to ensure that a few black applicants can get a spot at a college or a firm seems like a reasonable strategy to counteract kneejerk discrimination.
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by zasz 15y ago
Not in the United States, which is the country I assume OP was talking about.
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by zasz 15y ago
You can learn a language at home by using Rosetta Stone software, and take correspondence courses also by staying at home. It's hard to take a baby to work. Small children require attention in fits and spurts that are not conducive to doing
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by zasz 15y ago
"Another meta review, meanwhile, looked at the 49 most-cited clinical research studies published between 1990 and 2003. Most of these were the culmination of years of careful work. Nevertheless, more than 40 percent of them were later shown
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by zasz 15y ago
So does point 1) mean that it takes too much energy to run a faster CPU, because power is always leaking away? Also curious--are transistors small enough now that they can experience weird quantum effects?
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by zasz 15y ago
Yes, that's true, and that sucks. I won't deny that, and I feel terrible for any man that happens too, and I wish the courts were truly gender-equal in this respect. But the flipside of always granting women custody of children is immense s
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by zasz 15y ago
Let's spell this out. A woman can either have just kids, or just a career. A man can have just kids, just a career, or a career and kids. Who has more options? Your assumption that women "choose" to always be the stay at home parent is ques
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by zasz 15y ago
Look at all these comments. I see a lot of geeks denying that sexism exists. The appeals to hunter-gatherer psychology are especially precious.
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by zasz 15y ago
Sure, it's sad men don't get to spend as much time with the kids, but the point is, they can have their career, and have at least some time with their children. Women very often just don't have that choice, and are forced to take just the k
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by zasz 15y ago
Eh, just because females have advantages in some domains doesn't mean that their overall advantages in life are outweighed by the overall male advantages in life. Stuff like the salary gap, stereotype threat ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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by zasz 15y ago
I think West Coast enforcement of dress codes is still the lesser of two evils. You can still wear what you want; you'll just be weird, as opposed to fired.
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by zasz 15y ago
He did say it was a joking generalization. Do you have a different joking generalization of what New Yorkers are like?
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by zasz 15y ago
Yeah, but he ended up being able to wear a suit anyway, right? Do you think the equivalent scenario of a guy wearing a Hawaiian shirt at a traditional law firm in DC would've worked out? Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I suspect our free sp
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by zasz 15y ago
The authors of the study are good scientists for being open to other possibilities. I salute them for that. But where it comes to what women can and cannot do, there seems to be a great deal of compelling evidence that cultural factors are
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by zasz 15y ago
Don't get jtheory confused with me. I deliberately brought in race because opinions on race are shaped by culture, not because I felt like ending things in a flamewar. Opinions on race and gender are the kinds of things that are shaped by w
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by zasz 15y ago
I thought you'd made a typo. A "tome" is a heavy book, not a lengthy diatribe. The book could be a lengthy diatribe, but it could also be an annotated edition of The Odyssey. I suppose you could have called a long comment a "tome" out of pl
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by zasz 15y ago
Hunter gatherers had much better lives than people give them credit for: http://www.mnforsustain.org/food_ag_worst_mistake_diamond_j.... Your paragraph is pure conjecture.

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