Grustaf

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by Grustaf 1y ago
Is there any indication or reason why they would want to block LGBTQ+ content? Haven't both companies been very vocal supporters of LGBTQ+ in the past?
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by Grustaf 1y ago
Do you actually believe that the issue with porn is that it "upsets people's feelings"?
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by Grustaf 1y ago
$50,000 seems like a pretty cheap price for saving a life though.
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by Grustaf 1y ago
I personally never trust statements where the grammatical subject is "science"
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by Grustaf 1y ago
Location: Copenhagen and Stockholm Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: Yes, to SF, NY or other major city Technologies: Startup CTO, and advanced iOS and Mac apps from start to finish Résumé/CV: Apple, MLB, Marshall, various startups. Th
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by Grustaf 2y ago
Every time I have to do something complex related to home renovation, book keeping etc I wish there was a platform for this. Often you don't want to engage a firm for a week, you just need some advice, but you are happy to pay a health
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by Grustaf 2y ago
It's not the "access" to those books that gave you an edge, 95% of children would be completely uninterested in those books. As you know, today 100% of Western children have free and instant access to the best math teaching m
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by Grustaf 2y ago
No, I am very far from agreeing with you. I am saying that if you keep all other conditions the same, you will still see vast differences in the ease of understanding mathematics. This is borne out both by science - there is strong consensu
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by Grustaf 2y ago
Pretending to care? I am not saying I care about communist symbols, I am saying it would be absurd if I did, I wasn’t in the war. And yes I agree that all the people that pretend that the word ”master” is an issue are behaving badly. It’s p
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by Grustaf 2y ago
I really don’t understand this cope. It’s scientifically established that intelligence is highly heritable, especially the analytical kind. It also agrees with experience, we all know people who have a very hard time understanding mathemati
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by Grustaf 2y ago
Asian families, for sure. But that’s doesn’t explain that vast chasm we all observed between non-Asians in school growing up. Why not just accept that it’s possible to be born with an aptitude for math?
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by Grustaf 2y ago
But how could some 7 year olds have vastly different ”pre-requisites” than others? In my experience aptitude plays a far bigger role. Yes, you compensate for lack of aptitude with a lot of hard work, but that’s a different matter.
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by Grustaf 2y ago
It's not weird at all, and it's the same in all languages. Some of the countries are very new, or the speakers of the language only came in contact with it recently. Then it's more likely they will use a country-related term.
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by Grustaf 2y ago
Do you think anyone would take that seriously? I sure hope anyone I associate would just laugh and presume that I'm joking. It just isn't reasonable to be that sensitive. It certainly isn't adaptive, and I wouldn't be su
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by Grustaf 2y ago
> Using "chairman" to describe a position implies that it's occupied by a man. No, obviously not. A "chairman" can just as well be a woman. What it does imply is just that _historically_, chairmen were mostly men
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by Grustaf 2y ago
>Further, its use is quite restricted - it doesn't admit all the inflections and noun-verb agreements that "he" and "she" do. I agree with all your arguments, but just want to point out that this is not actually
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by Grustaf 2y ago
That is of course awful in every way, but I really wonder, isn't the real problem that there are bad people? I think we can agree that people who are heartless enough to bully a vulnerable person like that, they will not stop just bec
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by Grustaf 2y ago
If you had ancestors that were slaves in the 1800s and for that reason want to avoid any word that looks like "master", even if used in a different meaning, then by all means go ahead and change your git branch name, that's y
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by Grustaf 2y ago
No it doesn't. It's just historical accident. If you look around you will notice that some demonyms are based on the country name, some or not. It doesn't correlate with it being pejorative. "Italian" or "Congo
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by Grustaf 2y ago
"Allow list" is only more "descriptive" to someone that doesn't know what whitelist means. It is generally not considered a problem if you can't guess the meaning of a word from how it looks, most words are lik
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by Grustaf 2y ago
But why are you glad that we moved on? Almost none of the old words were offensive in themselves. "Retarded" or "crippled" may sound offensive now, but that is completely unrelated to the etymology or meaning, it is _sol
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by Grustaf 2y ago
> it has an entirely different connotation What connotation is that exactly? Does "The Virgin Islands", or "The Hague" for that matter, also have that connotation in your mind? I am again just saying that there is not
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by Grustaf 2y ago
I responded to this: > neither of those has “the” as part of its official name which is clearly untrue. Yes, there are two Congos. Both of them have "the" in their official name: -République du Congo (The smaller one, with Braz
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by Grustaf 2y ago
Obviously it's political, it's not linguistics. It's not that the word "chairman" didn't work, it's that some people feel that it is wrong for a gender neutral term to be based on a male form. That's
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by Grustaf 2y ago
And I am saying that in most of these cases it is not that the terms "have become offensive", it's that academics and activists invent and promote, sometimes enforce, new terms, proactively so to speak. > using gender neut
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by Grustaf 2y ago
Most of these words haven’t “become” offensive, activists have declared them offensive. It’s not that Latinos felt offended by that term, some academic activist came up with Latinx because they wanted another shibboleth.
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by Grustaf 2y ago
The opposition is obviously not to "new words" per se, it's to words that were invented for political reasons, rather than ones that organically appeared. It doesn't help that they are almost always less descriptive, les
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by Grustaf 2y ago
On the contrary, your example shows that any pejorative connotation is NOT related to the etymology. "Englandman" doesn't sound pejorative, it just sounds strange because it's not an actual word. "Englander" is
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by Grustaf 2y ago
Putting aside the fact that it technically IS named "Republic of the Congo ", technically Mexico is named "The United States of Mexico", that's not really important. People who claim that "The Congo" is of
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by Grustaf 2y ago
That's the point isn't it, that it doesn't really help to invent new words, the new word will become a slur if it refers to something people don't want to be. I mean "retard" is of course itself a euphemism.

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