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by electronvolt 11y ago
> the 30 Years' War, The Crusades, the Sudanese War, etc... - would indicate that at least some number of the participants are involved purely because they think Heaven/Jannah/something else awaits and a god is being plea
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by electronvolt 11y ago
Anecdotal, but my first job's first project was to take ownership of a codebase my team had just been given from another part of the company which nobody on the team really knew. Ensuring the documentation was up to date (it wasn&#x27
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by electronvolt 11y ago
I think that it's manageable, esp. if you are doing breaks for meals/exercise/etc. and getting enough sleep, even moreso if this is not an every day of the week plan (two days on, one or more off, for instance). Without any
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by electronvolt 11y ago
This is 100% true. I'd say that career is a path to afford us what we find satisfying in life. For some people, that's more time with family and friends, hiking, knitting, or social dance. For some, it might be watching netflix.
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by electronvolt 11y ago
Honestly, as someone who kinda grew up with two super-achieving career minded parents (on the scale of "majorly influenced their respective academic fields"), it's possible to keep a top tier career going strong and raise kid
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by electronvolt 11y ago
I don't think any sensible solution to rape or to crime involves "teaching young men that they are considered sociopathic abusive rapists by society" or even "teaching young black men that they are expected to be crimina
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by electronvolt 11y ago
> I can barely turn a corner anymore without being accused of objectifying women somehow. Every movie I want to watch, every video game I want to play, everything "objectifies" women somehow now, as long as it has any hint of s
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by electronvolt 11y ago
> What about "teach black people not to murder"? Does that not sound incredibly racist to you? If it does, and I really hope it does, what is the effective difference? After all, there is ample data that the majority of murders
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by electronvolt 11y ago
> You describe objectification as patterns of behaviors and speech. However, the most common use of that term I see these days refers to female characters in fiction and advertising. There is a gigantic difference between these two notio
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by electronvolt 11y ago
> Your argument is perfectly reasonable, it would be nice if other feminists understood the difference. In my experience, it is more often used as a spark for a larger confrontation or an excuse to bash males in general. This may be a ki
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by electronvolt 11y ago
See, I really don't get that from "Teach men not to rape". All I see it implying is that there are men who rape--this is indisputable, with most reported rapes being male on male or male on female, and almost all of my femal
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by electronvolt 11y ago
If the first world female (or male) was asking why the third world female didn't: e.x. "Just go to the hospital" or "Pull herself up by her bootstrings" or "Move somewhere nicer" or w/e, then it w
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by electronvolt 11y ago
> Physical attraction alone does not disregard a person's humanity or personal agency. This is true! The thing is, most feminists I've met also believe this. When people complain about 'objectification', they are no
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by electronvolt 11y ago
This is perhaps a little late, since this fell off the front page, but I figured I'd respond to you because you seem to have your heart in the right place, but have a kind of twisted view of what most feminists actually believe. It al
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by electronvolt 11y ago
> Economics didn't make gay marriage legal. Waging a cultural war on homophobes until it became social suicide in most circles to be one did that. And even that movement began with drag queens throwing bricks at cops.[0] [0] https:
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by electronvolt 11y ago
Yes and no. You are true that the bureaucracy is non-partisan and bureaucrats are not necessarily beholden to political leaders or process. However, leadership (in a company, in a country, whatever) will set the priorities and tone of any
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by electronvolt 11y ago
> An example of where it fails in explaining code to the layperson is the part about compiling C code in the command line. Yes, a layperson could follow this step by step, but I think if they did they wouldn't be able to put it in a
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by electronvolt 11y ago
> College partially helped dictate the direction but why should I be paying 100,000 grands for just directions ? In general, I agree with your sentiment: the best learning is done when you aren't being pressured by anyone other tha
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by electronvolt 11y ago
Something I learned during my first job (big box co. tech support and computer sales): self service is great for people who know what they want or know more about what they're buying than the salesperson does. Groceries is a great ex
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by electronvolt 11y ago
It's totally in HT's business model/corporate DNA. Hot Topic's business model is about commodifying, accessorizing, and packaging subcultures in order to sell them at a huge markup. ThinkGeek conveniently packaged nerd&
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by electronvolt 11y ago
I know as someone who was a caretaker[0] for a partner, it's incredibly hard to separate making responsible choices for someone who can't always make them from your regular actual friendship or relationship with them. If you were
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by electronvolt 11y ago
As someone who prefers to use Linux as much as possible and has a DK2, it's disappointing to me, but it makes a lot of sense. If I was told to develop an extremely high performance, low error rendering pipeline for such a product, you
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by electronvolt 11y ago
One thing that I've seen that I thought helped a lot is having a tenure-track style system for teaching faculty. I believe at UVa it was called "expectation of continued employment" instead of "tenure", but the ide
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by electronvolt 11y ago
I think he also may have gotten caught in the trap of early success. If you view projects as something where you need to surpass your previous work, surpassing something like Citizen Kane, which consistently is named one of the best movies
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by electronvolt 11y ago
I think it's important to note that although studies of serotonin levels don't show a connection with depression (i.e. lower serotonin levels = depression), that doesn't mean that drugs which decrease reuptake/increase (
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by electronvolt 11y ago
This is interesting to me, because I work at a large company and I've found it to be orchestrated slightly differently. If you want/need something done here, the fastest way is to set up a face to face appointment and put yoursel
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by electronvolt 11y ago
If you replaced your argument for treating potential sociopaths with "treating potential gay people", do you see why that's a kind of dangerous approach to psychiatric diseases? It's pretty dicey to just say "it&#x2
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by electronvolt 12y ago
From the recruiting presentations I saw while at university: they primarily do large scale information grouping and retrieval. It seemed like their systems (at least the ones they were public about while trying to recruit from undergrads)
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I think there's a lot of associated cultural baggage and expectations that come with our notions about empathy. This muddies the discussion, somewhat: people seem to be conflating the idea of understanding what other people are feeli
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I agree that everyone can help. However, I disagree that claiming that men should take primary responsibility is wrong and I think your analogy is a bit off: unless you're claiming that all men are harassers, which would be pretty hyp

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