hacker789

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by hacker789 13y ago
Across all cultures (perhaps across all of history), women are more risk averse. In fact, feminist activists didn't push to get more women into tech until tech was a higher paying, lower risk endeavor. Only then did it become scandal
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by hacker789 13y ago
Not quite. One person says, "We deliberately handle women with kid gloves. A under-qualified woman has a better chance than an under-qualified man." A feminist activist responds, "But you still hire more men! Therefore, it&#x
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by hacker789 13y ago
He's concerned about being misconstrued because feminist activists love bullying people with waves of hateful, outrageously uncharitable, deliberately damaging messages at the slightest trigger. For example, here's what PG recentl
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by hacker789 13y ago
If my post came across as a generic "men's rights" post, rather than a direct response to the parent, then I didn't do a good enough job of tying it together. Western culture's hypersensitivity toward women's i
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by hacker789 13y ago
> It is irrefutable that for generations American society took "affirmative action" to suppress women, to pigeonhole them into an impoverished gender role concerned only with housekeeping and child rearing. It is irrefutable
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by hacker789 13y ago
No, you're describing me, actually.
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by hacker789 13y ago
Everyone is entitled to (and does) ignore externalities that cause discomfort to others. If Alice performs well at her job, and her company gains a lot of marketshare as a result, she has likely caused discomfort for the employees of her co
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by hacker789 13y ago
Many changes/advancements drastically increase opportunities for further changes/advancements. Technological advancement tends to follow that pattern, and I imagine many evolutionary changes do, too.
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by hacker789 13y ago
The explanation (and subsequent discussion) in your first link is wonderful. I love that there are nerds tucked away in random corners of the internet, making themselves happy by working on obscure, challenging problems like these.
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by hacker789 13y ago
That dehumanizing attitude is extremely common in first-world "social justice warrior" circles. They consciously and deliberately use shaming and bullying tactics to intimidate others into silence. They acknowledge this constantly
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by hacker789 13y ago
I use gender-neutral pronouns unless context dictates otherwise, but I want you to consider something. If a policy (or lack thereof) is correlated with women feeling excluded or intimidated, it doesn't necessarily mean that the policy
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by hacker789 13y ago
This community, like most others, has an unspoken bias against third-wave feminist bullies. Look what happened to the "Atheism Plus" communities. They have been completely taken over by bigoted "social justice warriors&quot
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by hacker789 13y ago
I don't think that's a counter point; it's a long discontinued practice of deliberately discriminating against people of a given race because other people of that race were too successful. It's not something I support,
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by hacker789 13y ago
If the banning of CT scans would save just one innocent life, it would be worth it.
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by hacker789 13y ago
Yes, there are too many pesky east-Asians and Indians. There might be a Jewish problem as well.
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by hacker789 13y ago
In your mind, is it possible for someone to disagree with the article without "exemplifying the problem"? That's the issue with first-world "social-justice warriors", like the author of the linked opinion piece. If
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by hacker789 13y ago
There are hugely disproportionately more Indians and East-Asians than there are whites in the Silicon Valley. Why do you think that is?
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by hacker789 13y ago
It all depends on what is meant by "regulate". If the FDA just wants 23andMe to make it clearer to their customers that: 1. Like any screening, their results could be inaccurate. 2. Before making any changes based on their results
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by hacker789 13y ago
Not having a test done could kill people, too.
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by hacker789 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this measure makes the consensual rape kink even more popular. To answer your question: > How the does this work with consensual kink? Even the possession of consensual porn will get you locked away, at
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by hacker789 13y ago
(I'm assuming you're using "anti-sexist" to mean "feminist" rather than its literal definition.) A little over a year ago, there was a lot of third-wave feminist activism here after several "Atheism Plus&q
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by hacker789 13y ago
This thread is not the place for a debate about whether life has historically been (or currently is) easier on men than on women. So I'll simply say that it shows a remarkable lack of empathy and understanding for you to call those des
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by hacker789 13y ago
> Yeah! It's about empowering socially awkward people who just have trouble holding conversations! That's why it's called "pick up artistry": because you're picking up conversations! He didn't say the
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by hacker789 13y ago
> I have difficulty comprehending the logic that trusts someone to monitor, assess, and organize a team's work, but doesn't trust them to take responsibility for the performance of the whole team and micromanages their staffin
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by hacker789 13y ago
You're wrong. Women aren't adults who can be held responsible for their own actions and decisions; they're vulnerable children who need to be protected at every turn. If you (as a man) visit an Apple Store just to look around
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by hacker789 13y ago
> not reacting particularly well What makes you say that? He's not the one throwing names around. What would constitute "reacting well" in your book? Agreeing with you?
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by hacker789 13y ago
"Not being well received here"? A handful of feminists are accusing him of hating women for wanting to be more attractive to women. Nothing's new. Just because people aren't standing up to a handful of feminist bullies (
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by hacker789 13y ago
> I feel so uncomfortable because in order to meet the bell curve, I have to tell the employee that they missed when I truly don’t believe it to be the case. [...] More often than I’d like I’m told we are executing a certain way ‘becau
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by hacker789 13y ago
> Edit: The parent comment, which was nearly half an hour old when I saw it, has been edited to remove the reference that I was against men's rights. My post had no replies when I edited. I removed that reference because I felt
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by hacker789 13y ago
Indeed. When people feel very strongly about things (a couple of your examples touch upon human rights), and they feel they rarely have a platform to express those views, they'll take any platform they can get. It's annoying but u

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