hopeless_case

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by hopeless_case 9y ago
> Insofar as Bitcoin represents a single world currency, the problem is that on a macro level this isn't a good idea. I don't think a scenario in which bitcoin became the single currency that the world used is very likely to ha
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
Men are less likely to report sexual assault and rape against them than women are, for a number of reasons. One being that rape is defined as being penetrated against your will, and not being made to penetrate against your will. Any study
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
Going from a tally of 935 to 216000 is a revolution in DOJ's thinking. It implies that an active suppression of the truth was abandoned.
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
Women are 50% of rape victims, and 40% of rapists. That is in the general population and excludes prison rape. If you included that, men would be the majority of victims. These figures are from the CDC's 2010 NISVS (National Intimiate Par
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
>Put that in contrast to the person who is calling somebody who is stating that the perpetrator might have been one (sic) female a ""conspiracy theorist"" and talks about "obvious truth". all the while supposing that there is a consipra
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
> but in the case of the tech industry, most programmers (most people at all levels) are male. we simply dominate - we are a clear majority. so it's not about bias from extremes. we dominate even in the middle. I don't get how dominatin
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
Can the average man expect to marry a woman with a higher educational attainment than him, who will bear more of the load of providing for the family so he can spend more time with the children? Does a man have an equal chance of getting a
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
If men as a group took advantage of women as a group, then why would men define rape to deny their own victimhood? That is not acting in the interests of men. I agree that the narrative of men being strong serves the interests of the men at
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
I think you are conflating these two statements (the apex fallacy): 1. Most of the those who have power are men. 2. Most of those who are men have power. They are very different statements and one does not imply the other. The average man h
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
Men and women commit rape and are raped in roughly equal numbers, and that is not including prison rape. When do include that, men are the majority of the victims. The CDC's 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, which
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
You don't know that the person harassing her is a man, so why assume it is?
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
> What a nasty bunch of people we are. Why is wondering aloud how sexist/creepy the bulk of male programmers are more acceptable than wondering aloud how untalented the bulk of female programmers are? I think both behaviors are rather l
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
> Not to mention the conspiracy theorist positing that it might have been a woman posting the fake porn pictures. Why is that possibility not worth considering?
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
What common sense moral principle would such a law be based on? I am at a loss to think of any. Without one, a law with such powerful enemies is not going to resonate widely enough to pass.
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
Pick a company like reddit, that provides a service using open source software, and submit a patch to a problem they care about. That would get the attention of the programming staff without going through HR.
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by hopeless_case 14y ago
When you are doing maintenance programming, where you only ever understand small pieces of the code at a time (the ones relevant to the project you are currently working on), bisecting the history of your commits is a very powerful way of d
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by hopeless_case 18y ago
I am guessing that a lot of data analysis talent that used to be uninterested in trying to understand the world economy will now be much more interested. We've had cheap computers and cheap internet access for a while now, but we haven't ha
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Crowd-sourcing the monitoring of the world economy
2 points by hopeless_case 18y ago|2 comments