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by pwnstigator 17y ago
The 8-sided paper snowflake exists because it's easy to fold a square piece of paper into eighths (i.e. three times, one diagonal) and cut it. It's so kids can make snowflakes. The correct six is much harder. I agree with the heart analogy.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Agree fully with point #2. Have you used OkCupid? I think it's better than most in that regard, but the people on the site tend to be a bit full of themselves. Also, compatibility has a lot more to do with what people do than with what they
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
This seems oddly relevant: http://img39.yfrog.com/img39/6247/h807.png On a more serious note, there are a lot of difficult problems in onlne dating that someone could make a lot of money by solving. The lack of attractive pictures is not
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Too lazy to clean, as I don't have a dishwasher. Cooking seems fun. I'd like to learn it, and will once I live (a) within walking (or driving, outside of NYC) distance of a grocery store and (b) in an apartment with a dishwasher. Unfortunat
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
(Disclaimer: Read this when it came out, haven't re-RTFA.) Sad, but accurate. On one hand, some humanities academics are directly responsible for this; the attitude of many academicians that research was the "real work" and teaching was jus
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
You consider me "anti-feminist" why? Casual sex and strong-man polygamy are about as anti-feminist as it gets, rooted in the concept of women as a resource to be sexually exploited.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Cross-cultural study shows us that monogamy is required for a stable, future-oriented, low-violence society. No non-monogamous society has managed to achieve a fraction of what predominantly monogamous ones have, and civilizations become mo
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I'm not trolling. I am annoyed to see copious downvoting with minimal response or discussion.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
This was voted down why, exactly? Everyone knows I'm right. A society that fails to impel people to better themselves is next to useless.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I think that idea that men use wealth to attract mates is pretty damn obvious, but I never really considered that women use displays of altruism to attract males. It makes sense. The contest for status (i.e.. access to women) among men ma
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Study 4 showed that women rated a man driving a Porsche Boxster as more attractive for a short-term sexual relationship than a man driving a Honda Civic. The fact that women are even capable of conceiving of short-term sexual relationship
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
This is only half of the story. The other half is that a person with a large number of prior sexual partners is more likely to cheat in a long-term relationship, less likely to be sexually satisifiable by one person, and less able to form t
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I don't think it's paradoxical. There's a reason "smart genes" didn't proliferate throughout the human race, giving us all (the genetic potential for, at the least) 150+ IQs. That reason is that they're a reproductive drag.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Correct. Girls provide themselves when other women want you, but when you're in a dry spell and they might actually be able to help you, they kick you because you're down.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I generally agree with the principle of command-query separation. One point where I would differ is that, when the command's effects aren't entirely known to the caller, it's often useful to return this information. For example, a function
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
She has a leadership role in a technology company. Society views leadership and technological prowess as masculine traits. So that's androgyny. An androgynous person is one who has a mixture of masculine and feminine traits, and there's not
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that most Haskell code doesn't generate values, but "thunks" that evaluate to values if needed. When you write x = 4 + 5 you aren't setting x to 9, but creating a thunk that eva
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Functions should only have side effects if and only if that's what the function is designed to do: e.g. perform IO, write to disk, et cetera. Then, "side effect" is a misnomer, because the alteration to state is intended. The hatred for "si
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I'm guessing that "going without" involuntarily is what caused those problems. That element of it wasn't your fault; you were being ignored because girls were chasing (trying to "tame") unemployed sociopaths and badboys in lieu of men lik
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
That clearly doesn't scale. On the other hand, it's a better world when people behave sexually in a manner that is consistent with their public morality. That means that they don't sleep with people they wouldn't be proud to be seen with
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
The attitutde that men are interchangeable accessories like shoes, rather than human beings. The attitude that it's okay to date scumbags you'd never introduce to your parents. The attitude that a guy who's in his 20s and hasn't nailed at l
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
You should. I'm not sugarcoating the ugly, ruined world that supposed "sexual modernism" has brought us to. I am all for the right of gays to marry, legalized abortion, and 95 percent of the feminist platform. The problem is that we now hav
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Being sexual in a loving relationship between two adults is a good thing. Being indiscriminately sexual is a bad thing. Being sexual with the wrong sort of people is a bad thing. I don't have any problem with an isolated casual sexual encou
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
The entire industry of pick up technology is based on the premise that there may be a technique that can successfully attract a woman. It's not that simple, just as there isn't one "magic trick" that can close a sale. It's a complex set o
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
It's hard to avoid this, even in a functional language like OCaml (which has mutable ref cells). Haskell does a pretty good job, by requiring functions that have side effects to show it in their type signature. If you're doing Haskell right
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
If you want to be immortal, make sure never to die.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Emotional and psychological complications, sometimes long-lasting. Early loss-of-virginity age, which many people still care about in a marriage partner. Empirically, people who lose their virginity early (< 18) tend to be hypersexual a
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I think it's similar to "Why Nerds are Unpopular". In my parents' day, "finding a husband/wife" wasn't something most people had to make an active effort in order to do. It happened fairly naturally. So smart people paired off at a similar
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Do you really think pregnancy is the only reason why 15-year-olds shouldn't be having sex?
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
A nightclub is not a good place to meet women who will value intelligence, period.

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