rev_bird

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by rev_bird 9y ago
Oh! A moderator! How nice of you to arrive. No need to worry, I won't be coming back.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>I would like to offer another point of view Honestly, I don't give a shit about "another point of view," and that you think it matters here is a great illustration of why women would run for the hills, whichever hills don
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by rev_bird 9y ago
This is nonsense, you're comparing "let's chat with each other" with lynchings. Problem: Women feel they don't have anyone to talk to about their experiences as a woman in tech. Solution: Increase their access to pe
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>Tech pushes many people out, male and female. Even if the men in tech are the same, what about the men who would like to be in tech but were pushed out? Or are all men the same? I'd wager most men "pushed out" of tech wer
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by rev_bird 9y ago
That's not the real question, you're pretending context doesn't matter. What's your argument? Women say "I enjoy having a place to communicate with other women in a place that feels safe from male interference,&quot
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by rev_bird 9y ago
This seems like a disingenuous decontextualization of what was said. Your link to dictionary.com says this: >to initiate or precipitate (a chain of events, scientific reaction, psychological process, etc.) "Psychological process,&qu
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by rev_bird 9y ago
The only way you'd be able to say "groups like this won't fix feelings of isolation!" is if you ignored all the women in this comment section saying it has definitely helped their feelings of isolation. Which I guess m
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by rev_bird 9y ago
How convenient that pointing out discrimination ends up getting painted as bigotry. Do you think colleges having black student unions is "bigotry" too?
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by rev_bird 9y ago
You know how right now you're offended, and feeling left out just because of your gender? That's how some women in tech feel all the time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16160940
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I disagree that white nationalists have a similar view, though it's interesting that someone linked to a forum where women can feel safe from attack in discussions and we're currently debating their similarities to neo-Nazis. The
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by rev_bird 9y ago
As I noted above, "advantage" was the wrong word, my apologies. There's tons of information out there about the disproportionate number of men working in tech, to say nothing of the salary discrepancies that cause so much dra
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>Why would fighting racism with racism or sexism with sexism be a productive method of correcting imbalances? Wouldn't that just fuel and maintain the disdain between groups? Is this the "all lives matter!" response to thi
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>What problem is this intended to solve that isn't solved by moderation policies and forum culture? I think this comment thread is a pretty good illustration of the problem. A group of women are saying, "hey, we think this is a
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by rev_bird 9y ago
You're conflating "excluded from a web forum" with "excluded from society." The whole point of groups like Leap is BECAUSE those members want everyone working together -- they're not in their clubhouse plotting
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>Your community's design actively fosters hate and exclusion due to something I can not control. The tech community fosters hate and exclusion of women due to something THEY can't control. This is an attempt to remedy some of t
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>A group does not "want" anything. I disagree. A group of women is saying they feel marginalized and want to develop a community of support. Men, particularly ones in this awful comment section are saying "NO FAIR!!!"
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>Wouldn't Leap be unfair in the same way? This assumption completely disregards the measurable advantage men have in the tech community. If you have identical programs, one for a historically disenfranchised group, and one for the g
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>I am a bit triggered. This is tangential to your point, but I'm pretty sure what you're referring to isn't being "triggered." It's, I don't know, disagreeing? It has a specific and important definition
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I agree that the odds of "society" dissolving are very small. However, the penalty for encountering a blizzard without preparation -- maybe not having enough food to eat full meals for, say, a week -- is FAR lower than then penalt
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by rev_bird 9y ago
Degrees of suffering! How many people in Norway died from not being able to afford a trip to the hospital? How many medical bankruptcies have there been on that entire continent? Any at all?
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by rev_bird 9y ago
Sorry, I realize now that I may have sounded sarcastic. I really was curious, this makes sense. Thanks for responding.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>could likely launch a cubesat with some sort of bacterial payload that would eventually get to Mars Curious how this might work, given the energy required not only to escape Earth's orbit, but to get into another one around Mars an
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by rev_bird 9y ago
This isn't what happened at all, and I suspect you know that. For starters, the dossier wasn't the beginning of the investigation, as we've seen in multiple articles that came out over the last few weeks. Also, Trump was NEVE
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by rev_bird 9y ago
The cop said it wasn't her fault, she didn't do anything wrong, but ALSO that "you need to make sure that you never do this again." How is she supposed to do that? The cop is pretending to absolve her of guilt while expl
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by rev_bird 9y ago
It's true, I really can't understand that. If the person wasn't at fault, if they were just in the wrong place at the exact wrong time, you'd just hate them forever?
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>In British civil law, the driver is always culpable in an accident involving a minor, even if sober and below the speed limit, which I was. This seems like a weird construct, particularly given that minors do such stupid things. Two of
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I think the idea is that if you're happy throughout life, you will be happy, or at least content, on your deathbed. The "deathbed life analysis" is the thought exercise some people use to evaluate the long-term utility of d
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by rev_bird 9y ago
What do you think ADHD is? You say it's "definitely not some kind of genetic defect of the prefrontal cortex or anything of that sort," but there's been growing evidence of exactly that for a long time now: > New hi
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by rev_bird 9y ago
It wasn't until we learned my great-grandmother's Hebrew name (last year!) that we made a connection between that and a Yiddish lullaby my grandmother used to sing to my sister. Long story short our best theory is that it was pass
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>If you are black, your ancestors were not vikings any more than my ancestors were Zulu warriors. This seems to be disproving a statement the author didn't make. He was specifically talking about people of European descent.

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