ta82828

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by ta82828 11y ago
Human languages don't work like programming languages, you can't always derive the meaning of a phrase from its parts. There are large groups of English speakers among whom, men and women alike, "you guys" is an idiom i
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by ta82828 11y ago
So if your neighbor is offended that you wear blue shirts and insists that you should wear green shirts, will you change your behavior? After all, they are offended and you care about them.
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by ta82828 11y ago
If you think "werewolf" is sexist, I would recommend "lycanthrope" as an alternative, rather than "manwolf". I did not say "mankind is fine" I said that it's etymology is not sexist. The word is
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by ta82828 11y ago
Automatically changing your behavior every time someone is offended is not rational. Sometimes people are unreasonable in taking offense: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25680655/ns/us_news-life/t/univers
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by ta82828 11y ago
Well, it's judgement call, but offense alone is not enough to change behavior IMO. There was a case where a person reading a history book about the KKK in the presence of blacks was accused of harassment because the picture on the cov
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by ta82828 11y ago
Well, OP is implying that a single woman finding something sexist or offensive makes it so. I've presented two counterexamples upthread and grandparent here presented one, that's three. OP presented only two, and one of them is
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by ta82828 11y ago
The etymology of the word "mankind" is not as sexist as most people think. The word "man" used to mean "person" and the words "wereman" and "wyfman" used to mean male person and female pers
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by ta82828 11y ago
I've never actually heard an algorithm called hot. If I did, my first instinct would probably be confusion, not that the algorithm is "sexy, sleek, or elegant". If I had to put a meaning to the phrase, it would make me thin
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by ta82828 11y ago
I will accept many corrections for the benefit of diversity, but when even the majority of the disadvantaged group uses the word in a non-hostile way, I stop feeling like I'm being asked to be helpful and start feeling like I'm be
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by ta82828 11y ago
People do it because it's shorter and more colorful. Count the syllables in your suggestions.
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by ta82828 11y ago
I am male. When I was in school I was on a project with two women. I asked them if the term "guys" bothered them. They both said no. I even used it when there were only women in the group. Guys is the plural of you in some di
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by ta82828 11y ago
I've read that the primary motivation is to allow intelligence assets in other countries to communicate with the agencies they work for. https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/96791ee9-98d5-44a0-b0a9...
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by ta82828 11y ago
Tor is funded at least partly by the U.S. government. https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en See: * Radio Free Asia * US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor * Naval Research Labo
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by ta82828 11y ago
it wasn't so easy I think you meant "it wasn't so hard"
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by ta82828 11y ago
Is "they're tasty" a valid justification? Perhaps you're a vegetarian, but if you aren't there's a logical inconsistency there. If you are, kudos for walking the walk.
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by ta82828 11y ago
Would it help if someone pointed out that wild animals will eventually die in pain whether hunters shoot them or not? There are no vets in the wild to give them morphine to put them down when they get too old to survive. They will either
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by ta82828 11y ago
Maybe it's not a basic phobia, but the grandparent poster implied that anyone who likes target shooting and owns guns for that purpose is "odd/unhinged". I don't understand why people can say, "oh he's a f
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by ta82828 11y ago
It's supposed to be for code snippets. But yes, I always manually add the line breaks when quoting text. It's annoying and it would be nice if there were a real quote feature.
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by ta82828 11y ago
A contributor can have legitimate reasons for not wanting their code re-licensed. For example, the Linux kernel deliberately did not move to GPLv3. Would such a contributor be "holding the project up" or would they be rightly de
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by ta82828 11y ago
They're a government service, and are not - theoretically - supposed to charge market rates.
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by ta82828 11y ago
Well the article disagrees with that claim, "Appropriations per student are much higher now than they were in the 1960s and 1970s, when tuition was a small fraction of what it is today." so I guess it would be time to go to the re
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by ta82828 11y ago
The article is about state schools though.
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by ta82828 11y ago
"Peace... through superior firepower."
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by ta82828 11y ago
hostnames can have more than three components, e.g. "www.ox.ac.uk". So it's either biggest to smallest: "com.google.www" or smallest to biggest: "www.google.com". google.com.www is in neither ascending or
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by ta82828 11y ago
I was only trying to make an analogy for the effect on the namespace.
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by ta82828 11y ago
I didn't mean it literally, I guess I should have been more clear. What I mean is that gTLDs are a single new namespace, and provide nothing more than what any other single new TLD would have, except for the aesthetic value of not hav
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by ta82828 11y ago
I think of it this way: they didn't create a new infinite set of TLDs, they just created a single new TLD which is the empty string. So what was the point? Is having ".com" or similar at the end such a huge burden?
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by ta82828 11y ago
Neruda + Pop band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWnM45HLe_A
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by ta82828 11y ago
Grammar ambiguity: the site is in the US. So a "US Website" -> what kind of website? A coding website -> US (Coding Website) -> "US Coding Website"
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by ta82828 11y ago
Well, there's a video game that helps you practice avoiding something similar: http://www.linusakesson.net/games/klamrisk/index.php

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