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by tesseractive 6y ago
> "Should we let children cut off their genitals?" It is currently against any kind of recommended practice to perform genital surgery on children. It is not approved nor is it practiced. This kind of intentionally hyperbolic l
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by tesseractive 6y ago
Well, I know both gay and trans people who have survived conversion therapy, but there's a really high incidence of suicide among people who have been through it. Also, the people I know have described literal torture as being part of
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by tesseractive 6y ago
Amazon is in Seattle. We are arguably the most trans-accepting city in the US (source: being a trans person living in Seattle). Trans people are mostly just an accepted part of the community here. And people here are generally not super imp
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by tesseractive 12y ago
Depending on how much volume you have, inventory turns are an important gate on how many items you can afford to carry. And I would imagine that there are practical limits on how many SKUs you can pull stock from and still deliver in an hou
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by tesseractive 12y ago
Another big difference between this and Wal-Mart is geography. Wal-Mart's strongest areas are less-densely-populated rural areas where one store can draw customers from miles around. And indeed -- you can't easily set up a same-da
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by tesseractive 12y ago
It's in no way clear that Amazon wins on selection. In 25K SKUs, Amazon will have electronics, but almost certainly hace fewer SKUs than a dedicated electronics store. They will have groceries, but not as many as a grocery store. They
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by tesseractive 12y ago
Only people who are not members of minority groups think that someone saying something degrading to you is an easy path to riches. It simply doesn't work that way in real life. First off, no one is going to believe you, and everyone wi
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by tesseractive 12y ago
When people "unknowingly" out themselves as bigots, no, you don't have to be "considerate" and take it to them. That's terrible advice.
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by tesseractive 12y ago
Yes. And those people are racists.
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by tesseractive 12y ago
In general, if you make jokes that a member of another race would perceive as racist, you've already done something wrong, even if you don't perceive it as racist, but just as some sort of "weird" humor. If it made the
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Sam didn't start this in a vacuum. He started it after women in the tech community laid a lot of groundwork educating the community about gender diversity problems. Are there specific things the technology community could do to open th
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Given that these supposed "energetic amateurs" have created an enormous percentage of the code that web applications across the internet run on, their votes automatically count. If PHP developers had never produced anything of val
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by tesseractive 13y ago
These goals aren't in opposition. But they aren't the same thing. Women don't launch startups as often as men, and black people don't launch startups as often as white people, but these aren't necessarily for the sa
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Given the widespread use of PHP for web programming, it seems obvious that in the domain of web programming, developers have voted with their feet for PHP.
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Facebook doesn't use web servers or operating systems written in PHP either, right? So if the language that web applications are written in isn't very important to the overall dependability of web applications, then it stands to r
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by tesseractive 13y ago
What does it mean to say that it lasts longer than wood framing? There are wood framed houses that are well over a century old, right? So is this being measured in centuries, or am I missing something important?
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Yes, that's exactly what that kind of tax is for.
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by tesseractive 13y ago
According to the article, she did this because she was being anonymously, publicly slandered on Secret.
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by tesseractive 13y ago
It's not just for the benefit of hotel owners. Cities typically charge huge taxes on hotel stays, so illicit hotels are dodging taxes. And there are actually some vestiges of regulations directed at protecting consumers from hotels tha
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by tesseractive 13y ago
1. Which is why I have to estimate risk from incomplete information. Which is a pretty common thing for people to have to do in real life. If I'm in an unfamiliar city and someone I don't know says "Hey, watch out for that al
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by tesseractive 13y ago
No, I'm using risk analysis to conclude that the cost to me of accepting a job there if she's telling the truth is much higher than the opportunity cost of not taking the job (assuming I have other options) if her complaint turns
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Being an evangelist for women at a company is actually not the same thing as having the right to speak for all of them any more than a "developer evangelist" has a right to speak for all the developers.
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by tesseractive 13y ago
It sounds a whole lot like you're saying: A. There are only two impossibly simplistic solutions to the problem. B. Neither of them are workable in practice, so clearly the problem is intractable. There are people out there who have spe
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by tesseractive 13y ago
So if you were a woman considering taking a job at GitHub, this would have no influence on your decision? Really? All it would take for me personally to reverse my stance on an employer being a good place for women is a single case in which
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by tesseractive 13y ago
You are starting from the assumption that this movement is in error rather than arguing it to be. The whole point of their argument is that the word "bossy" is used to police women's behavior in situations where the same beha
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by tesseractive 13y ago
If you mean a form for user feedback, I think that's a different case. The point of a company soliciting user feedback is for them to gather information about what people who use their product want, so that they can make better decisio
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by tesseractive 13y ago
That's not any more reasonable an interpretation than accusing anyone who prefers double-blind medical studies of believing that doctors can't be trusted.
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by tesseractive 13y ago
> The "frat house" is working very well and there is no reason to change what works. Different systems could work, but with different people, and different focus. Yes. Y Combinator could very well decide that their current proc
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Suppose we set a goal to build a dirigible the size of a small town that could float up in the air and people could live on it and it would have an expected lifespan of at least 30 years? It would be enormously expensive and I have little d
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by tesseractive 13y ago
> The entertainment industry seems to be doing better than ever. Did piracy actually reverse growth at any point in their history? The shift to digital absolutely did reverse growth in the music industry (part of the entertainment indust

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