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Socialism isn't a specific ideology, it's just a declaration that some collective involuntary actions are legitimate for the good of the group. People who label themselves as socialists range from neo…

The hippie isn't selling coffee, he's giving it away with terms, but you can clearly lie to the hippie and use the fruits of his labor in a way in which he's specifically asked for them not to be used…

I relate to her, and I'm gradually getting over it - but my mindset since I was a child was the only currency that I had an endless supply of was suffering. If I didn't have the money to do something …

Men and women often behave identically, just as men and other men often behave identically. I'm a man and I don't feel contempt for sick men. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be having this conversation, I …

The change happened earlier than 2008. It happened when funding was getting dismantled in Congress and subsequently a conservative ombudsman was appointed along with a guy to run operations that used …

Oh, I disagree with you now, sorry. You're saying that there's a way that women are and a way that men are that isn't dictated by society, but dictates it, and any deviation is unnatural. I'm saying t…

Absolutely. I'm pretty sure that I don't like this guy's politics, his manner irritates me, and every time he says "porn scanners" I get douche chills. But by exposing the truth to the people who pay …

Yup. One number rarely tells the entire story.

But what you "don't think that employers think" and "think the real problem is" isn't really backed up by anything but your views of employers and women, is it?

That $100-$150 per month price point is bad. For $1200 to $1600, you can buy one of these cheap 100cc Chinese scooters easily, and you don't even need an iPhone. Insurance is about $40 a month and usu…

You've been viciously downvoted here, but you should have expected it. Hacker News has a pretty libertarian contingent that thinks that the acknowledgment that people have different experiences is equ…

At a similar event at Qawa Primary School on the Fijian island of Vanau Levu, the girls were cured by: "[...]a Hindu priest ( pandit ) who asked the Hindu elephant god for help in appeasing the distur…

Quick book recommendation if you want to read descriptions of dozens of incidents from around the world of groups of girls around the same age that go to the same school or belong to the same convent …

Wow, time would be a big problem when designing something like that. You'd either have to decouple or market the different games to different types of players - for example a slow 20 minute a day em…

I've been fascinated with that idea for years - multi-layer largely independent games that affect each other. I've been playing with the idea in the board game space, for example, having a board game …

Very related case: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-08-25/news/ct-met-ea... "In the recording, which the one juror said was replayed several times in the jury room, Alejo was heard explaining…

Conspiracy theory vs. conspiracy theory?

I'm also the kind of person who can drink coffee at night, or can have a couple of cups of coffee after dinner, and not notice any effect on my sleeping. I'm definitely not addicted, because I rarely …

My edit meant that I was swearing at strangers on the internet about definitions. That's a bit overheated. Now we're both just passively cooling.

I have absolutely no opinion on the standard, so I'm not sure why you keep telling me extraneous shit. Read what I typed; don't get upset when people accuse you of using scare quotes when you're using…

Scare quotes don't have anything to do with your opinion of the author. Scare quotes are quotes that are editorial rather than informational.

I would imagine that a program to detect you by writing style in the way explained here could also be able to anonymize your writing too, with a little rewriting itself. Or even used to frame other au…

That's the definition of scare quotes. "Scare quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it does not signify its literal or conventional meaning." "If scare quotes are …

That's a rant aimed at consumers of software, not the producers.

I'd ask him. Virding's one of the original inventors of erlang, and also an erlang with a lispy syntax called "Lisp-Flavoured Erlang", so I'm sure he has a plan. Or he was bored, and playing around wi…

I live in the US. I don't know a single person who works in construction. I don't know a single poet, or truck driver. I don't know any chemists, or anyone who has worked in a nuclear power plant. In …

I definitely didn't write any HTML, CSS, or javascript in college, but I feel like I use algorithmic analysis stuff from there at least once an hour. Data structure stuff I use a bit less often, becau…

Do you have any information about the cable TV subscription rates of the poor, or are you just trotting out bullshit theories of poverty as lack of impulse control and proper priority setting that wer…

You're overestimating the influence of Hacker News, and underestimating the historical concern that people have had about their personal information being used to power commercial business. http://gr…