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It's part of the problem, but not all of the problem. There are plenty of women who want to be in STEM fields, and have pushed for that in spite of everything. It's hard to actuall…

> Let's see if there's any intellectual honesty here Have you tried looking, before just assuming that such things don't already exist? I mean, a simple Google search will find ple…

Yeah, you're in the wrong. The problem is that you believe that your opinion is the politically neutral one, and it isn't. It's just that the Rust community aren't a bunch of liber…

Agreed. They annoy all the types of people that I'd much rather not work with, and I honestly believe that Mozilla is better off without them. I don't care how irreplaceable they t…

No problem. Those excerpts were basically designed to be misleading, for the purpose of pushing an agenda (the "GG totally doesn't harass women, you [insert gendered insult towards…

#3 is... a bunch of paranoid conspiracy theory bullshit. Let's have a look at the first entry. I'll probably get bored after a few of these, but... whatever. Charge 1 - Leigh Alexa…

Probably assuming that the people she's reacting to are imaginary, because he doesn't believe it could possibly be that bad.

Umm... That report does not say what you think it says. Whoever did that excerpt was either utterly useless at statistics (and reading comprehension), or was trying to twist the re…

I'm not blinded by my own perspective. I actually happen to listen to people, hear their opinions, and want to try to understand them. I don't tell people that their opinions or po…

I suspect that would be a post-hoc rationalization. One of the ways we fool ourselves into believing that we're being rational, when we really aren't. Men are more likely to pipe u…

> not having the necessary information to make those biases could result in ideas actually being judged in a vacuum Potentially, yes. It certainly can happen, but it can also go ho…

And I should believe you, rather than the women to whom this happens all the time, because... why?

So the university being paranoid about being sued is the students' fault? > being silenced Nobody is being silenced by the students. What the students want is for professors to sto…

The belief that ideas can be judged in a vacuum is a very different thing than ideas actually being judged in a vacuum. Ideas are not judged in a vacuum - humans are rubbish at doi…

Nope. Completely opt-in. Most of the people on these block lists are... I'm going to charitably describe them as "trolls". Generally, accounts are added for harassment, abusive or …

No, he's right A bi-elliptic transfer is used for transferring between two orbits around the same body. In some situations, this is more efficient than a straightforward Hohmann tr…

Unwarranted hostility aside... The fact that Varnish changed over the years neither invalidates this article, nor vindicates Squid's design. On any remotely modern system (say, 200…

GCC didn't ignore the Windows C++ ABI. Windows doesn't have a platform C++ ABI. Microsoft consider MSVC's C++ ABI as being internal to the compiler. They don't guarantee that the A…

Except... Freezing point of water: 32°F Average human body temperature (oral): 98.2°F So that's 66.2°F, not 64°F. Those two temperatures were the original reference points for the …

I don't think that's what phaer meant. The concept of sexual orientation is a social construct. Unquestionably. It's an idea that's pretty much unique to our culture (modern wester…

The introduction of pepper.js is particularly interesting. It's a re-implementation of (some of?) the Pepper API on top of the standard web APIs, so you can write stuff for PNaCl b…

The word you're after is "agender". So, pretty close. The answer is - whatever they tell you to. Some would prefer "they". Others wouldn't care if you use "him" or "her". Yet other…

Parties do indeed submit full rankings, which are published. http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/guide/gtv/ Only the summaries get reported, for obvious reasons.

> If I'm understanding this right, the Australians have the privilege of instant run-off preferential voting, and still prefer to just vote party line? Could an Aussie please expla…

ASP.net used to do user agent sniffing extensively. It used it for feature detection, but also to serve different HTML and JavaScript to different browsers. I think it still does, …