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da_dude4242

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    Comment #3411433

    Time travel from whose perspective? To you what seems like ten-thousands of years will seem to a traveler going at relativistic speeds like hundreds of years.

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    Comment #3398614

    >The cost of the medical staff, the supervised consumption, security around it etc is enormous. That is for a population of 5 million people in the whole of Scotland. How does that…

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    Comment #3398474

    >I have done time in community psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. I'm not arguing against the dangers of drugs. My point is if your only interaction with drug users is through pe…

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    Comment #3397646

    >For every productive member of society using drugs there must be at least 2 -3 that drain from society On what grounds do you make this claim? Perhaps for every user that makes it…

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    Comment #3375343

    Don't feed the trolls.

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    Comment #3368822

    The reason you won't find many articles is because the male perspective has been marginalized from gender studies. The generic argument being "the male perspective dominates all ot…

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    Comment #3366759

    Yes but how much of this problem is a spatial limit and how much is a product of other physical limitations? You might be able to reduce critical paths using memristors and 3d circ…

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    Comment #3364918

    >Sure, it's sad men don't get to spend as much time with the kids, but the point is, they can have their career, and have at least some time with their children. Women very often j…

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    Comment #3363863

    What's unique to this situation is the social construct of the "stronger" and "weaker" sex. A claim of victim hood coming from a female aligns with bias we already hold about women…

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    Comment #3363797

    A)My use of the word privilege was sarcastic. B)The Equal Rights Amendment which would have required drafting for both sexes was defeated by a woman organization(STOP ERA).

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    Comment #3363761

    "I think most feminists would discount the idea of "female privilege" per se as a false equivalence similar to a hypothetical "black privilege"." That's my point. "The fact that th…

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    Comment #3363674

    Males have the "privilege" of being the "stronger" sex. If you're not collected and emotionally unreactive you are abnormal/weak. Any emotional expression that deviates from a narr…

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    Comment #3363555

    "Some of us, however, remember the torment, the humiliation, the violence, the scorn and the ostracism of finding science, electronics, and computers fascinating. There was, indeed…

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    Comment #3343841

    "Today… increasing numbers of doctors — mostly women — decide to work part time or leave the profession. Since 2005 the part-time physician workforce has expanded by 62 percent, ac…

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    Comment #3343835

    I agree with you but in how many other cases are stats so clear? It's not like we're talking about slight margins of significants. ~80% of women have children and most of them do i…

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    Comment #3343770

    The way you frame it is a catch-22 but data shows that when matched for age, marital status, and children single women with no children make more money than their male counterpart.…

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    Comment #3343092

    Providing counterexamples to a generalization is not a debunking. Every stat I run into on the matter shows career focused women being less likely to have children or have them muc…

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    Comment #3325333

    In what sense is this a zero sum game? Sure if economics could be reduced to gambling it is zero-sum but betting in economics is betting on those who will create value(ideally).

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    Comment #3297947

    I'm Russian who probably has some asian DNA(ural region/mongolian?). Can someone explain to me the likelyhood of being a compatible match?

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    Comment #3290917

    Her account of glory is consistent with sociological perspectives I've ran across but it's not particular to startups. Historically, social costs are externalized to men in exchang…

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    Comment #3288832

    How are they mutually exclusive products?

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    Comment #3279947

    People take issue with teleology frameworks in evolutionary processes. Teleological perspectives on individual organisms aren't the same. 1)All organisms are driven towards certain…

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    Comment #3175256

    For the silly people downvoting, this is a reference to a Japanese Haiku. Old pond, frog jumps in - plop!

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