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g15jv2dp

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    Comment #41370052

    > At Caltech, there has been an average gap of 10 percentage points between the acceptance rate for male and female applicants since 2003-04. Women were accepted at more than doubl…

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    Comment #41369515

    > They also didn't say men would even ask anyone out, are you being sexist, and assuming men always ask, and women do not? Not remotely related to what I said. > Or are you suggest…

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    Comment #41369481

    > I can guarantee you that way more men applied to Caltech than women did. You cannot guarantee that. Show some data or don't say anything. > That means the most talented and impre…

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    Comment #41369384

    Women don't go to university to enter your personal dating pool.

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    Comment #41369357

    Which is bad.

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    Comment #41361218

    Durov chose to become a French citizen. What do you make of that?

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    Comment #41354348

    > This seems to be missing the elephant in the room - elisp doesn't suck, it is just a lisp. The article lists a few defaults of elisp that aren't shared by all lisps. What do you …

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    Comment #41264595

    This already exists, right now...? I've seen tons of USB hubs with an hdmi output and several USB ports that can be used concurrently. Hell I'm using one right now. Are you asking …

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    Comment #41257878

    > One thing you'll learn about my courtroom is that I'm not a toy. I am not to be played with. What a narcissistic piece of shit. Not everything is about you...

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    Comment #41257663

    > I think in practice, people write "Emphasize words like this.", then , then . At least I myself usually add markup immediately after writing the words to be marked up. Is this ve…

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    Comment #41256553

    WTF. I'm interested in what you've created and want to understand the reason for your design decisions, and this is how you reply? edit: Well, it seems that the parent comment has …

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    Comment #41256301

    There's no reason it wouldn't "work", the question is "why". Having such precise dates obviously comes with some compromises (e.g., the representation is larger, or it's variable d…

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    Comment #41249123

    The people who did the work obviously think it's fine, otherwise they wouldn't have licensed it under such a permissive licence.

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    Comment #41247068

    Sorry but what does "arms length" mean? My software doesn't have arms. Using metaphors full of imagery is cute but essentially meaningless. > Two programs communicating over a sock…

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    Comment #41238602

    It's a sphere, the height is equal to the diameter that you plainly see on the picture.

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    Comment #41237203

    There's a difference between "talking about it" and "the word is uttered somehow at some point".

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    Comment #41236781

    I responded to a sibling comment with an explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234913 But good on you for the condescension even though you didn't understand my point…

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    Comment #41236774

    The mere mention of the word "testicle" makes you think that your coworkers want to have sex with you? Wow.

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    Comment #41234929

    Schoolyard insult? Uh? Can you quote the part of my comment that would be the "schoolyard insult"? > This comment is in a discussion about an article titled, Tensors, the geometric…

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    Comment #41234913

    Are you even trying to understand my point? Yes, in that direction, explicitly constructing an element of the bidual of V from an element of V is easy. To explicitly find an elemen…

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    Comment #41233203

    I'm talking about a practical task. Not an abstract existence result.

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    Comment #41233031

    You're offended if someone wrote "testicle" in source code? Are you also offended about "ankle" or "hair"? The puritanism...