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hopeless_case

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    Comment #14278644

    > Insofar as Bitcoin represents a single world currency, the problem is that on a macro level this isn't a good idea. I don't think a scenario in which bitcoin became the single cu…

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    Comment #5415331

    Men are less likely to report sexual assault and rape against them than women are, for a number of reasons. One being that rape is defined as being penetrated against your will, an…

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    Comment #5414875

    Going from a tally of 935 to 216000 is a revolution in DOJ's thinking. It implies that an active suppression of the truth was abandoned.

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    Comment #5414518

    Women are 50% of rape victims, and 40% of rapists. That is in the general population and excludes prison rape. If you included that, men would be the majority of victims. These fig…

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    Comment #5171574

    >Put that in contrast to the person who is calling somebody who is stating that the perpetrator might have been one (sic) female a ""conspiracy theorist"" and talks about "obvious …

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    Comment #5170389

    > but in the case of the tech industry, most programmers (most people at all levels) are male. we simply dominate - we are a clear majority. so it's not about bias from extremes. w…

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    Comment #5170347

    Can the average man expect to marry a woman with a higher educational attainment than him, who will bear more of the load of providing for the family so he can spend more time with…

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    Comment #5170242

    If men as a group took advantage of women as a group, then why would men define rape to deny their own victimhood? That is not acting in the interests of men. I agree that the narr…

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    Comment #5168468

    I think you are conflating these two statements (the apex fallacy): 1. Most of the those who have power are men. 2. Most of those who are men have power. They are very different st…

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    Comment #5168283

    Men and women commit rape and are raped in roughly equal numbers, and that is not including prison rape. When do include that, men are the majority of the victims. The CDC's 2010 N…

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    Comment #5168194

    You don't know that the person harassing her is a man, so why assume it is?

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    Comment #5167261

    > What a nasty bunch of people we are. Why is wondering aloud how sexist/creepy the bulk of male programmers are more acceptable than wondering aloud how untalented the bulk of fem…

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    Comment #5166743

    > Not to mention the conspiracy theorist positing that it might have been a woman posting the fake porn pictures. Why is that possibility not worth considering?

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    Comment #5166449

    What common sense moral principle would such a law be based on? I am at a loss to think of any. Without one, a law with such powerful enemies is not going to resonate widely enough…

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    Comment #5158586

    Pick a company like reddit, that provides a service using open source software, and submit a patch to a problem they care about. That would get the attention of the programming sta…

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    Comment #5145116

    When you are doing maintenance programming, where you only ever understand small pieces of the code at a time (the ones relevant to the project you are currently working on), bisec…

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    Comment #334753

    I am guessing that a lot of data analysis talent that used to be uninterested in trying to understand the world economy will now be much more interested. We've had cheap computers …

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    Crowd-sourcing the monitoring of the world economy

    It is fascinating for me to watch the governments of the world stumble around in the wake of the financial crisis not knowing what to do. How did this crisis sneak up on everyone? …