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Hillary ticks off many of those boxes too. Difference is she's already had the opportunity to show what she does with power, and how she gets away with being corrupt. Once upon a t…

Randi Harper is... Wait for it... an anti harassment activist who runs an "abuse prevention initiative". Who got kicked out of the FreeBSD community for being abusive. Meanwhile Sh…

Everyone communicates in language, but not all language is made out of words and symbols written linearly on paper.

I seem to recall a similar inappropriate joke being called out. Something about dongles. Man, I hope when the big one hits, San Francisco falls into the sea, so all these guys can …

Criticizing a woman, even calling her a bitch, is not misogyny. Misogyny is hating women because they are women. What OP described is just heckling. And what OP did is white knight…

There are people who understand they are writing for an audience, and then there are people who operate under the mistaken idea they are inherently interesting. The latter mindset …

For the love of God, stop using arithmetic to demonstrate functional concepts. It makes your technique look contrived and unnecessary, and fails to illustrate how to actually use i…

Funny, "Dog-whistle" is the loudest dog-whistle I know, for strawmanning. "We all know what you really mean, wink wink, nod nod, and therefor you are a bigot / racist / etc."

I don't recall ever seeing a Slack ad. I just noticed more and more things starting to set up Slacks for their own purposes. The same tired "marketing" argument was used to try and…

I wonder how much of this regrexit sentiment is actually present and how much of it is just isolated incidents being held up as if they are representative. By the same media that p…

Seems to me his point was that positions born from a desire to return economic balance are now labeled extremist. As opposed to actual left wing extremism, like fanatic intersectio…

"Misogyny": warning people about false accusations. "Homophobia": talking about pedophilia in the Catholic Church. "Xenophobia": discussing human biodiversity and empirical facts a…

Education isn't gender blind, girls are doing vastly better than boys, have been for ages, and women earn 2/3rds of all college degrees in the west. It's still not enough. Because …

Far worse. You, like many others, miss the most important part of DongleGate. She shamed the supposed dongle-joke offender on Twitter with their picture, which was unambiguously ag…

TLDR: Mr Tyson pissed off the wrong people on Twitter (guess who) so now it's open season.

With regards to mobile app pricing, the elephant in the room is that mobile devices are for people who don't have a need for a general purpose computer, and hence, nobody expects t…

They've repeated this for years, right up until it was revealed women have more issues with motion sickness in VR, which is the hot new thing. Result: the oculus is designed to be …

I like it too, because it's the first explanation of QM I've heard that isn't just about minuscule systems floating in a void. I did the double slit experiment in uni, and it invol…

Luckily we all know the diversity crowd is exceedingly generous when interpreting the words of people they disagree with, always giving others the benefit of doubt. Like ModelViewC…

Ads are brain poison, block them all. No guilt.

Yeah, the only way this works is if it's in an immersive environment... either a virtual theatre, or a 3D scene. But you cannot play 3D movies on an Oculus Rift, the lack of head t…

Because Facebook is a headless chicken driven by data. All they do is throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. They're just a glorified slot machine for ad impressions that prey…

Is that why the suits kept him in the dark and sent him to talk to zuckerberg one week before the acquisition under false pretenses?

Tell you what, why don't the feminists retire "Schrödinger's rapist" first, and then I'll stop being wary around women in tech in case of them decides to point a finger at me on Tw…

Are you merely being dense or is it lost on you that maybe the world doesn't revolve around you, and expecting a cryptic two letter username to be recognized in the middle of a com…