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> Comics were never supposed to be educational or have any non-entertainment value and primary tarted at hormones soaked male teens. This hasn't been true of comic books for severa…

> Comics are how they are because the market imploded and they have to appeal to the niche of of niche that is their customer base. It's been a long time since that implosion, that…

Using women as a prop for self confidence is pretty douchey.

The point I'm making is that we expect people to continue living their lives while going to school, that doesn't change. Getting financial aid isn't a contract to live a strict mon…

> Should we encourage "pair accounting" and have accountants share a laptop screen to get their work done? Have you ever seen finance people work? That happens all of the time.

> The latest fads of Fat Acceptance and Healthy At Every Size show the trend quite well. Fat acceptance is not a fad as you put. It is about people being able to accept and love th…

> Daily hard exercise - the panting, heart-pounding, drenched in sweat kind of exercise - increases your metabolism. This is not true for all people and can be highly variable betw…

> I believe that most "normal" people are capable of doing enough exercise (combined with good eating choices) that they can lose weight. The point is there is there no set point o…

I love this post for how wrong it is: * Acting like regular college students don't have classes that are super simple to game and pass * Saying life moments like dating/flirting ar…

> And I don't see them snooping for their own purposes. That is contrary to the history of how companies take advantage of data provided to them, even when that data is supposed to…

You must be living under a rock to not have read one of the bazillion of stories about policing and racism that have come up since last fall, but for a great overview of the subjec…

As a scoop user it should be noted that scoop is much more oriented towards developers. Scoop runs in the Powershell environment and tends to mostly offer posix tools or SDKs as av…

Its not a hard cap, its a cap of number of residencies that will be supported by federal funding through Medicare: http://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2012/08/30/why-reside... A…

This is disingenuous. Medical schools would increase resident caps even without the bonus money from Medicare if there was a reason to do so. Reasons go beyond just the Medicare fu…

> Which is completely irrelevant, as are accent/sex/other discriminatory factors that make zero difference to how someone is likely to work within a team. This is just plain ignora…

> I'm pretty sure that if you run statistics, you would find out that people from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be criminals, violent, less educated, less intelligent. I'm …

> and although software development is meritocratic, it's not as meritocratic as those orchestras Software development IS NOT meritocratic and neither are orchestras. There is just…

Orchestras are not a collection of independent workers. Everyone works together as a team and chemistry is very important. > your team, understands your industry, and cares about y…

"Code review? What code review?"

> This is part of the author's larger point: your title does not limit your contributions. You don't need permission (a title) to act a certain way. Titles, then, are an acknowledg…

I had the exact opposite experience. Learning about native peoples and their history was extremely fascinating for me and I wouldn't like to have missed out on that knowledge. Lear…

> It's interesting to me how we finally got rid of Original Sin, but now have replaced this with other, atheistic forms of this, like trying to make our children feel guilty about …

> In his case, he was stuck at work at a public housing project for 3 days with the residents, because the city didn't ticket parking violations and the plows couldn't clear the cl…

> Restaurants are a reflection of what the population wants, not the driver. In order for there to be more vegetarian choices in a restaurant there has to be more demand for those …