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> If less than 25% of CS graduates are female, which is currently the case, it strongly suggests that attempting to make the engineering team 50% female will result in a lower hiri…

The Great Firewall blocks porn so China probably isn't the country parent would use.

I guess my original post wasn't very constructive. I wanted to say that seeing ads probably doesn't cause alcoholism, but OTOH, being unable to handle the thought that your preciou…

VPN hosting country, these are drones. Drones, meet the VPN host country... Or heck, just strong-arm them into adopting think-of-the-children laws one way or another.

If you have something to say go ahead and enlighten us.

Internet won't fuck up your children half as much as your intolerance of reality and their feelings will.

As much as MRA/PUA types are nuts, they are also getting many things right that the mainstream has no clue about. Let's say that it takes some knowledge and skills to bed new woman…

The less you talk about drinking the more he'll hide it from you. Ditto with gambling and sex. My parents talked about everything besides sex and I never drank or gambled in excess…

> That's a great thought experiment: Is a site that serves ads that might contain 'adult' ads at times a porn site according to the British government and would need to verify that…

> initially looking to find some "HOTCHIX" to... solve an urge.. to 6 months later only getting off to really extreme stuff Been there, done that. Went away once I realized how fak…

Yes, it is equivalent. The fact that you are deluded to think that you can change anybody's mind by repeating this "racism xenophobia sexual assault" mantra which literally everybo…

I come from a Christian monoculture in Europe and find it hard to believe that other religions are any better. It's hard to argue with people who have been brainwashed that everyth…

Reportedly, there are places in UK which don't recognize UK laws. edit: I mean practically, not formally. It's enough that violations of host country's laws stay unreported and vio…

I suppose parent may have been extrapolating their willingness to integrate from that of other immigrants from Muslim cultures who have been living in France/Germany/UK for decades…

Don't worry, it'll take at least 15k years to blast a hole that big, unless the AI is really smart. And life seems to be quite resilient and eerily altruistic at times. We still ha…

I tried to support accq's point that Einstein's "schema violation" was a joke compared to what's happening in case of Syrian refugees mentioned by the article. Those people migrate…

There is probably more difference between German and whatever languages they speak in Syria than between Schweizerdeutsch and Hochdeutch. And this is in addition to the general cul…

It seems that most of the time people point verses 2:190-194 as example, but frankly, they only tell to "fight those who fight you" [1]. However, in practice apparently some leeway…

Your post is borderline offtop and I can see it downvoted to hell, but you actually touch an important issue. Using the Internet for two decades I came across countless campaigns a…

It's sad that a woman who, if she remained a part of this conflict she joined, was in position to experience and realize its sheer insanity and maybe slowly weaken the frame of oth…

> something that never happened to me with incandescents happened with halogens ... the halogen had blown up scattering little glass shards all over the living room I've had one in…

> If a child goes routinely to school I would not call this an action under coercion I'm actually young enough to remember what school looked like and I'm sure as hell many of the …

> I would add that I'm not exactly a Christian, although I find a lot of inspiration in the gospel and the writings of Christian thinkers -- so one doesn't have to go "all the way"…

> 3. Or maybe many of the people I know are in fact this unhappy, but they never tell anyone except their psychiatrist all of the pieces necessary to put their life story together.…