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For the most part, white American women don't like nerds, which encourages a lot of men to turn into bullshitting, "rain-making" alpha males instead of interesting people who can a…

I probably speak for half the board when I say that the first addition for that list to come to mind was, "I was a virgin". Let me also add to that list: recessions were mild and a…

In legal jargon, that's known as a "credited response". Or, alternatively, "1-fucking-80".

Clearance takes about 6-9 months. Foreign associations and illegal activities get a lot of attention. They'll ask about drug use. Don't lie. Any illegal drug use in the past 12 mon…

The 8-sided paper snowflake exists because it's easy to fold a square piece of paper into eighths (i.e. three times, one diagonal) and cut it. It's so kids can make snowflakes. The…

Agree fully with point #2. Have you used OkCupid? I think it's better than most in that regard, but the people on the site tend to be a bit full of themselves. Also, compatibility …

This seems oddly relevant: http://img39.yfrog.com/img39/6247/h807.png On a more serious note, there are a lot of difficult problems in onlne dating that someone could make a lot of…

Too lazy to clean, as I don't have a dishwasher. Cooking seems fun. I'd like to learn it, and will once I live (a) within walking (or driving, outside of NYC) distance of a grocery…

(Disclaimer: Read this when it came out, haven't re-RTFA.) Sad, but accurate. On one hand, some humanities academics are directly responsible for this; the attitude of many academi…

You consider me "anti-feminist" why? Casual sex and strong-man polygamy are about as anti-feminist as it gets, rooted in the concept of women as a resource to be sexually exploited…

Cross-cultural study shows us that monogamy is required for a stable, future-oriented, low-violence society. No non-monogamous society has managed to achieve a fraction of what pre…

I'm not trolling. I am annoyed to see copious downvoting with minimal response or discussion.

This was voted down why, exactly? Everyone knows I'm right. A society that fails to impel people to better themselves is next to useless.

I think that idea that men use wealth to attract mates is pretty damn obvious, but I never really considered that women use displays of altruism to attract males. It makes sense. T…

Study 4 showed that women rated a man driving a Porsche Boxster as more attractive for a short-term sexual relationship than a man driving a Honda Civic. The fact that women are ev…

This is only half of the story. The other half is that a person with a large number of prior sexual partners is more likely to cheat in a long-term relationship, less likely to be …

I don't think it's paradoxical. There's a reason "smart genes" didn't proliferate throughout the human race, giving us all (the genetic potential for, at the least) 150+ IQs. That …

Correct. Girls provide themselves when other women want you, but when you're in a dry spell and they might actually be able to help you, they kick you because you're down.

I generally agree with the principle of command-query separation. One point where I would differ is that, when the command's effects aren't entirely known to the caller, it's often…

She has a leadership role in a technology company. Society views leadership and technological prowess as masculine traits. So that's androgyny. An androgynous person is one who has…

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that most Haskell code doesn't generate values, but "thunks" that evaluate to values if needed. When you write x = 4 + 5 you…

Functions should only have side effects if and only if that's what the function is designed to do: e.g. perform IO, write to disk, et cetera. Then, "side effect" is a misnomer, bec…