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Most suggestions seem to focus on making the ideas unattractive somehow (validate them, write them down, sleep on them). On the other hand only a couple of days ago there was a pos…

I don't know what you are going on about? Did I claim it is pleasant? Nevertheless it would be nice to meet you and do the experiment. One thing: I can't imagine I would remain sit…

Until a couple of days ago I only took Bitcoin serious. But dogecoin might me think twice. And today I learned about Cthulhu "offerings" (another Bitcoin currency). I could just im…

Nice ad hominem. I suppose you endured a lot of hardship which entitles you to look down on people who have it "easy" in life.

So you'd worry about hurting the feelings of somebody who just overstepped into your private space? Doesn't make sense. Why not just say "hands off" or whatever, no need to back it…

So how did living in the woods compare to being hugged by a stranger of the opposite sex?

If she doesn't say it's inappropriate, how are other people to know that it isn't? It would be really awkward to approach two people and tell them "hey what you are doing is inappr…

On the other hand women also receive special attention in tech circles. I'm not convinced that one is more overwhelming than the other. Maybe some men can't accept female techies, …

That list is well known, but I think it shows the opposite of what you claim - contrast the number of incidents to the number of tech events and people involved in tech. Apart from…

I probably can't follow your whole reasoning :-( I suppose whole sub-economies will emerge. Some will run on Bitcoin, others on dogecoin, others on whatnot. And of course there are…

Sorry, I probably really misread you. I also read the article again and personally I don't think the situation sounds that threatening - there were a whole bunch of people there, i…

"I wouldn't trust him after seeing him display that behavior. Would you?" Of course I wouldn't. Neither would most people in the Bitcoin community. Nevertheless, now we have "this …

Yeah, let's just get it over with and say he basically raped her. Let's increase the counter for "women get raped in public all the time" up by one. After all, even if he didn't ra…

It sounds to me as if you don't have a lot of experience. Neither have I, but I have met women who flirted with other men so that their boy-friends could get in a fight with them. …

There are already a lot of forks of Bitcoin, some even moderately successful. Actually independent of feminism I have long wondered if other cryptocoins might supersede Bitcoin exa…

This story made me realize that eventually we will get some sort of "FemCoin", though. Anybody who continues to use Bitcoin will be labeled a sexist and be made a social pariah. Th…

It's not always easy to know what kind of relationship people are in. That's probably a reason why people tend to wait until it escalates beyond a certain point. If people would in…

That's just blindness, though. They only see the rising rents, not that they can't afford the rents anymore because they don't have tech jobs. It's just different sides of the same…

I have nothing against it, although it wasn't my personal taste. I just want to point out that being exaggerated and semi-crazy is not the only way to get kids excited. It is maybe…

Less punishment for controversial comments in controversial topics. Difficult to explain. In short, I actually have a six years old account with karma in the top 100, but today I w…

"I'll one-up you: indeed, the chance of a male writing such a book is much smaller than the chance of a female writing such a book. Acting as if gender wouldn't influence choice of…

Except that most kindergarden nurses and primary school teachers are women, so they already normalize learning from women all the time. Oh, and of course mothers are women, too, an…

What did you mean then, by "this is a good example why" - in what way is it a good example, what does it show about diversity?

I only did a search for "programming book for kids" on Amazon. Maybe they all suck, maybe not. Maybe Linda's book will suck, too. I just want to know why a programming book written…

I did not reply to the "diversity is good" comment, but to the "this is a good example why diversity is good" comment. This seems to imply to me that such a book wouldn't be made b…