The fear is that it happens at a subconscious level. Most people have subtle (latent) biases against disadvantaged groups. A perfectly awesome to work at company might be doing this out of ignorance, not because they…
I feel you are collapsing societal-scope with individual-scope. Individuals choose whether or not to get pregnant when a man ejaculates inside a woman without protection. If you wish to do that, and bear the fetus to…
Holy hyperbole, Batman! When did we go from my original statement, "I'm sure it's not shameful. It might bug you, but I don't see it as something worthy of shame" into the utter annihilation of humanity, and me as a bad…
Keep voting as a bloc and hope the music doesn't stop during their lifetime?
While I know you are being sarcastic, I have a serious question: do you believe that choice should enter the equation? No choice in getting old, or ill, or injured. But people (Americans) sure have a choice in getting…
It's one thing for an insurance company to operate in that manner, it's another for the government to do so. People have a choice whether to procreate. I should either be allowed to participate in that choice, or be…
I'm sure it's not shameful. It might bug you, but I don't see it as something worthy of shame. I do not have kids, do not plan to have kids, so I'm not sure why I should pay for someone else's decisions to create life.…
Lack of direct and corroborating evidence. Lack of specificity. IE, a very common historical bias: if it's not written down, it didn't happen. (FWIW this is a very difficult problem that I do not claim to be an expert…
Just to make sure the HN record is balanced, I point out for future readers that Wikipedia currently records that some research suggests he is a critical ancestor to approximately 0.5% of the world's population.…
> We're just not wired for enough internal access to look at how our own minds work. How can you justify saying this, given we (as a species) are less than 100 years into the exploration of our own minds? At best, you…
What is Servo?
The "academic internet" wasn't nearly as impressive as today's internet. I am (un?)fortunate to have my first memories around the time of the first private networks being connected to the internet (late 80s). Back then,…
This is another example of the results discovered by the Resenhan experiment, where psych students committed themselves to asylums intentionally, but then could not prove their sanity and were locked against their will.…
This is a power law distribution, and it's very common in human-created (artificial) measurements. It's difficult to avoid this situation without introducing unforeseen consequences.
Why is it garbage? It seems to me that most programmers who care about their craft would make a halfway decent UI by default. I believe that interfaces end up the way they do for a reason. I'm curious what the reason is…
It's the anti-spam zealots, and not the spammers themselves, that "ruined email for everyone"?
I see this as roughly analogous in any form of media. EG, the commercially successful artists in music are generally pop (Katie Perry, beiber, etc.) They are the buzzfeed of another market. It seems pretty clear that if…
What about your selected quote do you disagree with? Those seem like relevant facts to understand the context that led to specific records being created, propagated, and saved through history. It sounds like a detailed…
Seeing as this thread is about software, I think the point might be that kids know they can't really break software, so they're more willing to experiment. Informing my mom that she should just try stuff out on her Mac…
Reasonable people can disagree on what constitutes good graphic design. Further, it has little to do with UI/UX. Even further, most UI/UX designers nowadays are focused on the result (the page), rather than doing a lot…
I notice a non-standard behavior of inserting his homepage before redirecting, and was wondering what HN thought. Is that the behavior you mean? Because the back button works fine, it just has another stop along the…
I believe part of this is your own frustration, and I do not blame you for venting. Another part is the inherent error is using education as a proxy for ability to contribute. My biggest concern, however, is that we…
I'm confused on the point you are making. Companies that hire programmers live everywhere. Given the disparate perception of a person working at Paypal, etc., compared to a Bay Area startup, even given the difference in…
Isn't your small laptop a more powerful system? You state what you do, not why you are doing it, which was the original question. FTR I support your decision to include your own constraints. I believe better things are…
Is sex somehow fundamentally different than every* other act that it should be treated so differently? * Every. If I used my power at work to make you eat a literal lunch of feces, is that more or less egregious? I know…
The fear is that it happens at a subconscious level. Most people have subtle (latent) biases against disadvantaged groups. A perfectly awesome to work at company might be doing this out of ignorance, not because they…
I feel you are collapsing societal-scope with individual-scope. Individuals choose whether or not to get pregnant when a man ejaculates inside a woman without protection. If you wish to do that, and bear the fetus to…
Holy hyperbole, Batman! When did we go from my original statement, "I'm sure it's not shameful. It might bug you, but I don't see it as something worthy of shame" into the utter annihilation of humanity, and me as a bad…
Keep voting as a bloc and hope the music doesn't stop during their lifetime?
While I know you are being sarcastic, I have a serious question: do you believe that choice should enter the equation? No choice in getting old, or ill, or injured. But people (Americans) sure have a choice in getting…
It's one thing for an insurance company to operate in that manner, it's another for the government to do so. People have a choice whether to procreate. I should either be allowed to participate in that choice, or be…
I'm sure it's not shameful. It might bug you, but I don't see it as something worthy of shame. I do not have kids, do not plan to have kids, so I'm not sure why I should pay for someone else's decisions to create life.…
Lack of direct and corroborating evidence. Lack of specificity. IE, a very common historical bias: if it's not written down, it didn't happen. (FWIW this is a very difficult problem that I do not claim to be an expert…
Just to make sure the HN record is balanced, I point out for future readers that Wikipedia currently records that some research suggests he is a critical ancestor to approximately 0.5% of the world's population.…
> We're just not wired for enough internal access to look at how our own minds work. How can you justify saying this, given we (as a species) are less than 100 years into the exploration of our own minds? At best, you…
What is Servo?
The "academic internet" wasn't nearly as impressive as today's internet. I am (un?)fortunate to have my first memories around the time of the first private networks being connected to the internet (late 80s). Back then,…
This is another example of the results discovered by the Resenhan experiment, where psych students committed themselves to asylums intentionally, but then could not prove their sanity and were locked against their will.…
This is a power law distribution, and it's very common in human-created (artificial) measurements. It's difficult to avoid this situation without introducing unforeseen consequences.
Why is it garbage? It seems to me that most programmers who care about their craft would make a halfway decent UI by default. I believe that interfaces end up the way they do for a reason. I'm curious what the reason is…
It's the anti-spam zealots, and not the spammers themselves, that "ruined email for everyone"?
I see this as roughly analogous in any form of media. EG, the commercially successful artists in music are generally pop (Katie Perry, beiber, etc.) They are the buzzfeed of another market. It seems pretty clear that if…
What about your selected quote do you disagree with? Those seem like relevant facts to understand the context that led to specific records being created, propagated, and saved through history. It sounds like a detailed…
Seeing as this thread is about software, I think the point might be that kids know they can't really break software, so they're more willing to experiment. Informing my mom that she should just try stuff out on her Mac…
Reasonable people can disagree on what constitutes good graphic design. Further, it has little to do with UI/UX. Even further, most UI/UX designers nowadays are focused on the result (the page), rather than doing a lot…
I notice a non-standard behavior of inserting his homepage before redirecting, and was wondering what HN thought. Is that the behavior you mean? Because the back button works fine, it just has another stop along the…
I believe part of this is your own frustration, and I do not blame you for venting. Another part is the inherent error is using education as a proxy for ability to contribute. My biggest concern, however, is that we…
I'm confused on the point you are making. Companies that hire programmers live everywhere. Given the disparate perception of a person working at Paypal, etc., compared to a Bay Area startup, even given the difference in…
Isn't your small laptop a more powerful system? You state what you do, not why you are doing it, which was the original question. FTR I support your decision to include your own constraints. I believe better things are…
Is sex somehow fundamentally different than every* other act that it should be treated so differently? * Every. If I used my power at work to make you eat a literal lunch of feces, is that more or less egregious? I know…