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Interesting that this post was utterly buried. It hit the first page at most an hour ago, but now it's at the bottom of page 12.

I think you misunderstand. Whatever extra appeal you have to potential partners from having other people who "chose you (among others)" may be effectively negated because you're unwilling to abandon those others for the new partner. The people you attract probably don't want to share you.

So you and the person you were responding to can both be right. You're made "more attractive" but the "pool of women willing to date [you still] evaporates.

It's not hyperbole. If you're not allowed to hold a job because you're female, how is that much better than slavery?

You serious? Just to point out a few of the glaring problems with your position:

1) you're essentially offering up a straw man to over-broadly condemn a wide range of social practices (which you haven't demonstrated much understanding of);

2) your general assertion that married women (globally, I assume) were generally not allowed to "hold a job" is questionable on many levels (for instance, on a family farm, do you think the husband had a "job" but the wife did not?);

3) if you weren't aware: slaves are legally property that can be bought, sold, and killed if it suited their master, serfs weren't slaves and neither were wives.

If you can't call it marriage, the group denied that right is second class, full stop.

People can use different terms to distinguish between different things, but that doesn't necessarily make any of those things "second class," full stop.

women being [...] barely better than slaves.

That's unhelpful hyperbole.

> he's honest with potential partners about being in an existing open relationship then the pool of women willing to date him evaporates

I believe already having one or more lovers makes you much more attractive since the fact that those people chose you (among others) means you are probably a good choice.

Attractive to steal or attractive to share? That's an important and relevant difference.

Now, is the rest of the statement true?

No, clearly not. There are a lot more problems with the paragraph than can be solved by a simple substitution.

The root problem is that it's very hard (almost impossible) to make statements about the whole of an uncoordinated, loosely defined group that are both specific and true. Also, when you think you can easily make such statements, it probably doesn't mean that you're right but rather your thinking is being driven by biases and group-prejudice.

Just for the record: GamerGate was 100% founded on harassing women. The "ethics in games journalism" thing was only ever a front to build popular support, which unfortunately worked. I'm happy to post more details if you're unconvinced.

GamerGate wasn't coordinated enough and lacked the centralized leadership to have been "founded" for a purpose or be a "front" to achieve specific clandestine goals.

From what I gather, it was sort of like Occupy Wall Street in that there was really no there there besides a vague ethos shared by the people who took up its flag to pursue their disparate pet causes.

Not trying to be cocky, but why is affordable housing a right in a capitalist society? Genuinely curious.

Because, in the West at least, society isn't capitalist uber alles.

To be fair they haven't screwed up LinkedIn. I think they will let GitHub grow with their resources.

I'm not sure if LinkedIn could be any less "screwed up" than it was when Microsoft bought it.

FYI, it_learnses, you've been shadowbanned for 7 months:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15570335

All your comments start out hidden, but I vouched for this one so it's visible.

That's the literal reading at least. However since CoC violations are filtered through basically one person, personal biases will weigh heavily in how the rules are applied.

Yeah. To me, that part of the explanation read something like "we found democratic governance to be a lot of work, so we've given all our power to a dictator to make things easier for ourselves."

Democratic and consensus-based governance is hard and takes work, but there are well-understood reasons why it's a better way to run a community.

If there is no muck to be raked, then you should be in the clear.

This argument seems equivalent to the idea there's nothing to fear from surveillance if you have nothing to hide.

why do we need to formally state that we should be decent human beings?

That's problematic phrasing. "Decency" is subjective and sits too high up on the pyramid of abstractions. Decent people disagree on what being decent actually means. If they're actually going to communicate, the conversation has to be about specifics.

What a nightmarish reality to live in. You can’t trust your own parents, friends, neighbors, etc.

I think you missed my point. That's inaccurate and not what I intended to communicate.

My point was that Chinese can complain about their country among themselves, but there are social taboos against doing the same thing among foreigners. The implication is that when a foreigner asks a Chinese person what they really think about their country, they'll probably get a whitewashed version rather than their true feelings.

except there is nothing socialist/communist about Chinese government except brand name and it can hardly weaken brand which is just running thw orst version of capitalism, EU is way more socialist/communist than China

Tell that to China.

Massive parts of their economy are state owned. IIRC, the state also has significant ownership stakes in many of its marquee companies.

Capitalism weakens socialist/communist governments.

Tell that to China.

You're right, it may not have been proven but based on the amount of coverage and writing on it, there must be some truth behind it.

There has also been lots of coverage of Obama not being a natural born American, and thus an illegitimate president. Do you think that means "there must be some truth behind it?"

The kind of thinking you displayed in your comment leads to damaging nonsense like birther-ism. Don't go there.

It's the new Soviet internal passport system.

China already has that, the Hukou, and has for some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system

How do normal Chinese people feel about the things that go on?

That can be really hard to find out. Chinese culture looks down on people who criticize their own group in front of outsiders. So it's bad to truthfully criticize your family in front of a neighbor, even if you do it at home, and similarly bad to truthfully criticize your country in front of a foreigner. For an example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuping_Yang_commencement_spee.... That student was ripped apart and called a traitor in regular media and social media, even though a lot of the things she said were true and often complained about. Add mass censorship to the mix, which denies access to honest options shared among the Chinese themselves, and it gets to be extremely difficult to get an accurate sense of true Chinese public opinion.

There are also other confounding factors: such as the CCP not emphasizing the distinction between the the government and the nation. Lots of people might not realize "you can love your country and hate your government" at the same time.

Seattle mostly. If they built HQ2 here, I'd expect that recruiting would switch to be for jobs at HQ2 (and get a lot more successful, since no relocation required).

It would be a really fast and effective way to create diplomatic tension for a third party who stands to gain from the breakdown of communication.

Assuming they can keep their involvement secret, which is not a given.

So logical conclusion is it is case of self-shooting in the foot - Us spy equipment malfunctioning etc

A logical conclusion, not the logical conclusion.

I think this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17135012) does a better job of starting to enumerate the possible causes.

I don’t think most people realize outside of tech circles that Amazon will mostly bring people in rather than hiring locally

Why do you say that? Amazon seems to recruit pretty heavily around me, which is far, far from Seattle and SV.

Dupe:

The previous one seems to have died on the vine. This one has more comments and votes.

Would that fail because your sever can't provide the right cert? You'd probably have to install a custom root certificate on your machines that you https ad blocker could use to forge certs.

For example, US is still on 110V despite all the disadvantages.

Could go into that? IIRC, 110V is less efficient but it's also less dangerous, so maybe it's more of a trade-off.

But your point stands. I've read that the reason Estonia's government infrastructure is so much more advanced than the US's is because they had visionary leaders and started from scratch in the 90s. The US has the weight of decades of good-enough paper processes weighing it down.

When we're talking about something being "entered into a political race," I don't think it is. In reality, this is about the same as running a dog as candidate for mayor.

Whether the two are equivalent depends on the transaction costs of the two models.

I don't think we're not talking about exact, feature-for-feature, cost-for-cost equivalence.

Both these systems have the same or similar "level of digital payment smoothness" from the customer perspective. At least with credit cards, those fees are on the merchant side not part of the customer experience equation.

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