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Comment · 12 years ago
So... Tearing down a straw man then.

You could've just said "yes".

(The operative part of that reply was "hours after it was amended". Your rant, and 90% of the other replies on this thread, added nothing at all to the conversation besides typical red pill douche-baggery.)

Comment · 12 years ago
I was under the impression that amending > editing if the text in question had been discussed or quoted.

In the (extremely) unlikely event that I post here again, I'll be sure to stealth edit any changes instead.

Comment · 12 years ago
And your reason for posting this pedantic diatribe hours after the original post was corrected to "objectified female bodies" is... What? To revel in a pedantic takedown of a straw man?
Comment · 12 years ago
If muscular men were dramatically underrepresented in STEM careers, and particularly EE, then I would have a problem with that.

If you really want to pursue this line of thinking, what if a female nurse had posted a hobby page wherein she documented all the ways nurses most often contaminate hospitals or traumatize children, and all the "example" nurses in the pictures were male.

But really, that's not a perfect analogy. Female bodies != male bodies in our culture, particularly in STEM careers. It is at best impolite (and at worst creating a hostile work/study environment) to use these images in a page on a university website.

Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Aaaaand... That makes it appropriate how?
Comment · 12 years ago
Honestly, the fact that all his "demo" screens are filled with porn, on a university page, is almost as interesting (in a sociological sense) as the actual clever image multiplexing hack.

I just hope he's only a student, and not in a position of responsibility. (Not that that necessarily makes it OK, but at least it would reflect less on the institution).

edit: ok, not porn, "objectified female bodies". Because that makes it more appropriate?

Comment · 12 years ago
Evidence of what?

You can see the admissions essay requirements on the linked page.

Comment · 12 years ago
It's interesting that one of the only Ivy programs which is essentially immune to this gaming of the system is Harvard Business School, which allows only one semi-optional free-form essay ("What else would you like us to know?":(http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/application-process/Pages/...) and requires a follow-up letter to every in-person interview.

The irony of course is that the scions of empires and children of privilege who are being groomed for leadership essentially get a free pass at admissions. (Which has a sort of logic when you consider that they form the backbone of the class power network almost immediately upon graduation).

(As an HBS graduate I have mixed feelings about the overall privilege distribution, but admit to having no plausible suggestions of how to address it.)

Comment · 12 years ago
3 significant failures, one of them big.

My conclusion is that for a multitude of reasons (most of which are well known) having involved investors reduces my chances of success considerably. And all they offer is money.

Money is cheap.

Comment · 12 years ago
The happiest moment of my entrepreneurial life was after my second exit, when I realized that I could self-fund/bootstrap my next venture comfortably and never deal with a VC again.

Meddling, conniving & power-drunk busybodies, all of them.

Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
Aaaand, that's one more op system I can look forward to replacing with Redis.

Totally off-topic, but I have such a fangirl crush on Salvatore Sanfilippo... Every time he posts I get butterflies.

Comment · 12 years ago
> > I would hypothesize that this is false.

> Citation required.

You may want to Google the meaning of "hypothesis"...

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