jorgenev
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Comment · 9 years ago
It was posted many years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
> Bards pre-literate-times in Greece purportedly could recite Homer's Odyssey themselves after one hearing
Is this a true fact, or just a story people keep repeating because it sounds interesting?
If it were true... how would we know? Presumably you would cite sources from Ancient Greece where people reported that they knew bards who could memorize a whole story with one listen, but like, there are sources from Ancient Greece claiming to know of a woman who was so ugly that looking at her could turn a man to stone.
We can kind of sanity check the claim by looking at modern peoples. Anthropologists have extensive experience with pre-literate peoples, and they do have fine memories --but not magical ones [1].
1. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/in...
Comment · 9 years ago
Yeah, I myself use an adblocker because there is no other reasonable choice - but the poliferation of add-ons that can break pages that are not tested with them is concerning.
Comment · 9 years ago
> I've also heard more than once that Lyft customer's tend to be more well behaved in the car for whatever reason.
I have also heard this as well from lyft drivers and I am very curious as to why
Comment · 13 years ago
> The consensus on HN was that there was nothing wrong with her code, but that she was being picked on solely for being a girl
False. They did not know she was a woman when they made fun of the code. And that was not the consensus. [1]
In fact, if they had known that she was a woman, they would have known better than to criticize. Us men in tech are well aware by now that you have to shelter women from the real world, lest they shatter into a million pieces.
Your delusions of persecution are staggering.
[1] Here is what they saw, no indication of femaleness: https://github.com/harthur/replace
> I’m not entirely sure what drives someone to the conclusion that because “harthur”, which turns out to be be “Heather”, is a woman, that by default, I would intentionally discriminate against [Women]. Not every single thing on the internet is about gender equality, or about a minority. In fact, the only reason I’m writing this post is because this kind of continued behavior on the internet is one of the primary reasons this is such a problem.
See http://justcramer.com/2013/01/24/being-wrong-on-the-internet...
And here is the relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106767
Comment · 13 years ago
HARVEY MUDD ACCEPTANCE RATES BY GENDER
MALE: 15.8%
FEMALE: 43.6%
Source: http://www.parchment.com/c/college/college-545-Harvey-Mudd-C...
The Harvey Mudd story is just actually the really boring fact that if you get to pick and choose whoever you want from a large applicant pool, you can have whatever composition of whatever random demographic your hear desires.
Comment · 13 years ago
> Explanations for women's underrepresentation in math-intensive fields of science often focus on sex discrimination in grant and manuscript reviewing, interviewing, and hiring. Claims that women scientists suffer discrimination in these arenas rest on a set of studies undergirding policies and programs aimed at remediation. More recent and robust empiricism, however, fails to support assertions of discrimination in these domains.
Comment · 13 years ago
brb
Comment · 13 years ago
An oldie but a goodie.
Comment · 13 years ago
This was a good write up.
Comment · 13 years ago
Oops.
Comment · 13 years ago
The best place to work is an office.