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Comment · 8 years ago
“Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and men are born with indistinguishable minds is not. Freedom of choice is important, but ensuring that women make up exactly 50 percent of all professions is not. And eliminating sexual assaults is important, but advancing the theory that rapists are doing their part in a vast male conspiracy is not.”

~ STEVEN PINKER

Comment · 8 years ago
I think this is a fallacy. the olden days were way worse. to put in presepective Carrots improving vision is propaganda created by the british yet see how many people believed it. Humans inventing and accepting fake beliefs to comfort themselves was never a new thing. Governments gaslighting its own citizens is communist party 101. People always want to believe that yesterday was better and blame their problems on the new.
Comment · 8 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUZaR3op1qw the amount of revisionism that Israel and USA engaged in is absurd. they even hire students to brigade social media https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-...
Comment · 8 years ago
wow, I've been underselling myself too much.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
so should we make black only positions? jew only? muslim only?
Comment · 9 years ago
"The University of Melbourne recently advertised for three senior positions in mathematics intended for women. Their argument is that, by underrepresenting women on the faculty, they are not providing adequate support and representation for female students in mathematics (and by extension other STEM fields)."

So their argument is that female teachers teach feamle students better. So in this line of reasoning, traditional schools that separate by gender are better? Way to go full circle.

Comment · 9 years ago
to see it consider this:

S = 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + n-1 + n

+

S = n + n-1 + n-2 + ...+ 2 + 1

=

2S = n+1 + n+1 + n+1 + ... + n+1 + n+1

every column sums to n+1

Comment · 9 years ago
http://codeforces.com/ and https://www.topcoder.com/ have really good algorithmic challenges with frequent Competitions.

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