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What a waste of time, this article. There is a great case to be made for treating every human as a person, and not a member of the class, but he did not make this case.

First, the author complains that women get treated only as sexual objects in most games/comics/etc. Ok, that could be. It's not in Halo or Bioshock, the only games I play, but let's look at the data. So then he mentions opposing view - that men get sexualized too, and then instead of addressing that objection calls it sexist and dismisses it. Really? I would expect some stats, not simply "only sexist would say that" kind of reply. He does this repeatedly throughout the article - not addressing an argument, but simply labeling it with an ugly label and moving on. FWIW, the picture of batman he posted looks sexualized to me, as far as I can judge those things.

Then he just goes to make unsubstantiated broad claims. But of course pointing out lack of substance would be sexist, reflexive and defensive of me :)

A few choice quotes: "A man who's strong-willed or aggressive won't be denigrated for it". In my neck of the woods he will. I did, and I saw others going out of line getting a talk.

"...nor are men socialized to 'go along to get along'." Same thing here, I've seen it all the time.
That is a fairly disappointing rebuttal by him. Hopefully we can simultaneously absorb the good of a nuanced discussion of the issue and condemn bad arguments about it by the same.

In what is a largely evidence based/logical culture, it's frustrating how both sides are often almost completely filled with illogical shouting. Hopefully HN can become a place with a lot more productive discussion about it than it previously has.
Are you implying that this underwhelming IPO somehow signifies that there is or was no bubble? That messes up cause and effect: Zynga's IPO results don't determine the bubble, the bubble brought us the Zynga IPO.
We're talking amongst ourselves, agreeing with each other. This letter is targeted at us, not congressmen.

I am almost certain every letter any MPAA lobbyist sends to any congressman does not call the congressman a "jack-ass" in the second paragraph. Or any paragraph at all. I tentatively suggest we might have more success if we do the same.

What do congressmen want? Influence, votes and praise. What are we doing? Criticising ("stupid", "jackass", "corrupt", "ignorant") and telling them how to do their jobs. ("They should X, they should Y"). Naturally any congressman will feel defensive as soon as they read our "internet engineer" writing.

I propose a three point plan, to ensure the long-term security of our internet:

1. Tell congressman how important they are, because our personal freedoms and privacy are at risk, and they are the only ones who can protect us.

(Rather than important because they protect content owners from piracy, or being important because of some potential job at Universal when they retire)

2. Offer congressman the choice of being "Defender of personal freedom/privacy" vs "Distributor's stooge".

(Rather than champion of artists' rights vs protector of pirates)

3. Educate public of SOPA and tell congressman how many votes they are going to get by defending the public against the SOPA law that cracks down on small businesses on the internet, many of which are operated by your everyday man.

I'm sure every congressman, when first elected, thought to themselves about how they are going to change the way the government works and always represent the best interests of the people. I suggest we re-ignite this vision that exists in every congressman.

EDIT: I just realised I'm republican, with all my talk of "freedom", "privacy" and "small businesses". :)
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You are intentionally misrepresenting my comment. I vehemently disown any meaning you apparently see in it.

What I am saying is that if we attempted to talk about, say, allegations of racism in the YC process (a fairly popular discussion around here), it would not be effective to talk about 19th century Alabama.

If you did, everyone would just say, "well hell, we're not lynching slaves for sport, there clearly isn't actually a problem here."

Trying to base a discussion about sexism in the tech industry on something talking about comic book stores is similarly flawed. The tech industry is not the comic book store community. Everybody outside that community knows they are disgusting sexist pigs. It therefore bears little insight.

You may as well try to base the discussion on something about sexism at truckstops or stripclubs. Either would be equally effective starting points for a serious discussion.
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I don't have the profit numbers. But I was making a comment on the markets.

If you're interested; Modern Warfare 2 cost around $200 million including marketing and has brought in around $1 billion. Not sure how much MW3 cost but it's bringing in even more than MW2.
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It's not a metaphor. It really happened.

All of the "full birds" were up on stage, and it was a bunch of guys, just like the article reflects. Someone asked the question, and the brand new CEO threw the question to the (token?) female.

I swear her eyes almost glowed like one of those Stargate aliens for a moment before she took a breath and gave what must have been a well-rehearsed non-inflammatory answer.

This was a pretty big event: rolling out the new crew. A few thousand people saw it. Anyone else want to comment to back me up?
I think you should say rather that web browsers that only run javascript will be irrelevant.

I doubt the web is going anywhere...
The article makes some interesting points, but permit me to play devil's advocate when it comes to the way women and men are portrayed in geek media. All media, really.

Men: Serious.
Women: Sexy.

Okay, no arguments there. But what does this difference in portrayal of the two sexes really mean? However much some might believe otherwise, humans are hard-wired by evolution to have gender roles. Homo sapiens has been around for roughly a hundred thousand years. Our species evolved from older hunter-gatherer species and has existed for almost its entire history as hunter-gatherers. What little we know about hunter-gatherer societies suggest that they were relatively egalitarian, but with definite gender roles.

Men: expendable risk takers. If half the men in a hunter-gatherer band are wiped out by a mammoth hunt gone wrong, the next generation can still be just as large, only with slightly less genetic diversity. So what makes a mammoth hunter popular with the ladies? Well, he has to look like he's going to be one of the guys who will actually come back. i.e. A badass.

Women: non-expendible reproducers. No matter how many men are around, the number of women who successfully bear children are what defines the reproductive success of a band. If you're a man, you don't want the woman who goes out mammoth hunting with the guys, you want the woman who picks berries (gathering was probably even more vital to a band's survival than hunting!) and who has hips made for making babies.

In this light, what we might really be seeing in geek media is portrayals of both males and females that cater to our perception of desirability to the opposite sex. Powerful, serious, badass men are desirable to women, so they are what we see in comics. The same goes for sexy, fertile, women. Men and women are being portrayed differently because different things set them apart as elite or superior to others of their gender, thanks to our hunter-gatherer wiring.

If this interpretation is correct, then media that portrays men as badass and woman as sexy isn't necessarily showing evidence of pandering to males. It may simply be reflecting evolutionary gender roles. It may be that this is one thing males should stop all the self-flagellation over.
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I really doubt that they are hell bent on passing this (just) because they are ignorant of how the internet works. I imagine they need to pass this in order to justify certain campaign donors.
This article is built on a bunch of assumptions and stereotypes which is terribly ironic given the subject matter. Some of it may be true but some of it just very wrong.

Men can expect that their presence at an event won't automatically be assumed to be decorative or secondary to another man.

Not really. Ask the benchwarmers for a high school sports team.

Despite the growing presence of women in comics, as publishers, editors and creators as well as consumers, a preponderance of men will either treat women at conventions as inconveniences, booth bunnies or even potential dates.

I can't comment on comic books but in the books, movies and TV shows I want I've actually found the exact opposite is increasingly true. There's a strong temptation to make the female characters super-human creatures with a PHD and a shotgun. Always a witty comeback. Always the most moral and ethical characters.

Men are also not going to be automatically assigned into a particular niche just based on their gender.

Tell that to some straight guy who happens to like female-centric things. They're going to be assumed to be homosexuals most of the time.

And when they are seen as customers, they're often automatically assumed to be buying one of the designated "girl" properties

Perhaps in the same way a man strolling around certain types of stores popular with females would be seen?

One of these is welcomed into geek culture with open arms, the other has to justify their existence in the first place.

Says who?

makes women feel unwelcome in fandom

Tell that to all the rapid female Twilight fans.
I found about this problem when moving from gnome to a minimalistic window manager that had no task bar whatsoever. I now use cnetworkmanager which is a python cmd application that uses dbus to connect with the regular NetworkManager service in Ubuntu, but for a couple of minutes it was a weird feeling, not being able to do something this basic
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He refuses to give me an estimate...this is worrying me as well.
Maybe they decided they could pay someone less who could maintain the code after you explained it to them. :P
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Please just Google images for "romance novels".
A little over the top, no? You're quoting one dude.

MIT, not exactly a bastion of west coastism, also declined to bid for a campus in New York City. John Hennessy's Ph.D. is from SUNY for heaven's sake. I'm sure many people in California also enjoy "Seinfeld" and the New York Times without feeling like traitors, and nobody can doubt that NYC is sincere in wanting to emulate Silicon Valley's success in high tech.

In any event, a true east coaster from the right sort of family would know how to spell "champing at the bit."
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The original post has been edited, but the phrasing was "some women [do this], so I punish them for it". And he went on to use the female pronouns throughout. It was a rant, not an argument. And there wasn't even a tiny nod to the idea that anyone other than a woman would be so afflicted.
It's pretty benign. My apartment is a couple streets over from the main area (Universidad de Chile) and I walk by it every day. There are a couple flare-ups every now and then but it's essentially a non-issue.
Is there a term for the ridiculous rhetorical tactic of insisting that any attempt to refute one's claims as being illogical is itself only further proof of the claims made? I stopped reading when he said this:

"I will pause now for the traditional arguments from my readers...Got all of that out of your systems? Good.

Because that reaction is exactly what I'm talking about."

Why bother having a discussion with someone who sets up their argument to be that those who disagree with their argument are only proving the point?
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I came away with the opposite conclusion:
"If amoebae occur in well-mixed cosmopolitan groups, then cheaters will always be able to thrive by freeloading on their cooperative neighbors. But if groups derive from a single cell, cheaters will usually occur in all-cheater groups and will have no cooperators to exploit.

The only exceptions are brand new cheater mutants in all-cooperator groups, and these could pose a problem if the mutation rate is high enough and there are many cells in the group to mutate. In fact, the scientists calculated just how many times amoebae that arose from a single cell can safely divide before cooperation degenerates into a free-for-all.

The answer turns out to be 100 generations or more.

So population bottlenecks that kill off diversity and restart the population from a single cell are powerful stabilizers of cellular cooperation, the scientists conclude.

In other words our liver, blood and bone cells help our eggs and sperm pass on their genes because we passed through a single-cell bottleneck at the moment of conception."

If anything, I felt this section was /strongly/ hinting at cancer in a group of cells. Rereading it, though, it seems that there is nothing explicit in here, so I'm not sure what caused me to spawn this thought process.

Anyways, this article felt like solid scientific reporting, without too many 'guesses' into this application of this into cancer, like pop science nowadays.
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It seems that it's actually 3 times the size of the sun rather than 1/3

While GRS 1915+105 is a black-hole pipsqueak with a mass only 14 times that of our sun, IGR J17091-3624 is tinier still, estimated to be a mere three times as massive as Ol' Sol
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In the same vein, LuaJIT2 beta 9 was released a couple days ago.
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Helianthus is right. There's something about nerd culture that makes an inflexible and dogmatic adherence to the current intellectual fads very common. Curiously, the most hilariously unpc writers I've read do or have done computer stuff too.
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"Some of us, however, remember the torment, the humiliation, the violence, the scorn and the ostracism of finding science, electronics, and computers fascinating. There was, indeed, such a time. Many nerds who endured poor treatment at the hands of their peers developed deep emotional traumas that, to this day, exist to some extent or another. One of these traumas is borne of the experience of being not merely rejected, but openly mocked by girls during the most critical time in a young man's life when he is supposed to develop his sense of social status and sexuality. Frustration and humiliation is quick to turn to anger, and from anger, a deep rooted misogyny."

The irony here is that the stigmatization of "nerds" was/is a product of males falling outside acceptable gender roles as well. Calling these males "privileged" is a way to dismiss and marginalize them.

Why is it that the majority of feminist articles I run into feel the need to dismiss the problems of "privileged" in making an argument for their perspective? They are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps it's selection bias and only controversial articles float to the top but it really seems like this is the norm.
"Overall you seem very down on Zynga and Groupon. Note that they have both IPO'd and have far from tanked. They are both in business with no apparent sign of bankruptcy etc."

It's not about bankruptcy. As you say, both Groupon and Zynga will likely continue as profitable businesses for the foreseeable future. But the IPO valuation isn't determined by their ability to stay in business; it's based off their ability to grow. The P/E ratio is close to 80 (Google's is ~20). That means the company is expected to increase earnings dramatically. Do you see that happening? All the data looks like they're plateauing or even trending down. Unless they have something innovative in the pipe, the stock isn't worth the money.
I believe that during that time, text messages were charged per character (and hence an alternative to the "missed call" was to send a text message with one character - or perhaps it was even zero characters). I don't think regular data plans or messages/month plans existed back then (or at the least, were not prevalent)

Now, data plans are the norm and many users have unlimited (non-internet) data plans and can text message indiscriminately. Limited data plans do exist, but because the "culture" has shifted towards proper messaging, people no longer send empty messages or use missed calls)

(For some reference, I don't think Japan had unlimited bandwidth internet of any kind in the late 90's, while U.S. users at least had the option of dial up unlimited monthly internet access; Earthlink, for one. The lack of a fixed cost cellphone message plan is thus in line with their overall telecommunication tradition)

If there are any users who lived in Japan and is more knowledgeable about the subject than I am, I will gladly be corrected.
So it's reinstated... I still would love the trial to go ahead, UMG should be punished for their out of control behavior.
As as well as in the Dominican Republic, from my experience.
But i guess the networks more than make up for it by having a huge margin for sms. They shouldn't really complain.
> I feel that if Facebook goes public, that will be successful. They offer something very real, in connecting hundreds of millions of people and, eventually, billions. If you're looking at growing markets, there's at least 3-4 billion more on the way in the next few decades. There's lots of ways to build businesses around that.

The clear question is how closely Zynga's and Facebook's fates are tied. There is no doubt that Zynga's social gaming really fueled Facebook's expansion in the past several years.

If Facebook's valuation is based on continued exponential growth over their ability monetize their existing base, the foundation is not solid... Zynga's faltering IPO in that case would just be a leading indicator.
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> Give most gaming girls a choice, and they will CHOOSE to dress their characters in slutty--or as they call it, "sexy cute"--clothing.

I think there's a subtle point being lost here. Female characters designed to appeal to women look different than female characters designed to appeal to men. For example, if the characters are designed to appeal to women, you can pretty much guarantee that they will not look like they have had basketballs implanted in their chests.

Likewise, massive male characters built out of a mountain of muscle are designed primarily to appeal to male power fantasies. Relatively few women will find this especially attractive, and male characters designed to appeal to more (straight) women would be built more along the lines of Ryan Gosling or Ryan Reynolds.
I wish authors of these sorts of pieces would focus more on the following two questions:

1. What do you want me to do?

2. What's in it for me?

Paint a picture of your ideal gender politics, and let me know why I'd like it better than the one we've got now. You might get further than you are just by attempting to convince me that people I like are "misogynists".
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I disagree with the author, I don't talk about those miser souls who think they can save enough money by these miss calls, but if you are specially talking about that miserable 'poor', the post is targeted for, understand now that a proper call is more appropriate than making just a miss call.
If some of you are aware of mixed culture of urban and rural india in towns and small cities, then it's a norm for a taxi/auto [cab] drivers to make calls for their customers (I am not talking about professional cab companies, who provide cellphones to their drivers).
Vegetable salespersons, electricians, plumbers .. there is a long list of these, it was an era when they were used to miss calls, but they will rather make a call today.
However my take on this post is based on what I am observing in my surroundings, may be statistics say something else.
The other reason of making a proper call can go like this : some telephone companies in India sell their sim 'free' and you get starting free talk time of 30/50/100 INR, these sim are sold in wholesale(obviously targeted for conversions ), if not free then they are there for nominal charges. Barrier to entry for making a call is very less, it is used for free talk time,internet(with indian speed) then some trash the sim, some of them don't mind making a local call on tariff like 1 paisa per second . [ 1 Rupees = 100 Paisa ]
Doesn't that make you the identity provider, who you must identify yourself to? That sounds pretty similar to running your own OpenID server.
Thank you so much for clearing that up with me. I do agree with corporations having the copyright act and the DMCA to protect their intellectual property rights.
> JavaScript is locked in. It's too entrenched, it's never going away. Let's just accept that

The same thing could have reasonably been said of Flash just a couple of years or so ago. It was on something like 99% of browsers.

> That means that adding additional languages creates a burden. You're now supporting, at minimum 2 VMs.

Why would we need 2? Why not one VM that the additional languages AND JavaScript can all be compiled to? Then here's what you have in the browser:

1. That single VM.

2. A JavaScript compiler that compiles to that VM, so that you can still send JavaScript the traditional way as source code loaded by script tags.

Then, if someone prefers to work in Python or Ruby (or Lua, or whatever), they can compile to the byte code on the server, and send the byte code to the browser.

I'm sure that some will object that this means that if people use those other languages, then essentially they are sending binary to the browser instead of source. However, with all the hacks being done to minimize JavaScript code size, and all the machine generated JavaScript we have now, it is getting harder and harder to consider what gets sent to the client "source code" anymore for a lot of sites.
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Probably the worst feature of modern feminism is the idea that any and all disagreement with modern feminism is sexism and thus deserves no consideration or response.
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