I'm really not sure how sports fits into this. Yes, testosterone gives better performance in sports. Barry Bonds was fined for it. As was the Chinese women's swim team.

As far as chess, first mandatory xkcd. Another good reason is how women are treated in mostly male fields. There's very few women who play Magic: The Gathering or chess for this reason (yes, I've been to the tournies). On the other hand, more women are interested in studying academic subjects -- there must be some reason more women go to college than men right?

Men must be biologically weaker!;)

Scientist A: Show me pictures of your boobies!
Scientist B: They're really big

My hobby: Making clean jokes.

There's a "skills gap" present in Math aptitude tests that appears in countries where the status of women is worse. There are countries where the gap is lower or even reversed -- which seems to suggest culture rather than biology.

If you can find an alternative explanation beyond "American Culture", feel free to suggest it.

...anyone who has tried to migrate cobol code can tell you this. The cobol code will never go away as it is future-proof. Further, anyone who can code in cobol will always have a job since no one is learning cobol, for the same reason that no one learns medieval torture techniques.

Being the largest climate controlled dome of its kind, perhaps the engineering "lessons learned" could be applicable to creating a self-sustaining space colony -- one of the chief challenges being climate control. ..or else, I've just been playing too much Kerbal Space Program and reading too much Heinlein;)

There's evidence about a number of consipiracy theories in these documents:
* That Lee Harvey Oswald didn't kill JFK
* The story that the AIDS virus was manufactured by US scientists at the US Army research station at Fort Detrick
* Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination had been planned by the US government

Of course, the real conspiracy was the disinformation campaign by the KGB to spread these false rumors. Which makes me wonder: what theories does a certain former KGB agent turned dic^H^H^Hpresident want spread now?

Steve Jobs didn't need a God for his wacky religious delusions involving getting treatment for cancer.

God!=Religion and similarly Atheism!=Non-religious.

Thanks for the nicely written reply -- I was being snarky out of frustration.

The recent SCOTUS decisions have been overwhelmingly negative from my (liberal) perspective -- perhaps reading Ginsberg's fiery dissent made matters worse;)

Cheers mate.

In the Citizens United case the US Supreme Court did **not** say that corporations are people.

Can you explain to me what the difference between a coorpation and a person is, legally speaking, if they have the same rights? I'm sure even Scalito would concede their difference (i.e. not having noses or toes), but legally speaking, we ought to treat them the same. When someone makes the statement "Coorpations are people", they of course don't mean that it in the "soylent green" context -- and you know this; you're just being pedantic.

Lastly (and because I'm curious why people represent views that are clearly not in their interest), are you a paid coorporate shill or merely delusional (from my perspective, of course)? If you're going to promote the rights of corporations, you may as well get paid for it.

I used to use vim, but then switched to Qt's Creator even for non-Qt projects. VIM is nice when you're just writing a simple program, but for anything complex, I need to be able to find function definitions, jump through several function calls in a few seconds in files I've never seen, and still be fast.

Advantages:
* Autocomplete for functions, variables, classes, etc. (ctrl+space)
* Jump to definition for variables, functions, classes (F2)
* Keyboard-centric searching (search by class, method, filename, etc) (ctrl+K)
* Visual debugging with GDB (attach to sessions, change complex variables, switch threads, etc)
* Has a FakeVIM module;)
* Very fast and rock-solid stable
* Free (both in beer/libre)
* Cross-platform (used it on Linux/Mac/Windows. I prefer it to Visual Studio which is far too slow and has really wonky keyboard shortcuts)

Disadvantages:
* Have to use a windowing system. I still use VIM on remote systems.

There's just so many advantages of having an editor which understands your code model. Forget whether the function you're calling is camelCase or uses_underscores is a thing of the past for me resulting in most of my code compiling the very first time -- and when it doesn't, inline errors!

You can get your OSS fix here.
(For a generic project, just click New->Import Project->Existing project.)

Dear Upper Management,

One of our primary focuses this quarter has been "right-sizing" our teams to fit within the new budget constraints. As you'll be pleased to note, I've achieved a 30% reduction in expenses -- well under our target of 25% -- while actually increasing the size of our engineering team. Moving forward, we have a much stronger team with a better attitude to complete the goals that lie before us.

My success has not gone unnoticed -- Bain Capital (Gotham City) has offered me a senior position in their M&A department where I will lead efforts to cut costs while maintaining an efficient workforce.

It was an honor working with you,
PHB

Dear team,

After coming back from my vacation in Aruba, I've decided that in these times of trouble we need to do more with less. We're in a troubled economy -- do you realize how much yacht gas has gone up in the past year? In addition, the Affordable Care Act has made it cost ineffective for our FTNE (Full Time Non-Employee) initiative to continue.

Moving forward, we'll need to tighten our belts and take on other responsibilities. Some of you will work longer hours than usual. My performance bonus is based on how much money we can save, so I'm simply going to let go anyone who refuses to comply with this iniative -- I'm sure I can find someone to replace you.

Cheers!
PHB

It's city's fault for not designing streets for both residents and expected number of visitors

No, it's the visitor's fault for not taking public transit. San Francisco has some of the best public transit in the country. BART is ~$4 round trip, runs past 1 AM and parking at the stations is free on the weekend. And now the rent is higher than NYC, any spare space should be devoted to housing.

It's vastly more efficient use of space to park your car outside the city and make the city navigatable with transit (see Tokyo, Berlin, Prague, etc).

Thank you!

It's not the first time I've heard it, but the from an ontological view it's important to declare the rights exist independent of the government in power to enforce or restrict them....

Then I learned that rights always come from a perspective. "Property rights" was a crowd-favorite from the Dred Scott decision.

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