zaphod @ zaphod @sopuli.xyz

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Honestly I think examples like this are counterproductive, the average man will never be considered for one of these positions, nor will the average woman. It is useless to get angry at such a situation as it only serves to engage people in the "gender war" which only serves to distract you from the real issues which are almost completely class issues. Instead of getting angry that some woman "took away" the job of some man who was "more deserving", you should get angry that that person is most likely getting paid a hundred times more than you and will cut your job in an attempt to make the company appear more profitable.

Every once in a while my uni has some interesting events (at least based on the description), public announcement sent to everyone, and the last sentence has almost always been some form of "women only". There is usually no gender neutral equivalents to these events and they're done in the name of gener equality. So I very much feel excluded by gender equality.

Probably because for most people as long as it works it works and there's no reason to upgrade.

I’m sure it varies from country to country, but in the US women could not study medicine until the late 1800’s

In Germany at the moment around two thirds of medicine students are women and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the similar in most western countries.

It'll more likely act as a faraday cage.

And if I look at the frequency spectrum I see that all my neighbours use 2.4GHz (9 are in channel 8) and I got the entire 5GHz spectrum to myself.

That's kind of the beauty here, you only get a relative error (0.069%) and it's mostly insignificant to the point of being smaller than your fabrication tolerances. This should also be the case for fibre optics. The error can't really add up, you scale everything to a multiple of the wavelength and you calculate the wavelength using the speed of light.

Why wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that fish interpret pain as painful? They have a nervous system, inflicting pain on them will trigger a response in the nervous system, this response is most likely similar to the response in humans, that is the pain response is to avoid/remove whatever is causing the pain.

To them that is already suspicious enough to not let you in the country and put you on some list of known terrorists.

If I'm not completely mistaken M_PI is not part of the C standard, so depending on your stdlib or compiler or even compiler flags you will have to define it yourself even in C.

I just use the pi from my calculator or numpy/matlab. But I'm often too lazy for vacuum speed of light and use 3e8 m/s.

Transistors were mostly developed for telephone systems (the ones with wires) as a replacement for tubes. And the modern tech used for radios is very different from that used for computers.

No, Hertz never lived to see applications of his discovery. Guglielmo Marconi (was a fascist) started working on radio telegraphy in 1894, shortly after Hertz' death.

Very unlikely, the people who claim to have some european origin are generally not the descendants of slaves. Descendants of slaves generally have very little knowledge about the origin of their ancestors. Slaves in America came mostly from Africa, most likely even displaced within Africa. Very little records were kept of individual slaves origins, because why would anyone do that, they're slaves. These people identify as "just" African Americans.

No.

Idk, when I behave like this people call me toxic.

I do wash it out, it's why I drink so much.

The first game wasn't bad, but it didn't really feel like a full price title.

I keep repeating this to everyone who's listening and add that cats have clown feet.

Every song is about sex, change my mind.