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herbig commented on She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not nautil.us/issue/33/attrac... · Posted by u/dnetesn

pdabbadabba · 10 years ago

"Score" is one thing. "Score something" is, to me, much worse. I don't mind if guys want to speak casually among friends about women as conquests. But it strikes me as disconcerting that there are people who find this way of speaking so unobjectionable that they'd use it on a public forum like hacker news where, I had thought, the general expectation is that the discourse will maintain a certain level of quality and, needless to say, women are supposed to feel welcome and appreciated for their intellectual contributions.

What's even more disconcerting is that the comment that used this expression has been voted to the top (though it is otherwise a very good comment), and comments taking issue with the sexist language are voted into oblivion (so far).

herbig · 10 years ago

Yes. This exactly.

herbig commented on She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not nautil.us/issue/33/attrac... · Posted by u/dnetesn

lighttower · 10 years ago

> The chauvinism in this comment is insane. Women aren't points on a scoreboard

This commenter, the type that is OUTRAGED by speech that hasn't been mangled to be politically correct, is responsible for muffling open and honest communication among people. Specific to this example, there is nothing wrong with the OP's use of scoring - the outraged expressed by the commenter above is basically trolling for a response by feigning outrage.

herbig · 10 years ago

I'm not outraged, just surprised that people would so heartily upvote such a comment.

People should be conscious of the language they use, and create a welcoming community for everyone.

If "scoring" women wasn't intended in the context it is usually used in, "scoring" shouldn't be the choice of words and people shouldn't encourage it by upvoting a comment that uses words so poorly.

herbig commented on She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not nautil.us/issue/33/attrac... · Posted by u/dnetesn

jameshart · 10 years ago

"score something"? Really?

herbig · 10 years ago

The fact that this and my own comments are getting downvoted on this is sad.

herbig commented on She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not nautil.us/issue/33/attrac... · Posted by u/dnetesn

pmarreck · 10 years ago

So TL;DR:

Uncertain reply-time-window dynamics enabled by the era of asynchronous/deferred indirect communication (aka "texting"/"emailing") create a situation where the psychological principles of the Variable Ratio Reinforcement Schedule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement) kick in, which, as it turns out, is the most addicting, thus creating the most drama.

I get that about right? ;)

Word to the wise (single men): Online dating apps put much more power into the hands of women than men. If you want to score something "out of your league," you're going to have to take a walk out of the ballpark, and get your hands dirty in the real world with some face-to-face time. Uncoincidentally, this takes advantage of another psychological principle, Repeated Proximity Breeds Attraction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect)

herbig · 10 years ago

The chauvinism in this comment is insane. Women aren't points on a scoreboard and dating dynamics aren't meant to be a power struggle.

herbig commented on Drones learn to search forest trails for lost people phys.org/news/2016-02-dro... · Posted by u/jonbaer

herbig · 10 years ago

A couple of people hating on this. Despite the obvious fact that you can in fact get lost on a trail, the progress of autonomous rescue drones doesn't just end at following trails.

Once they're able to detect trails and follow them looking for people, the next step would be detecting signs of where they might have wandered off trail, or (especially in snowy conditions) detecting and following where they have started their own trail.

herbig commented on Why don’t identical twins have identical fingerprints? qi.epfl.ch/en/sondage/sho... · Posted by u/fgeorgy

xg15 · 10 years ago

You might as well ask why two cloned trees don't have the branches and leaves at the exact same positions...

herbig · 10 years ago

Except that in your example, the trees are influencing by environmental factors throughout their life, whereas the first sentence of this article says it's environmental factors in utero that influences fingerprints.

herbig commented on Show HN: EZing – Mobile email client that looks like Messenger and uses PGP ezing.de... · Posted by u/Databay

herbig · 10 years ago

Most people here know about Signal, but if you don't:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...

Open source, easier to use, much better UI.

herbig commented on Can You Fall in Love with Someone Through Text Message? venngage.com/blog/can-you... · Posted by u/snake_case

herbig · 10 years ago

It's been two hours this has been posted and no one has yet self congratulatingly posted a wikipedia link to a certain law about title's ending in question marks. I'm proud of you guys.

herbig commented on Fake Online Locksmiths May Be Out to Pick Your Pocket, Too nytimes.com/2016/01/31/bu... · Posted by u/oli5679

shiftpgdn · 10 years ago

I got hit by this scam a few years ago. My wife called the first number in google and they said for $50 they could come open my front door. The guy gets there and says "oh these locks are too complicated I need to drill it out and it'll be $350". I told him I'd give him $50 cash under the table and he could tell his boss I told him to go fuck himself. He drilled the lock which spurred my wonder of how hard it was to actually pick a simple residential lock.

I bought a lockpicking kit, a new lock and learned that even somebody with little skill and some practice could have picked that lock in 10-15 minutes. It would seem they drill all locks out regardless of difficulty to eliminate any required skillset.

herbig · 10 years ago

It's not the difficulty of the lock but just the fact that it's there as a deterrent. If someone really wants to get into your home they'd break a window or kick down the door. The lock is mostly for crimes of opportunity and personal reassurance.

herbig commented on Death of a Troll theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/prostoalex

talideon · 10 years ago

You might want to do a search for the term 'The Grauniad'.

herbig · 10 years ago

Ha, that's pretty awesome. Still going strong.

My main issue with the article is that despite only using pseudonyms, the author easily revealed the real life name of one of the individuals by quoting her Twitter account.

Maybe the author doesn't understand technology, but this shouldn't have slipped by editing. Which really leads me to believe there was none.