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Watermelon··on Women Don't Want To Run Startups Because They'd Rather Have Children
"But are you trying to define a heuristic that proposes that one human is better than the other solely due to the field of work?"

No. I am merely stating that having kids is not an accomplishment, it's one's biological programming. One should admire people who do things that are challenging and difficult, like proving hard theorems or sailing around the world solo. It's not about status nor academic pedigree, it's simpler: if everything is admirable, then nothing is.

"I'd any-day prefer to be a little-league team manager than troll on comment threads."

Just because I am being downvoted, that doesn't make me a troll. But thanks for the remark. Now you can be all happy that you're on the side of the "moral majority". You're a self-righteous sheep. Be proud.

Watermelon··on Women Don't Want To Run Startups Because They'd Rather Have Children
I know a medical doctor who had 14 kids (oh, those catholics). And she still managed to practise medicine when she was not spreading her legs to launch another baby in this world. Sounds much more impressive than managing a baseball team, imho. The OP wants the HN crowd to assure him of what a special and unique snowflake his sister is, when she's merely doing something that is the norm in some parts of the world.
Watermelon··on Women Don't Want To Run Startups Because They'd Rather Have Children
You know, rats can have more offspring than your sister in just a month. I don't see what's admirable about fulfilling one's biological destiny. And who cares about law school or baseball teams? If she had gotten a PhD in Quantum Field Theory while raising 6 kids, then...
Watermelon··on The Academic Bubble
"That particular article may not have been written by Scott Locklin, but a quick browse of his other works on the same site validates ahoyhere's point."

Oh, really? The burden of proof lies on your shoulders. More to the point: citation needed.

Watermelon··on The Academic Bubble
That article you linked to was not written by Scott Locklin, in case you haven't noticed. Does the fact that an article is hosted at a crypto-racist website invalidate its thesis? Rhetorical. By the way, weeks ago Locklin's post on nanotech was upvoted to the upper stratosphere here on HN.
Watermelon··on "50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"
He's "merely" forgetting that von Neumann, von Karman, and Andy Grove all came from Hungary.