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alteroon Suicide Prevention Sheds a Longstanding Taboo: Talking About Attempts

OK. Let's do the stats.

Men are 95% of homeless, 90% of prisoners, 95% workplace deaths, 80% suicides...

In second case:

I went unnecessary offensive, call it "most women cry for help" whatever.

The fact is that people who are at risk of suicidal behavior are equally distributed between genders [1]. Also mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are equally distributed [wikipedia].

So I see two options why women have much higher suicidal attempt rate:

- it is a cry for help

- men suicide attempts are under reported

[1] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9501750

alteroon Suicide Prevention Sheds a Longstanding Taboo: Talking About Attempts

What part do you actually disagree with?

If you have two persons with the same body mass, both of them drink 1 liter of whiskey. I bet in one case it will be 'really bad hangover' and in second case it will be 'suicide attempt'.

alteroon Suicide Prevention Sheds a Longstanding Taboo: Talking About Attempts

It is not suicide attempt if you are not planning to die. For example drug overdose is not necessary suicide attempt.

Men in general are treated like a shit, so they kill themselfs. Most women are emotionally blackmailing their families.

alteroon The Humanities Need an Ally: Could It Be Computer Code?

> At its best, the study of the humanities is an exercise in analytical skills, critical thinking and logic.

I think there is a typo, author probably meant mathematics. Most study of humanities are threatened by logic and critical thinking.

alteroon The Joys And Ethics Of Insect Eating

I seen cricket for 50 cents/pound on street market in India.

alteroon My First Year of Coding

Perhaps you have not noticed that most loosers are men.

alteroon My First Year of Coding

> Oh, I see. So, since no one said,

Kind of. I see lot of endorsements, but no evidence that someone actually read her code. There is also nobody who followed her on daily basis, since her announcement year ago.

You do not understand my basic complain. I do not mind girls get special treatment (not that she would need it). I mind that boys do not get the same special treatment.

There is a huge shortage of developers, but I only see helping programs to encourage GIRLS coding. There are FEMALE only internships and so on. Men are only 38% of college graduates.

Now when men learns to code by himself despite education system, he is called chauvinism because he is proud of his achievements.

alteroon My First Year of Coding

Can you show me _one_ comment which actually recommends how to improve her skills? You know: " I noticed you are using ... but there is framework which does it better"... sort of stuff.

I think boys deserve bit more encouragement and girls deserve bit more honest constructive criticism.

alteroon My First Year of Coding

I think here website is impressive as bunch of simple puzzles. I teach programming as a hobby and I may actually use some of that stuff.

I have problem with comments here. Nobody offers any sort of constructive criticism. We should review source code and give her some advice. Perhaps recommend a new framework to use, or even completely new direction (NodeJS).

alteroon My First Year of Coding

- About half of the comments are about girls/gender/sexism and so on.

- Any sort of criticism is down-voted to hell, this never happens when author is a boy

- and finally show me similar toy project from boy, which would make into front page of Hacker News.

alteroon My First Year of Coding

Nothing against Jennifer, her stuff is impressive.

But I find this ridiculous. This is called learning and is done by thousandth/millions others. Everyone has to overcome their fear of being judged and stuff. Giving kudos just because of gender just undermines girls to take on harder challenges in future.

I started coding professionally when I was 17 not to starve, while overcoming depression and mental illness. My cousin started coding recently, he was born without hands! Nobody gives a shit because we are men.

alteroon GCHQ Used Fake LinkedIn Pages to Target Engineers (2013)

Who needs enemies with such friends...

alteroon Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary

So you prove my point :-)

alteroon Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary

Sometimes I need to check time on my phone. And I carry laptop from work, I never actually used in cinema.

Anyway 'movies from internet' just provide better services. And in most countries in Europe it is actually legal.

alteroon Study: Women Who Can Do Math Still Don’t Get Hired

What is funny about that? 20% of rape victims are totally ignored.

alteroon Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary

Also cinemas are really becoming hostile. I have to subject my bag to inspection. I also risk arrest every time I take phone out. They also ask me to leave my laptop at reception...

alteroon Study: Women Who Can Do Math Still Don’t Get Hired

I call bs on this. Companies are desperate to hire programmers.

alteroon Study: Women Who Can Do Math Still Don’t Get Hired

Study: 90% deaths at workplace are men.

Study: most victims of violent rapes are men (prison)

Study: college hostile towards men, most graduates are woman.

alteroon Intern at a YC Company

YCombinator already openly discriminates man, there is no need for secrecy.

alteroon Amtrak Residency

For start why is long distance flight 10x cheaper than train?

Air planes require much less personnel and have no tracks. Trains are still in 60ies with fat unions and zero innovations. Also how is 50 ton airplane less efficient than 5000 ton train?

And if train takes 5 days instead of 5 hours, you should also count in the foot print of person who is traveling. In one sleeping coupe you could fit 6 aircraft passengers...

Sure airplanes do make traveling easier, but that does not make them less efficient.

alteroon Amtrak Residency

Sure tax it to oblivion. Air travel impact per person is surprisingly low (comparable to driving). Trains have lot of fat which is not included in their footprint.

alteroon Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box

How about making law which would compensate prisoners not prisons?

alteroon Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box

How about both?

alteroon Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box

Trust me, it is not normal to handcuff 6 years old children. You have "dangerous criminals" rest of the world has "children".

alteroon Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box

I find it hilarious that those people are old enough to be locked into box, but can not legally drink or have a sex.

alteroon The psychology of hate: How we deny human beings their humanity

Why go so far? 1% of Americans are in prison or some form of detention. But yeah, they do no count.

alteroon Can 10,000 hours of practice make you an expert?

This is kind of sexist. It suggest anyone can become expert in a few years, yet women are clearly discriminated everywhere.

alteroon My mom is dying, and my bank account is dry. I need help

To be honest I am not sure this is US only fail.

In Europe cancer is treated for free. But there is barrier which prevents doctors from puring money into terminal patients. Some special procedures available in US are not on the list (not accredited yet). Some others have priority queue and person over 50 would not have a chance to qualify.

alteroon My mom is dying, and my bank account is dry. I need help

Relax.

I found this believable. Hi lived in LA and saved some money. Single person, some reasonable skills, shared accommodation, not buying ijunk.... he could made this savings in 2 years. Not everyone has student loan.

alteroon My mom is dying, and my bank account is dry. I need help

Does not really matter, I know similar stories from all over Europe including UK, post-soviet countries and southern states.