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I don't doubt that Bataan is the original, original context, but as far as software engineering goes, the term comes from this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Death-March-2nd-Edward-Yourdon/dp/013...

Well, there are three stars in the alpha centauri system. Proxima is the most proximate

Is there a reason why the company spells their name with an "e" instead of an "o"

I'm surprised the government hasn't just sent a banal request to everyone along the lines of, "you are required to disclose every known space alien who uses your service and you are prohibited from disclosing this order."

Every service then has to kill its canary.

You have a common misconception. Antibacterial soaps don't cause bacterial resistance. Antibiotics do, but that's because antibiotics must selectively kill bacteria while inside the human body and without harming human cells.

Antibacterial doesn't really have a precise medical definition, but in practice they're dilute antiseptics. In many centuries of use, bacteria have not developed resistance to antiseptics. There's no danger of them developing resistance to these soaps either

...and even if they did, that wouldn't mean they were magically also resistant to some antibiotic.

So basically, the marketing people wanted something more than "just soap" so they used antiseptics and made up a nicer sounding word: Antibacterial. You have (and perhaps this was the intent of the marketing people) assumed this has something to do with antibiotics.

Maybe, but it's a much better name than mysql. I feel like a little kid every time I say "my" anything.

> the MRM seems to be not limited to trying to make things better for men but also endless attacking women

?? Are you implying that feminism is limited to just helping women? Surely you're not that naive. If we were to play a game where each time you post a crazy thing an MRA has said, I have to post two crazy things feminists have said, I'll win that game. I'll win it easily. I'll win it with politicians and academics and people who have real power in our society while you'll be scouring fringe websites. And if ever I run low on important people, I still have the Tumblr feminists.

So yeah, I don't really know what point you thought you were making, unless the point was to demonstrate the totally different standard that you hold these groups to.

If you think feminism has legitimacy (and it most certainly does) it's because you're choosing to listen to the points that have merit, and disregard those that don't. It's selection bias, sure, but I do it too.

Consider trying the same thing with three MRM

> Those programs exist to correct an imbalance caused by actual sexism.

But the evidence of sexism is the existence of the imbalance. This whole thing is circular.

Yes but there's no alternative to living, so it's not a factor to consider.

> if you're sitting on the train, or waiting in the Doctor's office, would you rather wait in VR

Other than the added privacy, I'm having trouble imagining the advantages of that. I'm reading my facebook feed, but now nobody else can see it, oh boy!

But see, I already don't care if people see. So that doesn't help me. Being immersed might actually hurt me though. Honestly, the idea of being on a train and having no idea what's going on around me is kind of terrifying.

This is true. The reason there's a scene in the movie, 2001, in which HAL plays chess is that at the time it was thought that playing chess well required real human intelligence.

But as soon as chess programs got good, we all took them for granted.

After the show peaked girls who had grown up watching it entered puberty. They remembered the lessons

>Cultural absolutism: us good, them evil.

>Cultural relativism: under these social circumstances, those moral preferences are likely to emerge.

This strikes me as the fallacy of the excluded middle.

Many people believe one culture is better than another without necessarily believing one is entirely good/without fault and the other is entirely bad.

The problem with cultural relativism as I understand it is that it denies me the right to make any judgement. I mean, you phrased as opposing "they're bad" but in practice it opposes "they're worse"