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ontIgnoreRealiton Getting around the London 2012 branding police

Spending more money on an event does not necessarily make it better.

Plenty of other great sporting events are held without these kind of ridiculous measures.

ontIgnoreRealiton UK moves to restrict Internet freedom

No. If you look at history everything we consider civilized have been a result of an effort or a struggle by the people that came before us.

Expecting the war against bullshit to end any time soon is naive. Civilization will always be on the defensive because the owners want more for themselves and less for everyone else.

ontIgnoreRealiton 99Dresses (YC W12) wants to give women an infinite closet

1) Not every person wants the same kind of fit(snug,slim,skinny,relaxed,classic,natural, etc) or drape.

2) Look at this image to see the difference between different brands and their size 8 measurements.

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/04/24/business/201104... via http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/tag/womens-size-...

There's many variables to sizing. It wouldn't be impossible to create a database of measurements for every single piece of clothing.

And then there's the issue of shrinkage.

ontIgnoreRealiton Notch gives his $3,000,000 Minecraft dividend to his employees

56% is a sane top tax rate if you feel that you make enough money and you feel that you want to contribute to the infrastructure and services that the government provides.

56% is a low top marginal tax rate. The United States had a top marginal income tax rate that was higher than 56% between 1932 and 1980. It was 90% between 1950 and 1963.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc...

ontIgnoreRealiton I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave: Inside the online-shopping shipping machine

It's a shame that there aren't unions in China and the United States.

ontIgnoreRealiton The (un)importance of gender in programming

Of course it's not a serious problem that a group of people are being paid less if you're in the group that's being paid more than them.

Maybe it's easier to understand the issue if you replace women with another group of people. Imagine if black people, jewish people or LGBT as a group were paid 90% of their counterparts. Does that make it easier to grasp why this is a serious problem.

Lets make it even easier. Would you still feel that it's not a serious problem if white men as a group were discriminated against, were getting less promotions and were paid less than their colleges.

Coding and programming is not a vacuum that exists outside of society.