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Jim C. Hines
Personal blog · jimchines.comwritingculture
Jim C. Hines's personal blog at jimchines.com covers writing and culture. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jim C. Hines' posts on sexism, gender and privilege in tech and publishing, and discuss those themes. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2012/05/facts-are-cool/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-12
What Hacker News says?
How about Sunni / Shia muslims in Iraq under Saddam? The Shia population is by far the majority, but Saddam was Sunni. The Ba'ath party violently persecuted the Shia popluation. I think it is safe to say that you would be privileged to be Sunni in this population, even though they by no means constituted the majority. There are advantages to being members of all sorts of groups, but the advantage of being a member o…
Comment linking /2012/05/facts-are-cool/
on “Female Founders”Submitted Free (and Legal) Science Fiction/Fantasy Reading for the Coronapocalypse as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYour point is well taken: we can't just assume this stuff, and it really does have to be measured. And I'm not remotely an expert on this stuff, so I can't provide thorough evidence for this. However, I've heard plenty of people who have studied this stuff much more than I have present this connection as being pretty well established by direct evidence, and given that the theory is generally plausible I've seen no r…
Comment linking /2013/03/preventing-rape/
on “Dictionary + algorithm + PoD t-shirt printer + meme = rape t-shirts on Amazon”Submitted Sexism and Second Chances as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo, not proof by analogy, but explanation by analogy. As Scalzi says in his follow-up, providing proof of endemic sexism is about as necessary by now as providing evidence that gravity exists when tripping over one's shoelaces. The evidence by now is clear enough that to demand evidence in every discussion is a distraction tactic, and not actually useful. Finding evidence is, because of the sheer breadth and extent…
Comment linking /2012/05/facts-are-cool/
on “Google Invests $50M in “Made With Code” Program to Get Girls Excited About CS”
