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Re:Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech by rhizome on Thursday July 21, 2016 @04:25PM (#12139769)
No. The FAE essentially says that choice is stronger than luck. You can't choose your way to becoming the King or Queen of England and you can't choose your way out of being a black person in the US (e.g.'s all). Every point in your comment depended on choice, without considering that intractable circumstances that everybody lives within, for good or bad.
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Re:Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech by runeks on Sunday July 24, 2016 @02:08AM (#12152403)
If you can't stop thinking about the intractable circumstances of your life, the problem is with your inability to stop thinking, not with the supposedly intractable circumstances of your life.

Life is inherently intractable. If you can't stop thinking about this fact, you indeed do have a problem.

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