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- noun computing A
thread ofexecution that issubordinate to another thread.
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Because this subthread went downhill fast, and will abruptly * stop* doing that.
Yet *more* on the Crowley/Gates thing. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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This subthread has got me wondering: I find all descriptions of sex pretty avoidable, no matter who's involved.
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In re the removing-books-from-libraries subthread, anyone interested enough to be following the thread may well be amused by this site, which is run by librarians.
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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In a different subthread, I am also saddened to hear of Mary Daly's death.
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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The particular subthread that set me off was one on the relatively low participation of women in Free Software; it began with a commenter suggesting that whatever was ongoing was not discriminatory, as all project work happens over the Internet, and it's therefore impossible to even guess whether someone's male or female.
Archive 2010-02-01 Farnz 2010
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Apparently the person whose utterings started this subthread knows about Lisa Goldstein's "Red Magician", but didn't include it because it didn't fit his thesis.
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It even has connections to the "eeevil terrorists have no rights" subthread....
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The particular subthread that set me off was one on the relatively low participation of women in Free Software; it began with a commenter suggesting that whatever was ongoing was not discriminatory, as all project work happens over the Internet, and it's therefore impossible to even guess whether someone's male or female.
Subtle discrimination Farnz 2010
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In the subthread regarding banning, you misquoted me and then proceeded on the misquote.
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Are you talking about his statement which launched this subthread?
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