I hadn't really thought about that. My wife is a feminist and it is one of the things that drew me to her. She has definitely helped me recognize these kinds of things in the past. And I have become more sensitive to this, but clearly I have a ways to go.
I recently bought an iPhone 6, and have really started using Siri for the first time. And Siri has actually surprised me in a good way at how well she understands what I say. I don't do anything too crazy with her. Set alarm at x time, remind me to do x when I get home, Call so and so, send text message to x.
I work on a UX team of three. One of our guys has a MotoX, One guy has a Windows Phone, I have an iPhone 6, and based off of what happens at work it seems that Google Now and Siri are slightly more functional.
This is from merely observations, but it seems like Google Now is faster than Siri. And Siri is better at accurately hearing/understanding the words you say.
All nine reports of the 10,000,000+ who have iPhone 6s. I really think this whole thing has been blown way way out of proportion. If this were any other phone maker we wouldn't be talking about it.
I personally believe that gay people should be allowed the same exact rights as straight people. (Marriage, Adoption, Tax Status, etc...) That being said, I don't believe what happened to the Mozilla CEO was right. The amount of intolerance that was shown towards him was equally as bad as his own intolerance, perhaps worse.
I personally once thought that we should ban gay marriage. As I grew up and gained more understanding about homosexuality my view totally changed. I think we definitely have to give people the chance to change. I would guess that most of the people here on HackerNews grew up thinking that homosexuality was a choice and some sort of perversion. However, I would bet that most of us have changed our views as we have either accepted who we are or have had friends that were gay help our understanding grow.
As far as Dr Dre, I had never listened to his music or really followed him in the news. I would probably error on the side of a lot of the other comments, that we should give him a break because it appears that he has changed. My two cents.