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There are also many more male garbage man than garbage woman. Where is the outcry?

• taurath 7y ago
  Why aren’t there more garbagewomen? Is it the same reason there are aren’t women professional programmers? What’s your argument as to why there are these differences - that it’s some sort of natural order?
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• junipertea 7y ago
  People with low education have the opportunity to work an physically demanding low pay job regardless of gender. Women are forced out of high paying intelectual job because they can't be one of the Bros
• dang 7y ago
  This is the second time in the same thread that you've taken a leap into generic flamewar. That's exactly what we don't want in discussions here. Would you please review the site guidelines and not do that on HN? It's extremely tedious, only gets worse, and ends distastefully. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • edejong 7y ago
    To me it seems a sound argument. GP uses 'rebalance' in a generic setting. GP defends this by examplifying a specific situation. The parent riposte is to give a counter-example for which the 'rebalancing' clearly does not take place. This seems to me to be logically sound. 1. for_all x: A(x) => P(x) (need for rebalance) 2. Please prove! (my comment: don't assume we believe everything needs to be rebalanced) 3. x_1: A(x) and P(x) (gives example of programmer community) 4. Not a proof! x_2: A(x) and !(P(x)) (gives counter-example of garbage men)