DalaiObama

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by DalaiObama 9y ago
I think of it as participating in these kind of discussions without risking my career. But I hear what you're saying, and I agree that this post was needlessly confrontational. I'll try to be a better HN citizen!
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by DalaiObama 9y ago
So if you argue against Google's diversity policies, you're fine as long as you write on par with one of the greatest writers of his generation¹. If you argue for it, you can get away with any angry incoherent rant. Isn't t
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by DalaiObama 9y ago
By that logic anyone criticizing a company's hiring practices must be fired. If someone claims their employer discriminates against black candidates, you must equally infer they think some of their white coworkers have been let in be
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by DalaiObama 9y ago
This is known as Lewontin's Fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewon...
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by DalaiObama 9y ago
> The current fashion is that there are basically NO biological sex-type differences; that any sex-type differences are socially imposed and generally disadvantageous to women. It's important to know that the existence of non physic
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by DalaiObama 9y ago
"Stereotype threat" isn't doing well in replication. https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/hidden-fig... Money quote: "Research on stereotype threat and women’s performance on
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by DalaiObama 9y ago
Have you tried actually disagreeing with leftists? Many can handle it fine and have a decent discussion. But many will explode in self righteous rage and do all the things people blinded by hate do.
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by DalaiObama 9y ago
When extremely powerful people like that lose their jobs, everyone else gets the message.
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by DalaiObama 10y ago
It's pretty fantastic in these hyper sensitive times that unions get away with calling poor working people rats!
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by DalaiObama 10y ago
If you pick your starting assumption, you can reach any conclusion you desire.