FT_intern

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by FT_intern 10y ago
Affirmative action is quantifiable and blatant racism/sexism. > multiple axes of inequality in our society beyond the economic, including race and sex is not clear or quantified at all. Since affirmative action is provably bad becau
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Race is being used as a proxy for income. Why not just use income? There won't be glaring unfairness in the system where an upper middle class black kid gets preference over the child of poor, uneducated Fujian immigrants who can barel
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> it's all "silicon valley white" You don't consider the thousands of immigrants who grew up in completely different cultures with different primary languages in Asia and Europe as diversity? Instead, you consider the
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by FT_intern 10y ago
The test to get into the prestigious high school is orthogonal to race. Given that the top percentile of the test takers are the children of immigrant parents who don't understand American culture and whose primary language is not Engl
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by FT_intern 10y ago
I think we are in need of an open discussion on redefining "diversity". Race is not a good metric for diversity. Nationality completely trumps it. People of the same nationality with the same primary language have much more in com
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> My salary is 2.7x higher The original salary must have been low, no hate. Different strokes for different folks. If you're working at a company that already pays well and you're not in the Bay Area, then your options for swit
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by FT_intern 10y ago
That kind of evaluation can't be standardized and is very prone to personal biases and opinions though
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by FT_intern 10y ago
in practice, privacy has more to do with availability of the data than having the ability to get the data
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Isn't the entire Bay Area (outside of SF/Oakland) basically one huge suburb?
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by FT_intern 10y ago
I did a quick search and an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants pay an estimated $11.6 billion in taxes, so $1,000 per person. It's a huge net loss. Not to mention the fallout from stolen SSNs and creating demand for stolen SSNs
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> Therefore it can make sense for some women who have children out of wedlock and continue to look for suitable mate. That's the problem really. Making life better for single mothers is unnecessarily increasing the number of childre
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> It's also possible that the woman is just making a rational decision for the well-being of her children. If a single mother cannot provide for her child, she should have made the more rational decision and not have had a child in
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> In that case, it was living hell Not it wasn't living hell. Having professional goals was a luxury. Living hell was participating in wars, working 12 hours a day in a coal mine, etc. Experiences that mainly men had the pleasure to
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by FT_intern 10y ago
How is the Amazon affiliate commission compared to other online affiliate ecommerce websites?
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by FT_intern 10y ago
It's a pretty big exaggeration. Most people see team gear as a gym or jogging shirt. There's maybe a few people who actually care about it.
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Well no, they're allowing women to wear the jacket except it will be in men's sizing. It's a subjective opinion on whether this is exclusion or not.
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by FT_intern 10y ago
No, no one actually thinks they can get away with it given the current media climate. Donglegate is a reminder for everyone that even the smallest comment can bring the heat on you
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Team events and clothing are usually done by a female administrator or HR for engineering teams
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by FT_intern 10y ago
That's one interpretation. The other, more probable interpretation is that it is a pipeline problem. Try comparing their demographics with Bay Area, top school and CS demographics.
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> You'll miss out on less talent. This is assuming that the diverse candidates who actually have talent aren't being hired. That's the argument you need to be making > Your teams will be better at problem-solving if the
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by FT_intern 10y ago
The problem is that individual companies are held responsible for the general population instead of the qualified population. It isn't the company's job to make sure that the general population is educated. It is enough that well
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by FT_intern 10y ago
No, engineers are not paid well at Goldman
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by FT_intern 10y ago
The throughput isn't really that important. 10 GB of savings per day where the intern actually implemented the algorithm would be more newsworthy.
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by FT_intern 10y ago
The bulk of the new hires were most likely low skill, low income people working at their fulfillment centers
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by FT_intern 10y ago
That's not possible in the tech field because the tech field is very diverse. With the high immigrant %, most people do not fit in because there is no majority/in-group. The demographic is fragmented with the immigrant groups clus
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by FT_intern 10y ago
I can see that. It must be very juxtaposing to see upper middle class blacks/hispanics/females (the typical "oppressed minority" working at big tech companies) getting special benefits.
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> This is not a zero-sum game. Creating a new opportunity for girls does not remove an existing opportunity for a boy. Head count is orthogonal to gender make up of the company
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by FT_intern 10y ago
>I see it as more of a temporary compensation for earlier gender based biases. That hasn't been proven or quantified. If you're going to use sexism to fix perceived sexism, you should quantify and prove the original sexism firs
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Is this enough redundancy? I can see a natural disaster wiping out your residence and losing both the paper copies and your phone.
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> Your most valuable asset to this company is your enthusiasm. This makes me want to puke.

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