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by J-dawg 10y ago
I did read the article. Maybe I'm using a loose definition of "confidence" but it still all comes down to confidence. Applying to a job when you don't strictly meet the guidelines is a form of confidence. Side note: I no
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I appreciate your comment. I also wanted to mention the "feminine" thing but feared it would look overly sensitive. Personally I don't think confidence is a masculine or feminine quality at all.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Sorry for repeating myself, but why bring gender into it at all? If we have collectively decided that helping people with low self-confidence is a good thing, why not leave it at that? If more women than men get helped in the process, then
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I don't understand your logic here. If we're saying that losing out on good but low-confidence candidates is a bad thing for a company, and we want to fix it, why don't we adapt our processes to favour the people being disad
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Then why bring gender into it at all?
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by J-dawg 10y ago
All of the responses listed in the questionnaire loosely relate to confidence, and that's the sense in which I was using it. Confidence means not being afraid of bluffing your way through an interview when you only have 60% of the requ
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by J-dawg 10y ago
As a man who struggles with low confidence and self-esteem, I hate the way women are given special attention over this stuff. I frequently don't apply for jobs I see that I could probably do, for all of the reasons listed in the articl
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I really like the spirit of this comment, but I can only imagine feeling like that if I was either very confident in my skills or had some serious FU money in the bank. I work for a big international company that is gradually sinking, and
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by J-dawg 10y ago
The thing is, it's already starting to happen in a small way. A quick search will find you several articles like this: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/10/dating-... Of course, ther
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by J-dawg 10y ago
As a man, learn to accept a life of celibacy. Sadly, women's tendency to evaluate men by their occupation is not going to change as quickly as the jobs market. (This is admittedly a dystopian view, but I believe it's possible.)
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the data supports what I said, even if I missed some of the nuance. Black women are more penalised than black men.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
This is going to sound even worse, but.. I think there was some data from okcupid that showed black men are a lot more popular (based on messages sent etc) with women of other races than black women with men of other races (I have no idea w
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by J-dawg 10y ago
>Make it sexy to be a poet, writer, singer, househusband, whatever, derive personal/interpersonal value from something other than a career. I would dearly love to believe this is possible, but I fear it's not. I don't thin
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by J-dawg 10y ago
So what do you do when there simply aren't enough jobs for most men to "have their shit together"? What are all those men going to do when they have both no stake in the economy, and little or no chance of finding a woman to
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I remember a similar HN discussion, months ago. Someone posed the question - given there's evidence that people do better work when they're treated well, why don't more places go out of their way to look after their workers?
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Most importantly, I think that even if structural discrimination exists, artificially penalising other people is not the way to rectify it. On whether structural discrimination exists, the question feels like a trap (even if not intentional
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by J-dawg 10y ago
>Be glad you haven't suffered it for literally your entire life. Modern feminism increasingly seems to be an ideology based on the idea that women are always victims. You've just described positive discrimination, and implied t
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by J-dawg 10y ago
This is an interesting way of looking at it. I wonder if this really is the psychology of people who do stuff like this. If this is the case, it would be interesting to find out whether there is some correlation between wealth inequality an
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by J-dawg 10y ago
It is utterly bizarre. This stuff angers and confuses me in equal measure. It's like a complete refusal to participate in society, just the expectation that someone else will come and tidy up after you. How do these people behave elsew
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by J-dawg 10y ago
That just seems really sad. I've read that Tesla doesn't pay exceptionally well, expects people to work really long hours, and doesn't offer an employee discount because Elon doesn't believe in it. Despite all this I&#x2
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by J-dawg 10y ago
To what extent does Facebook allow its advertising clients to target users based on location? Down to the level of individual buildings (e.g. a bar)? Is it possible that Campari could be running a campaign targeting people who recently visi
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An end to tedious conversations: A watch that buzzes if you're boring(news.sky.com)
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by J-dawg 10y ago
In Europe we have high taxes on fuels and CO2 emissions, but London and Paris still have worse air pollution than many US cities. Mostly because automakers focussed on Diesel engines to maximise MPG at the cost of everything else (NOx, part
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I don't know why you've been downvoted. This comment is depressing but it is at least partially true. I wouldn't go as far as the 'virgin' part, but there are definitely people in the UK who view teetotallers with s
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by J-dawg 10y ago
In the UK I sometimes feel like we get the worst of both worlds. There's a perception that it's nigh impossible to fire someone and that jobs are very secure, which leads to fairly conservative hiring policies and quite low wage
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by J-dawg 10y ago
It also reminds me of "Pantou the dog" [0] from Brass Eye [1] (created by the same person as Four Lions), which successfully duped several British celebrities and politicians. That particular episode caused media hysteria when it
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by J-dawg 10y ago
In my opinion the more self-centered view is going around doing exactly what you want without any concession to how it affects other people. I regularly think about whether my actions are bothering anyone else. It's the opposite of sel
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by J-dawg 10y ago
>I don't care what might be bothering [someone] Sorry, but people like you are what creates this 'hostile' attitude. You're supposed to care whether your kids are bothering people.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I don't know much about blockchain, but the salespeople of big consultancy firms like Accenture are master snake oil merchants. When you combine the two it must be like a perfect storm of bullshit.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Side note about recruiters: Years ago I ended up going to a couple of embarrassing interviews for jobs I was clearly not qualified for, having been talked into it by a recruiter. Naively, I put this down to inexperience on their part, until

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