Klockan

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by Klockan 9y ago
> argues that cognitive sex differences influence performance in software engineering. Damore never argued for this, he argued that cognitive sex differences could possibly influence interest in software engineering work as it done today
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by Klockan 9y ago
If I wanted to cement my advantages of being a white male then I'd adopt mainstream views on every topic since I myself don't gain anything from helping a fellow man.
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by Klockan 9y ago
Note that his main accomplishment was the wildly successful Google+.
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by Klockan 9y ago
> If you believe that, in the aggregate, "white" people are intellectually superior to any other race of people, you're a white supremacist. Good, then we can agree that all these people who believe that Asians are smarter
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by Klockan 9y ago
> After all, even if the statistical female population does have a higher baseline for neuroticism, would that fact actually weaken the argument for gender diversity? Nobody argued against diversity, the document in question only stated
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by Klockan 9y ago
Did I really get downvoted for stating that people who argues about gender diversity should be aware of one of the strongest psychological differences between the sexes? It doesn't matter if the cause is biological or not, fact is that
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by Klockan 9y ago
There is overwhelming evidence that women on average are more neurotic, anyone who argues about gender diversity should be aware of this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2031866/
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by Klockan 9y ago
HR is usually not involved in your actual job and they are the only ones at the company who need to know who you are.
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by Klockan 9y ago
> I can see how someone can see the surface and identify potential problems with it, but ultimately bias training is created by people with real credentials to be doing so Not all experts agree that they work though: https://h
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by Klockan 9y ago
Group-think wouldn't be a thing if people didn't lose a large part of themselves in social environments, it isn't until after after you leave the environment that you will recognize that your thoughts were dictated by the gro
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by Klockan 9y ago
I'd say that this is roughly on par with depicting Jesus as a white western European, but I don't see any right wingers complaining about that.
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by Klockan 9y ago
> From the results of the study, one would infer that if they adopt these 4 traits, they will become CEOs. How did you reach this conclusion? It is as dumb as reading an article stating that good doctors have an attention for detail and
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by Klockan 9y ago
Is it still a lottery?
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by Klockan 9y ago
All entrepreneurs create value for humanity, that's their common denominator. If an entrepreneur could create value without needing any human input after the process is started he would do so. It has of course never been possible befor
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by Klockan 9y ago
Programmers programming AI's to automate marketing will definitely have a job longer than marketers.
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by Klockan 9y ago
Giving disproportionate attention to sexism in tech will probably discourage women from entering the field though.
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by Klockan 9y ago
I didn't say that we should ignore sexism, I said that we shouldn't cry "sexual harassment" when we mean sexism because they are different things. Edit: Ah, now I see, I think we read the story a bit differently. I read
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by Klockan 9y ago
> She's particularly singled out for special treatment. Where did you read this? In the entire article she didn't even describe anyone speaking to her or about her except when they apologized, how can this be seen as singling h
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by Klockan 9y ago
> blame the victim of sexual harassment for being there and not finding a way to not be harassed. There were examples of sexism in the article but I didn't see anything about sexual harassment, they are very different things and sho
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by Klockan 9y ago
The pejorative is for companies that are requiring fancy degrees for simple jobs and not for the degrees themselves.
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by Klockan 9y ago
> Women get sexually harassed or assaulted much more than they fabricate allegations for personal gain (and note that this is not what happened in this case), as a woman rarely gains from making allegations, either true or false. I don&#
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by Klockan 9y ago
Both are just as common. The most trivial cases are getters (covariant) and setters (contravariant). A getter which returns a dog is obviously a sub type of a getter which returns an arbitrary animal since the returned dog can do everything
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by Klockan 9y ago
> I'm with you on national, racial and cultural identity being fluid imprecise concepts. It's tangential to the point I was making in this post. But there's only so much appending of extra information/editing I can do
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by Klockan 9y ago
> the fact that they were Japanese in this instance is more related to the fact that they were born and brought up in Japan Those two are the same, if you are born and brought up in Japan then you are Japanese. Similarly if you are born
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by Klockan 9y ago
> It's probably not a great analogy but, I think that if you were in e.g. the USA and there was use of White American Judicial System, or White American Police Force or something along those lines it would really scream out at you.
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by Klockan 9y ago
But how does a neuron decide to grow new axons or how to change input weights? Biological neurons does this when solving tasks and not just during training. Isn't it possible that human-like intelligence depends on the network being dy
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by Klockan 9y ago
Yes, but when people who lacks social skills try to be nicer they often start praising screw-ups. The answer isn't as simple as "be nice" or "be blunt", you need to be able to read the situation and act accordingly
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Not really, the study found that psychological safety mattered. You don't feel psychologically safe when you notice that people say that you did good no matter how much you screwed up, instead you stop trusting all praise you get (impo
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Yes, unions works kinda like price fixing but across the entire country. The thing is that the union tells everyone what your expected salary is given certain experience, so this salary will always be the starting point in any negotiation.
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by Klockan 9y ago
Written by a student who calls himself "Python Wizard".

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