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The Problem with a Slate of White, Male Speakers(farukat.es)
1 points by KuraFire 14y ago|0 comments
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by KuraFire 14y ago
Uh, dude. I very clearly, openly and publicly use KuraFire as my nickname, everywhere in conjunction with my real name, Faruk Ateş. I wasn’t trying to hide anything _on purpose_. By posting as myself, I told you who I was. Blame Hacker News
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by KuraFire 14y ago
You’re coming to the exact opposite, wrong conclusions here. 1) in the trust-Bush example, anyone who actually, properly learned “how to sense when other people have a depth of knowledge or experience that is unavailable to you” would have
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by KuraFire 14y ago
Yes, it is a good metaphor. Credit goes to John Scalzi (linked in the original Primer): http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...
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by KuraFire 14y ago
Laura eventually made it clear that she wasn’t claiming there is no problem, but she did it so poorly that a huge number of people who read her post didn’t get that from it. Similarly, I (original Primer author) did a poor job making it cle
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A Response To The Responses To My Sexism in Tech Primer(farukat.es)
2 points by KuraFire 14y ago|0 comments
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by KuraFire 14y ago
Zach, sexism is exactly as genderless as rape is. You (and Laura) should read up on rape culture and how intertwined it is with the culture of sexism in society. They’re kind of like government debt and government spending: yes, they’re sep
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by KuraFire 14y ago
What, you mean like someone who’s been in the industry for fifteen years, worked at companies both small and large, startups and corporations, and in four different countries?
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by KuraFire 14y ago
> "It's very hard to take this story at face value." Why? Because it disproves your world view? Because it makes you uncomfortable to acknowledge that this kind of shit can (and does) happen in an industry you like to idolize? This stor
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A primer on sexism in the tech industry(netmagazine.com)
9 points by KuraFire 14y ago|0 comments
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IPhone 5 is the Highest Grossing Movie of All Time(farukat.es)
1 points by KuraFire 14y ago|0 comments
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The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?(justinhileman.info)
160 points by KuraFire 14y ago|92 comments
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by KuraFire 14y ago
You may not have intended to compare it to anything, but you were. The words “incredibly tough” cannot be used without being in comparison to something, because without the comparison they _lose all meaning completely_. So however you want
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by KuraFire 14y ago
Actually, yes he _did_ say he didn’t believe her account of it: “If such punch cards exist…”
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by KuraFire 14y ago
I’d like to give you a yellow card for your tired and sexist casual and nonsensical dismissal of a claim made by a woman about an actual experience she had. With all the shit women get whenever they raise their voice on these matters, they
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by KuraFire 14y ago
No dude, it’s fucking easy being a guy, twice so if you’re white, three times so if you’re straight. In fact, that’s so true it has come to be known as The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-
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Men of Silicon Valley: We’re sexist, we just don’t know it.(sxates.com)
2 points by KuraFire 14y ago|0 comments
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When Selling Out is, In Fact, A Dirty Choice(farukat.es)
2 points by KuraFire 14y ago|0 comments
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by KuraFire 14y ago
I do hope you realize that your initial comment was the actual straw man here. You misrepresented the argument as being “diversity over quality” (and calling it “premature optimization”), when that was never the argument. Additionally, yo
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by KuraFire 14y ago
Yeah, because we all know white men are incapable of giving bad presentations.
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by KuraFire 14y ago
I really like the positioning of the problem as a technical issue, or a series of bugs. FIX ALL THE BUGS [in society].
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Apple And Its Questionable Decision With Maps(farukat.es)
3 points by KuraFire 14y ago|0 comments
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by KuraFire 14y ago
Well, and I gave you my explanation of why as an answer, which you then dismissed and provided your own explanation instead. Since you were the one wondering why, I’m now left to wonder what made you ask the question in the first place.
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by KuraFire 14y ago
This explanation operates on the assumption that all of these people lack the capacity to ask why, or ask for an elaboration or clearer explanation. It assumes that every member here that avoids these conversations Must! At all times! Asser
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by KuraFire 14y ago
People on HN are there to talk about tech, and they prefer it to happen within the confines of what is currently the majority demographic: young male tech person who’s every-day life doesn’t involve constant harassment. Talking about the su
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by KuraFire 14y ago
Hacker News is about as receptive of this topic as a porcupine is of balloons. “Stay away stay away stay away!”
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But How Will They Make Money?(farukat.es)
4 points by KuraFire 14y ago|0 comments
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by KuraFire 14y ago
Yes: basically any study on the effects of more diverse work teams or leadership has come up with the same result: diversity is good for business, better for the bottom line, results in better products, and so forth. Have a gander: http://
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by KuraFire 14y ago
Here’s your break, huggyface: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents (that’s maybe 5%, tops, of actual incidents that happen)
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by KuraFire 15y ago
Affirmative Action[1] is not discriminatory, but it is inherently _exclusionary_. Discrimination: > the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex Is Affirmative

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