Mangalor

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by Mangalor 12y ago
> African Americans (12% of pop.) make up 80% of NBA players". I am pro-diversity and I have no problem with this. I don't want to change this that 80%. That 80% is based on their ability. Which just so happens to be gifted to
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by Mangalor 12y ago
Why would you guess that? Clearly the non-asian minorities figures are abominable.
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by Mangalor 12y ago
You make the mistake of assuming an equal playing field where there clearly isn't one.
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by Mangalor 12y ago
Speculators are still alive and well. I'm still hoping some new software will come out to record prices automatically, making this issue irrelevant.
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by Mangalor 12y ago
1. Ray Kurzweil is not psychic. 2. We now have detailed maps of parts of the human and mouse brains on the bio side as well as working AI-like systems (Siri, Watson, etc.) on the tech side. Who's to say the intersection of the two fiel
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by Mangalor 12y ago
Here we go...
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by Mangalor 13y ago
The coolest takeaway is that they didn't really dismiss the idea, just waiting for better manufacturing of currently feasible materials.
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by Mangalor 13y ago
This. This is the reason why I never say "We can build X". We can never know because the requirements always get pushed an order of magnitude higher whenever we can actually build X.
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by Mangalor 13y ago
The problem is it's already hard to be very precise about what you're saying when talking to a computer just with text, so we'd need functions specific for each of those voice requests, more reliable voice recognition, and al
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by Mangalor 13y ago
The ones that are interested are getting subtly insulted and pushed out. That's the point of the article.
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by Mangalor 13y ago
Taking the formal lawsuit route is also seen as dirty and ruins careers, so there's really no easy way to deal with this stuff when it's happening.
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by Mangalor 13y ago
They're also majority White. Are you saying minorities also don't want to do any "pesky work"?
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by Mangalor 13y ago
> "When are people going to stop bitching" Well, throwing around words like that so casually in a conversation about gender in tech certainly doesn't help.
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by Mangalor 13y ago
Because society badly needs technology solutions to its problems, and it doesn't help if alpha male "broey-ness" excludes whole segments of society from being able to pitch in and work on them. You'd also think tech woul