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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
One is regulatory. At least in the US, every nuclear reactor that produces at least 100 MW needs to carry a 375 million dollar insurance policy at minimum. Under 100 MW there is an alternate schedule that ranges from 5 million to 75 million
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
The energy density of LFP batteries are also 30-50% higher than sodium based battery chemistries. Even if sodium battery prices drop, the lower energy density is a big disadvantage. My understanding is that sodium batteries are aimed at sta
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
The gender disparity in computing is largely universal across cultures, though. That's why the assumption that it's culturally determined is on shaky ground
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
And what is that data? Again you've referenced data or evidence for anti-female bias, and yet again you neglect to share it. Data could definitely change my mind: what percentage of applicants to software developer roles at Google are
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
I'm not aware of Singal ever saying that all children who express identification outside their birth gender are actually just same-sex attracted (I'm less familiar with Soh's work). Rather, his point is that the guidance give
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
And what evidence of systemic bias would that be? The experiment I linked above sent monitored the callback rates of applicants sent out to Bay Area tech companies for technical roles, and saw higher callback rates for women. This is the so
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
What sorts of scientific racism (or gender essentialism) have Jesse Signal and Deborah Soh propagated? To be clear, I'm not asking for a primer on scientific racism, I'm asking you to substantiate the allegations you made against
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
So merely contesting the notion that systemic bias is the main driver of the gender disparity in tech is grounds for instant termination? Well, that's rather troubling given that the empirical evidence on the bias in tech company hirin
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
"dog whistles" are, more often than not, a thinly veiled way of putting words in other people's mouthes. Damore's thesis amounted to "maybe women are 20% of software developers not because they're being discrim
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
What is the "bioessentialist pseudoscience" you're referring to?
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
By all means, explain what else he did. I've seen this claim made repeatedly on hacker news, but conspicuously noone seems willing to o substantiate those claims.
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
Your source doesn't contradict the fact that women's fertility has a sharper and earlier cliff than men's. It doesn't even use the same age brackets for men and women. It compares men age over 45 against men age under 2
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
That pertains to collecting biometric info, not end users of facial recognition services. From your link: > The BIPA requires companies doing business in Illinois to comply with a number of requirements pertaining to the collection and s
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
When I was a section leader (not at Berkeley, though) we used MOSS: https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/ It's not AI, its a deterministic program that analyzes compiled code for similarity.
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
In my uni, rates of honor code violations in introductory CS classes were high even before AI. I was a section-leader for the CS106 series at Stanford, and the honor code violations were common. In 2015, ~20% of one intro class was suspecte
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
Middleware isn't just things like matchmaking. Crucial components like client-side prediction, state reconciliation, and other netcode is often part of it. Stripping out all the proprietary components would leave the game in a non-func
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
But again, the players can use the service. The companies scaled back network resources, degrading the experience, but the service is still fundamentally available. Unless they put specific SLAs in the license agreement, the players are s
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by Manuel_D 4mo ago
Would it? Online services are not terminated. There's no SLA defined in the law: > 60 days before a digital game operator ceases to provide services necessary for the ordinary use of the digital game, the operator shall communicate
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Right, they'll stop licensing proprietary sever code. But that in turn drives up the cost of game development since they'd have to either purchase redistributable licenses or develop their own networking software. I suspect compan
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Right, but presumably the Doom and Quake server code was written by id Technologies themselves. That's not the case with a lot of modern multiplayer games. They license middleware like Photon Engine and don't have the rights to re
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
The developers may not have licenses for all the components of the server-side code. Lots of proprietary middleware is in use in online games.
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Releasing server-side code would be a non-starter for lots of companies. For one, many of them don't actually own all of the code they use to implement the game server. There's lots of proprietary middleware in use in online games
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
In the US, the inheritance taxes don't kick in until $15M ($30M for married couples). Even at 2 years old, a child can inherit more money than most people will make in their lifetime before a dime is paid to the IRS.
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Bigotry does not mean an automatic win at court. I continue to be impressed at the mental gymnastics you're willing to jump through to rationalize the belief that tying compensation to racial and gender quotas is legal. It doesn't
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Repeating this doesn't make it true. Use of protected class as a factor in employment is illegal, regardless of which race or gender is being favored or disfavored. You're right, "reverse discrimination" is bullshit: i
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
And for the fifth time, incentives and quotas are not mutually exclusive. A company can create incentives that are implemented through quotas. "Your salary is $100k. If you don't meet a quota of X% women I'm reducing your p
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
You seem to be misinformed about what protected class means: Race, gender, religion (including absence of religion), are all protected classes. It is irrelevant which race, gender, etc. is being favored or disfavored. The use of race as a
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
What you're describing is a straightforward violation of civil rights laws (assuming you're talking about the United States). Like it or not, "little Johnny" is just as protected from discrimination as these "more d
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
If you did a cursory review of the social sciences on this topic, you'd know that the demographics of people going through the prerequisites to working at a place like Perkins Coie does not match the general population. College attenda
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
What is the evidence? Did we send identical applications, differing only by ethnicity, to Perkins Coie, and did they respond to the non-white applicants at lower rates? Did Perkins Coie institute policies like withholding bonuses if leaders

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