OpieCunningham

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by OpieCunningham 6y ago
That is in poor taste. Or at least from a point of view that is failing to grasp the concept of racism. It wasn’t Virgos who enslaved Black people / redlined neighborhoods / segregated schools. edited to remove analogy because it
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by OpieCunningham 6y ago
a Cydia App Store
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by OpieCunningham 6y ago
Have you met my friends and family? Oy vey.
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by OpieCunningham 6y ago
>> Being a police officer is a ... thankless ... job Police officers are regularly held up as heroes, and often afforded special privileges in everyday life. If anything, they are irrationally worshipped.
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by OpieCunningham 6y ago
They also said the same thing about time travel and dragons.
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by OpieCunningham 6y ago
The general populace generally doesn’t pay any attention to any statements from any employees of any company. Those in the tech industry generally don’t pay any attention to statements from any employees of any company outside the tech indu
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by OpieCunningham 6y ago
Definitely
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by OpieCunningham 6y ago
That is interesting. As a generality I’ve found software developers to be some of the least open minded people. Perhaps a small bit amongst themselves (though the endless disagreements indicate it’s a very small bit), but when interacting w
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by OpieCunningham 7y ago
I might suspect your source is financially wealthy, and morally bankrupt - if I could follow 1/2 of what you said. But I was definitely entertained. Upvote.
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by OpieCunningham 7y ago
I tend not to give strangers with significant financial incentives the benefit of the doubt.
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by OpieCunningham 7y ago
Parent comment could be his mindset. You’re just stating his mindset is what he has claimed his mindset is. I see no reason to take his word for it.
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by OpieCunningham 7y ago
“that money got lost somewhere” It’s a mystery.
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by OpieCunningham 7y ago
What’s the difference between 9 of their choosing and 99 of their choosing?
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by OpieCunningham 7y ago
Wouldn’t that mean that a company can never be responsible for the output of the company? At every level, anything is just “a couple of employees”. The headline is reasonable.
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
Opportunities are literally luck.
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
Continuing to argue that humans do not have bias. Impressive.
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
> Slavery did exist, but that is overwhelmingly on the basis of race. This comment chain has so far been about women. This smells like whataboutsim. Nonsense. This comment chain is about diversity hiring practices, which involves gender
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
> This absolutely is suggesting that the disparity in computing graduates could be due to bias in admissions. This is explicit, I'm not sure how any reasonable person can attempt to deny this. Suggesting a thing as a possible factor
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
> You're saying that there is discrimination of some kind down the line, but the person you're responding to is pointing out that, even if that discrimination does in fact exist, women are still over-represented in university e
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
In a specific case, certainly. In the general case, subconscious bias plays a role. It doesn’t seem like a real argument that, generally speaking it is unknown whether race or gender bias is more of a determinant in hiring decisions than ha
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
Those are not the things I said. I specifically said that this statistic approach is an impossible debate because fundamentally it assumes everything down the chain (elementary school, parenting, society) is not prone to similar gender bias
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
I could be misunderstanding what you are stating, but it sounds like you are saying that when you were mistaken for white, and diversity practices did not exist, everything was good. But now that diversity practices exist, you need to preem
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
> In that sense, yes, we’re in full agreement and you intentionally warping my obvious meaning to guilt me into your line of thought won’t work. The problem with your conclusion here is that I absolutely agree that people can be incompet
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
You missed my point, which is that none of those statistics are meaningful one way or the other.
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
Many might debate it in those terms, but generally I won't because using statistics such as you've provided cannot produce a definitive argument for either side. If 20% of graduates are women, is that because of subconscious bias
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
> Ah, to be clear: Subconscious biases still exist to some degree. Subconscious bias still exists to a huge degree. Studies have been done, and it is fairly obvious, that show increased diversity has a positive effect towards decreasing
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
> absolutely against equality since it gives preference to specific groups Clearly we disagree significantly. But I mean, really: When reality is not equal, preference must be given to achieve equality. This is just obvious.
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
You were stating that "things have changed" in response to my statement that white males are often hired because of subconscious bias. That there are recent diversity hiring programs does not mean that white males are no longer hi
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
> This may have been the case decade(s) ago, but I think the climate is very different now. I don't. I've met many incompetent white males in over their heads.
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
Subconscious bias means your concern is applicable regardless of your skin color or gender. If you’re a white male, you could easily have been hired simply because of your skin color and gender and not your abilities. Effectively, your poin

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