Will_Parker

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by Will_Parker 8y ago
Sorry, I can't parse your question! I believe that the term "white brogrammer culture", as a pejorative, is sexist and racist and insulting. (See the article I mentioned for a use of this term.) And I've observed that po
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
One personal example was pointing out that referring to "white brogrammer culture" is sexist, racist, and insulting. I didn't get fired, but I had to talk to a few people in HR because of it. Here's a tech CEO claiming:
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
Even being far left on most measures, being openly critical of intersectionality has become equally problematic (for lack of a better term).
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
> most obviously, that the continent was much colder, and therefore supportive of much smaller populations, Okay, but we're assuming a population capable of migrating as far as San Diego, and capable of hunting mammoths. You'd
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
It's a case where an extraordinary claim should require unambiguous evidence, something more than making people say "hmm, maybe it was humans?" when they can't explain exactly what they see. If you postulate pre-Clovis s
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
> You also have the problem that people get suspicious of people hanging around not drinking alcohol. Once you're out of college I think this is mostly in your imagination. Nobody will judge you for drinking water or diet soda and y
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
> I honestly don't get the "No, not again". Could you elaborate? As the cosmologist Sean Carroll said in his podcast, particle physicists haven't really been surprised by an observation since the 1970s. Presumably man
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
> There is no way that we are "alone" in a universe estimated to have practically infinite planets. What if we are a random sample of conscious life in the space of all possible universes in a multiverse? Many of them will have
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
Yeah, too many microservices I've seen are easily replaced by a function, and the practical tradeoffs are entirely benefits.
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by Will_Parker 8y ago
Is there any engineer who you'd regret not hiring, who is unable to code FizzBuzz in real time in front of an audience? I'm skeptical.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> So many people put their programming expertise or productivity down to some innate quality Yes. Some people (both as kids and adults) seem to be innately interested in different kinds of activities. And it is perhaps impossible to sepa
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> Why should there be humans around to enjoy it in order for it to be a thing to strive for? Advanced consciousness may be the key thing the universe has going for it.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
I'll add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faery_Tale_Adventure (1987) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_of_Lore (1988)
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
That pins down an interesting characteristic of the situation. If we manage to self-treat ourselves into passable normality, few people believe we ever had a serious problem in the first place! Or that they (with their actual serious diagno
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> I just don't get it. Who cares what the source of a diamond is? Women's cultural conditioning and arguably human nature. It being a completely unnecessary but very costly sacrifice to the man is the feature, not a bug. It doe
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Totally. I deliberately chose bagels and pasta as being foods as calorie rich and nutritionally empty as a can of coke. Yet people think their pasta salad is healthy.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
That was my argument ten years ago. I'm just challenging people to think of communication primarily in terms of how an aggregate of how hundreds or thousands of people will perceive it, because this was a key that led to me being much
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Wow, thank you for such a detailed answer!
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Can you be more specific about which hobbies are social but welcoming to extreme introverts? I'm seriously looking for one.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
As well, the fact that starch and sugar are essentially identical metabolically is a key point that people don't believe, mostly because they don't want to at a deep emotional level. Replacing doughnuts and chips with bagels and p
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Serious question, how do you deal with being invited to parties when you don't have the mental stamina and emotional resources for it at the time?
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
It's much more concise, and much less persuasive to someone entering the discussion with preconceptions.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
I'll eat the downvotes without caring, in case it makes one person think, because it's the advice I needed 10 years ago to be a more effective communicator, which I didn't take. Consider "In rural areas, which reflect th
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
You've made a great point easily dismissible with the word "fucking". (Sorry for being annoying but it's a key point I wished I learned when younger.)
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
I'm wondering, as well, if no archival leads to freer discussion with less fear of saying something stupid that will live forever. And if that's worth anything. Maybe it depends too on whether Slack is used strictly as an impartia
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Of course they are. This is practically in the definition of stats. It isn’t a question of if it’s inaccurate, but of how inaccurate it is. A confidence of 95% isn’t much worse than 100% for purposes of advertising.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> What message do you think he sends to women? What messages does he send men about women? 20% of his audience is women, and that's not a small number, so it's probably better to ask one of them. He relays a lot of science abou
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Sorry if you think he's only a useful idiot. For me, I credit him a lot with working out of long term depression. And putting me in a state to turn my life around for the better. Listen to him sincerely care about men: https:/&#x
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> That's because he encourages you to blame your personal lack of social adjustment on women/feminism/PC-culture and not yourself. Have you ever actually read him? His main message is to sort out your own life, then, when
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
To be honest, as a socially awkward middle aged male who has made a few missteps in my life, Jordan Peterson is the only one I've heard in the last decade say that I might have something unique and good to offer the world instead of be

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