adventskalender

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by adventskalender 7y ago
Which games do you play?
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I love reading, however, I am sad to say, most books are NOT worth "it" (being read). There are many, many books in the world. Only very few of them are good. I don't know the percentages - perhaps 0.001%% The good books ar
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by adventskalender 7y ago
"statements regarding biological differences between the sexes were so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected" I actually read the memo by Damore. But OK, "batshit crazy" goes more for the "mov
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Social Justice Warriors are killing people, you just don't care, so you don't notice. They try to destroy lives - make people unemployable and outcasts in society. There have been suicides, and lots of ruined careers. If a company
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Sure, I get your point - I just meant this wasn't supposed to be the rational discussion about women in tech. I would approach such a discussion in a different way. If I would put myself in a situation where it would be necessary (like
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Comp meaning compensation? OK, I could understand that.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Google has a problem, or thinks it has a problem - in the Damore case it was "too few female engineers". So I would expect to use rationality to come up with possible solutions. However, as I said, I think Google is entitled to do
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by adventskalender 7y ago
This is not a Google internal discussion, though, and I am not working for YCombinator. I am stating the fact that I would feel unsafe working for a company like Google. Whether my feeling of being unsafe is warranted is up for discussion.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
He didn't, though - he published his memo in an internal discussion group (after being encouraged to think about solutions in a diversity training session), and it was published widely without his consent, making him a worldwide outcas
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by adventskalender 7y ago
That's a completely different way to frame it. "Here is a course on how to avoid the legal pitfalls in the workplace" is something I might be able to accept. Indoctrinating people on why they should behave in a certain way is
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I said "forced diversity training" is not the right way to go about it. I don't claim to have a recipe for converting racists. Maybe a good start would be not to hire them in the first place?
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I think forcing them to attend "diversity training" would be very likely to turn them into a more hateful person. That's what force tends to do.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I know he sued Google, not details, though. This statement by the NBL just proves to me that the NBL is a batshit crazy untrustworthy institution. (Add the NBL to the list of places I wouldn't want to work for...). I guess that is just
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by adventskalender 7y ago
"Well, it can be argued that he was fired for similar reasons.. Are you saying that it's okay depending on which 'side' (a whole other story) someone is on? " Good point. I guess what feels particularly unfair to me
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I find that completely mind boggling, tbh. What gets people excited about AirBnB? Is this just about perks (salary and so on)? Nothing against AirBnB, it might be a fine, solid company doing a good job. But what about them is inspiring?
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I consider this and the other article by the international relations guy to be very one-sided accounts. A couple of people are unhappy, out of a workforce of 100000. So what? It also mostly seems to be political reasons. I would imagine a l
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Maybe part of the problem is that jobs are not forever anymore. So it is a good idea to hedge one's bets and have side projects.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Better AI would be fantastic. I always stopped playing after a while because the AI was too bad.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
If women are more optimistic than men, then that alone could be sufficient to yield the results of the study (correlation).
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Isn't that basically what dating apps are trying to do? I think "lighter" variants exists, for meeting friends, not just dates. Not that the situation couldn't be improved, though.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Why not meet up with other people in the same situation (possibly also elderly)? I have at times invited friends who didn't want to celebrate with their family. But a complete stranger would be too much for me (with little children).
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Meaning you have received the event that it has been loaded?
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Why shut it down and not sell it?
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Here is some more information (in German): https://www.nebenjob.de/ratgeber/2479-ihr-recht-auf-den-zwei... If your second job leads to the total of your work taking up more than 48 hours per week, your employer can for
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by adventskalender 7y ago
It still seems to me the latter is a problem for people working on their side projects in their spare time. Like if you are a software developer, and develop some software at home, it is kind of related to your job.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Maybe sometimes it is not loaded yet? (Just a wild guess)
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by adventskalender 7y ago
That wasn't my experience, but most employers actually referenced that case in their contract, so I am not sure what the default rule is. Also, a second job is one thing. What about ownership of things you produce in your spare time? I
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I'm actually on your side with the "actions have consequences" logic. That still doesn't imply the consequences are "extinction of the human race". I'm also all for handling in ecologically responsible and
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by adventskalender 7y ago
What do you mean? Authority is a synonym on expertise, in that context. You claim certain people or institutions have the expertise on the subject to make the right call, so you appeal to their authority on the subject.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
No the manipulation is the story about the abandoned settlement. I don't think you understood my point at all. The only assertion I made is that land being lost to the sea is not a new or outlandish thing. For that 14th century is suff

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