alpsgolden

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by alpsgolden 9y ago
A key question here is what has changed to make these attacks more prevalent. One possibility is it is related to immigration and changing demographics. The area with the most acid attacks by far, Newham ( http://www.mirror.co.uk
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
When I walk into my job at a tech company, how do I know which of my colleagues thinks I’m an outlier among women versus someone who was hired because I’m female that doesn’t deserve the job they have? Isn't this an argument against
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
Is there a biological basis for this? I do not want "Gender Studies" references. I want real BIOLOGICAL, you know code mother nature put in you. Sex is basically binary in mammals (do you have the gene that triggers producing sp
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
"he disseminated a company wide memo criticizing the company-wide hiring practices in a preachy way that didnt leave room for the company to answer back." Not true, he distributed the memo on a mailing list called "skeptics.&
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
The thing is that this guy clearly thinks some things that affect his ability to do his job. Would you trust him to write a peer review for a female colleague or mentor a black intern? Sure, why not? I believe that the author is generally
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
This was way beyond that. I read Zunger's article. Getting offended is in large part a choice. I apply the golden rule. If an Asian guy wrote a similar article for arguing why Asian people are over-represented at Google compared to w
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
I'm not saying people shouldn't discuss company policies. I'm saying they shouldn't turn those policy discussions into a national/cultural political argument. I suspect that this memo wasn't any more politica
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
As I explained to another poster just now: this guy painted a target on himself by becoming a huge liability for Alphabet. Sure, but if Google has already decided it is ok to discuss this issue on company message boards and that it wants
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
Why would computer science be so different from other STEM fields that have radically higher proportions of women? The data from other professions overall seems to be in line with a "women less interested in systemizing activities&qu
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
The workplace is no place for politics like this. I agree, but I'm pretty sure political posts were already tolerated at Google. If employees are allowed to post to internal message boards that women are underrepresented because inte
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
Yeah, just reading the abstract tells a different story than the graph she uses. Google or a college level computer science course is specifically pulling from adults who are in the very top percentiles in logical/quantitative skills.
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
When I looked into this a lot, looking into all sorts of data, reading tons of stuff, my conclusions were: 1. Women are generally more conscientious and studious. I've seen data they do more homework, get better grades, even in math, a
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
POTUS has great power relative to any other singular person in the world. But relative to the total power exercised by the government, they have little (especially with regards to domestic policy). Trump's ability to actually "dra
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
You might enjoy this piece which takes your point much further: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/08/sarah-p...
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
Define "science."
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
and the increase in sea ice there is also likely to be an artifact of global warming. Was there anyone predicting in the 1980s or 1990s that with global warming arctic ice would decline while antarctic ice would increase? Was anyone predi
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by alpsgolden 9y ago
How do we square this statement from the article "In the past 30 years, the minimum coverage of summer ice has fallen by half; its volume has fallen by three-quarters. " with this chart of global sea ice -- http://arcti
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
because they all operate under the assumption that incidental characteristics like where someone is born and what color their skin is are more important than motivational characteristics like do they want to be in the U.S, do they agree wi
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
I am not arguing about the crime changes over the past 20 years. The original article was about crime changes in the past few years, based on changes to policy in the last few years. I think the changes to crime policy implemented twenty ye
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
I don't think police are the right agents to enforce societal change though. I mostly agree, but I do think the police could do more to crack down on the most brazen instances of gangs being the de facto government of various neighbo
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
I read have read an enormous amount about this subject, from all angles and viewpoints. And I actually give a sh*t about getting the answer right, not just confirming any biases. And from reading and personal experience, I changed my mind o
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
I read a wide variety of sources. I linked to Moskos because he is one of the best, he himself has numerous citations, and thus there is no reason for me to duplicate the work he has already put in.
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
It seems like we're due for another round of this pendulum. I fear this too. As someone who now lives in a city that suffered enormously from the 70s crime rise, and benefited greatly from the 2000s decline in crime, the prospect of
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
Can you expand on the backing off part, though? Peter Moskos has written a lot on this. As part of his PhD, he spent two years as an actual cop in Baltimore. Now he is a professor of criminology in New York. IMO, he does a good job writin
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
"If we ever decriminalize Marijuana at the Federal level, that seems to me like it would mean millions of prisoners held for offenses involving only that drug would need to be set free." Millions? Millions?? Where on Earth are you
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
Homicide rates are the key number to track. Other crime statistics have big reporting problems. Police can easily not report a crime (especially when there is pressure to make the stats look good), people stop calling police if they think t
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
I believe that Chua was talking about the Ashkenazi Jews. I was convinced of the "scientific racism" explanation for their achievement based on the evidence presented in the book the 10,000 The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civiliza
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
Slavery and the holocaust were both predicated on the simple idea that one kind of human was superior so I don't feel comfortable sitting around sipping tea and debating that. On the Holocaust I'd argue the opposite point -- it
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by alpsgolden 10y ago
Is there a reason NPR didn't actually report the facts from the report? Here they are: - The September monthly average sea ice trend for the entire Arctic Ocean is now -13.3% per decade relative to the 1981-2010 average. Trends are sm

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