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There is data on gender segregated education. So that question should be easy to decide.
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"a gender-biased abstract composition of fields" What does that even mean? Do you mean things like not counting medicine as STEM, because more women than men study it?
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Yeah the boys have the same bad math teachers.
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Ask HN: How do banks and fintec stay on top of IT security?
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My experience with fake news on social media so far was that somebody always stepped up to point out it is fake. No such mechanism in traditional media. In my country sometimes news outlets can be forced (by law) to publish a correction of
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In my country (Germany) I don't get the impression that the official news sources (state sponsored media and established newspapers) are impartial. At the same time massive efforts to censor social networks are underway, camouflaged as
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"threaten democracy" as in "people may vote for somebody I don't like".
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The full HN dataset is also on Google Big Query: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/hacker-news (updated daily)
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Even some movies about the male giants would be a start (I guess there was one about Turing, but I haven't seen it). Otoh maybe the subject doesn't lend itself so much to movie making, as most of the action happens inside of peopl
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Now I have to ask: to lenders of college tuition consider the subject the borrower chooses? I am just curious - or is it generally the government that does the lending? Otherwise I would be curious to know how lenders see the earning prospe
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Funny, as I have sometimes thought of going to college as a kind of counterargument to the efficient market hypothesis. Since going to college or not is an investment decision, it seemed that going to college is obviously the better decisio
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Hm, I always guessed that the brain simply goes by a kind of "maximum information gain" approach, picking out the features that tend stick out most to distinguish things. If unused to, skin color sticks out extremely, so the signa
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Hm, I wonder if there is a inverse correlation between number of JavaScript frameworks and enrollment numbers :-)
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Apple Watch detects heart irregularity with 97 percent accuracy(theverge.com)
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Actually, you are only dreaming this :-)
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Ordinary household lighting is more and more being replaced by LEDs, though.
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Not sure that helps much. At worst, people will start guessing and perhaps suspect the wrong people. And many people can probably identified from the context. Furthermore, there can be no defense against the accusations.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
But people get angry and want to insult each other. Sure, it would be nicer if they wouldn't, but it is not in itself related to racism or sexism. I guess the unwarranted insults are often the most annoying, because there is no possibl
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One problem I have with these list is, as you say, they make it seem as if there is a huge problem with people being harassed. I am not convinced that is true, because the context is missing. Like how many people work for Google, how many i
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by anothercomment 9y ago
They just call people what the suppose annoys them most. That is why they call women cunts and men gay or sexist or whatever. Would you say sexism is only over when men are being called cunts and bitches? Actually it seems to me Nigger is a
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The 77% number is specifically from the "official gender pay gap", presumably published by your national ministry of statistics or whatever (I am not from the US, but here in Germany the official ministry for statistics does the s
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What about people with red hair? I think they have a history of being bullied?
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How do you ever criticize somebody in such a friendly office? I suppose the need just never arises, because HR only hires flawless, swell people to begin with? So that if ever somebody takes a disliking to somebody else, it must be because
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The great thing is that there is more than one company, so people can choose their preferred environment. I suspect there are still many businesses were uniforms are the norm, so you can apply to one of those. You can wear your uniform, but
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False accusations are also harassment.
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"women suffer the indignation of being paid $0.77 to every man's dollar of equal functional qualification level." That is not the case, the gender pay gap does not compare salaries for equal job positions and qualifications.
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And Trump was called Hitler, Idiot, Psychopath and all sorts of other things. Presidents simply attract some amount of hatred.
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I would guess most subscribers simply like gossip and watching train wrecks.
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"is facing growing pressure from diversity advocates and the media" I don't think these entities should have the power to exert pressure.
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At least the Jews seemed to have found a way around it, though - why were they successful? Did they build their own schools, or how did they do it? Afaik at least for some time they were banned from certain professions, which is why many be

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