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by arkh 9y ago
"When I present my own ideas in a group, you ignore them" I've seen a lot of young or shy or not well spoken men get the same treatment. But - here is where I'll assume a lot about you - seeing what other people especial
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by arkh 9y ago
If people want more than 20% women in tech the job may have to be ajusted.
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by arkh 9y ago
One of the latest slate star codex article ( http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... ) mentions how there is still gender disparity in medical specialties. Do you have any statistics ab
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by arkh 9y ago
> I don’t like the representation of female engineers on TV, always nerdy, unattractive, and without much of a social life. Seriously? I agree with the lack of social life. But how come most of the tech people on TV (especially SF) are w
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by arkh 9y ago
First impression of this: a blank page. Ok, another javascript only website. Let's authorize it to see this the fanciful app we have there. And nope just text. Grey low contrast text. Once you change the stylesheet the components look
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by arkh 9y ago
History keeps repeating. Flash? Now you have heavily javascripted "website". Table layout? Now you have bootstrap and friends. Progressive enhancement? Fuck that, we don't have time. And 5 years from now people will rediscove
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by arkh 9y ago
Here is the problem in tech. Your have around 20% females. If any company has 30%, this means a lot of other companies will have to fight to get women there. So they have to pay a lot more for the qualified ones or accept to get token women
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by arkh 9y ago
I guess they started a conversation. Should not have been fired then.
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by arkh 9y ago
There are even less women in construction or waste management. But we don't hear as many complains there. My guess? Those jobs are known to be hard. STEM seem like a breeze from outside (that's just office work) but when you work
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by arkh 9y ago
Mimicking is exactly how you get omnivores to not try your product. You'd like me to try vegan food? Make real vegan cuisine with its own flavors and consistency. Don't try to make fake meat, I won't eat vegan to taste someth
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by arkh 9y ago
"I don't believe being against hate is a "leftist" worldview;" It sure is not. If you take the dictionary definition of the word hate. But what a lot of people do is use one word which have different meaning for the
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by arkh 9y ago
Women as prizes? Where did you read the word women in my post? I wrote about sexual harassment which can come from a person of any gender unto a person from any other gender. The attractiveness also mean a lot of things to different persons
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by arkh 9y ago
> people need to understand the rules. 1. Be attractive. 2. Don't be unattractive. Two simple rules to not commit sexual harassment.
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by arkh 9y ago
Lot of technical books are short. 150ish pages. And the more you read the faster you get: you don't decipher every word. You notice a standard structure and get the meaning. That's why reading things written by a foreigner can be
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by arkh 9y ago
It is because people prefer a known bad employee than a wildcard. With the first you can prepare for their fuck-up, with the unknown things could be a lot worse.
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by arkh 9y ago
Most web designers are not designers. They're just "artists". They don't care about the usability of their creation, they only want something which looks good for their portfolio.
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by arkh 9y ago
It should depend on age: 10 year behind bars for a 18yo destroys more than 10 years for a 65yo.
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by arkh 9y ago
Maybe if people named those people their scam would be a little harder to execute next time.
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by arkh 9y ago
> “The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Just
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by arkh 9y ago
Some men The gender war has nothing compared to the class war. A rich black girl has more privilege than a white trailer park boy. Huge difference in network and in knowledge of what is available for education and financial investment. An
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by arkh 9y ago
Do they do it for everyone? Benevolent sexism is still sexism.
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by arkh 9y ago
Let's say you receive an EM signal from a sentient specie. If you pinpoint its origin to light years away, you know they already had a lot of time to progress past this technology. A good response if you plan on eliminating them would
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by arkh 9y ago
>where there might be only a minimal reuse from the last one Not from what I saw from some constructors. Lot of software and parts are reused for multiples models.
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by arkh 9y ago
You just have to realize that you're on your way to dying the moment your parents made you. At the moment medicine can only slow the process so don't stress too much.
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by arkh 9y ago
The Road would be a good counter-example.
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by arkh 9y ago
I take it you are the kind of people who want others to pat you on the back while you complain but don't care about solutions. Why do you want to live and adhere to the customs of your current country? Do you really need to get married
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by arkh 9y ago
I'll be blunt. It reads like you love your misery. You have an easy solution: get some work in the UK. If your girlfriend loves you she'll manage to follow you. If not I guess she's not really marriage material.
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by arkh 9y ago
But going to a "proper cinema" is a lot less enjoyable than using your own 4k screen with good audio, comfy seating, homemade snacks, no other audience, choice of language and subtitles and the possibility to pause it if needed. L
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by arkh 9y ago
> I have absolutely no idea how anyone can manage it alone Not alone. The State (so, everyone paying taxes) is always here to help single parents.
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by arkh 9y ago
> with the exception of spreadsheets and formulas You may want to check Oracles MODEL clause. Not as powerful as a spreadsheet but you can already do a lot of things in the middle of your SQL.

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