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by cantastoria 14y ago
I think the real imposters are the developers who act like they know what they are doing!
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Agreed. As someone who does a lot of biz dev, I would be thrilled if a prospective partner was this honest with me.
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Maybe but one of the reason why there is such slow growth is that there's so much disagreement amongst researchers about how to interpret results. I would be much happier if this project was focusing on creating the LHC equivalent in brain
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by cantastoria 14y ago
I'm not defending BrainVoyager as a product. It was just an example of the type of business model the academic market requires.
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Agreed about the horrible tools. Unfortunately, this is an extremely difficult market to break into. Most academics want free and open source tools and don't care how many research assistants or post-docs they have to torture to use them. C
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by cantastoria 14y ago
It's more like if people had been already going to the moon for 30 years in this case. There is something to be said for large, concerted effort toward a singular goal. As I said that concerted effort has been going on for quite some t
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by cantastoria 14y ago
I was stunned reading this. It looks like the group pushing this project are just taking advantage of the president's advisers ignorance. Cognitive neuroscientists, psychologists and neurologists have been "mapping" the human brain for well
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by cantastoria 14y ago
And that's fine but did you get a 2 to 1 f/m ratio after you increased your female recruitment? That's what I'm trying to get to the bottom of.
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by cantastoria 14y ago
I'm pretty sure most universities have a company mission that appeals to both men and women and they haven't suddenly seen a 2:1 f/m ratio in CS majors. What makes Khan so different?
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Agreed although I'd be careful with this, A key point about bias and discrimination is that people aren't (and often can't be!) aware of their own biases as it's typically the beginning of an explanation for why admissions/hiring policies
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Can you come up with any possible explanation period? You're dodging my question.
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Fogcreek and Google's interview process both seem to yield a far larger number of male employees than females yes? David, Dylan and Jamie are all men yes? If any piece of evidence from the above points to an organization that values quotas
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by cantastoria 14y ago
The parent is describing the postmodern definition of Meritocracy where "merit" is just a point view. In that world all achievements/failures must be evaluated in light of the person or group's privilege/race/class/gender and sexuality. Pe
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by cantastoria 14y ago
I'm curious to know what aspects of Khan's recruiting/admission policies resulted in such a large number of female admissions. It would be nice if the authors' response included some description of their policies. As the person who stands
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by cantastoria 14y ago
I'll put it to you like this: I may have run in the race, and that was all my effort, but someone needed to first put me on plane for me to even compete. Sure, but they worked hard to be able to put on that plane. That you recognized the
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by cantastoria 14y ago
That list doesn't really contain many privileges in the "unpacking the knapsack" sense, in that they aren't advantages you have just because of your race/class/gender. If anything it shows that these opportunities/advantages are available t
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Ah the ongoing Tumblr-fication of Hacker News. Off topic no?
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by cantastoria 14y ago
The business models that will emerge in science will be as diverse as the ones on the web at large. There will be advertising businesses; freemium models; and enterprise sales models. I'm not sure who the author thinks the customers for t
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by cantastoria 14y ago
There are tons of resources going over the basics a simple Google search away Actually, I don't. Calling sexism out doesn't make me post-structuralist or Marxist. From one of your other comments: Gender is a performance, not a thing. Y
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Your elitism is breathtaking. What have you done with your life that makes you so special?
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by cantastoria 14y ago
If you are occupying the position of privilege, you have a duty to go read about why this is sexist According to what? The Social Justice Handbook? king_jester please stop lecturing us on how to behave. You are not our proctor. You clearl
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Well your racist, hetero-phobic and misandrist accusations aren't helping the situation. Are you coming here from Tumblr?
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by cantastoria 14y ago
females being often underrepresented in tech conferences due to rampant sexism But females aren't underrepresented due to rampant sexism, there are fewer women at tech conferences because there are fewer women in tech period. Creating a p
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Call me paranoid but I always feel like these studies are being done to lay the groundwork to justify tax increases on the affluent. "You don't need to make that much, we've done research! $75,000 is all you need trust us, you'll be just as
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Comparing any Western economy to a warn-torn and completely corrupt country that just happens to not have an income tax is a bit absurd isn't it. You're implying that if only they paid a high income tax in Somalia all all their problems wou
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Indeed: To Save Money, Save the Health Care Act (Peter Orzag) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/opinion/04orszag.html?_r=3... ;
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Please tell me this a parody.
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by cantastoria 14y ago
I'm not sure any top down approach that's done out in the open like this will ever really work. At best you'll end up with the situation that now exists in college admissions where it's just assumed all minority applicants got in on prefere
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by cantastoria 14y ago
You're arguing against a straw man. Really? Than tell me what other non-austerity policy is being proposed. We're not talking about what is being pursued. The discussion is about the merits of the alternatives to austerity. Massive debt
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by cantastoria 14y ago
* I would explicitly not be satisfied with a process that resulted in 100% male speakers. I would have stopped once we’d reached, say, 17 male out of 22 possible speakers (being pretty conservative, I think) and insisted that the remaining

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