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by cantastoria 14y ago
Fair enough. A policy of stricter enforcement of tax laws sounds like a better plan than stimulus to me. Maybe they should start there instead.
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by cantastoria 14y ago
I think the real pseudoscientific idea is that debt-financed stimulus is the cure all for any economic ill. The argument that Greece needs to get further into debt to solve it's debt crisis seems insane to me. At this point how much good co
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Shut out of international bond markets, Greece had little choice but to begin bringing its public finances into line or face a catastrophic default. Financing wasn’t available to sustain prior spending levels. I'm confused. If Greece coul
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by cantastoria 14y ago
As a program manager in Development Tools and Languages, she was instrumental in several releases of Visual C++ for 32-bit operating systems and led the development of Microsoft's first customizable integrated development environment for W
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by cantastoria 14y ago
The creator of the word meritocracy created it to parody how people think the world is mostly just. Curious no? It would be if it were true. The satire you're referring to, used the word as a way to criticize how the British government of
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Hacker news?
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by cantastoria 14y ago
same here
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Hacker News?
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Carol Bartz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Bartz Even though she blew it at Yahoo she was great for Autodesk.
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Susan Kare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare Who designed many of the original Mac typefaces, icons and marketing material.
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Once again we see members of the social justice community promoting "privilege" as the metric for which all achievements should be judged. Developed an amazing search technology? "Well, they're two straight white males... big deal". Revolu
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Privilege is essentially a shaming tactic. It's proponents believe that they can create a reverse social hierarchy by convincing those supposedly at the top (straight while males) that every aspect of their lives benefits from a social adva
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Hacker News?
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by cantastoria 14y ago
I love how someone always hauls out that set of speech codes every time there's any discussion of race or gender in a forum, as if there's a "correct way" to participate in these discussions. You're not our proctor. If you want to let that
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by cantastoria 14y ago
I love how someone always hauls out this set of speech codes every time there's any discussion of race or gender in a forum as if there's a "correct way" to participate. If you want let a bunch politically correct rules dictate how you disc
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by cantastoria 14y ago
If someone is consciously aware they are not performing at their potential and continue to do so, I find it hard to lay the blame at the feet of stereotype threat. No? It sounds like they're either misjudging their potential or just being l
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Ah I see... From your vocabulary, writing style and misandrist digs I can tell you're a "trained feminist" and I know once that belief system takes hold there's no going back and as such, there's no point in arguing. I'm sorry to have waste
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by cantastoria 14y ago
It is impossible to forget, because the environment and people around me reproduce them, mostly entirely unintentionally. Even just the lack of women is a subtle, ever-present reminder that I am doing something weird and kind of awkward.
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by cantastoria 14y ago
I am a damn good programmer. I have these problems. Do you really start thinking about how bad woman are believed to be at science and math every time you speak to a male colleague or walk into a room full of men? I don't know, I'm asking
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by cantastoria 14y ago
That it does, but my argument is that that what the author experienced isn't stereotype threat. The effects of stereotype threat are (supposedly) manifested in a decrease in performance. Feeling excluded or thinking (in this case unjustifia
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by cantastoria 14y ago
When women look at tech companies and math departments, they see few women. This activates the stereotype that women aren’t good at math. The stereotype… Is there any evidence that this is what actually happens? Are all women carrying ar
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by cantastoria 14y ago
I think a similar thing would happen nationally. Polls show that when people are asked about the various major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (but are not told that they are being asked about that Act, so that they aren't prejudiced
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by cantastoria 14y ago
this is hacker news?
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by cantastoria 14y ago
It's not obvious at all unless you're talking about a diversity of programming backgrounds in which case I agree. C++ doesn't work differently when it's used by a black or female programmer. Same goes for programming perspectives in general
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Why? If I'm able to get quality answers what advantage does racial/sex "diversity" in and of itself bring to the table. Should I feel extra good about getting a quality answer from a black female programmer over a white male one? If so why?
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by cantastoria 14y ago
So there’s good news, there are women on StackOverflow. The visible ones are far below the representative % of women in the industry. So you can safely determine that it’s an unfriendly-to-women place.* Oy vey...
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by cantastoria 14y ago
But I'm sure that if you try to create an exhaustive list of people involved in creating the Internet, you would wind up with an enormous list, if you are even able to complete it. What makes you so sure? First of all I think it's hard t
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by cantastoria 14y ago
That would suggest that in discussions on the history of technology, it is implied that there is some arbitrary threshold... But there's nothing arbitrary here, we know who invented the Internet. None of them where women. The argument tha
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If we are talking about a particular invention we can talk about specific inventors. But we are talking about a particular invention and it's invention has been well documented (see "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" among I'm sure many othe
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Women may have been invisible, but the work we did laid the groundwork for more visible advancements now credited to more famous men. But what aspects of that work specifically led to the invention of the Internet? If "laying the groundw

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