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by chroma 8y ago
I use pseudonymous accounts (such as this one) for things I can't say.[1] I work at a very progressive tech company, and I certainly would be fired if my true beliefs were known by my coworkers. For uncontroversial stuff, I use my real
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by chroma 8y ago
These interpretations can also be flipped around. One could argue that not supporting capital punishment dehumanizes murder victims and their families. Then some tough on crime politician gets elected and speech against capital punishment
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by chroma 8y ago
Even if you object to their choices of black surnames, they also ran experiments with male and female names, and with hispanic names. In those cases, resume screeners were all but certain as to the race and sex of the applicant. Still, ther
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by chroma 8y ago
You misread the paper. The surnames Anderson and Thompson have white connotations, while Jefferson and Washington have black connotations. The researchers backed up their choices with data. From page 3: > For example, based on data from
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by chroma 8y ago
The study I linked to shows that there's almost no race or sex discrimination for names on resumes, even in the southeast US. Regarding class discrimination: I don't think you'll get much disagreement from reasonable people.
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by chroma 8y ago
> Look at the examples of CVs/books sent around with just the name/gender changed and the huge difference in response rate to see the bias. That's not true. The original studies used low class names for blacks and hispanic
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by chroma 8y ago
"Studies show" is carrying a lot of water. I don't have access to the study that is linked, but almost all of these studies about sexism in tech end up not being true. An excellent example was Gender Bias In Open Source: Pul
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by chroma 8y ago
Here’s one: https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/874642259672801280 > “Meritocracy” is just thinly veiled misogyny and white supremacy propping up fragile cis het white men’s egos. Or https://twitt
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by chroma 8y ago
Is it? Commercial flight isn't that much more dangerous in other developed countries. Also, the FAA does grandfather in a lot of stuff. If the Cessna 172 was invented today, the FAA would never allow it to carry passengers or get near
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by chroma 8y ago
The FAA sounds so risk averse. I bet if passenger planes were invented today, the FAA would never allow them.
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by chroma 8y ago
By that logic, America was not justified in attacking Germany during WWII. Countries have several good reasons to invade other countries. They can come to the defense of their allies. Or they can invade to stop genocide, such as in the Koso
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by chroma 8y ago
> It assumes moral absolutism: that certain killing is bad and certain is good, but good or bad for whom? The CIA tried to kill Castro multiple times, but he's a hero to the people of Cuba. I'm sure people in the USA would&#x27
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by chroma 8y ago
Ok now I'm really confused. If killing is necessarily bad, then how can it be justified in the case of self defense? And it's a distraction to point out that capital punishment is banned in some countries. Those countries still
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by chroma 8y ago
We agree. I said that the purpose of a military is to be able to break things and harm people as effectively as possible.
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by chroma 8y ago
I don't understand this guy at all. Two things confuse me: First, the purpose of a military is to be able to break things and harm people as effectively as possible. Did he think his job would involve making the military less effective
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by chroma 8y ago
Linux was already doing option 3 with their “code of conflict”. Now they’ve replaced one divisive code with another. I wish they’d try to reduce polarization, not pick a side in the culture war.
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by chroma 8y ago
I agree, and then some. I think that most people pushing for codes of conduct aren't trying to make communities kinder and more inclusive. Instead, they are trying to suppress ideas they disagree with and punish the people who endorse
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by chroma 8y ago
This is sort of like almost being hit by a car and thinking, "Well I didn't get hit. I don't need to pay more attention when crossing the street." Also, Rod had to fight tooth and nail to keep his position. Things could
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by chroma 8y ago
> One of the strongest criticisms against the old code of conflict is that it did not enumerate the types of behavior that are unwelcome. The new one cannot be criticized on that account. Except that the list contains rules that are so g
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by chroma 8y ago
The visualization doesn't interest me nearly as much as how Twitter classifies something as "toxic". It seems subjective enough that one person's "toxic conversation" is another person's "sick burn&qu
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by chroma 8y ago
If your system relies on people going against their incentives, it's going to produce substandard outcomes. While some tech workers did decide to take pay cuts to work at USDS & 18F, most didn't. I considered both, but then I
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by chroma 8y ago
homeless.co.uk is a domain squatter. Did you mean to link to https://www.homeless.org.uk/facts/homelessness-in-numbers/ro... ?
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by chroma 8y ago
I used homelessness as a salient example of something that the SF government is doing a terrible job of fixing, but there are plenty of other examples. There's the boondoggle that has been the Central Subway, which has gone overbudget
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by chroma 8y ago
I've lived in three countries and a half-dozen states. The bay area's governance is easily the worst I've encountered.
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by chroma 8y ago
Economists agree that rent control hurts cities as much as dentists agree that sugared gum hurts teeth.[1] The main problem with rent control is what it incentivizes. Landlords have less incentive to maintain or improve their properties and
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by chroma 8y ago
I used to think that this was the solution, but it's now clear to me that the state and local governments are too incompetent to fix this problem. Over the past decade, the bay area has gotten so much worse. The cost of living has skyr
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by chroma 8y ago
I follow Musk on Twitter and I've never seen behavior like today. Yes, he sometimes insults people, but there's a huge difference between offhand insults and sticking to your guns accusing a rescue diver of being a pedophile.[1] I
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by chroma 8y ago
This seems so totally out of character for Elon that I can only assume he is drugged or mentally ill. Maybe he's Ambien tweeting. If he's still in southeast asia, that would make sense (as he'd be tweeting around midnight loc
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by chroma 8y ago
I'm not sure. My bet is that it involves minimizing suffering and satisfying preferences.
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by chroma 8y ago
I think James Charles Napier said it best. When addressing the practice of sati (burning the wife to death on her husband’s funeral pyre), he responded to accusations of disrespecting local customs thusly: > "Be it so. This burning

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