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by civilian 9y ago
That "capitalist crisis" raised billions of people out of poverty. :] https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/global-povertys...
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by civilian 9y ago
Harvey Mudd is just performing selection bias. http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
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by civilian 9y ago
Heh. "There's no field more studied!" That's great, but still... I think it's such a bad strategy to be hostile about people who are learning about SJ. If you think that Social Justice is persuasive and morally righ
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by civilian 9y ago
I'm serious, I wasn't trying to be satirical. I also wasn't asking any questions? I was just doing my best to... idk, lay out my own thoughts. I know that Poe's Law applies to a lot of the internet, but I feel like HN is
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by civilian 9y ago
The accusation of sea-lioning is ridiculous. Alex wrote in his blog, he's not pestering someone on twitter. All he's done is committed a thoughtcrime for questioning. :-] I have friends who are social-justicey and I've read a
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by civilian 9y ago
Man I'm so confused here. Questions are good! Even if alexrohde is trying to bait you, you have an opportunity to lay out arguments. I'm a libertarian and I love it when people ask me questions, even if they're trying to bait
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by civilian 9y ago
Yup, jasode has got the right idea. The meter-stick to compare all charities (or hell, government programs? Personal spending?) is that we can donate $3000 to the Against Malaria Foundation and save a child's life. I might be a numbers
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by civilian 9y ago
If "subliminal biases" is a reference to "Implicit association" and the IAT-- IAT has lost it's scientific footing. The problem with it is that: Just because people have Implicit Associations doesn't predict th
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by civilian 9y ago
You might listen to the song "Fruitcakes" by Jimmy Buffett, he plays with this pun. :]
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by civilian 9y ago
Libertarian here-- what makes you think that the two parties working together will increase our liberty in regards to the internet? The logjam keeps the parties from working together to create new inefficient programs, expand others, increa
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by civilian 9y ago
I think the "32% of Americans have bachelor degrees" factoid is not meant to say that "everyone who gets a degree is upper-middle class" but that "a bachelor degree is _usually_ a gate/hoop you have to get thro
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by civilian 9y ago
That's fine, my argument applies to YC and other investors in addition to the founders.
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by civilian 9y ago
You make a good point-- it does still feel like you want your kids to be bored though. :-P I think that if the games are structured correctly they can be pro-social. I've been playing PUBG and I've made a handful of friends by joi
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by civilian 9y ago
You should see the way young children use wooden blocks if you doubt that wooden blocks are addictive. I watched my nephews, for 20 minutes, simply throw blocks into a box and say "throw and a miss! Throw and a hit!" It was mindle
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by civilian 9y ago
If anything that "strengthens and enforces typical stereotypes" is a bad thing, I should've been banned from attending mathlete competitions or LAN parties. Those definitely reinforced stereotypes and made some aspects of my
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by civilian 9y ago
The main reason that candidates don't get honest feedback is to limit liability-- companies don't want hiring managers to say something horrible or misphrase something and then have them be liable for violating hiring discriminati
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by civilian 9y ago
Nope. I see a lot of support for women and minorities in tech-- both in the form of mentoring events, hiring initiatives, networking events, and general cheerleading. I've talked to a lot of women and minorities in casual friendly dri
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by civilian 9y ago
Sorry, I just don't see the evidence. I haven't seen it in my personal experience, and I already laid out my take on the demographics. Is there evidence I'm missing? Besides my willingness to ask for evidence? :]
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by civilian 9y ago
Ahh, I don't think so. The _rate_ of CCD has decreased since last year. If we were "splitting up stronger hives into weaker hives", shouldn't CCD have stayed the same or increased? > The number of hives lost to Colo
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by civilian 9y ago
Sexism in favor of the people we're talking about. So, mainsteam thought views women as being the oppressed ones, but the study shows that women tend to get hired at a higher rate than men, simply by having a female name. Another examp
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by civilian 9y ago
As long as we're playing with thought-experiments, soneca could just say: "oh no, women have internalize misogyny too". Which is kind of backed up by research? (I remember reading an article about how female Principal Invest
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by civilian 9y ago
Tech is far less sexist and racist than you think it is. This article isn't about tech specifically, but I think it does demonstrate that if anyone, there is positive-sexism [ed: for women] happening when it comes to recruitment in wes
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by civilian 9y ago
How would you like to be born with Huntington's disease, knowing that your parents could have taken an unknown risk to save you from it? We are all utterly innocent and unwilling participants in being born. You can either take the rand
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by civilian 9y ago
Yeah, "profiting" is a typical stupid liberal accusation to invalidate people, because liberals have this shitty idea that "making money == bad". They use the same argument against the Kochs, even though it's been c
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by civilian 9y ago
Yeah, this sucks. Another example of this is Southern Poverty Law Center's "Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists". They include Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which is disgusting of the SPLC to do. https://www
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by civilian 9y ago
:[ I'm a gun-shooting libertarian. Don't assume my Tribe. You're right, the "tech tribe" does have improvements to make in inclusivity, but at least it's a home for some people who would otherwise be outcasts
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by civilian 9y ago
You're right, politics & age are major caveats. As someone who voted for Gary Johnson and laughed when Clinton lost, I definitely feel the lack of inclusion at times.
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by civilian 9y ago
Ah, okay. Thanks for the elaboration.
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by civilian 9y ago
You're implying that there could be something wrong with treating a stripper "just fine". How should a person treat a stripper?
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by civilian 9y ago
I think tech represents a good implementation of a meritocracy. You are welcomed to be weird and yourself, as long as you get your work done. Think about your coworkers-- you've got some weird ones. Dyed hair? Check. Burlesque dancing

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