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by crassus 13y ago
Just curious - do you think that outlets like Valleywag are a positive or negative for our industry? If something is a positive for everybody who believes the "right" way and negative for everybody else, I tend to believe that&#x2
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by crassus 13y ago
What's the goal? A 50% gender ratio in all fields? Just trying to understand the mindset of a SJW.
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by crassus 13y ago
Social Justice Warriors are shrinking the bounds of possible thought and tarnishing people's reputations. If you're not self-employed, they can get you fired. I'm an old-fashioned liberal: I believe that thoughtful, free disc
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by crassus 13y ago
"Prove that you're not a witch" is a very old tactic - and it's the opposite of the modern standard of guilt.
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by crassus 13y ago
"Prove that you're not a witch"
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by crassus 13y ago
Paul's done more good for people of all human subgroups - "protected" or unprotected - than any of the commentariat. But we live in a culture that gives power to Social Justice Warriors who haven't done a damn thing. Why
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by crassus 13y ago
Keep in mind, too, that female unemployment is lower than male unemployment. Your average female in the labor force has more options than your average male.
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by crassus 13y ago
Google is reportedly over 30% women, too. I wonder if it is just something about startups - higher risk, lower guaranteed reward, worse training programs, higher pressure. The startup world compares well to the original California gold rush
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by crassus 13y ago
"Party line" is an interesting choice of words. There's definitely some unhealthy groupthink going on that's gaining in power. It's never been easier to have something said taken out of context and have your reputat
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by crassus 13y ago
FWIW, the startup I was at seemed to have a soft affirmative action for females. They would reject males that didn't do much outside of college work, but would be willing to consider females with the same resume because "it would
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Boys and Girls may get different breast milk(scientificamerican.com)
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Don't go to Law School(businessinsider.com)
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Genetics accounts for more than half of variation in exam results(theguardian.com)
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by crassus 13y ago
Does coinbase have any intention to switch to a smaller bitcoin denomination at any bitcoin price?
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by crassus 13y ago
As far as I can tell, democratic governments largely work by people promising benefits that they have no intention of implementing (or sometimes, that make no logical sense) in order to get elected. Another tried and tested way to get ahead
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by crassus 13y ago
First off, I can tell you've never read Nock and have no intention to do so. I'm disappointed by this level of discourse. Secondly, why do you assume that the only two institutions in the world are the government and the market? T
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by crassus 13y ago
I find Nock's book more convincing than Nursie's comment, but good try.
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by crassus 13y ago
This mirrors the argument in Albert Jay Nock's book "Our Enemy: The State" (1935). He argues that expanding government crowds out non-governmental social activity, giving the example of hurricane response. In his time he alre
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by crassus 13y ago
Communities are made of people. Software alone is only half the story. The problem with reddit is redditors.
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by crassus 13y ago
With respect to the social issues - on GitHub, nobody knows you're not a white straight male, but it turns out that open source is mostly written by white straight males anyway. Most of the criticism from the east coast seems to be tha
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by crassus 13y ago
Slightly OT, but what's up with the rise of the anti-tech media on the east coast? Who reads that trash anyway? It's all about weird tech CEOs, accusations of prejudice, accusations of unoriginality, and the like.
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by crassus 13y ago
It's incredible how much of the law is just codifying standard practice. It's when you try to do something new that you run into trouble. Regulation is so thick on the ground that operating in an unregulated industry is considered
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by crassus 13y ago
Nobody denies that it's an attractive API, but the problems I've seen are in companies at scale. You won't run into insurmountable problems at first, only later when performance matters.
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by crassus 13y ago
Is this also the source of the ultra-real "soap opera" effect that ruins movies on new televisions?
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by crassus 13y ago
If any githubbers are reading, it would be great to be able to filter my organization's timeline events out of my personal timeline events. It's been bugging me for years. Thanks.
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by crassus 13y ago
Ask the Arabs how that "waking up" is going for them. Instability is never a good in itself, especially if you don't have a clear alternative to slide in place. Young people have a hard time learning this lesson from history.
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by crassus 13y ago
What about Peercoin proof of stake mining?
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by crassus 13y ago
Precisely the reason to push for free and open academic journals that anybody can read.
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by crassus 13y ago
Bitcoin could revolutionize the foundation of the world's economy with a piece of software some guy wrote in a few months. You'd figure that would be the kind of thing that hackers would get excited about, as opposed to social-sha
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by crassus 13y ago
If a system works well, how does having a voice add anything? If a system is broken, how does having a voice matter? In the United States, "Voice" is just rhetoric used to make people accept the status quo.

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