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by davidreiss 9y ago
Or look at the NBA, coal miners, oil rig workers, chess teams, math clubs, computer gaming tournaments, etc. There are gender disparities all over the place. There are racial disparities all over the place. As long as these disparities aren
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> When THAT lucky generation is gone, I think statisticians will realise that their children are /nowhere/ near as lucky, and I'm pretty sure the life expectancy number will fall off a cliff. Much of the developed world is
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by davidreiss 9y ago
It's a bit disingenuous to compare farm work to mining. I also grew up on a farm and helped my parents, uncles/aunts, grandparents on their farms. But I still went to school, did my homework, watched cartoons, etc. Farm work isn&#
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by davidreiss 9y ago
People either hate javascript with a passion or they love it with religious zeal. Maybe it has to do with the fact that it's used mostly for web programming? But geez, there seems to be no middle ground when it comes to javascript. But
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> How does this apply to other countries where women are higher in STEM and tech than men? For example, in Iran more than 60% of STEM students are female. That's because in iran, the government sets the "standards for women&#x2
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Saying college students should be able to pass remedial math and english tests isn't elitism. If you can't pass a basic remedial test in basic math and basic english how are you going to take college level courses? Where are you g
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> What "political movement" did the guy they fired represent? Extreme liberalism. The same condition sadly afflicting much of media. > "Half the world's population is unsuitable for technical work because of their
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> They fired him for making women and minorities at google feel unwelcome due to their gender and ethnicity respectively. What did he say that made women feel unwelcome? What did he say about minorities?
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> The document is the definition of sexism I would love some examples of your accusation. You say it's the "definition of sexism". So you must have plenty of examples from his writing. > and a perfect example of why we
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> You're conflating a political movement with a company doing PR damage control. Google management didn't "call him names". Google is heavily invested in the political movement. Lets not pretend google is an objective
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by davidreiss 9y ago
For the life of me I still can't figure out what he wrote that was so offensive. I see people attacking him in general terms, calling him a bigot/sexist/etc, but they never mention anything specific he wrote. Can anyone point
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Income growth isn't the biggest "wow" factor in this economy. Check out the wealth/asset/capital growth of the wealthy. Ever since the FED bailout, the wealth of has grown by leaps and bounds. Usually, in economic b
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Tax the shit out of the ultra-rich and spread it around. That would be great but think of the difficulties. Firstly, which politicians would support it? Most politicians spend their time fundraising ( begging the wealthy for money ).
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> I feel like there is a big difference between the scenario at hand and systematic persecution of certain groups of people. What's the difference? Persecution is persecution. > You seem to assign a huge value to keeping a job. I
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Red flag of what, though? If your employer/government/etc asks you for your facebook/google+/instagram/snapchat/etc account and you say you don't have any, it might come off as being suspicious. As if
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Or get off social media entirely. Wouldn't that be a bigger red flag?
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> This sounds like that weird right-wing notion of "censorship" I'm not right-wing, whatever that means nowadays. I'm what you would call a liberal from NY. > When I hear "censorship" I am thinking of gov
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Keep politics/religion out of work. I agree with this. But given how political google is ( remember google's arab spring movement, it's lgbt stance, etc ), maybe google should also be political/religious neutral. Ev
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by davidreiss 9y ago
This is the second time I've seen this on hackernews in the past two weeks...
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Only the elite know. It's so funny how people think that recessions, depressions, stock market crashes, etc are some "natural" event. A stock market crash happens when the elite decide there should be a market crash. When the
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> So CS is definitely very relevant for software engineering - but you need a broad understanding instead of a deep one. Absolutely. A general understanding of CS is necessary to be a competent software engineer. Just like a general unde
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Every car I've owned has been cheaper than the previous and honestly these days I'm mostly public transit. But at the same time, I've become many times richer between each car purchase. Not only cars/transportation.
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> I had a status problem that was presenting as loneliness. There is a lot more to loneliness than a superficial fixation with status. You could be the president of the US or achieve all you hoped for and still be afflicted with loneline
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by davidreiss 9y ago
It fizzled because nuclear doesn't have the PR and lobbying clout of the fossil and renewable energy industries. People mistakenly think that climate change/renewable energy group took money/power from the fossil fuel industr
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Well said. It seems like it's human nature when your side gets the upper hand, you demonize and attack the other. One of my friends is fairly liberal-oriented and she openly says that the "hateful" right doesn't deserve
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Agreed. Strong markets are when startups IPO and established companies merge. We have seen some big startup IPOs ( like SNAP ) and some decent mergers especially in the pharma sector ( for tax benefits ).
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> You understand that the vast majority of jobs in Silicon Valley are not start ups. Google, Apple, Facebook -- these aren't start ups, and people aren't working 20 hour days there. The guy I responded to was talking about star
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Not even just on an individual basis. If you think about how long it took for dexterous hands to develop on an evolutionary basis, it took tens/hundreds of millions of years or even billions of years depending on where you start from.
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> If the answer is they would, why is everyone ignoring this issue? Nobody is ignoring it. It's just if you haven't moved up the tech/management/etc ladder by your late 30s/40s, there just isn't a place for
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Actually, a bunch of wall street, banking, etc all said the state of the economy was fine, there was no housing bubble, etc all on national TV before the markets collapsed. None of them went to jail.

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