dreamfactor

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by dreamfactor 9y ago
Lol at you fumbling for anecdota about MM when you hear a fact you don't like. Yes, I'm pointing out that women-owned tech companies financially outperform male-owned tech companies. Data, nothing to do with beliefs. (Men do have
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by dreamfactor 9y ago
On the contrary, growing up white and middle class stacks the odds in your favour in the same way. Many well-off Asian families possibly even more so for the reasons you point out (I spend a lot of time in Asia and know it well). If you are
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by dreamfactor 9y ago
Well this is the thing, you can't really discriminate against somebody with privilege, simply by definition. You have to actively promote those who don't in order to come anywhere near a remotely fair and efficient system that giv
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by dreamfactor 9y ago
> Have you ever considered the option that your black friends was wrong? Yes of course, it was the first thing I thought and I held onto that. If both parties were on equal ground you would be quite right and there would be equivalence s
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by dreamfactor 9y ago
The argument is that there is already a discriminatory quota in favour of white men (as any casual inspection of the figures will demonstrate and would require wilful blindness to refute). But none of them are complaining about this of cour
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by dreamfactor 9y ago
Yeah that's what I thought until a black friend very kindly and patiently spelt it out and it still took me a while. It's counterintuitive and nominally smart people don't get it - and are much more adept at finding justifica
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by dreamfactor 9y ago
I didn't suffer some gun nuts gladly, what can I say. I think I may have committed the offence of calling them aspergic after they were repeatedly and passively aggressively obtuse lol
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by dreamfactor 9y ago
> When has this happened? Happened to me a few months back. > Actually, it was a term first popularized by the socialists, to attack the communists. I'm talking about it becoming popularised in contemporary politics. We can all g
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by dreamfactor 9y ago
> people tend to choose more to their liking and "follow their passion" Not to have a go at you personally but this is revealing of a highly middle class bubble that a lot of people are trying to reason from within (including t
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by dreamfactor 9y ago
The irony of this post when you will get reported and hellbanned for questioning libertarianism on HN. As for "political correctness" it was a term that was first popularised by the right to attack college activism and shut down p
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by dreamfactor 9y ago
A lot of work has been done on this at - https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/SW... and https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtXMsLaocacrdDAwTzd...