evangelista

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by evangelista 9y ago
I don’t think political correctness is the correct description of what he is trying to complain about. The word he is looking for is “entitlement caused by excessive privilege.” The reason people in China work that hard is that there are ma
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by evangelista 9y ago
The only way to think like this is to have never left the US. Unfortunately, too many American grow up not having the exposure of how people speak in the rest of the world. Ever seen an entire soccer stadium erupt into monkey calls when a b
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by evangelista 9y ago
Hacker News is meant to be a sort of non-political oasis, which I apppreciate and which helps to greatly improve the quality of discussion and the content. Their moderation does a wonderful job killing stories where the discussion devolves
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by evangelista 9y ago
“A lot of the ideas here will not actually get you ostracized from Silicon Valley society.” Oh dude you have just not been paying attention. Can you show me a single example of someone in tech who publicly expresses, at any point, any of th
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by evangelista 9y ago
Sam Altman was headed in the right direction but his point is completely malformed. He shouldn’t have used the term “Political Correctness.” He also shouldn’t have provided the examples he used because they distracted from what he was tryin
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by evangelista 9y ago
I am still really puzzled over exactly why Peter Thiel so so hated. I believe the level of hatred is completely unwarranted. From my understanding, it boils down to this: - He is remotely associated with Trump - He helped take down Gawker -
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by evangelista 9y ago
If you are one of the people who wants to end "Fake News," you are also on board with ending Net Neutrality. What do you think ending Fake News involves? The only way to do it is to have the government, Google, Facebook and probab
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by evangelista 9y ago
This is going to be somewhat long and heartbreaking but I promise it will converge on an intelligent point at the end. Every time I visit San Francisco, the heart of America's tech economy, I walk down Market Street and view dozens of
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by evangelista 9y ago
You know something? I have come around on my thinking on this topic. There is a single central point where everyone on both sides of this debate are getting stuck and that is in the nature of the term "Sexism." What helped me to b
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by evangelista 9y ago
I do not like this article or the author's approach to argumentation. The author attempts to argue like this: "I am so right I do not have to argue why I am right and even if I did, you would be too dumb to understand it. waves h
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by evangelista 9y ago
You are completely correct, the people quibbling with you about statistics have not been paying attention to what is going on and are hopelessly naive about human nature and psychology. They are demonstrating exactly the bias thinking that
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by evangelista 9y ago
I used to sort of laugh at this kind of thing. Ok, people who believe weird things are fighting with each other. Then they relabeled every bathroom in California as being "All Gender." What does that even mean? There are two gende
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by evangelista 10y ago
This is an article about nothing. People used to fall for articles like this, not anymore. Lets deconstruct it. (a) Select for examples where white men (who the tech media has generally decided are evil and always are a problem) have failed
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by evangelista 10y ago
Engineering is, in many ways, a bad job. I was a software engineer for years and can assure you that it isn't an attractive profession. Many of the tech companies I worked for where ruthless body shops with very long hours, bad managem
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by evangelista 10y ago
I used to be a huge supporter of diversity initiatives in tech. That has changed. Over the years, I noticed more and more that diversity as a topic in high tech had morphed from something positive into a witch hunt against white men and aga
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by evangelista 10y ago
Hello, I went through something similar. As a self-taught software engineer with a business background from a not great school, the hiring process at most large companies is specifically built to prevent people like me from getting in the d