exolymph

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by exolymph 1y ago
> Lack of interest in the field would result in fewer female applicants Anyone in a hiring position would tell you, lack of intrinsic interest, or expertise, does not stop people from applying to an open position.
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by exolymph 1y ago
No they are not equivalent. This came up with James Damore too. Let's say there's a pool of 20 candidates, 10 male and 10 female. Since more men than women have an abiding interest in engineering, let us posit that 40% of the men
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The promise and peril of project coins(splits.org)
2 points by exolymph 1y ago|0 comments
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by exolymph 1y ago
It is bizarre to me that you relate this experience like it's fun and whimsical trivia. Maybe that's because I'm a woman and identify more with the victims...
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by exolymph 1y ago
~No one pushes back on abuses of power by their own side. (Not literally no one, but few enough people that they effectively don't matter.)
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by exolymph 1y ago
Dairy farming is pretty brutal to the cows, as is all industrial-scale animal husbandry. (I'm not vegan, I eat dairy. It is what it is.)
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by exolymph 1y ago
Point being? Are you insinuating that Usha Vance is treated equivalent to a chattel slave? That seems... incorrect.
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by exolymph 1y ago
Total fertility rate. I am mostly joking (sorry, I know is verboten on HN), but there is actually a lot of chatter about whether Taylor Swift having a baby would impact the reproductive behavior of her huge following.
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got engaged – will this impact TFR?(instagram.com)
3 points by exolymph 1y ago|2 comments
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Earning the right(splits.org)
3 points by exolymph 1y ago|0 comments
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Alien Intelligences(alicemaz.com)
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Rossi's Revenge(thecausalfallacy.com)
13 points by exolymph 1y ago|7 comments
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by exolymph 1y ago
While anti-vax people / families obviously exist, are there really that many? Any substantiating data? (I am genuinely curious, though skeptical.)
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The Tulpa in Your Pocket(default.blog)
2 points by exolymph 1y ago|0 comments
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by exolymph 1y ago
Honestly, I do think there are advantages to in-person work, in terms of team cohesion, serendipity, etc. That said, 1) I don't care, the advantages to me of remote work vastly outweigh the advantages of working on an irl team, 2) ma
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by exolymph 1y ago
Starting a family means giving up a lot of personal autonomy for the sake of a collective. A small one, compared to a company or a government, but a collective nonetheless.
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Job board for hidden PERM jobs (H1B)(twitter.com)
2 points by exolymph 1y ago|0 comments
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by exolymph 1y ago
Key quote: > My peers in tech who are reluctant to have children often express fear that it will interrupt the arc of the careers they've worked so hard to build. > That, I think, is the primary tension: not between the family an
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by exolymph 1y ago
> most high school graduates in the US come out with a good basic understanding of supply/demand and labor/capital basic inputs to businesses I profoundly doubt this
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How Not to Pick Friends in Prison(easytrouble.com)
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On agency(henrikkarlsson.xyz)
2 points by exolymph 1y ago|1 comments
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by exolymph 1y ago
Interesting parallel to AI, in terms of appropriation-via-ingestion.
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by exolymph 1y ago
That's just how it is. Most people are socially passive. Better to just accept that you'll need to take responsibility for sustaining the connections you care about.
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Writing culture(splits.org)
3 points by exolymph 1y ago|0 comments
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by exolymph 1y ago
People love to hate on hypebeast trends. When something becomes suddenly popular, there's a scramble to declare yourself too cool to be into it :P The whole cycle is amusing because defining yourself in opposition to the zeitgeist... a
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You're Never Going to Be Original (and Neither Am I)(default.blog)
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Prioritise the Highest Order Bit(commoncog.com)
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Scamming Substack?(willstorr.substack.com)
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The Glass Plantation(arcove.substack.com)
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by exolymph 1y ago
Absurd comparison. Nobody vapes once daily. (I think vaping should be legal, fwiw.)

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