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by facepalm 12y ago
Sure, as I said in another comment, diamonds could probably be replaced. But it would probably be by something just as useless. Or maybe if you can find a way to mimic the effect, but make it useful, you have your hands on a very valuable s
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by facepalm 12y ago
Down payments and savings don't prove commitment. The point of signalling is to prove things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory If you change your spouse, your savings account remains the same. The r
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by facepalm 12y ago
The point of signalling is to prove fitness - the peacock can afford to carry around a huge tail because he is fit enough. Women walking on high heels PROVE physical fitness. The point is to create a signal that is hard to fake. Putting mon
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by facepalm 12y ago
I don't think it's complete nonsense - buying something useless and expensive is a very strong signal (like the peacocks tail). Buying something useful for the money instead is not the same thing at all. So while the diamond thing
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by facepalm 12y ago
So suppose they had done the study, and found no improved performance for women. Would they have published it? I guess the chance to get a result was roughly 50% (since stocks tend to go up or down, and the sample set of women-ceo-companies
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by facepalm 12y ago
Well I just looked at the first paper, and now look at the credit suisse paper I linked in another comment ( https://www.credit-suisse.com/newsletter/doc/gender_diversit... ) which has charts for 2005 to 2011. The
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by facepalm 12y ago
I'm not sure which one I looked at (thought I would have saved it to hd but can't find it right now). Googling I find for example this (it looks different than the one I remember, but still): https://www.credit-suisse.c
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by facepalm 12y ago
Maybe CEOs of ill performing companies are more likely to be fired, and their replacement less likely to be a woman (since there are few candidates overall). Just guessing - that's probably not it. But I think results like that are gen
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by facepalm 12y ago
In a 12 year period. So what about a 15 year period? Or a 20 year period? Or in a 12 year period but 10 years ago? Results like that are generally bunk, or if they really cared, they would have made a broader statement (in these and those p
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by facepalm 12y ago
You are creating a fantasy narrative. I guarantee you that nerds don't constantly hit on girls or women. They are famous for not doing that and being more concerned about their computers instead. My claim was that nerds back in the day
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by facepalm 12y ago
So you say yourself that girls don't like nerds. So who is to blame? And the "treated as potential meat" remark is just sexist from you. Also those where the days of playing video games on home computers. Professional IT work
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by facepalm 12y ago
Well do you have an answer? To me it seems highly unlikely that all the women have been turned away by sexism. I remember the times when programming and computers where considered extremely unsexy and basically made you an outcast and unlik
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by facepalm 12y ago
The kids probably got what they wished for.
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by facepalm 12y ago
I've been wondering if it is really possible to be passionate about front-end development if you have a CS degree?
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by facepalm 12y ago
Is anything special even required, as most services have their own encryption? Email, chat, git server... VPN seems only if you use Windows Filesharing? So sharing docs via some cloud service would get around that?
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by facepalm 12y ago
Superfish, of recent times. Google it (Superfish Lenovo since you seem to have missed it).
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by facepalm 12y ago
Oh, didn't know that replies also count as votes - are you sure?
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by facepalm 12y ago
I don't understand why your comment is voted up so much because you only seem to provide an opinion ("I don't understand...") and take 10 paragraphs for it.
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by facepalm 12y ago
I have a thought that I will forget immediately once somebody asks me what it is. Now I am an artist, yay :-)
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by facepalm 12y ago
Making jokes about dongles is not even sexism. Having a penis is not sexism either. Unless the code of conduct is "don't offend anybody", which of course would be impossible to adhere to.
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by facepalm 12y ago
Why do I need a purse? I don't want to have to carry a purse anymore.
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by facepalm 12y ago
Thanks. I already have the second one and it's great. But it doesn't make me a designer. I'd like a course like the Coursera MOOCs that walks me through the steps (most importantly, makes me practice with homework on a regula
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by facepalm 12y ago
I'm a big fan of programming. Just saying that there are lots of other candidates for "everybody should learn x" that would also make sense. I think programming should be taught in school anyway.
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by facepalm 12y ago
Ok I missed that - they seriously want everyone to learn to code because it would make them smarter? No offense, but I think that sounds so arrogant and misguided I am speechless (not meaning you, I mean the movement). There are plenty of o
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by facepalm 12y ago
Thanks, I'll check them out.
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by facepalm 12y ago
Personally, I wish there was a "everybody should know how to design" movement. Then instead of coding tutorials I don't need, there would be tutorials for designing available. There are some articles about typography, but it
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by facepalm 12y ago
Well, provide any data at all? What percentage of kids that are being shielded from stuff end up being messed up? And what does it even mean - do you mean kids should not be protected from anything at all? Or what, specifically, should they
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by facepalm 12y ago
It's faster, and less susceptible to phishing. Also, if you are not using Gmail, how great are the web email clients really?
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by facepalm 12y ago
It doesn't have to be such a doomsday scenario, like in the movie Terminator machines starting war and wiping us out with nukes. Possibly humans might just gradually fade away and be replaced with something better. For example superhum
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by facepalm 12y ago
I'm glad that there are (semi-) complicated kits that my kid can build. For his 4th birthday there was one with a 48 step instruction manual. That's an achievement (others might already build more complicated ones, but he didn&#x2

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