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by facepalm 10y ago
Have you looked at the life at google tweets?
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by facepalm 10y ago
I'll include a link to my paper where I use the method of autoethnography to show how Google has turned into a misandryst megacorporation. Just kidding - I didn't write a paper about it, nor did I conduct a rigorous study. Most of
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by facepalm 10y ago
I often think "all the accounting could be better done by a computer". So I am not that much into that kind of games anymore.
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by facepalm 10y ago
My question is/was: do you think sexism is the main thing that differentiates tech from other non-routine cognitive professions? That economists created such a classification is pretty irrelevant. The point about the broadness was that
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by facepalm 10y ago
If it is his job, he will run for the car. Otherwise he'll lose his job?
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by facepalm 10y ago
For the last two years I have only seen ads with exclusively female engineers from Google, for example the "I look like an engineer" series. I haven't seen any effort to attract male talent. Of course having more women on the
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by facepalm 10y ago
Why do you make me off-topic and not the comment I replied to who started it by claiming over representation of men? Anyway, have it your way...
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by facepalm 10y ago
If it is such a broad classification, maybe it is not very meaningful then to say "tech has less women than any other non-routine cognitive profession". Why use the classification at all, if it so broad? If you use "all profe
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by facepalm 10y ago
One grabs peoples anttention more than the other. The original claim was because they are both in pharma, they should receive the same attention. But being in pharma is not the only aspect of their stories. It's like arguing apples sho
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by facepalm 10y ago
There has also been a study showing tech interviews went less favorable for women when their voices were masked as male voices. As for "Girls Who Code" as PR - does it increase the popularity of these firms with male coders, too?
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by facepalm 10y ago
Not the same kind of story at all. Holmes first became famous (As a unicorn), then fell from grace. Shkreli never was admired, or was he? He was just scorned right from the start.
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by facepalm 10y ago
So would you say sexism is the only thing that differentiates technology professions from other "cognitive non-routine professions", or is that criterion ("cognitive non-routine") perhaps handpicked to frame tech as anti
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by facepalm 10y ago
"we see plenty of representation of the main group -- in this case, men -- by default." So where is the list of male founders who kicked it in 2016? I would be less bothered by such lists without the undertone of "we need suc
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by facepalm 10y ago
Laszlo Polgar figured out how to teach kids to become chess geniuses. Might be a start.
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by facepalm 10y ago
I still find it a convenient way to follow interesting people - including Paul Graham...
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by facepalm 10y ago
Is this similar to perverts calling random women on the telephone? Now that I think about it, wouldn't it have been easy to detect the callers and punish them? Did that ever happen?
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by facepalm 10y ago
Because only women were ever prevented from working by Hackers? Much as an intellectual achievement Hamilton's code might have been, it wasn't really that relevant to many people (compared to, say, GNU Software or Linux which bene
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by facepalm 10y ago
I enjoyed reading Reamde.
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by facepalm 10y ago
No bad taste in my mouth from it so far. I think some scenes stand for themselves, for example it has the best dragon scene ever.
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by facepalm 10y ago
It is rare to find good fantasy books. I just remembered that I also greatly enjoyed the The Witcher series (on which the popular CRPG is based).
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by facepalm 10y ago
The site attracted Lena "kill all white men" Dunham. Ooohkay...
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by facepalm 10y ago
The only thing that is sad is superhero themes. There are much better stories out there.
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by facepalm 10y ago
Personally, I hope to get away from it as fast as possible. Dragging blocks around is rather cumbersome and also messy. My son can not really read yet, so for that stage scratch (or rather, Snap, which works without Flash) is fine. But for
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by facepalm 10y ago
works fine with Firefox+uBlock Origin
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by facepalm 10y ago
I hope that includes stories about alleged racism and sexism in the tech industry...
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by facepalm 10y ago
A lot of that is anecdotes, like the harassment reports. You assume that all men are automatically welcomed into the high ranks of science, which is untrue. But they can't spin a story of "they rejected me because I was a man&quot
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by facepalm 10y ago
The harm done is in pushing the wrong explanations, which makes it difficult to find the right solutions.
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by facepalm 10y ago
"without a doubt"? Well I have doubts. It all depends on the time, of course - but even in former times it might have not been so much discrimination (a ka the thought "women are too stupid or belong into the kitchen") a
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by facepalm 10y ago
My guess would be that the Egyptian slave thing stems from another time where it was exotic to travel and only adventurers would go to foreign lands and bring back people from there (slave or apprentice - would like to see the original kit)
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by facepalm 10y ago
People of color didn't become scientists because somebody made a chemistry kit in 1937 featuring an Egyptian slave. Girls didn't become scientists because some companies science competition described them as caring and nurturing d

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