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by fatbird 9y ago
You're treating a description of the status quo as prescriptive, which is how you're mistakenly viewing the article and the poster to whom you're responding as "outrageously sexist". Women are still, by existing so
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by fatbird 9y ago
Your wife can meet you half way by getting some therapy for her anxiety disorder. I went to a CBT psychologist for four months to address General Anxiety Disorder, and it did a lot to make me aware of anxiety driven behaviours and teach me
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by fatbird 9y ago
Yes, but the irrationality is a property, not a cause, so "be more rational" is a terrible approach to dealing with anxiety because, on par with "just don't be depressed". Anxiety is a relatively easy to address pro
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by fatbird 9y ago
A free version with ads and telemetry isn't free, it's just monetized differently. And the vast majority of the cost of developing it is either sunk or defrayed by the paid versions.
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by fatbird 9y ago
Everything in the title and the linked article happens or is described in the first chapter of the book. It's effectively the premise of the book. No reading experience of the book should be disturbed by this.
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by fatbird 9y ago
Frameworks don't rust, but skillsets do.
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by fatbird 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... backed up by lots of solid references. TL;DR for 2015, US per capita spending was $9,451; Canada was $4,608; U.K. was $4,003. https://en.wikip
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by fatbird 9y ago
Bill Gates got a BSOD during a big demo. Shit happens.
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by fatbird 9y ago
It might be that we miss some key insight into Ebola or virology by trying as hard as possible to contain and eradicate it. Still, we restrict ourselves to studying it in a lab, rather than treating an outbreak as the place to find a possi
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by fatbird 9y ago
So patient, persistent effort might yield a small shift in the attitudes of some in the audience. At what cost in those who see the basic terms of debate validated by engagement? When you're arguing that only some black people should
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by fatbird 9y ago
It's not a violation of the CoC, it undermines the CoC, which is generally inappropriate. It's basically broadcasting "Don't take the CoC seriously".
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by fatbird 9y ago
This is one of the most interesting comments I've seen on HN in a while.
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by fatbird 9y ago
Or an unfortunately timed eviction because you were the victim of a crime and called the police and your landlord evicts anyone involved in a police incident. Or an ill-timed sickness that causes you to miss work and thus your job. Or a p
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by fatbird 9y ago
It's not "unclear who": It's James Alex Fields, Jr., a registered Republican from Ohio who owned the car doing the ramming, who told his mother he was going to a rally for Trump, and was photographed in the line of unite
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by fatbird 9y ago
Another mefite here, participating occasionally and wishing the local moderation would take a bit more of Metafilter's philosophy to heart :)
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by fatbird 9y ago
When a third of Google's employees agreed with it, it's far past the point of minimizing exposure.
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by fatbird 9y ago
A successful lawsuit isn't the point. alt-right celebrity is the point, and he's got that in spades now.
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by fatbird 9y ago
I don't have a pile of references at hand since this isn't my area of study, but here's what I was able to google up: 1. http://www.uh.edu/~adkugler/Bertrand&Mullainathan.pdf This study was primarily
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by fatbird 9y ago
Would you rather get a job on the merits at an insurance agency's IT department, or be a diversity hire at Google? It's nice to say "I'd prefer to be hired at Google on my merits", but few individuals from disadvant
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by fatbird 9y ago
Your denial of reality is noted. Systemic discrimination against women in hiring has been exhaustively documented and studied, including in the tech industry.
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by fatbird 9y ago
It was Harvard alumni with PhDs who wrote the piece of crap that is The Bell Curve in the 90s. A Harvard PhD guarantees neither accuracy nor correctness.
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by fatbird 9y ago
If you were a woman, you might think that being hired under a diversity initiative is okay, given that the alternative is not to get the opportunity at all due to systemic discrimination in hiring.
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by fatbird 9y ago
When I see someone mention virtue signalling, I dismiss them as posturing for their community of opinion. Is that fair?
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by fatbird 9y ago
I see that it's an extended attack on the nurture side from the nature side based on the fact that, despite years of concerted government effort, significant gender divisions remain at the professional level in Norway. I'm not di
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by fatbird 9y ago
It's not heresy. Sports represent a closed ecosystem of relatively straightforward traits->skill benefits. Professions are not bounded the way athletic roles are. The fields of law and medicine removed various sexist barriers to
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by fatbird 9y ago
Chroma's summary is a "charitable interpretation" (his words), and shouldn't be considered necessarily accurate or representative of the manifesto author's intent. A straight faced reading of it yields something no
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by fatbird 9y ago
Yonatan Zunger, a (recently departed) distinguished engineer at Google, wrote a very good response: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...
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by fatbird 9y ago
Please note that my comment carefully articulates the perception of systemd, without commitment to it being the reality. I actually like systemd, and don't care whether it's "monolithic" or not.
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by fatbird 9y ago
In its naive form, it seems very monolithic, which seems un-unixlike. And its adoption was largely driven by decisions by large distributions, rather than organic growth. To some, this feels very corporate and centralized, which seems un-
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by fatbird 9y ago
The minimap author, committing those changes after being hired by them, labelled them "Implement Kite Promotion".

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