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by fatbird 10y ago
Given a multitude of other results showing that equalizing for pipeline problems shows women competing equally with men, the more likely reason is that women are being filtered out of the pipeline by sexism, not some mysterious "maybe
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by fatbird 10y ago
We do speak about minorities; others have provided links. Bringing it up here, now, though, is deflecting from the actual topic at hand, which is a sadly common tactic in discussions like this.
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by fatbird 10y ago
I think your characterization of the op's point is correct. My point remains: The same sexism leading to underpaying women or directing them into less compensated roles, should also tend to obscure, for decision makers, the "rati
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by fatbird 10y ago
Because paying women less goes hand in hand with seeing them as not being comparable to male hires?
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by fatbird 10y ago
If women are underpaid because they're (consciously or not) undervalued as workers by entrepreneurs, then those same entrepreneurs are unlikely to visualize a net salary savings. You're basically saying: if women are as good as
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by fatbird 10y ago
Because we have enough difficulties discussing basic issues of gender equity, without trying to deal with intersectional and allied issues. Walk before you run!
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by fatbird 10y ago
OP's point is that the best way to write maintainable code is using bog standard, boring code and leaving clever solutions to the level of the problem domain.
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by fatbird 10y ago
If taxi regulation is rent-seeking, then why can't Uber (and Lyft) profitably undercut the taxi industry, since they're not paying rents?
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by fatbird 10y ago
If taxi regulation is rent-seeking, then Uber and Lyft, bypassing those regulations, should have much lower costs because no rent to pay. So how come they can't profitably offer a cheaper service, or a much better service at the same
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by fatbird 10y ago
There is currently a developing story about how various players intersect in the Ukraine. The short version is the Trump lifts sanctions against Russia, a Ukranian politician named Artemenko leads the charge to oust the current Ukranian pr
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by fatbird 10y ago
> By your definition any appointee is a 'political position' Yes, exactly. The appointee is appointed to implement the administration's policies, which are political. During George W. Bush's administration, state At
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by fatbird 10y ago
Here's a study that found "Increased religiosity in residents of states in the U.S. strongly predicted a higher teen birth rate.... With data aggregated at the state level, conservative religious beliefs strongly predict U.S. teen
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by fatbird 10y ago
Both divorce and out-of-wedlock births (and sexually transmitted infections) are highest, in the U.S., within the southern evangelical communities that most readily practice exactly the sort of shaming and stigmatizing you're talking a
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by fatbird 10y ago
Well said.
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by fatbird 10y ago
Ok, in the US you're also prohibited from obscene speech, which is, according to Miller v. California, expression that '(1) "the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the [subject or work
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by fatbird 10y ago
Fair argument, once you recognize that we're choosing metrics on which to optimize/maximize this particular freedom.
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by fatbird 10y ago
Like sedition, denying the Holocaust (and hate speech generally) is a speech act with real world consequences, not merely an opinion. The point remains that freedom of speech is not a binary condition. No one has total freedom of speech;
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by fatbird 10y ago
I don't think we should ban pornography. The gist of my comment was the last line, that this mode of maximizing freedom of expression actually diminishes other expressions of speech, which can result in a net loss of freedom of expres
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by fatbird 10y ago
Except they obviously do have free speech. The fact that they can't say everything doesn't mean they can't say anything. By your standard, no one has free speech. In America, you're not allowed to advocate for the vio
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by fatbird 10y ago
I'm not saying that we should ban those things. I'm saying that protecting those extremes comes at a cost of limiting other free expression. If our goal is to maximize freedom of expression, we might be doing it wrong. Effective
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by fatbird 10y ago
I don't know why discussions of free speech always treat it as a binary, where we have it or don't. As a practical matter, banning Nazi hate speech as Germany does, doesn't mean Germans have no freedom of expression, they ju
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by fatbird 10y ago
The linked essay, in describing Mill's argument, carefully makes the point that free speech beyond legality matters. It's not just what's protected from interference by the government, it's what's allowed by consen
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by fatbird 10y ago
Mill's great, but this essay misses the essential point in our current culture wars where free speech is concerned, namely: whose speech is being protected? For the latter half of the 20th century we adopted an extremist standard, whe
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by fatbird 10y ago
Until vim 8, it was a drop-in replacement, retaining full compatibility with vimrc and all plugins. My switch was seamless, and that was a big goal of theirs. Vim 8 introduced features already found in neovim in an incompatible way, and n
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by fatbird 10y ago
Where it works, it's a drop-in replacement for VIM, notwithstanding differences in async implementations now.
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by fatbird 10y ago
There's never been an unwillingness to build in Vancouver. There've been constant condo developments for 20 years, and the only thing stopping more from starting is lack of labour. Friends in construction have been saying for a
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by fatbird 10y ago
Actually, between PyPi and "The Gilectomy", there two serious projects to get rid of it, the latter with core developer support: https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/presentation/2101/ I attended
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by fatbird 10y ago
The distinction he's trying to make is that (working) drawings are exploratory, while finished works are reproduction. The artist draws the subject in the same way that a developer prototypes something: to see what will work, to flesh
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by fatbird 10y ago
No. Certain employment sectors like Silicon Valley and Wall St. have created cultures of expected overtime, but they're very unrepresentative. The US overall averages only 34.4 hours worked per week.
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by fatbird 10y ago
Neovim's async already has tremendous plugin support and is most obviously felt in new build plugins like neomake that do async linting--no more locking up the interface on saving, and this already works well. Neovim's embedded te

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