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by gdix 8y ago
The last one. Doubleplus ungood.
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by gdix 8y ago
> though it may have some unintended consequences that have not been fully understood yet. I think no one disagrees that it "works" insofar as it stops the bad person from getting their bad ideas out there. Opponents of deplatf
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by gdix 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
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by gdix 9y ago
> if you declare bankruptcy to evict student loans, you are ineligible for retirement account contributions like IRA and 401ks for the 7-10 year window. That's something that a large percentage of people do anyway. What a strange an
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by gdix 9y ago
Or maybe they just think it makes sense? I don't get the insistence of applying a selfish motivation for everything.
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by gdix 9y ago
> Doesn't your narrative just confirm then that "working with computers" has always been related to social norms? No, that's not what I'm saying at all. It doesn't matter how well they "performed".
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by gdix 9y ago
> more or less suited I would say "more or less preferred" is a more relevant and less acerbic metric to consider. I think James Damore's main thesis (or one of his main theses) was that men had more of a natural and biolo
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by gdix 9y ago
I'm skeptical of the "early days of CS" narrative. Could it be that there were lots of women working with computers because it was seen as "secretarial" work. In other words, was it just bosses placing their female
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by gdix 9y ago
This post is rocketing down the list. It was number 1 just 10 minutes or so ago, then it went to 6, now it's 36. Is that normal or is this post being moderated or brigaded? edit: And now it's gone completely from the list with 74
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by gdix 9y ago
Every single memo/book/essay has quotes that can be taken out of context in order to criticize the whole. That's why the phrase "taken out of context" exists.
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by gdix 9y ago
Yes, good point.
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by gdix 9y ago
What's your point? If we would like to stop using an irrelevant but unchangeable trait (such as gender or race) as a basis for hiring and recruiting, what should we do?
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by gdix 9y ago
It might. If weightlifting counts for 50% of your total "score" and some hypothetical "worthy" metric (such as coding) counts for 50%, someone scoring a 5/5 on weightlifting but only a 3/5 on coding would have
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by gdix 9y ago
That's generally my point.
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by gdix 9y ago
>To conclude that suggesting any changes to an interview process is an implicit indication that the people currently employed by a company were unqualified means that no improvements could ever be made. That's exactly my point. Repl
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by gdix 9y ago
You can if the subject of the stereo-type is a "white dude-bro" or whatever.
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by gdix 9y ago
>That's not really the important question though. Would you prefer being not being hired due to bias even though you are qualified, or being hired despite bias, even though you know it will make some people think you weren't re
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by gdix 9y ago
If I say something like "our interview process has put too much weight on brainteaser-type problems and I think we should scale that back". The implication is that people who have been hired because they scored high on brainteaser
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by gdix 9y ago
So if confidence is a major factor, is it possible that affirmative action affects confidence negatively in the people that it is meant to support?
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by gdix 9y ago
I read all the slides and I think the commenter raises a good point. If math doesn't matter a lot when it comes to CS, then why bother talking about it. Show me how many standard deviations apart men and women are when it comes to skil
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by gdix 9y ago
And they say millenials are entitled... > We are living in the richest and most technologically advanced civilization ever to have existed. That's always true at any given moment in time. 100 years ago, someone was living in the mos
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by gdix 9y ago
Well I meant e.g. "only have 30K of student loan debt instead of $45K". And yeah all that stuff is possible. It's called life and it's not supposed to be easy. Sorry. And yeah if you can't earn enough then you shoul
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by gdix 9y ago
Huh? If you want to buy a million dollar condo in SF when you hit 30, the down payment would be 200K. If you and your your spouse save an extra $50 a week then you'll have $66K. That's one-third of the down payment you need using
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by gdix 9y ago
Let me google that for you: http://www.thesimpledollar.com/where-does-7-come-from-when-i... 4-6% inflation adjusted return is not unreasonable or amazing. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-historical-return-
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by gdix 9y ago
Who says the previous generation spent the "correct" amount? Where in the contract that we all signed when we became adults did it say "The cosmos shall ensure that no generation should ever have to spend less than the previo
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by gdix 9y ago
What are you talking about? Spending $8 on a beer is a luxury. If you spend an extra $6 on a drink to have a man pour it for you, you can't complain about being poor. I'm sorry. https://www.thecut.com/2014&#x2F
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by gdix 9y ago
To all the people who keep saying things like "I don't eat avocado toast but I can't afford to buy a house either. Counter example! QED LOL", you're missing the point. It's not about avocado toast obviously. Th
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by gdix 9y ago
https://youtu.be/BpBisfRoVoM?t=26
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by gdix 9y ago
You defeat bad arguments with good arguments. By the way this is the ONLY way. Silencing those you disagree with will only enrage and mobilize those people, and those people vote. Hence, Trump.
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by gdix 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the ACTUAL reason is that sometimes people say "you guys" instead of "y'all" in work emails and on slack.

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