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by gdix 9y ago
That's what I was thinking too. If your mortgage on your 3br in Oakland is $1MM, your payment is $4,728/mo (interest portion is tax deductible but let's ignore that). Let's say your place is $1.5MM, that's another $
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by gdix 10y ago
Well yeah, anything that someone says is "beyond a reasonable doubt" when they're referring to something that as nuanced as "diversity".
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by gdix 10y ago
Or it's as simple as "1 person bringing up a subtle problem doesn't cause people to become alarmed in this particular situation, but if more people are saying it's a problem, then others become more convinced". It&#
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by gdix 10y ago
The obvious answer is (2) don't run a study at all (assuming the methodology is truly flawed). Or (3) run the study but take the results with a grain of salt and don't draw broad conclusions from it. And (4) we can comment on hack
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by gdix 10y ago
I think the TLDR of the original article can be summed by "there is bias even in the interpretation of bias-measuring studies". The fact that people read this story and conclude "well the only variable at play here is gender,
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by gdix 10y ago
Translation: "if you don't agree with this, you are not being reasonable"
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by gdix 10y ago
That doesn't make the study any less flawed. I'm questioning whether we should even accept this study if there wasn't a big enough pool of black people to actually run the experiment properly. Isn't anyone at least a bit
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by gdix 10y ago
The first graphic is geniusly deceptive: "See, we take a little bit from everyone, shuffle it around a bit and return it back to everyone. Hooray!" When it reality, the actual result is the red section loses dots which just go blu
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by gdix 10y ago
Who gets to decide what's racist and what constitutes harassment? Isn't that a matter of opinion?
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by gdix 10y ago
Nope. If the son lied, then that is intentional deception.
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by gdix 10y ago
Or it could be her son did not give an accurate account of what happened. You keep doing you as well. We'll see how this shakes out.
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by gdix 10y ago
How did the police know he was black from the Craigslist post when they set up the sting?
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by gdix 10y ago
So the subtext here is that the cops are racist, right? How would the police know the seller of the Macbook was black from the Craigslist post? How did her son know it was a weapon pressed against his back? How could the handcuffs possibly
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by gdix 10y ago
Each of those sources were written after she was chosen as a 30-under-30 so it doesn't really answer the question of what made Forbes choose her. You have to admit that it is kind of interesting that the list are pretty much all founde
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by gdix 11y ago
There's a lot of work that I do free of charge. Wash my car. Go grocery shopping. Do my laundry. I walk my dog out of a sense of love and duty. Shouldn't I be paid for this? Why isn't the government paying me for this invisib
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Diversity Policies Don’t Help Women, Minorities, Make White Men Feel Threatened(hbr.org)
17 points by gdix 11y ago|1 comments
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by gdix 11y ago
"Here's some misinformation for everyone! Fix it for me or keep your comments to yourself."
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by gdix 11y ago
Your example doesn't demonstrate that having a 1.3x increase in salary with a 2.4x increase in rent is necessarily a losing deal. And of course you can find a place for $2,400 in SF right now. Maybe you have to have roommates which is
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by gdix 11y ago
I'm not saying "Bay Area is still definitely better because, hey, look at my math". I'm just saying that a 1.3-1.5x salary increase can more than offset a 2.4x rent increase. Obviously there are other factors that are to
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by gdix 11y ago
Not necessarily. If you're making $100K but your rent is $1000 your salary minus your rent will be $88,000. If you're making 1.3x ($130K) but your rent is 2.4x ($2400), your salary minus your rent will be $101,200. Obviously, this
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by gdix 12y ago
I don't think that's what the comment was saying at all. The things you quoted don't appear in the comment.
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by gdix 12y ago
Hindsight is 20/20. I thought I had missed the boat in 2007 when Facebook was valued at $500 million. "Clearly they couldn't go much higher than that!" I thought. I have a friend who got an offer from a startup in 2011 w
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by gdix 12y ago
Maybe the privileged elite got that way because they are capable and can work the system.
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by gdix 12y ago
Don't you think they consider the people they hire to be "the best"? Do you think being "the best" and being an "insider" are mutually exclusive?
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by gdix 12y ago
Sure, but font icons can only be one color. Can you give an example of a compatibility issue?
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by gdix 13y ago
>If this would have been my own company there would be tons of wiki pages. Ah, to be young and naive again. This is one of those lofty goals that I'm sure everyone aspires to but absolutely no one really ends up doing.
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by gdix 14y ago
Whoever sold/delivered the car/warranty/service plan/loan to you sells your information to these sketchy companies. So they know where you live and when you bought the car and which car you have. From that they deduce when your original war
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by gdix 14y ago
You can't convince your company (who is paying you thousands of dollars a month in salary) to spend an extra $2 a month on something that will make you more efficient? What kind of company do you work for?
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by gdix 14y ago
No. Unblow your mind. Any service which returns sensitive data in JSON via an HTTP get based on the user's cookie is vulnerable. At worst, an attacker would just be able collect the response of a GET on behalf of a visitor to the attacker's
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[YC W11] Stealth payments startup looking for lead UI/UX Designer
43 points by gdix 15y ago

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