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by grifpete 12y ago
Once again I refer you to the actual blog post. The concern about the post mortem she actually voiced was that the investigation was by an agency paid for by the company. The well known problem with such investigations is that they are rare
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by grifpete 12y ago
The post does not do that. In fact it doesn't lay out a case that Horvath must be in the right at all. What the post actually does, for those who took the time to read it, is point out that a distressing takeaway from the whole messy a
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by grifpete 12y ago
What are 'alpha' traits please?
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by grifpete 12y ago
'despise' is a very strong term. It implies a much much stronger reaction to the material than just disagreeing with it. Why is that? 'it seems to argue that any woman who claims anything should be treated as unequivocal tru
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by grifpete 12y ago
That's pretty funny. I truly doubt many if any Canadians are counting on that.
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by grifpete 12y ago
I remember going to Africa where I encountered sounds so radically different that on my return it was luminously clear to me that French, German and Italian were close kin to English in comparison. It gave me food for thought. Chinese is in
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by grifpete 12y ago
wrt Zuckerberg you are mistaken. You are only liable for tax on a gain when you realize that gain. He became liable for tax when he sold stock and by selling it he had more than the cash needed to pay the tax.
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by grifpete 12y ago
You are of course at liberty to have a beef with economics, but the idea that it is not an empirical discipline that values falsifiable hypothesis is itself a false hypothesis. Furthermore, the idea that economists do not learn from failed
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by grifpete 12y ago
Jane Doe??
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by grifpete 12y ago
A lot of the comments here seem to be missing the key point. The question is not whether immersion is a good thing or is better than classroom. The question the theory set out to investigate is what does it take for someone to become an out
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by grifpete 12y ago
Apalling.
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by grifpete 13y ago
I think C Rice is an disturbing figure because she appears to be a contradiction. Nobody expects much of figures such as Rumsfeld or Chaney - they come across as ruthless unprincipled technocrats who are prepared to do some extraordinary da
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by grifpete 13y ago
She has been an outspoken apologist for some pretty heinous policies. It is rational to assume she hasn't changed.
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by grifpete 13y ago
"...some educators worry that three years isn’t enough time for young people to find themselves intellectually or emotionally." Almost all degrees in England are three years degrees.
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by grifpete 13y ago
I have one. I'll never go back.
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by grifpete 13y ago
I suspect the did much more damage developing javascript.
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by grifpete 13y ago
What about organizations that actively support gay rights? Where CEOs actively promote policies to advantage the status and wellbeing of gay employees eg Apple? There may well be Apple employees or investors that don't agree with that
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by grifpete 13y ago
IF his beliefs lead to policies inside Mozilla that disadvantage gay employees THEN will be the time to protest. Otherwise he is entitled to hold his own private beliefs no matter how much we/I may disagree with them.
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by grifpete 13y ago
Totally agree - well said.
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by grifpete 13y ago
I agree. I totally disagree with him but he has a right to hold views that I and others disagree with. And he has a right to donate accordingly. And Mozilla is not an organization whose mission is gay rights. This is politically correct ove
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by grifpete 13y ago
I am all for gay marriage and I have a deep dislike of homophobia. But I am concerned about some of the reactions to Mozilla because of Brendan Eich's position. I totally disagree with him but surely he is entitled to have his view and
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by grifpete 13y ago
As I made plain - I couldn't read the original article. But let me see if I understand you correctly. a) person A has a patent (which incidentally as a matter of law cannot be for just an abstract idea) b) person B challenges the pate
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by grifpete 13y ago
I can't read the original article because it is behind a paywall...BUT...abstract ideas do not get patents. This is not my opinion, it is fact. Look it up.
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by grifpete 13y ago
Haha. It happened already. http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/19/5526574/github-sexism-scan... "Several female GitHub employees, who spoke with The Verge on condition of anonymity, said they’ve never fe
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by grifpete 13y ago
Webpage not available - nice touch!
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by grifpete 13y ago
a) you can't fix the problems of the past by giving her a job now b) being a significant investor doesn't make you 'relatively high-ranking in the company.' You are either an employee with a high ranking job, or an inves
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by grifpete 13y ago
I am favorably impressed by the statement recently issued by Github.
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by grifpete 13y ago
That's kind of the point. :) She acted as if she did.
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by grifpete 13y ago
I agree, but as I state about, in such circumstances "...it is that officer's responsibility to make the situation clear to the employees which whom he/she will be interacting and to oversee such interactions. Needless to say
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by grifpete 13y ago
I have a hypothesis but it's probably bullshit. If a) Horvath had felt for some time that she was in a hostile work environment and that she was being subjected to pressures that a male employee would not have to endure (ie sexist dis

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