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by hedgew 13y ago
While I don't want to undermine the difficulties many people undoubtedly face due to harmful beliefs shared by the society at large, we have to face the issue that gender imbalances are in fact larger in countries that are more merit
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by hedgew 13y ago
It is an undeniable, world-wide phenomenon that there is a gender imbalance in programming that can not be explained by pure chance. Since we have no laws and few social structures that force men into programming or prevent women from doing
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by hedgew 13y ago
Why not: "Here's how Khan Academy Statistics videos could be improved"?
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by hedgew 13y ago
> What mechanism does this racial separation take? It's not racial separation. It's all attraction in general. Like attracts like. Hackers tend to like other hackers. Race is simply one factor that affects us. Being aware of t
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by hedgew 13y ago
Is segregation really the appropriate word here? Separation of the races is coded into our genes and happens naturally without any malicious intent too. It's not much different from the fact that all of us prefer to surround ourselves
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by hedgew 13y ago
No, it is not. It's straight out delusional. You could be torturing puppies on a webcam and feel good about it by repeating a quote like that. If you want to become a genuinely good person, you'll have to learn to differentiate be
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by hedgew 13y ago
> I'm out of the status race, and people envy me for the freedom They probably envy your newfound status.
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by hedgew 13y ago
To summarize: "The terrible truth that began to dawn in the 1980s was that MI5 - whose job it was to catch spies that threatened Britain - had never by its own devices caught a spy in its entire history."
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by hedgew 13y ago
1. Additional thinking time was not explicitly asked for. "While I an leaning heavily towards Reuters, as a matter of professional courtesy, I told another firm I would listen to their offer." - does not count. 2. Additional think
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by hedgew 13y ago
At best, theories like this serve as evidence of people's desire to find meaning and patterns in the world, especially in places where they don't exist. If you do not maintain scientific rigidity - a questioning, truth-seeking cur
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by hedgew 13y ago
This is misleading. They were wrong in two cases. 1. They underestimated the difficulty and cost of the project. 2. They underestimated the profitability of the project. Had their estimations been more accurate, they would have realized tha
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by hedgew 13y ago
Non-informative ads are mainly used to create irrational desire. Enforcing brand loyalty is a side effect - less commonly the main goal - that comes easily, as the human mind loves being right and will actively look for evidence to support
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by hedgew 13y ago
The main argument seems fundamentally flawed. It is argued that the idea of progress as a goal for humanity is pointless, because we are ultimately restricted by our nature, and instead of idealizing the concept of progress we should be sat