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by home_boi 9y ago
The root problem is that the government is insuring loans for low quality education in terms of college prestige/education and major choice.
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by home_boi 9y ago
I don't think the purpose of the bill was to address that concern. The US will award a constant number of H1Bs no matter what the salary requirements are. I think that the main benefit is to have higher quality H1Bs. There are many tal
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by home_boi 9y ago
> Because I looked at the DE course he taught (18.03) and I completed harder math courses than that in my non-MIT education. I'm sure many other HN readers have too. I wonder if there is some test you can take to see if you are just
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by home_boi 9y ago
> They are matching the diversity of the schools' recruiting efforts. I think many undergrad schools actually positively discriminate based on gender/race for underrepresented minorities.
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by home_boi 9y ago
I can see this being true if the people work at the same company (and already passed the same filter). I doubt it would be true over the entire university CS populations. If the only thing you know about two applicants is their university,
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by home_boi 9y ago
> If it doesn't match your society or customer base, and you think those things are important (I do), then it's bad. Mismatch between company demographics and society/customer demographics is common in all industries. It i
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by home_boi 9y ago
That depends on what metrics you use for 'diverse'. Diversity is more than skin deep. The candidates are very culturally diverse.
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by home_boi 9y ago
Well this is scary. We should see more concentration on privacy/security at the mediocre tech companies (because engineer pay is a decent indicator of privacy standards and security strength), ISPs, health care companies and financial
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by home_boi 9y ago
I don't like the conflation of time/effort with privilege. That is the crux of meritocracy. The amount of time someone spends on a task should have a strong correlation, if not a strong causation, to their professional success. An
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by home_boi 9y ago
Note that Windows Defender also uploads files on scans which is opt out.
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by home_boi 9y ago
> but, sure, advantages compared to other, say, people whose only prior language is Mandarin I wouldn't understate the significant advantages. > And, of course, a big disadvantage compared to immigrants who already speak English,
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by home_boi 9y ago
The most effective solution for this problem would be to encourage birth control and abortion for populations that are unfit to handle parenthood.
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by home_boi 9y ago
There are enough similarities to give them significant advantages compared to immigrants coming from other parts of the language tree. English and Spanish have thousands of cognates. Having almost exactly the same alphabet is also a huge ad
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by home_boi 9y ago
I wouldn't throw out accusations of racism and make the discussion inflammatory when it's not particularly relevant. You can just mention the differences. Knowing "African American English" still puts one at a severe adv
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by home_boi 9y ago
> they tend to become a terrible metric Not exactly. When a test becomes study-able, it becomes a good metric for how hard people try and how much time/effort people put into their studies/career. And that is arguably what peo
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by home_boi 9y ago
Even if they are immigrants, knowing Spanish makes them half-way native English speakers because of the similarities between English and Spanish.
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by home_boi 9y ago
Patriarchy is a model whose name alone understandably offends and antagonizes an entire gender. It is clear that the people backing the model will not be effective in helping men because they are either ignorant about or do not care about t
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by home_boi 9y ago
That's funny although news outlets can have writers and reporters with different opinions
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by home_boi 9y ago
> Yes, a biased pipeline is absolutely something that needs to be solved. No it doesn't. Bias isn't always bad or oppressive. It needs to be proven that the bias is "bad". If rich kids are underrepresented in tech bec
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by home_boi 9y ago
> And of the ones that do, the women with autism have to deal with both the barriers introduced by their autism and the barriers of sexist treatment from their peers. With the benefits of diversity hiring.
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by home_boi 9y ago
Did IBM pay well back in the day?
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by home_boi 9y ago
> we know it was historically very bad For the people living in those historic eras. We don't know the effects it has on people living in the modern era. And then you have to make the leap on why tech companies should be enacting s
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by home_boi 9y ago
> The suggestion that men and women ARE different is taboo. This is the assumption being made by diversity hiring and diversity advocates. That some races/genders have different perspectives and viewpoints than others. It can quickl
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by home_boi 9y ago
The competition isn't much better. There are hundreds of these massive leaps of logic used to justify the use of race and gender in hiring. Basically every reason for why the demographics of tech is the way it is this oversight. At the
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by home_boi 9y ago
From the utilitarian perspective, what is the point of financial privacy (from the government)? It looks like money laundering and purchases of illegal substances seem to be the biggest "benefits". Those are benefits that aren&#x2
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by home_boi 9y ago
But Seattle is not the Bay Area. Professionally, it simply doesn't have as many opportunities as the Bay Area. The weather is much worse, it has a similar homeless problem to SF, less culture (somewhat subjective), worse schools compar
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by home_boi 9y ago
I don't think so. "Rich" refers to a lifestyle that cannot be afforded by just $250k. An example would be: - Private school - Vacation home - 3+ luxurious vacations a year - Saving $50k+ per year - Eating out at fancy restaur
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by home_boi 9y ago
The barrier to move and change jobs is much lower
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by home_boi 9y ago
There's a fine line between limiting the free speech of these personal information aggregators and violating the privacy of people. Right now, there seems to be a lawless and limitless environment for the aggregators. They freely prese
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by home_boi 9y ago
They lowball you (or rather, their stock performance is garbage and they won't adjust RSUs to account for that). Their SF headquarters is a standard silicon valley playground. I'm not sure why the author tried to differentiate Yel

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