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by ikeyany 8y ago
This is true. But you're not the one buying and installing a new washer or stove.
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Although no one enjoys moving, it's not exactly common enough to factor in a decision between renting vs owning. The bigger factor is not having to spend any time doing maintenance or yard work. Those tasks can take up weekends or enti
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No, the "trick" is not simply to befriend them. That is an incredibly simplistic and naive way to interpret hate, and it shows you haven't had to deal with racism strongly impacting your life. Not all bigotry is based in inno
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He was truly one of our last great Republican leaders.
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We should be incentivizing men to take a much larger stake in raising children, so that neither gender has to sacrifice their career or their ability to raise their children. Marriage is clearly not a strong enough incentive.
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That's precisely my perception, based on the conversations I've had with burners. Every depiction of it is a place to go to feel something that they are no longer able to feel in normal life.
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They also got rid of their CEO this year.
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The point isn't that black entertainers can't contribute substantially in other areas. The point is that black people are not associated with achieving fame through primarily academic routes. This reinforces the perception that bl
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by ikeyany 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the socio-economic level, education level, and relative health of your parents? That is statistically a stronger contributor to a child's health than the desire to simply lose weight.
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Not being of interest yes, but it doesn't take away the fact that you found them sexually attractive in some respect.
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Thought experiment time (perhaps this happened to you in real life as well): suppose you saw this attractive female body from behind. Then as she turned around, you noticed she was a man. Doesn't that mean you are also attracted to men
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I didn't mean to imply that you were. What I'm getting at is that although things like overt racism aren't often reasons to why the pipeline problem exists, bias is still an underlying factor. Actions like mandating a woman&#
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> Another anecdote is that anytime I was able to get someone from my alma mater a job. I did. I got two Black women (really underrepresented in tech) that graduated from the same college a year after I did a job at the same place. That w
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Even among rich perspectives, their inclusion of women would likely bring in views that tend to be overlooked by male perspectives. But yes, if the goal is diversity in the truest sense then including those outside of elite/rich backg
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I wouldn't call it being hopelessly naive, but is it possible you're experiencing a bit of survivorship bias? There tends to be little outright conspiring to keep outsiders on the outside, but people tends to include and give bene
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25% of the cattle worker industry but you can be sure they weren't represented in popular cultural depictions of cowboys or ranchers. Racial bias goes deeper into America's identity than we like to think.
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Your article says 6.7% of Americans have a depression in a given year , not that 6.7% of Americans get depression at all. That can very well mean 1/3 of Americans get depression over their entire lives, and a PhD program would seem li
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by ikeyany 8y ago
Are you making up your own facts regarding the cake baker reference? I understand that it was ruled within their right to discriminate.
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You work at a company where minorities get praised for not having any deliverable in 6 months? Which company? If this does happen at your company, there's no need to use a throwaway account.
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Sean Parker on maximizing engagement: https://slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2017/11/fac... Psychologists running studies on users: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmi
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Respecting Alphabet, Apple, and Amazon as companies is very different from respecting tech workers as a whole.
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I'm sure bankers believe the same thing about themselves.
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This is a Prime example of why tech workers are despised outside of our bubble.
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For which part? Do you have a Facebook account? It's not exactly a secret.
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They have people who's sole job is to make sure Facebook users are on the platform for as long as humanly possible. The company goes out of its way to subvert your desires to make it hard to leave (such as changing sorting by most rece
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Considering Facebook is opening an office on China, Stamos' hopes are essentially being steamrolled by a tank.
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Agreed with you. I like being able to shoot off questions in person, and I like being asked questions in person. Four days a week at work is ideal.
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> If we take 1000 people and give rewards in proportion to performance at some task, it will be extremely unequal - yet fair. How can you possibly claim it's fair if those 1000 all started with different opportunities, different abi
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Accelerating wealth disparity will do that to a society.
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The same reason they currently don't provide their own cars.

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