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by jack9 9y ago
I'm not sure how that statement can be taken seriously. Puppet leaders of industry, are extensions of the party. The ability to act independently isn't much different than the leeway given to a US executive agency head. Socialism
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It's funny what a company will say, then turn around and do... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/18/cloudflare_ceo_rubb... "It's not in CloudFlare's philosophy to just take down sites
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Tell me you have a paper on that. At least there would be a scientific basis for mandating Unconscious Bias retraining.
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> She said "complicate" not "invalidate". That's true. However, the trends are not complicated by the outliers. Her statement was meant to throw trending into question and I overstated by taking a bad position (p
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> Is that why you conveniently disregarded my other questions? The question is still about degree. Starting with new off-topic propositions to attempt to derail, are for your own entertainment. Since you're just here to argue about
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Universal claims have to be made to be invalidated, I would think.
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> that these arguments about innate biological traits are complicated by trans, non-binary, and intersex folks. 2% (outliers) of the population does not invalidate the trends of the other 98% This is just wrong. > I disagree that it’s
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This is an advertisement for Glitch. Pure and simple.
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> It's not a great accomplishment to link to a paper that performs well in organic search. It's a cursory BS test. If the evidence is hard to find, it's generally because there's no evidence available from credible so
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> But anyone could really do that just following simple online guides/examples That's simply not true. There's a huge sea of bad (out of date or simple ignorance) and non-working examples for all sorts of technology, which
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> 1)/[sic]he never made a case for why we shouldn’t think other factors are even bigger Really? The memo wasn't about answering life's questions, but to propose narrow solutions with based on pointed evidence. Preference o
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> Internet access is increasingly relevant, I would argue it's a necessary right. That's not the issue and I ask again, what does fast mean? It has no intrinsic meaning. > Stop muddying the waters. Insisting the terms of a n
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So do you need a lot of love and friendship or a little? "Need" of a category type isn't about what that is, it's always a matter of scale. I was speaking to scale, which is why I phrased the example in that manner. Can
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> he has done no research on the subject at all. Except for the citations. > why I could easily tell that the author of the manifesto is both ignorant and uninterested in the subject Continuing to attack the credibility of a largely f
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> No, it's total bullshit, except in the pedantic "well, humans don't NEED electricity/medicine/communications/synthetic shelter/[anything since we wandered the plains of Africa and had a life expectanc
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> Did he research social structures or even the psychological differences between the sexes? > No expert on the actual matter at hand (women participation in tech) would consider them relevant at all to the issue. Your inability to ma
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> He wrote about a subject he knows little about, didn't seriously research, and one that he actually doesn't seem too interested in studying at all He has a Master's Degree in Systems Biology from Harvard. How do you reco
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That's not apparent. Unless you subscribe to the wrong-headed notion mentioned in this article as well. > the tradeoffs of getting to a staff of 50 percent men and 50 percent women would be worth it (a position implicitly shared by
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by jack9 9y ago
I'll agree to disagree. For example, github certainly did use a chunk of capital. Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett spent quite a bit. You may not care about the amount here on YC, but it's a non-trivial barrier, r
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How did you miss the article that was on the frontpage today? https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/NSF_Stemming%20the%20Tid... This is specifically about why women leave engineering, with a number of incidenta
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Can you give an example (business -> success in software) without outside capital investment? Most of the time the sequence is software -> success -> business, and the event chain is exceedingly rare.
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Increase in wealth inequality is not the only outcome. There's also the small issues of better resource management, like food per square acre, mpg, medical technology, etc. It's a complex subject insofar as it requires multi-disci
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> However, it is very light on actual research No, the research exists in some cases, but the content of an internal informal document obviously doesn't require a rigorous (redundant) academic format. If you can't Google, it pr
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I think you have a penchant for turning probabilistic norms (women do score higher than men for neuroticism, on average from puberty onward, for example) into straw men. > Women are not more neurotic than men That's not the same thi
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> I was willing to give him a fair hearing until he listed a handful of differences between men and women that he ascribes to biology without any factual support. That's not exactly true. Jordan Peterson has quite a bit to say about
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A starfish might be a better example.
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Pizza has intrinsic properties, like physics that constrain it. You have more pizza pieces numerically, yes. I'm wondering why you think this is a compelling analogy.
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Not to belabor the obvious, but it is not the opposite. It's a case study, of the effect. The number is not 21 million. It's currently 21*10^8 via fractional transactions and expandable (meaning practically and theoretically infin
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When you unbound the supply of a currency, it naturally inflates. Inflation being relative to the value derived from any given indicator. Speculation drives confidence drives speculation, forever.
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This is a core strategy of con-men. The recent discussion between Sam Harris and Scott Adams might be interesting to you. Take into account that moral and good are synonymous with truth, to Sam Harris (strict rationalist) and Scott Adams is

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