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by kansface 9y ago
Alright: A forward: Grant is a professor of Economics at Wharton, and Scott is a Psychiatrist and author of a popular blog - both agree that biological differences in ability are small (for the field of CS at large). Scott contends: > It
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by kansface 9y ago
Sorry, you would probably need to read through the parent article (from the comment) for the broader context ...in which Scott makes the claim in the form of a rebuttal to another article by Grant, to which Grant replied (who also did not f
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by kansface 9y ago
Your cited study is certainly not the only one that exists on the topic. See http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... .
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by kansface 9y ago
A related post from SSC on the subject: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... TLDR: Personal interests can plausibly explain the entire gender imbalance.
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by kansface 9y ago
We use 'fetch' extensively. It does not support cancellation or timeouts, although you can implement the later as a Promise.race with a setTimeout.
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by kansface 9y ago
> Why would you imagine that? Why do you imagine it wouldn't!? The portions of health care universally not covered by insurance are not subject to the same cost disease of the industry as a whole. Lo and behold, the real cost of e
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by kansface 9y ago
| Wait and see how long before Seattle adjusts the minimum down. Inflation already does the dirty work.
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by kansface 9y ago
Occam's Razor does not apply here.
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by kansface 9y ago
> Could many good free climbers do what Honnold did, but just like the added bits of safety? "Many" people climb that route with protection. However, to better put this in perspective, it is plausible this feat will not be repe
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by kansface 9y ago
You are completely missing the point - they aren't suffering for lack of therapy.
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by kansface 9y ago
My guess is that sentiments are almost always negative on average and do not strongly correlate to outcomes. Its very easy to pick a reason why any startup will fail, and 99/100 times, the average reason is correct.
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by kansface 10y ago
| Was it inherited? old money | Was the wealth created? nouveau riche | Or was it taken at the expense of others? plutocrat/oligarch
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by kansface 10y ago
What good would that do when the customers of the service do not pay for it nor can they even evaluate differences in quality? Consider eg, the cost of higher education in the US. Tuition is listed up front and students may trivially price
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by kansface 10y ago
A decent article on the economics: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/our-miserable-21...
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by kansface 10y ago
Indeed, The Civil Rights Act kinda does - | ...equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or se
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by kansface 10y ago
| It's unfair and dangerous to treat people differently for something about themselves that they can't control. It is not fair one way or the other. You have also put yourself in the unenviable position of determining what can an
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by kansface 10y ago
I believe history also shows that labeling anyone who disagrees with you a fascist and organizing to systematically ostracize them from polite society is without virtue as well.
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by kansface 10y ago
Where can I hire a PM so I don't have to micro manage my employees?
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by kansface 10y ago
> What's inherently wrong with high rent in San Francisco? Beyond ethics, a few things you may not have considered: 1. High rent is a systematic, generational wealth transfer from the young to the old (property owners); this is not
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by kansface 10y ago
> One thing I've learned that's incredibly important is code style has to be uniform across all engineers. Honestly, why does this matter at all?
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by kansface 10y ago
> Ultimately however the main problem is wealth inequality. If median income had increased with GDP since 1980, instead of all gains going to the 0.01%, you would be able to afford to live in the suburbs of San Diego. The problem of inco
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by kansface 10y ago
Consider the history of the charge of the electron according to Feynman: > It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that o
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by kansface 10y ago
> Trump is uniquely dangerous ... Not at all unlike the uniquely dangerous threats of the past - terrorism and communism immediately come to mind. I probably haven't paid enough attention to pick up on the uniquely dangerous threat
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by kansface 10y ago
I don't think it matters too much that most institutions no longer accept paper since paper is just the external interface. You get no more reliability if they did when all critical processes rely on technology. In other words, you ar
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Open Letter to Senator Feinstein on Cybersecurity(scaleft.com)
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by kansface 10y ago
Are you really proposing that a universal file syncing protocol which must be implemented across all OSes for every FS will eat Dropbox's lunch?
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by kansface 10y ago
I use tab tree and typically have a couple of hundred open tabs...
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by kansface 10y ago
> A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The
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by kansface 10y ago
> It's still hard to sink in the fact of how strong a duopoly the mobile market is. My understanding is that most? markets function this way? Perhaps someone has some numbers...
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by kansface 10y ago
> Software engineers need to recognize this common threat and organize (labor) sooner than later. Has organized (labor) ever saved organized labor's job?

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