larsonf

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by larsonf 13y ago
"In what possible reality can someone receive a million dollars and feel as though they got fucked?" The reality where if you play for the Yankees you do not care if you beat the Jamestown Little League Allstars.
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by larsonf 13y ago
Absolutely. These things are incremental and at each step we try to be as fair and realistic as possible. But what do you think about this? I think there's something interesting in there, though. In some ways, this argument really acknowled
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by larsonf 14y ago
Maybe someone mentioned this but what if the reason more women don't go into CS/programming is more to do with discrimination from other women and not men? Perhaps women feel they won't be considered 'womanly' as defined by females?
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by larsonf 14y ago
I wonder what this means: 'The best entrepreneurs are ones who work in their field first, gaining valuable real-world knowledge and experience for a decade or more.' The definition of 'best' here is massively important. If 'best' means 'has
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by larsonf 14y ago
Whoops, let me unpack. 1) That 'merit' is based on genetic variation was purely for the sake of illustration. Of course this is not the case in reality. Yet to boil down the problem to where we artificially limit the factors can help expose
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by larsonf 14y ago
It seems some of us are missing the implication of the article. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that there really were a way to negate all advantages a person could be born into. No social networks, no additional wealth, no additiona