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lexcorvus
13y ago
I appreciate your detailed response. As you might guess, I find many points of disagreement, but rather than belabor the matter with an enumeration of such points, let me just note that my comment wasn't a dissertation, so accusations
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You raise a good point. Wikipedia's policy of NPOV (neutral point-of-view) effectively means "mainstream"; while I grant that "controversy" on this subject exists in the mainstream, I believe in this case the mainst
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Women are not just under-represented in tech, but in the majority of the most lucrative professions as a whole. So, unless we accept the bogus argument that women are just naturally worse at stuff other than babies, we must assume that thi
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Homo sapiens has evolved from a long line of primates exhibiting significant sexual dimorphism. [1] Attempts to eliminate spontaneously emerging gender roles are thus fighting millions of years of evolution. This doesn't necessarily
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Monetary dilutionists (i.e., basically all legitimate economists, and thus almost all armchair economists well) and hard-money advocates (i.e., basically all legitimate thinkers pre-1920 or so) each accuse the other of practicing pseudoscie
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Perkins' analogy was tone deaf but, as you note, not completely out to lunch. A much more apt analogy would have been to the French revolutionaries, particularly the Jacobins. Characterizing the anti-tech protests as neo-Nazi is a str