manfredo

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by manfredo 6y ago
No, violence is never the answer here.
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by manfredo 6y ago
None of those things are evidence of discrimination in tech hiring. When we send 100 applications to Google for engineering positions, do we see male resumes selected where otherwise-identical female resumes are not?
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by manfredo 6y ago
The peak of women's representation in computing was ~33% in the early 1980s. Not that much higher than the ~20% we see today. And many of these women in early computing not because it was their first choice, but because the jobs they w
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by manfredo 6y ago
Yes, choosing to measure athleticism solely on powerlifting ability is foolish. Did you miss the part where I listed lifting ability and 10k times together ? Any good measurement of athleticism would include cardio endurance, too. Likewi
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by manfredo 6y ago
> Right, the unstated assumption here being that they are genetically predisposed to having lower cognitive ability (and further that this ability is highly correlated along racial lines Not even remotely true. The intra-race differences
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by manfredo 6y ago
Cognitive ability is an abstract thing, IQ is a form of measuring it. It's like using 10k running time, amount of weight lifted in a deadlift, bench press, and squat as a measurement of athleticism. Regardless, > This does seem to b
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by manfredo 6y ago
We also know that obesity is in part due to genetics. That doesn't mean people are doomed to be obese. It's a fact that anyone can lose weight if they expend more calories than they consume. My point is that people are perceiving
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by manfredo 6y ago
No I don't believe it is just to make it taboo. It's not only unjust it's counterproductive. To do this is to build an argument with it's foundation laid in falsehood. And that makes for a very weak argument, as well as
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by manfredo 6y ago
> I mean holding an idea can be both legal and abhorrent/wrong at the same time. Then rephrase the above question: since when did that become abhorrent or wrong? We know that IQ is hereditary. This is a simple statistical fact: ther
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by manfredo 6y ago
HR didn't have a direct say in hiring. But they did control the recruiters and the recruiters decided who got a phone interview, who got a second chance at the phone interview, and which phone interviews would proceed on-sites. We (eng
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by manfredo 6y ago
I worked at two companies with hard percentage targets on the basis of race and gender for engineering roles. The goals were for an umbrella category of "diverse" people which was all women plus Black and Hispanic people of either
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by manfredo 6y ago
Not just Apple, but also any video-game console manufacturer. There are justifiable reasons to limit users' ability to modify firmware. Piracy prevention is one. Also warranty. Users might run modified software that breaks the vehicle,
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by manfredo 6y ago
The article in question provides several examples of public figures making these points. I've personally encountered people and organizations that . Several who, for instance, decried white flight on one hand but on the other hand crit
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by manfredo 6y ago
Disproportionate relative to the general population. It is proportionate relative to the rates of violent crime committed. Consider the fact that men are killed by police to an even more disproportionate extent than black people in America
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by manfredo 6y ago
No. Abuse of facts can definitely be racist. But facts are simply facts. E.g. if someone claimed that police are sexist and pointed out that 90% of police killings are against men, and another responded that this matches the rate at which
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by manfredo 6y ago
I don't think it actually makes that good of an argument against real names. For instance it shares a link to a study that found accounts with feminine names got more malicious messages in IRC rooms [1]. However, the people sending sai
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by manfredo 6y ago
So for every man killed by police (note that this is all police killings including those of armed suspects fighting the police) there's 42 people killed in accidents, 13 people commit suicide, 11 murdered by normal people's, 3.5 t
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by manfredo 6y ago
Measuring intermittent sources by raw price per watt hour is misleading. How much does solar cost at night? Or wind energy on windless days? A lot more because it needs to be stored and retrieved. Shaving 10-20% off fossil fuels with interm
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by manfredo 6y ago
Wikipedia's reliability largely depends on how much traffic an article gets. The more eyeballs on an article the more likely people are to point out inaccuracies. It's also much more reliable for scientific and technical subjects
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by manfredo 6y ago
Popular answers: Good weather and high housing costs. Less popular answers: Extensive services for homeless serves as a magnet to homeless. Greater benefits for the homeless incentivizes homeless across the nation to move there.
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by manfredo 6y ago
From your link: >The services required to repay the debt may be undefined, and the services' duration may be undefined, thus allowing the person supposedly owed the debt to demand services indefinitely.[2] Debt bondage can be passed
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by manfredo 6y ago
TL;DR: A scummy company that charges people money for training and equipment, and has people pay off this debt along with interest. This is a shitty situation, and it should be illegal. But calling this slavery and throwing up a picture of
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by manfredo 6y ago
Adoption of nuclear power akin to France, and electrification of transportation (both road and rail) solves most of it. There's some additional work for things like replacing steam reformation with electrolysis or thermochemical hydrog
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by manfredo 6y ago
Prop 19 only made is so that heirs inherit the tax status if they use the home as a primary residence. So you can still own 3 houses, and give each one to a child and they will inherit the property tax if they live in it.
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by manfredo 6y ago
1. Land use for agriculture is going down in the US [1], as with most developed countries. Factory farming is more intensive per acre, leading to fewer. Likewise forests in Europe are expanding [2]. Industrialized agriculture leads to less
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by manfredo 6y ago
US gun ownership has been rising substantially, yet the homicide rate dropped by more than a factor of two between the 1990s and 2010s. In fact, the mid 2010s saw the lowest homicide rate in over 50 years. By comparison, contrary to popular
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by manfredo 6y ago
Oh, proposition 13 is even worse than that. People get to pass on their privileged tax status onto their heirs. A hereditary class of people that get to own property at preferential rates.
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by manfredo 6y ago
First of all, a large portion of that graph refers to methane not carbon dioxide. Methane has a half life of 10 years, as compared to carbon dioxide's thousands or tens of thousands. Also take care to inspect, carefully, what these fig
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by manfredo 6y ago
I think a lot of these claims can make sense on paper, but often don't really add up to meaningful impact if actually implemented. Hypothetically, turning off your webcam reduces overall network traffic and would reduce the resources r
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by manfredo 6y ago
There was a varied response to BLM riots. In my city, BLM demonstrators - or at least people purporting to be part of BLM - declared several city blocks an autonomous zone. The zone's security forces subsequent killed several people (a

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