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by manfredo 7y ago
Was "Happy birthday Sundar!" made without consulting leadership and using emergency push to deploy it?
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by manfredo 7y ago
> We don't [have matriarchies]. This hinges on how you define a matriarchy. Spain, as I pointed out earlier, has a majority female national leadership. If it isn't a matriarchy, one could still argue that's closer to a mat
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by manfredo 7y ago
She used an emergency push to deploy this change. Her job was to add notices for security purposes, not political activism: > "She misused a security and privacy tool to create a pop-up that was neither about security nor privacy,&q
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by manfredo 7y ago
The issue isn't about discussing labor rights it's about abusing security tools for political purposes. A bulletin board is not a good analogy. A bulletin board is non-invasive. This tool creates pop-ups on people's browsers.
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by manfredo 7y ago
The Cenk Uygur situation is part of a broader trend I observe where traditional media outlets have a highly negative bias, to the point that it often ventures into the realm of fabrication, towards news and people in new media. News distrib
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by manfredo 7y ago
There's a difference between leaving a "simple note" and abusing a security tool to spam employees. Google is tired of employees using their job as a political soapbox. Furthermore, it sets a precedent. Next week someone use
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by manfredo 7y ago
> We literally don't have matriarchies, there's no data about it. And I also don't know why you put that in quotes, it's an actual word. We may or may not have matriarchies - a couple countries like Spain do have more
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by manfredo 7y ago
> That's just disingenuous, we literally don't have that data to make any claims on it. You're the one which said you'd expect women participation rates to be randomised, as in some countries to have more women in STE
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by manfredo 7y ago
That article illustrates the point I'm making: > For example, a 2010 demo showed how Palantir Government could be used to chart the flow of weapons throughout the Middle East by importing disparate data sources like equipment lot nu
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by manfredo 7y ago
Palantir does not build surveillance technology. They build data visualization technology. They build tools to let organizations better view and correlate between the data they collect. This could be considered to be adjacent to surveillanc
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by manfredo 7y ago
What it means to be "welcoming" is rather subjective. But there has been widespread adoption of discriminatory policies designed to make women get offers more frequently than men as I have shared in a previous comment [1]. I think
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by manfredo 7y ago
Saying that the disparate representation between genders in technology industries is due to innate differences is not telling women they're weird for working in tech. It is not a statement about those women who go into tech, it's
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by manfredo 7y ago
> No... I mean the dictionary definition. Where men didn't have the right to vote, work or own property until recently, where women are expected to own and make all the money, where men are raised to be married away, where men are e
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by manfredo 7y ago
Whether or not a range of 30% is "huge" is a subjective judgement, but that's besides the point. The point is, there are zero observed instances of women forming the majority of a the technology workforce in any county. I&#x2
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by manfredo 7y ago
> I am going to assume that the ~35% number that you are giving without context is the number quoted for peak female representation in earning cs degrees in the 80's. If I am wrong, please correct me. This is much later then I was t
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by manfredo 7y ago
This is in reference to gender differences like extraversion, and make newborns dedicating more attention to things and female newborns dedicating more attention to people. As far as this post's article, the rates are not vastly differ
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Robert Martin talks about how in the 60's and 70's women made up a large amount of the worlds programmers. It would seem somewhere along the way we found ways to significantly reduce the number of women entering the professio
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by manfredo 7y ago
> That's a bit of circular reasoning though. > - Look how men and women behave differently! > - But why do they behave differently? > - Because they're different. > - How do you know that? > - Because differences
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by manfredo 7y ago
> I'm a woman. I AM A WOMAN IN STEM. You know what makes my blood pressure rise? People in real life and in this thread who tell me that I'm naturally not suited to it, that I like people more than things. Go away! Shut the f(*
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by manfredo 7y ago
Your proposal is to force numeric parity through discrimination when women comprise 20% of the people entering the field? Of course people oppose this: it's blatant sexism, and it is illegal.
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Elaborate. What are the "serious efforts" made by medical and law industries that got women into these professions that STEM has not employed? Furthermore, do you care to identify what in this discussion makes it so clear why wome
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by manfredo 7y ago
STEM hasn't made serious efforts to counter sexism? That starkly contrasts with my observations. For the entirety of my life (I'm over 25) that I can remember I've encountered programs and initiatives working towards getting
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by manfredo 7y ago
This is frequently repeated but rarely with supporting data. Programming work during the 70s and 80s, during which women's representation in programming reached its peak, was well paid. According to the BLS entry level salaries were $2
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Why do men choose to and why are they allowed to do all those things differently? The reason is gender roles, that’s part of the equal pay discussion. Probably the biggest part, in fact. The data says otherwise. Countries that are more
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by manfredo 7y ago
Even the most efficient combined cycle gas plants are in the 55-65% efficiency range. The Sabatier process is also at maximum 70% efficient, so end to end efficiency is ~40%. Furthermore, in order to convert co2 to ch4 you need a source of
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by manfredo 7y ago
Storage at anywhere even remotely close the scale required to displace nuclear and fossil fuel generation remains a fantasy. To put this in perspective, California's largest energy storage facility has as much capacity as the Diablo ca
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by manfredo 7y ago
The crucial question that this article doesn't address is: replace coal with what? Germany has been closing its nuclear plants, which has largely negated the gains they've made in wind and solar. Once renewable generation during p
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by manfredo 7y ago
The above commenter wrote that hate speech was illegal. This is not correct. I'm not sure what you think I'm missing here. The bar for speech to be inciting imminent lawless action is pretty high: > Portions of the rally were f
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It's an organization that has repeatedly been sued for defamation, and paid out tens of millions of dollars for doing do. Among some of the most egregious episodes were when they recruited a family to wiretap their neighbors. To many,
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by manfredo 7y ago
Neither "snuff" (unless you're talking about CSE or other specific categories) nor hate speech are illegal in the US. The supreme Court has repeatedly ruled on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brande

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