mcphage

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by mcphage 2y ago
> Do you believe that hiring currently excludes those races and sexes? Good lord yes. In software engineering almost everyone is a white male.
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by mcphage 2y ago
I’m not sure what groups you were referring to in your original post, so it would probably be better if you provided the example.
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by mcphage 2y ago
Say you’re looking to hire 20 people. So you pick the 20 best, and you end up with the 17 best men and the 3 best women. Of course you claim to be gender-blind and it just happens that you got 17 men and only 3 women, these things happen,
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by mcphage 2y ago
> I think our laws and institutions should strive to be race blind and treat people equally, as individuals, based on their individual actions and merit. That sounds nice, but that’s not what our laws and institutions are doing, nor is i
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by mcphage 2y ago
> By relying on quotas you have to dig deeper into the minority pool of candidates, and are more likely to get someone less skilled than if you hadn't used quotas. What? By pulling from a larger pool of candidates, you’re more like
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by mcphage 2y ago
> I don’t see why that is desirable, important, or even possible. Are you okay with being in one of the groups where the outcomes are worse?
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by mcphage 2y ago
I used to think that, and then I realized that if you stuck a random person in the synchronized swimming event, they would just straight up die.
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by mcphage 2y ago
Well, that’s the thing about a president who does literally everything wrong: everybody can point to a thing he does that makes them angry.
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by mcphage 2y ago
Othering is bad, sure. But shipping people out of the country without due process, into a foreign high security prison, and ignoring a court order to bring him back, is a whole lot worse . Let’s keep our eyes on the ball.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> You don't have to like it, agree with it or understand it for it to happen. Sure but the problem is: he's going to fail the majority as well, which means they're going to step in and replace him next.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> The democratic process is failing the majority of people so the people are replacing it I see. And what is it that you are replacing it with ?
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by mcphage 2y ago
> The third order effect of handing out money for nothing, is the chicks coming home to roost as anti-education movements Anti-education movements may be a third order effect for this, but it's a first order effect for other groups
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by mcphage 2y ago
> Why should mostly wealthy foreign students benefit from US taxpayers funding? Because it gets elites from across the globe to send their children to the US, including lots of money.
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by mcphage 2y ago
Overall, he’s not popular right now.
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by mcphage 2y ago
Well, the first thing is, he actually needs to cut costs. Which he has not.
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by mcphage 2y ago
Phones are way faster than before, definitely. But servers aren't. Faster, yeah, but not to the same degree as phones. Nor is disk IO.
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by mcphage 2y ago
Ah, I totally missed that aspect. In the US it mostly sold cheap junk, too.
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by mcphage 2y ago
Expedited Removal to where , exactly?
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by mcphage 2y ago
I was not aware Kmart was still in business.
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by mcphage 2y ago
Too bad that’s not the argument being made by people pushing the current policies, instead of the idea that this will magically lead to us having more and better things.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> Do you think Harvard should admit students that are, "hostile to the American values and institutions inscribed in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence I'm not sure you thought this through—if Harvard stopped
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by mcphage 2y ago
> we've come back from it We as a species have come back from it, yes. But generally after millions of victims are killed, and what is left over is very different than what existed prior.
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by mcphage 2y ago
They don’t know specifically how it was done—but it is, in fact, fake.
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by mcphage 2y ago
Or the round globe!
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by mcphage 2y ago
> If things are so unstable, you avoid the instability by manufacturing domestically. That’s not avoiding the instability, that’s suffering the full brunt of the instability. That’s completely backwards.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> The USA are safe from brain drain. We’re three months into this administration. I wouldn’t make any pronouncements yet.
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by mcphage 2y ago
And is always weirdly unpopular among a certain segment of the population.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> it implies non-citizens should have more rights and privileges than citizens (i.e. be insulated from the consequences of elections) Why did you go from “fewer rights” to “more rights”, skipping right over “the same rights and privilege
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by mcphage 2y ago
> Imagine what a few Black Mirror episodes would look like if they were made in the 50s or 60s about some technology we have today. It’d be silly. It might be silly , but that doesn’t mean it would be wrong . We depend heavily on a nu
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by mcphage 2y ago
Ah, the ol’ “I’m rubber and you’re glue, anything you say bounces off of me and sticks to you”

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