nowo

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by nowo 9y ago
> Can you explain to me the point I've made that you're arguing for or against with your question. The idea in your comment is that you can't, or at least are dissuaded, to express certain opinions. Most the things I hear
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by nowo 9y ago
You realize his paper was posted to a list at google called "pc-considered-harmful"?
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by nowo 9y ago
I stumbled on that one too. But of course a high cost of living results in a low score and vice versa. Probably should have called it affordability.
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by nowo 9y ago
As far as I know the concept is the same in every country. I really don't understand what you are talking about. When you sign a contract you agree to become an employee under the terms of the contract and employment law. When they agr
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by nowo 9y ago
> If you sign a contract with your employee saying you won't do no-poaching then doing so would be a breach of contract obviously but that would be a specific use-case. You contract is "employment law" + "your contrac
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by nowo 9y ago
This is one of those arguments the grand parent was talking about. Unfortunately this argument is why someone has a larger salary than someone else, not why there are disparities between groups. Unless different groups unequally finds thems
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by nowo 9y ago
I think it was wrong to fire him too. But honestly it somewhat of a feat to manage to criticize large parts of the organization, make a large part of the company angry and end up on big news sites, all at the same time. Especially since Goo
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by nowo 9y ago
It's pointless to claim "lack of critical reading ability" without presenting an argument, since anyone with critical reading ability would have to dismiss that statement as unsupported.
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by nowo 9y ago
Everyone is saying that they are open to discuss this, but as soon as someone says what they think about the paper they are met with dismissal. People interpret his large focus on the biological traits of women, by presenting those traits a
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by nowo 9y ago
Women 31% overall, 20% tech. https://www.google.com/diversity/
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by nowo 9y ago
> I haven't seen a single criticism of the paper that even recognizes the author is referencing large-scale incontrovertible research involving the Big-5 personality model (the giveaway is the use of terms "agreeability",
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by nowo 9y ago
I don't agree that this is a benign reason in itself. Regardless if you say that women don't want to be programmers now or that women never wanted to be programmers, you have to find a good reason why they don't want to. Beca
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by nowo 9y ago
> The question is: where are the goalposts? Is the industry sick and oppressive towards women until it hits 50% representation? I don't think that's a fair expectation. It's hard to find a benign reason why the percentage
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by nowo 9y ago
Much of CS is more similar to economics, accounting, statistics etc. than engineering. Making a statistical model is generally much closer to CS than making the hull for a boat.
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by nowo 9y ago
The "facing 40 years" is a quirk of the US justice system. While still often out of proportion he's not going to get 40 years. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/41-months-weev-underst...
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by nowo 9y ago
They could presumably investigate you with much greater power outside of the US where you don't have the same rights. I don't know if they could later use that in court, but that was at least what someone argued regarding Silk Roa
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by nowo 9y ago
While it's a different situation, it's still not a good one. The lack of rights for foreigners, the NSAs reach, the willingness to prosecute citizens of other countries, long detentions and harsh penalties for computer crimes etc.