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ntuch
9y ago
What's more infuriating is that this explanation persisted in spite of women's gains in the fields of psychology, law, and medicine, just to name a few. The idea that computer science men perpetrated some special and successful co
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ntuch
9y ago
Your comment is a great example of the logical fallacy:argument by ridicule. You haven't made a valid point. You re wrong. And you can prove this to yourself (if you're able) by making an attempt to address his comment directly, w
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ntuch
9y ago
> not working along side of women Women able to read and comprehend at high school level would have no problem working along side him.
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ntuch
9y ago
>use that data to show the right ads to the right people To expand on what you're saying here, YouTube allows offended people to bully them by contacting advertisers and saying things like, "YouTube is putting ads for your comp
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ntuch
9y ago
> We cannot address body shaming, by hiding people of different body sizes. I just want to make sure that I understand you. You're saying that in your dating app, you prevent people from searching/filtering based on body size a
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ntuch
9y ago
That was a poor attempt at argument by ridicule. You didn't actually address anything I said.
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ntuch
9y ago
What if it turns out that there is a deep-seated psychological need present in many (NOT ALL) humans to participate in peer groups defined along lines of gender - and what if it turns out that if society denies them acceptable outlets for t
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ntuch
9y ago
> hate speech" is not a class. As a hacker, do you not see that there's a security vulnerability here that's big enough to drive a truck through? You simply label whatever you don't like as hate speech, then you
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ntuch
9y ago
> publishers (what Facebook et al. are) They're not publishers, so your argument falls apart in the very first sentence. I don't recall a time in history when services (what Facebook et al. are) were allowed to police the conte
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ntuch
9y ago
Depends on how long the signal lasts. If it's continuous, there's no way to take it with a single transmitter. Astronomers can detect the apparent motion of stars caused by the earth's orbit, and use those measurements to tri
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ntuch
9y ago
The evergreen professor didn't get any mainstream interviews, did he?
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ntuch
9y ago
> I'm setting up the premise for a logical argument Nope. You're arguing a straw man. You're lying about the contents of the memo. > I could work my way through the tedious document again and point out the compendium o
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ntuch
9y ago
> Good, you do not contest that Literally nobody has ever contested it. The google manifesto didn't contest it. You just imagined it. You're arguing against a straw man. You always have been. > So, "there are fewer wome
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ntuch
9y ago
So the answer to the question: Could you quote exactly the line where he 'attempted to do the same with women who work at Google'? is, "no, I cannot quote that, because I just made it up." > It's implicit in the
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ntuch
9y ago
> asians in professional basketball perform worse than others Can you quote the exact portion of his post that made this claim? If not, then why did you state it?? > he completely ignores the fact that ratios in other high stress high
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ntuch
9y ago
> Do you contest there are female (software) engineers, or at least one female software engineer, in the highest echelons that are completely technically on par with their male counterparts? Why would I contest that? After I just said, &
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ntuch
9y ago
> a population of engineers is not randomly selected so isn't appear guasian with respect to averages of the global population That's totally irrelevant - so irrelevant that the fact you posted it suggests you don't unders