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by nyxtom 9y ago
I'm really tired of this multi-national corporations thinking they can come in and destroy the local market while leaving pennies for the employees; let alone not comply with local regulations. Good riddance!
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by nyxtom 9y ago
If you arrive anywhere and assume the corporate alternatives you are used to aren't available, you will choose to use the local available services? How is this unreasonable?
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by nyxtom 9y ago
Austin did something similar and it has worked out great (for the most part) since we have Austin ride share which helps the local community.
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by nyxtom 9y ago
I wouldn't mind any of this about Facebook except for the fact that it is mostly a walled off portion of the internet. Content has a hard time behaving like a normal part of the internet. So to make it work you absolutely have to have
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by nyxtom 9y ago
So, basically a hotel mini-bar?
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by nyxtom 9y ago
It for sure won't, but it definitely isn't helping
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by nyxtom 9y ago
Stop pumping excess heat energy into the atmosphere. EDIT: While this won't stop them from happening, this is definitely not helping things.
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by nyxtom 9y ago
Consider how lucky we are to even have spent any time at all to reach a point in the cosmos to make this realization. Even if humanity manages to survive past this problem, there are many more including the overconsumption of the world&#x27
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by nyxtom 9y ago
This is great advice on the importance of persona driven design.
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by nyxtom 9y ago
I assume that any website that promotes genocide is probably not a good thing to host no matter what country you are; considering Russia also fought against the Nazis.
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by nyxtom 9y ago
People seem to be missing the entire substance of what he's getting at. That's why he mentions "no one should have that power". He even follows up about this in the blog. > Without a clear framework as a guide for con
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by nyxtom 9y ago
That being said, I had a different conclusion than you, as did many others about the intention of the article. The repressed outrage seems like a decent way to explain some of the points so I see where you are coming from.
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by nyxtom 9y ago
Some research will attribute group cooperation as a fundamental necessity in human progress (given that it is almost impossible that we got anywhere without specialization of tasks and an inherit need to cooperate between groups). Other res
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by nyxtom 9y ago
I hope this works, otherwise we are all screwed when earth continues to catch fire
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by nyxtom 9y ago
I can definitely see this relationship, especially given America's past dynamics. There are some interesting evolutionary perspectives on the utility of altruistic punishment and the link to egalitarianism. Rather, inequality can be on
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by nyxtom 9y ago
> Hiring someone because they conform to a (non work skill based) target is discriminatory. discrimination is the enemy of diversity, be it positive or negative discrimination. Not sure about this one, companies hire based on whether or
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by nyxtom 9y ago
It's worth mentioning (if it fancies interest) that the individualism-collectivism and relational scales vary across cultures. Conclusions about these scales and overlaps as it relates to gender and culture in and of themselves fall pr
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by nyxtom 9y ago
He doesn't, but he made a prediction and was proved correct and thus was fired as a result of the nature and dynamics of altruistic punishment. I claim that his observations and claims about the diversity policy were merely a footnote
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by nyxtom 9y ago
Alternative title: why I will probably never get a job in a number of companies by stringing along political controversy. In all seriousness, he knew the climate; made a prediction about that climate and chose to prove it correct - even str
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by nyxtom 9y ago
Google has a lot of this information publicly available and broken down in further categories than the ones you mention; worth taking a look at https://www.google.com/diversity/ Apple as well: https://www.ap
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"You and I can't be equal..." a letter to the editor(twitter.com)
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by nyxtom 9y ago
Indeed! Speaking of stereotypes it seems :) Most nights I am pretty burnt out from work that I rarely want to hack on anything. But when I've had enough sleep and an article/project or coursera class peaks my interest I'll ta
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by nyxtom 9y ago
I want to refute this notion that you have to work 24/hrs a day, 7 days a week. A lot of company cultures that are like that seem to be much more competitive and tends to favor young single kids ready to pour in late nights. I say this
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by nyxtom 9y ago
The base of her argument rests on this: "In fact, research has shown that cultures with greater gender equity have larger sex differences when it comes to job preferences, because in these societies, people are free to choose their occ
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by nyxtom 9y ago
This is really exciting to hear. Andrew is absolutely a fantastic teacher!
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by nyxtom 9y ago
Thank you for this honest real-world example. For the sake of context, I am also showing a bit of my bias concerning the issue of masculine frat culture that I myself have had the displeasure of being exposed to at previous start-ups. It wa
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by nyxtom 9y ago
Fair enough, I felt like I should've known that :/
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by nyxtom 9y ago
It isn't 100% fair, but the guy also stated that a systemic bias will likely create a negative (and one can conclude hostile) reaction rather than constructive discourse. It is safe to assume that if you can predict that there is likel
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by nyxtom 9y ago
You know, I actually thought Sundar's response to this whole thing was actually quite on point. He addresses the issue of needing to be able to discuss points in the memo that are open to discussion (such as the effectiveness of a poli
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by nyxtom 9y ago
Bingo. In my opinion, you wouldn't need a diversity program, sensitivity training, or unconscious bias training if you stopped hiring frat boys with no life experience straight out of college. They have done this to themselves and now

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