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by quinnchr 13y ago
Well Apple did go from a $81B market cap when then app store was first introduced to the $500B market cap of today. Arguably that was due to the success of iOS. I don't think it's ridiculous to suggest that the app ecosystem contr
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by quinnchr 13y ago
If you're a man and are gender queer or gender fluid you could always apply here: http://kernelnewbies.org/OPWApply If you happen to be a person of color or disabled you could always apply here: http://www.f
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by quinnchr 13y ago
"Yet when was the last time you saw feminist and women's organizations actively campaigning for more females to register in the military and fight in the battlefield?" This is the stupidest argument. Why is this same argument
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Except the report I linked provides data and statistics that show women entrepreneurs earn less than their male counterparts across OECD countries, which is specifically what I was talking about.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Yes they are less profitable, for a variety of reasons, like the one I already listed, women have less access to capital. Read the full report if you'd like to learn more!
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No, I'm not hypothesizing a reason for this. I'm simply describing the end effect, which is women being paid less. When you control for working hours women entrepreneurs still earn less.
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And by far the majority of PHDs and professors are men. Even in women dominated fields the the professorships are dominated by men. What exactly is your point?
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by quinnchr 13y ago
The goal of women oriented initiatives isn't to tell women they aren't as capable. The author may be perfectly capable and she may be treated on her merit alone, but in aggregate women are not treated like that. From http:/&
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by quinnchr 13y ago
"This seems impossible. Returns require a receipt. I don't know what you're talking about." Depends on the store. When I used to be behind a returns desk we'd give store credit (on a gift card) if they didn't h
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Oh duh, finger painting, gotcha, my mistake. Why do you say remedial math though? Why would child support stop at 3 just because there's free preschool? You still have to provide all the other necessities of life like, you know, food a
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by quinnchr 13y ago
It's almost as if France has a robust social safety net. Child support just might be less. if we had things like: 1) inexpensive municipal day care 2) tax breaks for families employing in-home child care workers 3) universal free presc
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Yes having a family is something that affects everyone. But on average the burden of childcare is significantly biased towards the mother. Men spend about 33% as much time on house work and about 42% as much time on childcare as women do.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
If it was a result of pressure why would the disparity only show when they were told it was a math test? Are you suggesting women have an innate anxiety to doing math? I'm going to shy away from the anecdotal as that will get us nowher
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Equality isn't about eliminating differences across different groups. When I argue for a more equal society, I'm not saying everyone should be made to be identical, I'm saying everyone should be treated equitably. If you read
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by quinnchr 13y ago
http://www.unc.edu/~nielsen/soci708/module2/Science_math_gen... Specifically in the U.S. asian women score better in math than asian men. "I'm curious to here what countries those are, because I sus
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by quinnchr 13y ago
From the study: "Male monkeys, like boys, showed consistent and strong preferences for wheeled toys, while female monkeys, like girls, showed greater variability in preferences." It takes pretty huge step to get from there to sugg
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Men score better than women on standardized tests in math in some countries, while in other countries women score better ( http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~kelly/gap_sept09.pdf ). It's almost as if the culture you are surr
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Making war is also an incredibly difficult and unsolved problem. We regularly just "decide" to make war for a particular objective, with very little thought to how it will be accomplished (And what plans we do have usually end up
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Because of the Prime Directive. Although we may think we are doing good there is no way to know if our actions may lead to cultural destruction and ultimately cause more harm than good.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
If discussing salary in the workplace weren't taboo there'd be people unionizing left and right.
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No I'm not claiming it's a feature. It's a result of private enterprises lobbying for contracts, and the end result is legally mandated inefficiency.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
You are aware inflation isn't a constant across all sectors of the economy correct? A better comparison would be to look at the Producer Price Index for the relevant industries. Additionally, NASA is legally obligated to use several su
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Because long term research requires immense levels of upfront spending with no requirement to turn a profit.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
I'd imagine it'd go the same as the thousand other incidents of people trying to game commodity/currency markets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant_presidential_a...
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The U.S. actually ranks pretty low among OECD countries in terms of rate of entrepreneurship. There is a strong correlation between a strong safety net and entrepreneurship.
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On the other hand there's plenty of research indicating the relative efficiency of command economies over free market economies. Do you have any evidence to back up your claims? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science&#x2F
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by quinnchr 13y ago
It's an example of gender bias. By using exclusively he, there is an implicit assumption that whoever reading the doc block is a man, reinforcing the gender norm of programming being male dominated. I would say that falls under sexism.
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Yeah for sure the english language couldn't possibly itself be influenced by sexism. That's just how it works. We should just accept it. The pronoun itself isn't sexist it's the reason behind it's use. Beyond indica
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Looking through the closed pull requests it does not seem like rejecting typo pull requests is in fact standard practice. There are multiple accepted pull requests that merely fix typos. Additionally, if you look at the context of the full
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by quinnchr 13y ago
This is unpopular here, but I really believe that if you can't manage to empathize with those different than you there is something seriously wrong with you, and I don't think treating you like an animal is unreasonable. Beyond br

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