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by rad88 9y ago
You are obviously bound to the supply of the market. What I'm saying is that the market is bigger than you assume. The number of women interested in and capable of a career in programming is much greater than the number of those who ac
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by rad88 9y ago
No doubt. I'm not here to say any company can have ~50% female engineers if only they did what we do, but this idea that a more reasonable expectation would be 16% strikes me as bullshit. So I'm boasting a bit, not claiming this i
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by rad88 9y ago
The number I think is important is not how many CS grads there are (no one on my team has a CS major) or how many software developers there are, it's how many people are interested in and capable of this job. I don't know what the
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by rad88 9y ago
~60% of the developers on my team are women. It's not magic. Also, in a big company most employees are not engineers, so the relative lack of female CS grads shouldn't mean there are so few women that you need to hire them for eve
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by rad88 9y ago
The whole point is to eliminate social programs.
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by rad88 9y ago
Those are great achievements but still nowhere close to the grandiosity of his vision. I appreciate that he is an accomplished person and CEO but that doesn't mean he's going to colonize Mars and give us instant transport between
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by rad88 9y ago
It's a good term that is being appropriated. Emotional labor described some aspects of jobs such as customer service, nurse, etc., where the work actually requires feeling certain emotions so that your client can feel empathized with.
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by rad88 9y ago
By indicating you want it and being a participant in the market for it. There are people who, knowing you are like them and enjoy that sort of thing, will make it for you. To make you happy. It's that sick.
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by rad88 9y ago
Bad apples means tiny minority. The proportion of porn being exchanged on Tor marketplaces that involves children or abuse is not tiny.
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by rad88 9y ago
On the other hand you have people who are not materially threatened by white nationalism deciding to kick the hornets nest because they're in a bad mood. That was bullshit and should be condemned. The far right's persecution compl
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by rad88 9y ago
One of the basic contexts of the debate is the question of whether tech workplaces are hostile to women. The tone of the email making claims about women in the workplace is relevant.
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by rad88 9y ago
> 90% of women in china would not consider dating a man who earn less than the median income. 4/5 women in China are married by age 30. By ages 35-39 only 4.6% are unmarried. I guess eventually they all settle? https://en
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by rad88 9y ago
The account for sure. I wonder about everything else though? Maybe it's naive but it seems like you could create a "presidential" tweet anywhere from their DBs to their CDNs.
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by rad88 10y ago
"unwarranted scrutiny" is a funny term here.
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by rad88 10y ago
> He barely even won --- he lost the popular vote by a greater margin than any candidate in US history. This point unfortunately plays into the messaging that you're criticizing sama for. The electoral college was the winner take al
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by rad88 10y ago
On the face of it, claiming you lack the ability to access your own phone appears evasive and dishonest. Beware of this. Apparently misleading or obstructive behavior might cause more severe consequences than invoking your legal right to re
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by rad88 10y ago
Uber enacted their tipping policy to keep total control over prices and moreover to keep prices low. When they were sued by their own workers because of this and had their backs against the wall, they had to claim it was because of this rac
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by rad88 10y ago
This is the claim made by Uber spokesmen. I also heard it directly from an Uber manager. It disgusted me too. https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/04/27/uber-resists...
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by rad88 10y ago
Uber's claim is that black people are known to tip poorly, and so drivers would be incentivized to cancel their rides in favor of fares they expect will tip better. Therefore they don't allow tipping to prevent racism. Supposedly.
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by rad88 10y ago
It seems highly unlikely to me that Kalanick has any ability to influence Trump/Bannon's policy in this area. But I'd like to address to aside you made about "legitimacy". GP talked about legitimizing policies . Th
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by rad88 10y ago
Why would Trump listen to what Kalanick has to say about a policy order that is notionally an urgent response to national security threats from Iranian/Syrian/etc. travelers? With Steve Bannon speaking into the other ear? Bear in
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by rad88 10y ago
It wouldn't be the same thing. But that didn't happen, her sentence was reduced by 2-3 decades and she'll be out in a few months. It's clearly clemency.
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by rad88 10y ago
Many if not most Americans have investments, so the effect is not exactly balanced. Households that could do so would adjust their portfolios taking into account the additional guaranteed cash flow. Investment also reacts positively to the
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by rad88 10y ago
There is another issue besides the labor/wage effect on price, that aggregate demand is increased and therefore at current prices aggregate supply does not meet demand. Aggregate price levels should increase (keeping it at econ 101 sin
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by rad88 10y ago
The economics suggest UBI is inflationary even if budgets are balanced. For several reasons -- the most 101 is that an increase in the real value of the welfare scheme decreases the labor supply, implying rising wages and therefore rising p
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by rad88 10y ago
They are at a disadvantage trying to find work on the other side of the country due to currently being homeless on the West Coast. People look for work starting nearby and then at increasing distances because that is the practical way to fi
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by rad88 10y ago
TFA describes a mom who is keeping it together for a family of five on a $11/hour wage (they lost the home when the dad got injured), and teachers who are commuting 2+ hours each way to get to work. What evidence do you have that these
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by rad88 10y ago
Every company with investors has to be more than it is.
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by rad88 10y ago
> I'm not especially interested in whether or not it's cosmically fair when deciding whether or not it's deserved. The argument about the "risk-tasking investors" rightfully owning the work of the "risk-free
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by rad88 10y ago
If you own a large amount of value or wealth that you did not create, I would say that is undeserved. Founders and early employees contribute work and are hopefully rewarded for that work with ownership stakes in the company. Rightly so. Bu

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