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811.
by repolfx 8y ago
That's a fascinating definition of poverty. It's certainly not an internationally recognised one. Have you ever been to England? People in Birmingham or Manchester are certainly not living in poverty by any reasonable definition o
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by repolfx 8y ago
Which of the last 20 comment threads I started do you consider "ideological flamewar"? Many of them have been voted up. Quite a few of them are on technical topics. And why is my comment "flamewar" when the other 3 repli
813.
by repolfx 8y ago
That sounds completely delusional I'm afraid. The article(s) were summaries of an internal post-mortem written by one of Oracle's competitors - the exact opposite of Oracle PR. And how exactly is some random professor going to d
814.
by repolfx 8y ago
Traditional yes, and not even necessarily better. Amazon had a big outage in recent times that their own post-mortem linked to trying to move off Oracle to Aurora. Interestingly it was posted here to HN and repeatedly and immediately flagge
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by repolfx 8y ago
What social pressure? The article contains a random quote from some woman who claims she couldn't go on holiday if she had a second child. That's clearly nonsense, of course they could go on holiday if they had a second child. May
816.
by repolfx 8y ago
That's what the article claims has happened.
817.
by repolfx 8y ago
It used to be quite common everywhere. The idea that you should immediately give up after a single "no" is very modern even in the west, and by no means is it an idea all women are on board with. For example. George Clooney had to
818.
by repolfx 8y ago
Political diversity would come naturally if a company really is trying to get a diversity of backgrounds and experiences because those different experiences are the cause of political differences to begin with. In fact "political diver
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by repolfx 8y ago
The resume problem is the inverse, isn't it? The studies I've seen where resumes were having names removed before being sent to recruiters showed a slight bias against white men which is why these schemes always get shut down -
820.
by repolfx 8y ago
That story is apocryphal. The software in question simply struggled with low contrast images like a dark face in a dark room, which isn't due to racism or employees forgetting that black people exist: it's an inherently hard image
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by repolfx 8y ago
There's a list someone is maintaining here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gender_equality_lawsui... It only has one in the last three years. Moreover, a quick news search for 'gender pay discriminatio
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by repolfx 8y ago
Is it a thing, or is it something made up by psychologists and social activists with an agenda? It would appear to be unfalsifiable. If someone is sure they don't want X, and you're telling them they really do want X it's jus
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's not a joke or even a thought experiment. The Soviet Union basically did exactly that and had >50% female participation in CS courses.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Jordan Peterson said it best: There is no wage gap. There is an earnings gap. So, nobody is suggesting that wage gaps are fake. They're asserting it as undisputable fact. Find a place where men and women of equal experience, time at wo
825.
by repolfx 8y ago
Well, mostly we don't teach kids assembly ... Music is frequently taught at schools but not pushed as a career choice, so I'm not sure that the original complaint holds (at least not everywhere). Almost all children where I grew u
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by repolfx 8y ago
Your last and second-to-last paragraphs aren't entirely congruous are they? Firstly you argue that "the right" is responsible for villifying government action, i.e. the population at large were basically static in their views
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by repolfx 8y ago
exactly why is left as an exercise for the reader. Because for a long time politicians in all western countries have been pushing the idea that attending university shouldn't be a rare or elite thing, that instead nearly everyone s
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by repolfx 8y ago
That explanation sounds good but I couldn't find much on the doctor=doctrine link. This says the word comes from medieval Latin "docere" which simply means to teach. Doctrine shares the same root word as doctor, but that root
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by repolfx 8y ago
Obligatory plug for https://heterodoxacademy.org/ However, lately I've come to wonder if the solution isn't simply to defund all non-STEM academic subjects. It seems likely that subjects that aren't strongly
830.
by repolfx 8y ago
Is that still true? I read some time ago that the LED used to be hardware controlled, but switched to being software controlled at some point.
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by repolfx 8y ago
That is indeed very grim, given the number of angry straw men that moderator came out with. Has Trump ever supported "ethnic cleansing"? No. Has he even supported racism? As far as I know, no, despite attempts to cast his criticis
832.
by repolfx 8y ago
Was it naive? Seems Oracle boosted investment in Java after the acquisition, at least. The stuff they cut were all dead projects walking anyway, eventually those projects were going to go no matter what Sun's fate was.
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by repolfx 8y ago
And oddly enough the ones that get kicked out from other networks are the ones repeatedly targeted by people like Asparagirl. Their mission is quite obviously to completely erase anyone who doesn't share their same set of hates and out
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by repolfx 8y ago
Gab is just a clone of Twitter. I might well agree that Twitter-type services are more prone to "hateful expression" than longer form writing, but given the relative sizes of Twitter and Gab you can certainly find far more hate on
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by repolfx 8y ago
That's like saying Twitter is a female-supremacist Gab. There sure are many open sexists who hate men on Twitter: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/octavia-sheepshanks/feminis... https://www.independent.
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by repolfx 8y ago
I think that was because of an acquisition.
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by repolfx 8y ago
I vouched for it. This is clearly tech related, interesting and speaks to an issue of our time - the move to/from the cloud. The headline isn't entirely wrong ... there were two outages on Prime Day and the move off Oracle DB was
838.
by repolfx 8y ago
Sure, if someone says "call me this" and you don't, I agree, that's annoying. But it should be a polite request, not the start of a fight. And what is the long form then? The only female name I can think of that shorte
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by repolfx 8y ago
That sounds utterly trivial - why was Sal/Sally so upset by an attempt to be polite by not using a short form/pet name. That must happen to her all the time in formal settings. As for "voicing concerns with current practice
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by repolfx 8y ago
RMS seems to deny the role we free software people play in the demographics of our communities. You're making a major assumption that any such role is played. There's no reason to think that is the case. The free software commu

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