rndmwlk

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by rndmwlk 9y ago
>then your poverty is still a result of your decision. Except those decisions have been influenced by you growing up in poverty, which you've already pointed out.
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
If you agree with: "You are more likely to be poor as an adult if you grew up in a poor household." How can you also agree with: "the only thing standing between a poor person and the life of their dreams is their own decisio
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
Do you think the following is true? You are more likely to be poor as an adult if you grew up in a poor household. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-kids-stay-rich-poo...
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
>cut their massive marketing budget to finance more research. You think a company that sells a single drug for a rare disease has a massive marketing budget? The pharma industry (medical industry in general, really) has been completely f
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
>Your memo was a triumph of motivated reasoning The irony is palpable. "Larry" cites a bunch of well reasoned essays that support his view, but there were plenty of the same supporting James'. >Teamwork, in particular,
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
>If the main argument is that women do not [by nature of our scientific understanding] have minds tuned to engineering prowess to the extent that men do for whatever cause, then just how does that itself prescribe that we should stop pus
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
I consider that a huge issue. No justifiable reason for that.
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
They would need to ask the FBI, not the Marshals.
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
That's probably my disconnect right there, as I have not been following Github's cultural issues much at all. Unfortunate to hear.
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
>I can see how her comments could be perceived as rude, or "unempathetic." I cannot see how - especially at Github, a place not known for cultural sensitivity - they were firable. I agree, I think this is where the "fishy&
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
>However, as an organization, Github can and should do better than that, and I think here that it did not. Consider if the situations were reversed. What if some white male engineer was simply being terse in an email to her. Might she at
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
>I think it is possible that there is some sexism here in that I'm not confident a male employee at Github would ever be challenged over failing this communication standard. What leads you to this conclusion? Sexism may have been at
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
>Is there some weird convention in finance to do it that way? Nope, it's a convention in journalism.
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
"The forces interested in keeping a large company afloat, he argue, are far greater than those that wish to see it perish. He'd present the students with the following hypothetical situation. First, he'd say, let's locat
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
>I imagine there were many people in 1972-1973 who were also saying they hope discussions "steer clear of politics". Please don't do this. This is really just (poorly) veiled mud slinging.
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
>Put the most relevant at the top and if people want to read a free second hand ripoff of some news they can select a lower ranked search result. Couldn't you argue that if the free "ripoff" has the same information and is
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by rndmwlk 9y ago
Quick aside from the point of the article...the "Growth in labor productivity..." and "Capital Investment in IT..." graphs are one of those fudged to present a particular point of view stats. Wow, so capital investment s