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by rpiguy 9y ago
>You don't get to determine how people receive a message. You >can only take care to send it in a way that would be >received well. If everyone in a large and diverse group > >receives the message poorly, the problem i
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Sensitivity training would not have helped and is not required here. He went out of his way to praise women engineers and to emphasize he supports diversity. There are just certain that intolerant people cannot discuss rationally, like biol
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by rpiguy 9y ago
I am saying that they shouldn't have been so pissed off. The bar shouldn't be so low for defining a hostile workplace. Anyone could then get an intolerant mob together and get someone fired for expressing themselves.
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by rpiguy 9y ago
The blanket statement that Google leans left is empirically true. You also seem to have misread his comments about violence, as he claims the left tends to be more compassionate. Did you read the memo?
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Damore never said that women were worse engineers or that biology makes them worse engineers. There was no implied inferiority. It is largely the PC crowd who read implied-inferiority into any study of biological differences between male an
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by rpiguy 9y ago
The thoughts of one twenty-something engineer posted to an internal message board (for these kinds of discussions I might add) does not create a hostile workplace or harm Google in any way. Basically, in any other context we expect people w
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Again, only if you believe a line was crossed, or whether he wrote a well-intentioned memo with the goal of supporting and increasing diversity that had some dubious conclusions based on controversial research. He is also young and just sta
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by rpiguy 9y ago
I really enjoyed the well reasoned discussion. I think a lot more constructive dialog is happening now that people have calmed down. Of all the sentiments expressed in the article, I mainly disagree with the comment that Damore did the comp
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by rpiguy 9y ago
I have read these studies and often wonder if it is not the coffee itself, but rather what you aren't doing when you are drinking coffee. For example, coffee suppresses the appetite so maybe you snack less and that is driving the diffe
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Technically Damore did not do the company wrong. He posted on a private, internal discussion board at Google. Someone else leaked it to Gawker, doing the actual harm to the company. Also, his memo is concerned with what he believed potentia
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by rpiguy 9y ago
This article is arguing against four straw men. Damore's memo was not arguing that women have any less ability. Nor did it state that men and women are vastly different. It pointed out where statistically measurable differences exist.
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Or the fact that the silly Occupy Wallstreet kids are now aligned with big banks and corporations on the issue of immigration.
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Yes substantiveness and civility are related. However, making a point in 500 characters vs. 20,000+ characters lends itself to some brusqueness. I agree however, that lack of civility can undermine your argument. See the very uncivil commen
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by rpiguy 9y ago
I will concede the post could have been more civil and I apologize. However, it is extremely substantive, an entire doctoral thesis could be written on secular religions/orthodoxies and their illiberal and authoritarian nature and is d
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Or because they are more interested in theoretical application rather than practical application. PhDs are where you explore questions that have unknown market value. This is often interpreted as, "you can't hack it in the real wo
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Of course. Just be careful where you post it, you might get added to a naughty list somewhere.
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Extreme leftism is literally a religion, so much so that you can't even present scientific evidence that is contrary to their decided narrative. Born Again/Woke Transgression/Microagression Heresy/Dissent Sinner/(Ra
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Well the other side of the equation is what the new distributors (Netflix, Amazon, etc.) are willing to pay to stream a given property. If a property keeps jumping from service to service and in and out of availability I would guess it has
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by rpiguy 9y ago
It is a well known phenomenon that abundance decreases the amount of "specialness" we feel for things. It is true for music, comics, really anything that used to take effort to find and acquire. It is like a psychological corollar
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Film studios are constrained by labyrinthine contracts between studios, distributors, actors, and unions. In cases where contracts are missing, any of the above parties can sue. Even more confusingly rights for IP might have been transferre
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by rpiguy 9y ago
The IBM PC came with Basic in ROM as well as the ability to load and save programs to tape. It was also available with color graphics. ...Of course most were sold with monochrome graphics and the clones cut out the built in Basic because it
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by rpiguy 9y ago
You are correct, globalism is in fact designed and it is not inevitable. While as a broad concept it may lack agency, it certainly is driven by financial interests, and I am happy to assign the "agency" to them.
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Japan didn't just "do it." The US allowed it and encouraged it. The US wanted a strong, capitalist ally in the region to counter Communism and Japan fit the bill. The US willfully ignored Japan's protectionism while allo
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by rpiguy 9y ago
Replace the words "benevolent dictator" with "winner." People go to Google by choice, they win based on consumer preference. Unlike say, Windows, there is nothing locking you into Google you don't have to use Chrome
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by rpiguy 10y ago
Discriminatory against those with social anxiety, awkwardness, or who simply cannot sell.
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by rpiguy 10y ago
Every male has to register for the selective service (the draft) at 18 in the US allowing the government to draft you. If you got a student loan from the government in the US, you registered. You can't get federal loans without it. Jus
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by rpiguy 10y ago
I think the person saying there will be blood is the troll and the aggressor. I was just pointing out who has the guns and the police.
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by rpiguy 10y ago
I am not offended, no worries. A temporary ban on immigration for the purpose of security is a reasonable proposition to me. Every country has the right to secure itself and define who can and can't enter the country. It is fundamental
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by rpiguy 10y ago
Possibly. Remember it is the right wingers with all the guns :-)
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No Republican was duped. He's doing exactly what he said he was going to do. Temporary ban on immigration, build a wall, take an axe to the bloated federal government, can the TPP, next week we should get our first conservative supreme

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