sheepmullet

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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Soros donates to a lot of progressive groups, you'd be hard to find any single company/organization that have not been criticized by a group that has ever taken Soros money > for all the folks who think Soros is a Jewish g
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> If you don't prefer tools that can automatically check if you were a good developer or not You are pretending there are no trade offs. > it not only does not scale (to trust the software you build) I think we should all be able
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Now the ecosystem itself can move pretty fast depending on the dependencies you use, that's true, but that's a different issue. Is it? I’m used to languages which bundle a huge set of standard libraries as part of the languag
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> When somebody asked him whether he thought Trump was racist, he responded "well, has Trump said that he is a racist?" A wise response. It is incredibly easy to smear a person in the “other” tribe.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
Sure - I’m saying you want a combination of the three.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> If I spend a bunch of money/time on new guys I have less to spend on experienced guys compared to the company that just spends it on experienced guys. That is the theory - in practice it is a bit different. It takes a lot longer t
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> very smart, fast learners Well that is your friends first problem! For a smart fast learner your friend isn’t providing a benefit worth the cost of a couple of years of low job growth. Your friend should look for candidates who are ave
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
I think many companies simply don’t know how! Once big companies stopped investing in training because they thought they could push most new work offshore people gradually forgot how to do it!
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Since introduction of quotas, Italy saw women's representation soar from 8% to 32% And how much of this is because of quotas? Australia (ASX200) went from 8.3% in 2009 to 28.5% in 2018 without a quota system.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> It is head-smackingly obvious that a wide variety of experiences at senior management level leads to Is it? Many of the companies with board level quotas aren’t particularly efficient.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> They have extremely high levels of female MPs versus alternative parties. And having more women MPs instead of men has done what exactly for their countries? I don’t think anyone has particularly great things to say about either countr
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Many people don’t want to take on those legal and financial obligations. But they used to so what has changed? And could it be changed back? Edit: If anything people used to jump into them too quickly.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
But then what are the advantages? I think we should have a few different types of marriage and then see what people choose. For example one marriage option could be the man gets automatic full custody of the kids in the event of a divorce.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
An interesting thought experiment: what would marriage have to be like to make marriage appealing again?
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> by taking them away from other companies or other industries > So that is sometimes an option for certain employers, but not for an entire industry. It is not so simple. Higher wages drives automation which then reduces the need for
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
If you meant how much genetics determines overall outcomes then I agree there isn’t a scientific consensus. In your first paragraph you were clearly talking about traits and not outcomes: > attribute sex-/gender-specific trait diffe
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Most of them have mild to strong disagreement with the memo A scientific disagreement? I’m not seeing any links to any recent meta analysis etc. Nor even any strong claims like “there are no major biological sex differences in personal
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> I have the impression that there is no broad scientific consensus about the extent to which gender-specific career choices are biologically innate. You are shifting the goalposts. We were discussing traits/personality differences.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
Yes, but when did he first become an anti-vaxxer?
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> as far as I know there's not really a scientific consensus - at least nowhere near as much as for climate change Why do you think that?
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
When did Trump become an anti-vaxxer? Don’t forget that Trump was a prominent Dem supporter for decades.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> nor would I expect to see articles like the following: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/some-scientific-argum... . That article is a great example of swaying people by pretending the scientific cons
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Nutjobs agreeing with someone doesn't mean they're wrong, but it's strong evidence they might be wrong It doesn’t really work well for politics - it’s clear nutjobs support both major parties here in the US.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> The root cause (this idea that somehow my nation/religion/race/etc is superior) This isn’t really the root cause. It is possible and common to think your group is superior without wishing any harm onto others and without
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Which party wouldn't work harder when they know that if you're not voting for them, you're voting for someone else? It completely changes the strategy - when you know everyone has to vote the winning strategy is to be th
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> provides nothing of value for the direct, immediate added cost is enough reason to oppose it. At a minimum it provides more confidence and faith in the voting system. That’s not a small benefit. It also provides a safeguard against fra
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
For the same reason I support sensible regulations stopping companies from dumping random chemicals in the water supply. It’s a basic and sensible precaution.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> By not voting you're telling politicians that you don't matter and they will believe you. Which party wouldn’t work hard to get an extra 100k+ voters? > moderates the extremes of policy. Not that the US is perfect but Aust
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> To what point and purpose? 1) Because you don’t want to feel responsible. 2) To ensure politicians have to work for your vote. Item 2 would work even better if we moved away from first past the post. > I'd say the Australian mo
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> In what way? What are you choosing exactly? You are signalling that neither party has your support. Even in countries with mandatory voting a decent number of people cast an empty ballot.

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