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White knighting is probably a big reason women don't get into tech. Being turned off by the desperate geeks they meet from the time they're 14 to 22 probably has an impact on their decisions on what to do in life.
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This article shouldn't have been? I think the one previous to this one was going to far. ("What I didn't say") It's not PG's fault people lie and have reading comprehension problems. By writing even more on thi
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It's never been about equality of opportunity. It's always been about equality of outcome which in itself is a very un-capitalist view. I understand: Maybe we can give women a shot at this and see if they can do really well. It mi
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It's unpalatable. PG says nothing more in this post than he did in last one where he really didn't need to explain himself anyways. The more he writes about this, the more he'll have to write about this to defend himself.
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On an unrelated note, the new undergraduate business school building at my alma mater cost $55 million. That's probably one of the most relevant things you could mention. Many schools don't get $55 million a year in tuition. Ima
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ETFs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fund and REITs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_investment_trust Are other investments you can look into. A mix of some blue chips that
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The "system" certainly is corrupt and flawed (particularly in the US), but I'll pick this flawed system any day if given the choice between it and a bloody revolution with millions of dead and wealth destruction on a giganti
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Why, ... Because absolute egalitarianism is dogma. Evidence of anything is just evidence of the capitalist patriarchs running everything.
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It's not reputation that makes the media successful at programming people. It's the repetition and omnipresence of the repetition.
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Publish more stats on the success of YC companies, and publish stats on % of female(, black, ...) founder applications submitted, % accepted, % funded after acceptance, etc. Sorry, but this is a terrible route to go for YC as there's
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I stopped reading this partway through because PG doesn't really need to explain himself here. Don't attribute to malice what you can attribute to your own misunderstanding.
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Sensationalist writing to stir activity. That's all that's coming from the author. There are many different schools of thought carrying around the word "libertarianism" but yes, they are in each their own way anti-politi
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The PC lynchmobs are the ones stopping the conversation. Instead of saying "prove yourself" they shout "bigot!" The OP itself says that PG is saying "Crazy" things. How are they crazy? He doesn't point out
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Many things are manufactured to create outrage. I've no doubt the duck dynasty guy is one of these cases. He’s been saying crazy shit like this on the regular for a while now... Crazy? Maybe he's just gleaming from observation a
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At first i was kinda pissed off, because to me, wearing a suit has no bearing on whether i can do a coders job or not. But afterwards i came to the realisation that if a company judges my suitability on whether or not i'm wearing a su
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It's amazing how many people enjoy Nickelback. Thankfully, I'm in Canada where everyone (save 5-10 people in this country) hate them. :)
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You have elucidated my experiences to a T. Thank you for this. Simply. Having. A wonderful Christmas time. :(
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But taxi drivers are interesting example because we’re approaching the point at which self- driving cars may become common, which would be a major professional Black Swan for taxi drivers. He was using the Taxi driver as an allegorical de
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"Why X is better than Y" would be too clean-cut for my case, but it's not far off. I wanted to start learning lisp and was told emacs was the best choice for it. I read that Richard Stallman made it and Linus Torvalds uses it
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Anyone unfamiliar with the most basic of workflows would find this needlessly complex. Just a couple of months ago, I would have. Now that I have familiarity with local branching, remote branches, how the 3-way merge works (conceptually) an
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61.5% of Web Traffic Is Not Human I, for one, am glad that human trafficking over the web is down to only 38.5%.
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One good thing has come out of the VC's move on cleantech and that is bigger mindshare. I don't disagree with you. I think the VCs are also a victim of mindshare. To me, that's the most likely explanation as to why they err
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I'm not sure how that leaves the door open for people to dodge taxes. Sales taxes...
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Bitcoins were dealt a blow in Norway as the government of Scandinavia’s richest nation said the virtual currency doesn’t qualify as real money. I don't see how this is a blow to bitcoin. All this does is leave the door open for peopl
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It'll always be austerity no matter how much the budget increases. If asked, "how much do we have to increase ongoing activities and how many more stimulus programs do we need for it not to be austerity" you'll fail to r
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Libertarians whine about arbitrary confiscation of wealth by the government, but they have no problem when competition drives the price of labor down to (or below!) the price of survivability With unemployment low, people would switch to
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Well, what other measure would you use? There is no other way to calculate whether something is done at an economic loss or profit than by the loss/profit mechanism of the economy. Again, if the market crashed far below the mining c
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Lower costs are a noble objective. Lower costs through any means, however, are an abomination. Agreed. People have the causation backwards. Lower prices stem from lower costs which come from use of less resources (natural or productive) w
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He was referring to your typo where you wrote "cremated".
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Marxists like to talk about how well Marx predicted the nature of the class struggle and stuff like that, but in a theory which sees everything in terms of class struggle, this is not a scientific prediction at all. And they typically do

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