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by slavak 9y ago
I actually tend to mostly agree with you on this. I think the safest and most rational policy is just to avoid discussing sensitive topics at work so as not to risk creating a hostile atmosphere, and I don't consider this an unreasonab
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by slavak 9y ago
> It's valid to say that decreasing stress in engineering and leadership positions might attract more women, because modern women tend that value that more. But framing it as a biological issue is hard to prove, and doesn't hel
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by slavak 9y ago
This idea of avoiding saying something because of how horrible people might choose to interpret it is something I find, frankly, terrifying. This is going beyond just censorship and going into the realm of trying to censor reality. Where do
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by slavak 9y ago
I don't know, but I think the answer is not obvious and this is a discussion worth having. Which is, arguably, exactly what the guy who wrote this memo was trying to do. There IS well-established scientific evidence for differences IN
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by slavak 9y ago
I tend to agree with your approach, but the point is that Google are apparently actively fostering the opposite atmosphere, supporting and encouraging open discussion of such topics in the workplace and in dedicated internal forums. If this
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by slavak 9y ago
His main point was that MORE of them were biologically UNINTERESTED in it, not that MOST of them were UNSUITED. And to your point... yes? If someone said a profession mostly working outside in the desert has less gingers in it because most
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by slavak 9y ago
As an (actual, not hypothetical) Jew, I could absolutely work with someone who claims Jews are statistically better at banking; Especially if that statement is scientifically well-supported, but even if it isn't. As long as that person
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by slavak 9y ago
I think the problem people have with this is that Google was (and still is) promoting themselves as a place where expressing differing opinions is welcome and encouraged, and the internal forum where he posted this was apparently used and p
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by slavak 9y ago
He said nothing of the sort you're attributing to him here, yet here you are with the pitchfork. What brought this on him was the internet lynch mob condemning him as "anti-diversity" without taking the time to even look at t
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by slavak 9y ago
He referred to a "lowered bar" in the form of a reduced false-negative rate for "diversity candidates"; at no point in the document did he imply his female engineer colleagues are less qualified. He also had a reference
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by slavak 9y ago
He cites plenty of science, it's just that Gizmodo conveniently edited out all of his references when they posted the text. Here's the full memo in its entirety: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914
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by slavak 9y ago
It's actually even worse than that: In more than one aviation accident multiple alarms and alerts actually served to confuse the pilots as to what's going on, causing them to not perform the action that would have saved the flight
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by slavak 9y ago
The NTSB does not do what-ifs in the sense of calculating expected body count had an accident not been averted. They do, however, often investigate the performance envelope involved in an incident/accident and the timeline for possible
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by slavak 9y ago
First, this video is amazing. But as the video demonstrates quite well, the first phase of a barrel roll requires pitching up into a gentle climb. This is physically impossible without exceeding 1g at any point.
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by slavak 10y ago
No, no it does not. The best reference I could find with a quick Google search says the law has been used to revoke citizenship of only 2 people since the creation of the state of Israel.
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by slavak 10y ago
The BDS movement seeks to boycott all Israeli businesses, irrespective of their location.
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by slavak 10y ago
Tel Aviv is probably the worst place in the country to look for Arabs in hi-tech; Most of them are concentrated in the Haifa and Yoqneam region. (And possibly in other areas of the country which are less of a hi-tech hub.) In some companies
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by slavak 10y ago
Just to add a [hopefully] interesting tidbit from experience as an Israeli: While Gazans don't really have the option of working directly for companies in Israel because of the travel restrictions, there are IT outsourcing firms in Gaz
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by slavak 10y ago
Probably not in the foreseeable future; the market just isn't there, and in large part- the technology isn't either. For one thing, the technology for truly automatic or nearly-automatic landing (takeoff might be simpler) requires
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by slavak 11y ago
If the Windows VMs on Azure are just as slow then that's the textbook definition of "first-class citizen." Your point would only stand if Azure ran Windows VMs as-far-as or faster than their competition, but ran Linux VMs muc
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by slavak 11y ago
NASA calls this "The Skipping Stone" theory of lift[1], and it is incorrect. What you're neglecting is that not only the bottom part of the wing diverts air downwards, but indeed the top part does as well; this contributes a
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WhatsApp “MaliciousCard” Vulnerabilities Allowed Arbitrary Code Execution(blog.checkpoint.com)
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by slavak 11y ago
Isn't that the entire point of AdBlock's default allowing of non-intrusive ads? People like to rant about them "selling out," but IMO it's a reasonable approach to allow decent sites to make a living, is a good mone
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by slavak 12y ago
A personal pet peeve of mine is websites that happily inform me my 20-character long, randomly generated by a secure algorithm with an extra heaping of entropy, password is not "strong enough." I just love generating 3 or 4 diff
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by slavak 12y ago
Running a hash locally is equally useless. You've effectively turned the hashed value into the password itself, achieving nothing. There are secure key-exchange schemes that don't require sending over the raw password, but this
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by slavak 12y ago
> Unfortunately, for reasons that are hard for me to understand, it has become pro forma to pretend that it's just fine if adults talk and act as if it is, even if they only "kinda-sorta" believe it. We act like it's
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by slavak 12y ago
Off-topic, but I couldn't help pointing out that saying "DMA access to main memory" is even worse than the classic "ATM machine" or "PIN number."
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by slavak 12y ago
> Otherwise it'll be just "MIT are satisfied this person broke one of our policies" whenever they want to fire someone with an unpopular opinion. And unless the person in question chooses to contest the allegation, either
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by slavak 12y ago
Except, of course, that the pyramids are a marvel of workmanship and engineering probably built by a relatively small force of skilled workers. Their construction methods are about as far from "brute-force" as you could possibly g
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by slavak 12y ago
You're a little late to the party, then.[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug

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