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by tajen 10y ago
Yes: - In France, the last law about gender equality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12688339 - In France, organizations which support only women, by statute (see last link). In USA, "Girlz In Web" and all s
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by tajen 10y ago
> You're responding to an argument that I didn't make. You're correct, I answered to both parents in one comment, and found it useful to put my comment under yours because you had a very common objection, although I forgot
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by tajen 10y ago
> some kind of obvious industry norm. It is not; you should reword. OP's study about women being promoted 25% faster than men just means it's an industry norm to promote women. At least nowadays. I'd like to attract your a
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by tajen 10y ago
> Name those advantages I'm French, so unfortunately I'll quote the French law. On the upside this law was an election promise of the current government (left-wing, socialist), so you're really reading the outcome of a cur
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by tajen 10y ago
> Either way, anecdotal, so shrug What? The article in the title just says "Women are promoted in 9 years against 12 for men", and you qualify examples as anecdotal?
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by tajen 10y ago
The whole equality story was, at the beginning, "If there's more men passing one stage (IQ tests, high school diploma or promotion), then it's biased against women. Then suddenly when women are promoted more often than men, y
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by tajen 10y ago
I've had 2 examples around me where the woman was incompetent in programming and she was promoted because she was better with Excel spreadsheets. Plus the prejudice that men are supposed to be worse at communication than women, so mana
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by tajen 10y ago
As a man, I've noticed the "women promotion difference" very importantly in companies I've been employed in: Since 2006, it's mostly women who are promoted, with configurations like my last job where both my team le
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by tajen 10y ago
It's impossible to dodge a door open by an uncareful driver. It happened to me, I was cycling really slow, I was watching that door because I suspected the driver was still inside: When the driver slammed her door open, it just hit my
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by tajen 10y ago
I've just installed Sandstorm to test it: Created a droplet in Digital Ocean, logged in ("ssh root@...", and they had my ssh key), the curl|bash, and it worked. It was way beyond awesome for an open-source Linux app. So the E
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by tajen 10y ago
Economics and scale can be a strange beast. The sum of Amazon EC2 + Google Cloud + Digital Ocean + Rackspace +... is about 10,000,000 servers, which makes... 1 server per 7,000 inhabitants on Earth. Have you ever looked at it this way? And
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by tajen 10y ago
Actually, it's not acceptable from a national security standpoint to massively let a country's citizen flock on US services, at least as long as the NSA/CIA exists. The internet does need much more competition on all continen
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by tajen 10y ago
Except, maybe China retrieved the emails, but was more careful to leave no trace and didn't say it. Which means they can have been used in order to blackmail people against the interest of the United States, without us knowing, which m
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by tajen 10y ago
> no concept of door to door travel time Yup, we should have a luggage drop wagon on board of the BART, and the BART should drop us at our gate. Obviously that implies the BART is also a giant TSA irradiation oven (Want to opt out? Wel
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by tajen 10y ago
> Combined with a password manager is a pretty good combination. So 2FA combines something you have (your phone) with something your phone knows.
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by tajen 10y ago
First I'm surprised Al Queda doesn't use a special OS or a virus to make phones explode on a plane. Second, it could be competitors who specifically target the Note 7 with a 0-day attack to harm Samsung's reputation. All phon
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by tajen 10y ago
I've always considered moving populations was a crime against humanity because it stems so many problems. The UN and the UCJ (The Haye) doesn't assume this, but I wonder whether they've ever considered it. Whether it's S
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by tajen 10y ago
I only buy from Amazon when the product isn't available anywhere else: Between counterfeit products, external vendors that I don't know how to distinguish from Amazon itself, stuff "Available in 2 days" that gets deliver
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by tajen 10y ago
I'd say the peak strength must be 22-26, because 18-years-olds are really thin and lean (source: I love men ;)) – unless they've been practising musculation, but once again, if they practice musculation at 24, they'll be much
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by tajen 10y ago
They operate in the south of Confluence: It's a straight line without intersections. Granted there are pedestrians in this area, but I don't even think there are cyclists around. I was a bit disappointed when I learnt about the pa
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by tajen 10y ago
Awesome Screenshot Minus – What does everyone else use to make nice screenshots?
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by tajen 10y ago
I'm in France and I sometimes notice that USA articles focus only on underpriviledged talent . Why only the talents? It's a bit like rape is fought against, except in prisons because they're lower-grade citizen. Or like arti
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by tajen 10y ago
Why is it potentially less secure than an iPhone? Attackers can't scan the RAM because of the enclosure, whereas they might do so on an iPhone, correct?
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by tajen 10y ago
In Europe I've heard a lot of comments after the Brexit that the voters of the Leave camp were "aging", "countryside" or "racist". Very few people view them as possibly having a rational reasoning. "W
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by tajen 10y ago
It did really happen, but as I said I don't remember whether the other questions were tougher. Perhaps they allow one question to be unknown. For example, when you recover a Google account, they ask you when you've created it and
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by tajen 10y ago
...then I called my bank, they asked me what was my grand mother's name and I answered "Oh it's a very long, random string". I don't remember how secure the other questions were, but she seemed satisfied with such a
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by tajen 10y ago
Interesting remark. I make the same calculation as yours and I also find that there currently is 1000 servers per million inhabitants on Earth today (between Amazon, Rackspace, MS and DO). In other words, one server serves 1,000 inhabitants
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by tajen 10y ago
Yes I have. The installation process shows a progress bar in an old-school bevel/embossed window, underlined with the filename it's writing. On my computer it showed alerts in the middle. Once started, it's just a normal Linu
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by tajen 10y ago
My sister doesn't know much, but asks me all the time "Do you think my employer can bug my personal phone?" My parents asked me whether it's safe to enter their credit card numbers on their computer. My parents asked me
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by tajen 10y ago
> worst case Can you develop please? To me it seems that the worst case would be an immediate and permanent revocation of their certs because of fraud. I find Mozilla/Google very lenient in this affair, and that's probably

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