throwaway12124

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by throwaway12124 9y ago
People won't generally admit to these sorts of uncomfortable estimations, but pretty much everyone makes them internally. If it makes you feel any better, as a rule I give diversity people higher ratings for similar performances.
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
Among other things, he wrote this: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/magazine/the-singer-soluti...
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
Sure. Again, costs nothing.
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
The author of the memo indicated that special steps were taken that would/might lower the false negative rate. Unfortunately the reference points to an internal document, but this would seem to indicate that the bar is lowered.
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
Well, or the suspicion is confirmed. But in any case, "a few years" is a long time to labor under a cloud, esp in an industry where switching jobs every couple of years is common. For myself, I'd prefer to face exactly the
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
Re the "fatigue", that sucks. But unfortunately, it's a rational reaction to AA, etc. I recall running into women in CS in the 80s, far before the days of diversity hires. It was instant respect, as you knew that that perso
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
If Peter Singer thinks it was wrong, you've got a tough road ahead of you justifying what you've done. (Full disclosure: Singer is one of my personal heroes.)
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
Google could easily have blacklisted him from any future management positions. This would have been essentially cost-free to them.
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
This fear would be a little more credible if we hadn't already read that the original memo caused widespread "terror" in a number of employees.
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
Actually, rhetorical forms are fallacies if they are not universally true. That they may be true in particular instances is not important.
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
Is there a name for this rhetorical form? If X was a true Y, they would do what I say all Ys should do.
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
It does seem like a pretext. My guess is that the execs realized that they have a bigger sh*tstorm--both internally and externally--than they realized on their hands, and want some more time to think and to let things die down. Probably s
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
It'll be interesting to see whether any of the leakers that caused that bad PR are actually fired. Seems doubtful.
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
"they won't start a hissy fit"? That's not what their comments (in the leaked screenshots) would seem to indicate. On the contrary, they seem ready to go to great lengths, lengths harmful to their employer, to carry out
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
It's not the augmentation method that's the problem. It's the apparent fact that managers/etc at Google are apparently building secret lists of people they won't work with because of ideological reasons. That&#x27
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by throwaway12124 9y ago
I've worked successfully with a number of people whose opinions on many subjects were radically different than my own. It's called being a professional.