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I'd suggest reading some scientific papers before going too far in that direction. I've read a lot of them. These scientists routinely do things like cite papers that contradict the claim the citation is meant to support. They wri
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I don't think it was "institution skeptics" who made COVID a political issue. How many months did it take before academics were claiming that anti-lockdown protests were dangerous and must not happen but BLM protests were to
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Well, I understand that feeling. I nearly gave up half way through my prior comment too for the same reasons. I hope at least you understand the experiences and reasoning behind the viewpoint, and see that it's not mere reactionism but
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Yes, but so what? Leftism is often supported by rich benefactors. This only looks like a gotcha if you believe that the sort of people who talk about oppression by the rich want to walk the walk. If you look at what they do rather than wh
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Google do not control the signing keys for Android for any phones other than their own Pixel line. So whilst true in theory, in practice the open source nature of Android with OEMs in the middle distributes the power around.
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Which free speech activists have been advocating that employees shouldn't have to do work when they're at work? None, because believing that isn't a part of free speech rights, and Basecamp made it clear they didn't care
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Yeah. That's pretty hard for me to understand. Why did they make that offer? Paying people to quit without any kind of bounds on how many may take the offer seems like a crazy business decision. They made a decision. They announced it
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Product managers are not exactly a time critical position. If the iOS app falls behind the Android app for a few months, will many users even notice? And it won't take them long to re-fill these roles. There's a ton of unmet deman
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That would be nice. It would be true if governments reacted to the loss of 10 bn in taxes by reducing spending in other areas to compensate. In reality what they will do is raise taxes on people to compensate OR print money/borrow, whi
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Yeah, but people could work at Intel in Ireland for a long time, ditto for Google in Ireland/Switzerland etc. Knowledge transfer happens but the people it goes to stay with the US firms. Or they leave but aren't interested in comp
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Yes but the only ones not on long since obsolete nodes are the Intel fabs in Ireland, I think.
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You can push things into the type system only so far before you drop off a cost/benefit ratio cliff, unfortunately. Fundamentally, even in FP languages that expose side effects in the type system, you can still easily make APIs with un
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You said a lot of things in your first 2 paragraphs but at no point did you say "And then we hired women at a lower bar than we hired men" You're interpreting this the way you want to. If given an identical interview a man
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I'm a big DNB fan but I don't recognise any of the terms at the top tbh. Ghetto Tech and "Moombahton" aren't words that ever crossed my radar. I definitely don't see the words "drum and bass" anywhere
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Is it me or is drum and bass entirely missing from that site? Not sure you can have a real history tree of electronic music that misses it out.
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Maybe. To me this article is useful because it precisely bounds the size of the group that genuinely feels this way. 13%. Not that large, really. Could a determined company get rid of half of those, sending a strong message to the other hal
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I feel like you're deliberately mis-interpreting me. It's a small number of women who kick up a big fuss on Twitter about the choices of Apple's PM team .
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I think we actually do know that. Firstly, hiring is actually irrelevant to this because the gender ratios of most software companies are the same as the gender ratios of CS graduates, which is what you'd expect on average in a meritoc
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It's a very appropriate bar to keep men safe from false accusations!
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It is huge but it's actually an under-estimate. The 2% figure has no actual basis, if you try and trace it back to some source you'll always end up at a dead end. A more commonly cited figure is 10%, which comes from the clearance
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People expect rape to be some obvious, easily identifiable crime and it's often not. They expect that because rape carries enormous jail penalties, because it's got a clear legal definition and because as the extremely low succe
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If there was a woman on that team it says even less good things about Apple that they shipped without it. So you admit it's nothing to do with diversity, then, just an ambient assumption that the needs of women should automatically t
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No, the habit of conflating the EU with Europe is endemic in Brussels. It's got nothing to do with the UK. Just look at how EU leaders talk.
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Federal law is irrelevant because it's not enforced when the victims are white men.
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I worked at Google and was interviewing twice a week for years. They had "goals" then too. They made the same claims, that it wouldn't affect employee quality, and I believed it at first. But the goals were incentivised with
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Most guys I know in the tech industry see it rather differently. The way they (we) see it is simple: there is rampant illegal discrimination in tech, and it's all against straight white guys like us. That's Europe. In the USA y
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It's hard not to escape the conclusion that the goal of Basecamp's new policy is to quietly suppress or ultimately evict people who think like you. There is no connection whatsoever between diversity and building product. Note: yo
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More importantly: who cares? The point of classical equal rights is the MLK, "my children won't be judged by the colour of their skin". The moment you ask a question like that, you are deliberately rolling back his vision by
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It just means that the status-quo will be re-inforced: everyone uses AI, and it's American or Chinese AI. These kinds of laws don't actually change consumer behavior, because they don't reflect anyone's real concerns out
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Regulation does not mean the same thing as banning.

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