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by twofornone 5y ago
I came to this post looking for salary data, and imagine my shock to see that according to the first link, as of 2018 only 40% of the industry consisted of white males. Yet here we are in 2022 and the fervor to discriminate against straight
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>I was actually thinking of the internal google study about their teams from a few years back. And a similar (unpublished outside the org) study a company I worked for did, where they found that teams with the highest racial and educatio
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>But it has a lot to do with how the claim in that paragraph is not true: homogenous teams are less effective in some measurable ways As far as I'm aware there is a single contrived study which looked at financial metrics from board
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by twofornone 5y ago
See the link in my post. The claim is that women are discouraged from applying. Frankly it's bullshit.
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>Your D&I consultant is saying this because those words make certain demographics less likely to apply. Yes, I know very well what the alleged rationale is for this toxicity. But can you spend more than half a second actually thinkin
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by twofornone 5y ago
>As it turns out, a lot of people choose to be inclusive and non-inflammatory. Ideologues deliberately gloss over the fact that the "inclusiveness" has become inflammatory. Edit: our D&I consultant does not allow us to use
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by twofornone 5y ago
>The problem with making generalisations is that you're often wrong Generalisations are like models. They're not necessarily 100% correct or applicable but they can still be useful.
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by twofornone 5y ago
>Labeled Homo floresiensis and dating to the late Pleistocene Australian Aborigines allegedly migrated to Australia in late Pleistocene time. Taken together with their unique genotype and physiology, why aren't they classified as a
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by twofornone 5y ago
It sounds like a "right wing boogeyman conspiracy theory" but it's absolutely the case. A lot of this woke D&I crap is coming from the top down through these ESG policies. If you want funds from big players, you need to p
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by twofornone 5y ago
>You just did! Let me know when you're canceled On an anonymous account. Meanwhile our org's job postings are "gendered" because they contain words like "strong", "independent", "analysis&quo
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by twofornone 5y ago
>One person losing a job or appointment isn't the same as people being forced out of careers entirely Try speculating publicly about 1. Heritability of intelligence/behavior 2. Genetic differences among ethnicities Of course ne
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by twofornone 5y ago
I love rain, and was actually looking forward to having as much as people said when moving to Seattle. But as I discovered, the thing about Seattle rain is that, while frequent, it's more of an annoying mist that just kind of gets in y
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by twofornone 5y ago
>don’t actually seem to have a vision to realize their ideals It doesn't help when infrastructure also refuses to host or handle payments for your platform for wrongthink. That said you're right in that the alternatives have be
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by twofornone 5y ago
>but that seems to be just Musks ego Is it? Or maybe he's identified a legitimate opportunity considering that about half the nation feels as though twitter et al are more likely to clamp down on discussions of their ideas under the
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by twofornone 5y ago
>subreddits try to get their 'alternatives' banned Every once in a while I come across a rumor that AHS and affiliated subreddits employ a strategy of posting illegal content (like child pornography) on subreddits/platform
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by twofornone 5y ago
>because the manual is correct, well-written, etc. It's also verbose and requires effort and working memory to parse, when I could get a trivial one line answer or code snippet from a stackoverflow post specific to my question. Yes,
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by twofornone 5y ago
>[] Ok, I know it's probably because they're switching more and more to semantic search and ML, but they could retain the hard filters on top The issue is that "power users" that are even aware of quotes and and hard
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>I've also seen zero cartel activity and had excellent experiences with local police. What exactly do you think "cartel activity" looks like? The fact that some random international tourist didn't witness any overt &q
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by twofornone 5y ago
The fact that someone did something terrible does not imply that everything they ever said or did was wrong. That's dangerous thinking. The Unabomber's short manifesto makes a number of salient points about the negative interplay
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by twofornone 5y ago
Maybe it's a deeper problem related to western liberal notions that anyone can do anything if they just "set their mind to it". We have a glut of "professionals" across industries and institutions who don't rea
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> either it's bad that people get fired for expressing opinions They're not merely "expressing opinions", they're teaching children "facts" of disputed veracity and appropriateness. >these teachers a
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by twofornone 5y ago
>I'm also able to observe plenty of speech by people who identify themselves as right-wing/conservative being propagated via Facebook, Twitter, and Google. As I've repeatedly pointed out, that these opinions still exist on
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by twofornone 5y ago
>The anti-progress faction is still very very powerful. Plenty of unequivocal sexists and racists face no punishment. If I dared to push back on diversity and inclusion mandates in my workplace I'd lose my job. That includes explici
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by twofornone 5y ago
These claims that the "don't say gay" legislation stifles free speech are dishonest. These are teachers, agents of the state, in a professional setting, not private citizens expressing opinions off the clock. If I'm payi
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by twofornone 5y ago
This is carte blanche to silence any opinion you (or your mob) doesn't like and its absurd that people think its valid. Completely flies in the face of the spirit of freedom of expression. There are arguments that need to be expressed
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by twofornone 5y ago
Are you also one of those people who pretend that twitter, facebook, and google don't lean left in their moderation? >Can you describe which right wing opinions are being suppressed -- apparently to the point where I haven't ev
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by twofornone 5y ago
What are you on about? Certain ideas are made more difficult to express by a defacto authority (twitter). That's censorship, by definition. >If you value discourse so little as to equate both Censorship is a spectrum. Hence my origi
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by twofornone 5y ago
Chernobyl was the only "major" accident, perhaps you could put Fukishima into that category, but again you're disregarding the denominator, thousands of plants operating for decades without issue. That sounds very safe to me,
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>Having to hit 'see more replies' over and over. I don't know if I'm just suffering from confirmation bias but it seems like this feature is used as a form of soft censorship, to discourage users from reading certain
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by twofornone 5y ago
>I don't know, early reactor designs were pretty unsafe and I'm not sure a lot more of them would have been better There have been what, 5 events in the last 50 years that released a significant amount of radiation, only one ca

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