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by wendyshu 7y ago
It really sucks that if you run a site where people talk, you take on the responsibility to police what they say. The legal system seems to handle scale relatively well but community standards of niceness may not be easy to formalize/s
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Their aim was building "a more welcoming and inclusive network". The first step towards this is... excluding people, apparently.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Usually things are be under-investigated because they're hard.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19310358 (28 comments)
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by wendyshu 7y ago
I.e. Asians who went to Harvard will be seen as extra desirable because they had higher admission requirements?
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Plausible but to turn this assertion into an actual argument there'd need to be a causal statistical analysis. I'd be interested in receiving a pointer to the relevant literature.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Is there a study on this?
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Interesting claim but it's vague in a way that I really don't know what it means.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
I wonder how much public support there would be for ending the grants.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Does it really need an explanation?
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Should job seekers be allowed to use prejudice to choose which company to work for?
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Fyi about 1/10 of Harvard College students are international
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Aha, the Jordan Peterson issue.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Ah. Very frustrating to read complaints that omit key info. Would have been nice if they explained that they're under an NDA.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
What's the best alternative to Stack Overflow?
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Land owners want to build higher density, increasing supply, lowering price. The government prevents high density, decreasing supply, increasing price.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
How are they going to generate training data if verifying solutions is hard?
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Verifying a candidate solution for these problems is relatively easy so wrong answers aren't so bad.
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Rotten.com Library(web.archive.org)
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by wendyshu 7y ago
In my experience, among international students the Chinese students were actually not the worst cheaters. But in China there does seem to be a cultural tolerance for what we would consider cheating, from scientific misconduct to IP theft. T
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by wendyshu 7y ago
It's not clear that low standards actually are in the long term interest of the universities because it devalues the degree. Thus it is important to expose this corruption far and wide so that people, e.g. employers, can be aware.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
You can't tell the difference because the senior non-degree people have picked up the useful CS theory or because CS theory doesn't come up anymore?
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Maybe it's some company level HR policy? Certainly drives me up the wall.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
You say "I would have done a lot better having one". Explain?
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Yes it came across as melodramatic.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Agreed but it looks like this instance is about convincing foreign people.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
Great questions but I doubt the experts who could answer them will comment here.
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by wendyshu 7y ago
It's a "slippery slope" argument: if the government is allowed to force it they may force bad things later. However it would be nice if people presented a cost benefit analysis (the risks of sliding down the slope versus the
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by wendyshu 7y ago
You're underestimating the ability of women to artfully handle the interaction. You're overestimating the amount of attention they get. You're trying to avoid taking any personal risk. Here, try this: Say something funny. No
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by wendyshu 7y ago
I think at tech conferences it's less welcome because it's a professional environment. There are many reasons why it's hard to mix relationships and work.

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