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by yedava 9y ago
Even at the college level in India, it isn't uncommon to see a 2:1 male to female ratio in engineering classes. Women in India do face plenty of bias, most of which stems from the fact that they are expected to get married and take car
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Ctrl+R is more convenient if you are a touch typist. Using an arrow key forces you to take your right hand off from the home row.
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People can learn on the job and can become not 'bad', right? Or is it the case that some set of people have some innate quality that makes them always be bad at a job?
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Looks like the app alters the playback speed and that may explain the unnaturalness of the videos: > Through the app, users can create 15-second to 1 minute videos and choose sound tracks to accompany them, use different speed options (t
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The article didn't say that traditional media is the arbiter of truth. It said journalism among other things which include science. I think you completely misunderstood the premise.
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Where do the examples cited in Vox piece fit in Haidt's framework? Is 'Pizzagate' an accurate prediction? Was Obama really born outside the US? Did protesters at Columbia University actually support pedophilia?
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This is pure hyperbole. Mobile phones have these things called browsers where users can visit websites . Is having an app convenient? Yes, definitely. But in this case the lack of an app does not threaten the First Amendment.
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No need to invoke Godwin's law. There are different degrees of force. Even the staunchest libertarian will concede that some amount of force is warranted to protect rights. The question here is the nature and degree of the force. I&#x2
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Well, MLK did say that a riot is the language of the unheard. And he deemed the white moderate is the greatest obstacle to freedom. How does that square with your understanding of the civil rights movement? We'd like to wishfully think
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One way to counter gender stereotypes is to show that they aren't welcome in an organization. I hope you would agree that this is a non-violent act. And yet, we see Google being equated with the Gulag. My use of the word 'force&#x
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Being polite seems like a good idea until you realize that people having arguing against gender stereotypes, politely, for several decades at the least. But even after all that, people find it far easier to believe that men are more incline
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How Silicon Valley’s Workplace Culture Produced James Damore’s Google Memo(newyorker.com)
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There neither is any 'scandal' or 'censorship'. Patreon's decision was a textbook application of John Stuart Mill's "Harm Principle".
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I think part of the reason is the changing demographics of the geekier parts of the Internet. As hitherto absent groups of people entered geekdom, it produced a defensive reaction. The way I see it, it is easier to express liberal sentiment
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by yedava 10y ago
Firstly, the US already has intensive screening for immigrants and does reject a lot of people from entering the country. So Trump and other like minded folks saying that the US has open or porous borders is false. The motivation for that c
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Then change that name too! It's not like there is some divine mandate that decrees colleges to never change their names.
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All one needed to do was ask the slaves whether they liked being slaves. Looks like some people did listen to the slaves and they found themselves on the right side of history. So you don't need to consult an Oracle. Listening help
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As a comment on the post notes, Shopify already "censors" certain viewpoints. From their TOS: "We may, but have no obligation to, remove Store Content and Accounts containing content that we determine in our sole discretion a
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Other people also work hard to help their kids. Many even work multiple jobs and gruelling hours. The point is, we have a system that doesn't reward hard work, but instead rewards rentiers, people who do no productive work (relatively
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Obama's order was to withdraw the visa waiver program for those 7 countries. Citizens of those countries could still apply for a visa and then enter the US. Trump's order banned legal and vetted immigrants, a ban which initial
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The alleged confusion presumes that only elites voted for Democrats. But if you look at the voting trends, urban areas tend to vote Democrat and it is a far stretch to presume that there is no working class living in urban areas. In fact I&
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by yedava 10y ago
Issues at work can become serious. Even before there was attention on sexism/racism related issues, burnout was a well recognized mental illness. And the thing with stress is that it doesn't need to build up overnight. Even a cons
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The reason why our society has such a poor understanding of mental health is because we demand a "real travesty" as a cause of mental illness. Unless there is one, the default assumption is that people are making it up. This is a
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Given that Stephen Bannon will be the white house advisor, I don't see that happening. Trump seems to trust his advice the most.
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I think you are strawmanning the article. The point about the Ethiopian (not Egyptian) slave is that it is indicative of the fact that no black would be in a position to purchase that chemistry set. It is a historical fact that blacks were
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by yedava 10y ago
The left has its own biases, but to equate it with the Fox News/Breitbart bubble is dishonest. To take science as an example, the left has its own set of denialists (ex: anti-vaccers, anti-GMO), but the left has plenty of people who pu
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Just today Brietbart published articles pushing climate change denial and brigading Amazon reviews of a book because the said author disagrees with Donald Trump. How does one reason with such an obstinate worldview?
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I don't think anyone is under the illusion that Breitbart can be boycotted or shamed. The market they cater to lives in a pretty air-tight bubble, the same bubble which sustains Fox News/Drudge Report/Rush Limbaugh etc....
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And that is exactly why I buy them. For me time is scarce and I don't have the patience for games that make me grind through levels. Been there done that. Gaming is more than testing reflexes. I view them as another medium to tell a st
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Funny to see you complain about power and then support Trump, who by any reasonable measure could be said to be in the race solely for power, and not for any principled stance.

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