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by zasz 15y ago
No, they don't have complete freedom. Women are often punished for being aggressive in the workplace. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07... People are less likely to want to work with a woman who tries to negotia
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by zasz 15y ago
The point is, intelligent people at the time thought that it was biologically predetermined that some men should enslave others. For a more recent, horrific example, it used to be legal to sterilize people without their permission if they f
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by zasz 15y ago
It's not clear that some roles are genuinely best filled by women, and some by men. There is still plenty of institutional sexism that pushes people into certain roles. For example, many women in high-powered careers are forced out after th
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by zasz 15y ago
Yeah, I'm a female software engineer. It usually surprises people when I do anything remotely feminine. People have twice speculated that I would enjoy putting on a strap-on and taking on a, ah, masculine role.
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by zasz 15y ago
That is a horrible and illogical assumption to make. Stereotype threat is shown to exist for white males. There is a stereotype that white people are less athletic than black people. If you prime white males by reminding them of the stereot
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by zasz 15y ago
Yeah, also bloggers. Reading books and then writing reviews is the kind of thing people will do for fun.
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by zasz 15y ago
I upvoted for insightfulness, and I'm definitely all for not living everyday life like a war, but I'm not sure that the decline of friendship is a good thing. The evidence seems pretty compelling that a lack of good friendships causes unhap
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by zasz 15y ago
If you're not from the States, then you have no right to say how much is enough, or is not enough. I've done the math. If I want to be able to take care of my parents, any children I ever have, and myself, then a million dollars is not enou
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by zasz 15y ago
My family used to be pretty poor. By "poor," I mean, "not enough to eat." So yes, I know a bit about injustice, and I'm still going to stand by my statement that a million dollars, in the United States, is not enough to never have to think
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by zasz 15y ago
Shoot, I think I responded to the wrong comment.
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by zasz 15y ago
Yeah there are a lot of phases, but each phase takes a while. (Though the first couple phases, which are mostly about ensuring that the drug isn't poisonous, don't take too long.) Clinical work has to move at the speed of biology, which is
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by zasz 15y ago
No, not really. A million dollars in the United States isn't enough if you have multiple people depending on you, like children or elderly parents, or siblings in trouble, or if you yourself develop a debilitating disease, or get into a car
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by zasz 15y ago
What does CBD stand for?
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by zasz 15y ago
For some reason, nobody complains when they have to fill out the paper equivalent of these web forms. I did, and happily indicated my race too, in a whole room full of people at my company, and nobody was complaining. I think that we're use
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by zasz 15y ago
And if you were too much of a lazy douche to fill out a couple extra fields, they're supposed to believe you'd go through the actual effort of becoming a donor because...?
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by zasz 15y ago
I meant an online store. I was too angry when I was typing my comment.
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by zasz 15y ago
I used to work there. Fuck if I know. I think they were hoping to make money off the research, and they've moved to a subscription model by charging for new discoveries about your genome.
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by zasz 15y ago
I meant an online store.
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by zasz 15y ago
It costs money to sequence DNA and calculate someone's ancestry. 23andMe loses money whenever it sells a kit. Are you seriously too lazy to save a nonprofit a few hundred bucks by spending 1 second to indicate your race? Also, every time I
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by zasz 15y ago
The square root of s x is not an exponential function.
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by zasz 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time If you scroll down to the "Politics" section, DST was implemented as a way to save coal during WWII.
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by zasz 15y ago
I don't think either of those two blog posts support your point that randomly picking candidates is as good as actively trying to select for good ones. If none of the candidates applying to YC were good enough to pass some minimal threshold
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by zasz 15y ago
A classic mistake people make is assuming that something isn't an issue, when the other party DOES think it is an issue.
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by zasz 15y ago
Depends on how competent his coworkers are.
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by zasz 15y ago
I've internalized bad stereotypes of black people, especially since my Asian parents are racist and sexist as hell, right down to pulling out the gene card. And having grown up in the Valley, the vast majority of well-educated and ambitious
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by zasz 15y ago
Suppose the OP leaves. It's going to be hard for the his former coworkers to maintain the Ruby app.
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by zasz 15y ago
I'm Chinese. There is way more to me than just being Chinese, and there is way more to the white people I meet than just them being white. I can usually take it for granted that they're like me, and it's obviously not for the race; I can us
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by zasz 15y ago
It's a perfectly fine example. If you read the book, Gould is accurate in reporting that Broca genuinely thought differences in cranial capacity and the racial variations thereof meant differences in achievement. That your abstract reports
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by zasz 15y ago
People have historically used "scientific" evidence to prop up spurious claims that women and blacks were inferior to white men. [1] OP is probably reacting to that whenever people try to bring in biological explanations for gender gaps. If
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by zasz 15y ago
Ah, sorry. I see what you're saying now.

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