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Computer programmers have the largest gender pay gap(blogs.wsj.com)
13 points by zorpner 11y ago|7 comments
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by zorpner 11y ago
What?! That has no support in law, history, or the documents surrounding the creation of the bill of rights. The idea that private fora would be required to accommodate all comers is antithetical to the ideas behind the Enlightenment phil
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by zorpner 11y ago
You have no understanding of the first amendment. It applies, of course, only to the government's response to speech. I would be curious to know what you think free speech means, if it doesn't mean speech without consequence.
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by zorpner 11y ago
At what point does someone's routine vocal endorsement of racial superiority and advocation of violence become problematic? Or are we obligated to welcome these people into our conferences (workplaces? homes?) so long as they confine
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by zorpner 11y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the issue is that the scale of these phenomena on the internet produces emergent qualities that don't exist in real life, which makes attempts at analogy particularly fruitless. For example, in
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by zorpner 11y ago
Given that modern harassment (particularly on Twitter) involves being targets by thousands of accounts over a period of months or years, how long do you think would be appropriate to turn your devices off for? This isn't about someone
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by zorpner 11y ago
It has everything to do with the internet -- fundamentally, the last ten years of online technology are the story of previously borderline behavior types demonstrating emergent properties at scale. The ways in which people are regularly, e
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by zorpner 11y ago
Aww, no barometer in the SE: http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
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Stack Overflow’s developer survey analysis hurts women(medium.com)
4 points by zorpner 11y ago|0 comments
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“Adobe is aware of a report that CVE-2016-1010 is being actively exploited”(blogs.adobe.com)
120 points by zorpner 11y ago|40 comments
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Uber, Lyft Drivers Struggle with Terms of Partner-Leased Cars(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
2 points by zorpner 11y ago|0 comments
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Anyone wondering how this is going to end up should read the story of TextDrive's "lifetime hosting": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive
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by zorpner 11y ago
Umberto Eco on operating systems and religion, in 1994: The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and t
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by zorpner 11y ago
Significantly more moderation. Unfortunately the consensus here in the past is that they'd prefer the majority of the "moderation" to come from the community, which only serves to amplify the already echo-chamber-like qualit
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How 26 Tweets Broke My Filter Bubble(medium.com)
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Name one single instance where systemic inequality was fixed at the root. I'll wait.
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by zorpner 11y ago
if it was originally 60-40 men-women, and the allegation is correct that only women are allowed to appeal their results, that's more like tipping the balance 40-60 Is your assertion that every other aspect of these women's emplo
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by zorpner 11y ago
is that perhaps it is possible to find 10 extra resource points in the budget and give them to B so that we finish with 50-50. The point is that A will very often perceive this as a negative outcome.
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by zorpner 11y ago
Rectifying inequality will always reduce the advantages of the privileged -- those advantages are the inequality. Whether they choose to pretend that they are now being oppressed or acknowledge that the status quo was unacceptable is up
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Gender Bias in Hiring: Interviewing as a Trans Woman in Tech(modelviewculture.com)
10 points by zorpner 11y ago|1 comments
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OpenSSL Key Recovery Attack on DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)(intothesymmetry.blogspot.com)
124 points by zorpner 11y ago|20 comments
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by zorpner 11y ago
Don't conflate lawful/unlawful with right/wrong -- it always leads to incoherent positions.
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by zorpner 11y ago
Interestingly, the Dash uses wi-fi controlled by the setup app to be configured with an Android phone, but because the app can't control the wi-fi on an iPhone it uses ultrasonic signals: https://www.amazon.com/gp/
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by zorpner 11y ago
Any other HNs here?
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by zorpner 11y ago
Asking HN users to be civil defends nothing except civility. This would only be true if that request were applied equally whenever HN users were uncivil. As it stands, it does generally come off as defending specific users. ...it's
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by zorpner 11y ago
As relevant today as when it was written: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030728-00/?p=... People will blindly follow a tutorial online that tells them how to activate this option, and continue to c
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by zorpner 11y ago
When people are forced to "choose" between their survival and being exploited, it's no choice at all.
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by zorpner 11y ago
Turns out that experience and careful thought does actually make you better at evaluating a good or service.
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I think as long as this is made clear, it's a great idea -- onboarding a new dev is a rare opportunity to get dedicated but fresh eyes on your internal processes.
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It's a set of Borromean rings, a personal favorite "knot" (really a braid) of mine and a remarkably common occurrence in iconography once you start looking for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromea

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