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I still don't get it. Is there something in the name, a pun?

• walterbell 12y ago
  My explanation will be less entertaining than your imagined alternatives :) There have been recent articles and company statements on workplace diversity in Silicon Valley, including gender diversity. And perennial debates on how to encourage more female students to STEM courses of study. If billions of dollars in Silicon Valley market cap (which drives startup acquisitions and salaries) are currently dependent on ... mobile ad revenue, of which a large portion depends on data mining to generate likely-to-pay customers for ... F2P games like Candy Crush, which combine time-tested casino techniques with the ubiquity of mobile phones to addict mostly ... women, it means there is an upside-down pyramid of leveraged technology financing teetering on the psychology of the very subgroup that is mostly absent from the development community.
  • tomp 12y ago
    Well, there goes the argument that SV doesn't understand women because the engineers are all males! :)
    • walterbell 12y ago
      :) Or, how much more efficiently could machine learning algos locate profitable F2P customers, if there were more female engineers? Or, would more female engineers choose different mobile manipulation/psychology models, leading to less harm and more financially sustainable female "digital whales"?
      • happyscrappy 12y ago
        An engineering mindset would outweigh gender.