Shubley

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by Shubley 10y ago
So is the lock on your front door.
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by Shubley 10y ago
>As far as I'm concerned, diversity for the sake of diversity is a noble goal. Diversity of what? Age? Political stance? Language? Accent? Socioeconomic status? Wealth? Religion? Food preference? IQ? Personality traits? Or - none of
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by Shubley 10y ago
I work in conditions very similar to what he mentioned. I work with several people remotely, have for months, have made paying projects, haven't heard their voices ever (or even seen photos of them in some cases). Thinking on it, in so
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by Shubley 10y ago
The Soviet pattern is reproduced today in places like Iran, where many more women study engineering. Meanwhile, in Scandinavia, the traditionally-female professions like nursing are even more female-dominated than in the USA. The trend seem
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by Shubley 10y ago
There is no way to measure (or even define?) "benefiting the field". For example, women leave the workforce earlier and more often. So we now get less work years per education year in these fields. Benefit? Not from the POV of the
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by Shubley 10y ago
I think what you said about height might be a bit off since you're dismissing the possibility that tall people actually are better at their jobs. E.g. looks and facial symmetry both correlate with fertility and IQ, probably through the
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by Shubley 10y ago
Let's compare this to height as you did. Because of how gaussian distributions work, the differences at the outlying values are huge even for small differences in the average. For example, men are taller than women in general, but of c
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by Shubley 10y ago
Not really; I've got a multimillion dollar company started with personal savings. And even leaving aside companies - it doesn't cost anything to contribute to FOSS projects.
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by Shubley 10y ago
People don't give (or often even know) the real reasons they do things. Steeped in a culture of sexism accusations, it's not surprising that you'd hear reports of sexism from women leaving the industry. A man doing the exact
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by Shubley 10y ago
You're mind reading the worst possible intentions. This is the exact opposite of the principle of charity. Why insist on mind reading evil from people who vehemently state other ideals? By your mindset, you'd mind read Churchill a
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by Shubley 10y ago
Land really isn't that valuable. You can build a great country without it. See Israel or Japan or SK or HK or Singapore. Its the people and way of life that matter. Primary resources can be bought. In fact land can be a hindrance when
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by Shubley 10y ago
The slave holding states are now the poorest and were under-industrialized even during the Civil war. The correlation between historical slavery and industrialization/modern wealth is negative. Not really difficult to disentangle. And
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by Shubley 10y ago
Absolutely people should be allowed to say what they want without consequences. That's what freedom means. It means freedom from consequences. If there are heavy consequences, you don't have freedom. Otherwise you can say that Nor
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by Shubley 10y ago
Wouldn't it be a lot more feasible to just make the datacenter on the shore and make a liquid coolant loop that cools in the water? Like the Toronto office towers.
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by Shubley 10y ago
I used to think that way but over time I've moved much more toward the conclusion that the great mass of people really are not mentally prepared to make decisions in a modern idea marketplace. Working through the haze of media manipula
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by Shubley 10y ago
Parent is not complaining about how FB affects him personally and directly, but about how it is affecting society. Perhaps you have the mental context and farsightedness to just not log on. But, you still have to deal with the large scale s
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by Shubley 10y ago
Even more so given that the people involved in Gamergate are young people forming political views that they'll hold for a long time. When a young person develops a view that "the media lie constantly and see you as an enemy if you
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by Shubley 10y ago
Let's also not forget ageism, heightism, voice-ism (positive affect of rich voices).
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by Shubley 10y ago
That's actually a good point. Everyone is incompetent; we just don't have a way of filtering that in our leaders. Possibly because the people selecting those leaders are incompetent too. It's incompetence all the way down.
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by Shubley 10y ago
I'm sorry but this is pure myth. There has never been a human society where primary political/executive power was vested in women, except some developed and recent examples. The idea of tribes controlled by women just never happen
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by Shubley 10y ago
Who says it's a noisy minority? I'm not talking about extremist actions like pulling fire alarms at university talks. I'm talking about really basic things, like campaigning for more women to enter university (and not more me
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by Shubley 10y ago
Ah, the old, "We can't say X about this group because doesn't apply to every single member" fallacy? Of course we know you don't believe that, otherwise you'd be unable to have any opinion about any large socia
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by Shubley 10y ago
Having visited China, I can assure that it does exist. As for 'generations behind', this is the whole point and the linchpin of global military stability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_T._Allison#Thucyd
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by Shubley 10y ago
A movement is defined by what it does, not by the image it puts up when people question it. The trick of throwing up a super-acceptable cover story when questioned, while returning to hate-oriented attack patterns when secure, is called the
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by Shubley 10y ago
>A quantitative analysis reveals that immigrants, even illegal ones, tend to commit fewer crimes on a per-capita basis than their legal neighbors I'd be interested in the source on that. I'm also curious if they're taking
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by Shubley 10y ago
Stalingrad and Leningrad are not good examples. They both had other names before the Soviets did exactly what you're advocating and swept away history to make way for their new era of equality.
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by Shubley 10y ago
Bear in mind that this is contemporary writing. They likely wrote it in such a way with the goal of forming this comparison in your mind. I think one needs to look at older writings to get a take that isn't designed to reinforce the co
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by Shubley 10y ago
The thing is, in a lot of ways those gender roles actually are universal. Not among individuals, of course, but among societies, there are no exceptions to these: "M&F seen as having different natures" "F->M direct chi