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by flatb 1y ago
Liberalism is the core of American conservatism. That’s less true elsewhere.
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by flatb 1y ago
I can’t think of a more dislike-able company than YouTube. I used to love youtube and watch it everyday and it would make me a happier, smarter person. Now youtube’s impact on their users is entirely negative and really the company needs to
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by flatb 1y ago
There are fewer people in Compton that watch tennis regularly, fewer coaches, fewer players.
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by flatb 1y ago
The Williams sisters started playing tennis in Compton. Tennis is cheap, but not so culturally accessible.
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by flatb 1y ago
Thereby self correcting perhaps.
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by flatb 1y ago
Cite on “ton of collateral damage”? That’s the disputed point in my mind. I just see obstacles that are like speed bumps in parking lots. I don’t find speed bumps do a ton of collateral damage. They also don’t really “work.” But they are ne
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by flatb 1y ago
Humans will never outcompete ai in that regard however. Industry will eventually optimize for humans and ai separately: ai will know a lot and think quickly, humans will provide judgement and legal accountability. We’re already on this path
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by flatb 7y ago
I'll keep it simple, so that you can't keep obtusely ignoring it: there are stats on rape. So they are fact. There are no stats on "women's assertiveness". So they are not fact.
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by flatb 7y ago
I hope so too. Let's check out the definition of discrimination. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discrimination >1. prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment Hm. Let's check out
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by flatb 7y ago
Yes: the claims James Damore makes are cold, hard facts based on the many, many studies and statistics available on, for example, women's assertiveness (which is genetically and biologically quantifiable), that he carefully reviewed an
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by flatb 7y ago
>Saying "Women do on average have more of trait X" is sexism, not discrimination. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sexism >Definition of sexism >1. prejudice or discrimination based on s
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by flatb 7y ago
>No it does not. It says that women are more agreeable and less assertive, on average. Please, PLEASE look up the definition of 'discrimination' in any dictionary you like, and tell me if you really believe that saying &#x
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by flatb 7y ago
>This is an outright fabrication. Nowhere did Damore write that women should be paid less, or that they were genetically inferior at tech. Oh no, he simply stated that women get paid less not because of sexism, but because it's na
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by flatb 7y ago
It's on the memo itself. You can read it here, among many other places: https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-di... On a section dedicated to offering alternative explanations to sexism for the gend
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by flatb 7y ago
No, it's not there, it's on the memo itself, in his own words, in a section literally titled "Non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech" if you'd like a more reliable source than Wikipedia. >Extraversion express
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by flatb 7y ago
Have YOU read it? Jesus Christ. > Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher agreeableness. This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and
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by flatb 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch... >Damore said that those differences include women generally having a stronger interest in people rather than things, and tending to be more social, ar
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by flatb 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d59r46/richard... From someone who worked at MIT.
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by flatb 7y ago
Sure. There are plenty of first-hand accounts of his behavior, a quick Google search will lead you to many. Here's a link to one I've most recently run into from someone who worked at MIT. Yes, it's a Reddit comment, but if y
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by flatb 7y ago
Can you provide some examples that prove the existence a common pattern in the software development industry of people being "screamed at", "threatened", and "drummed out of their jobs" for not using gender neu
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by flatb 7y ago
> Decades worth of small issues that Stallman was mostly unaware of As a reminder, the "small issues" you mention include accusations, by several independent parties, of, among other things: -Asking female coworkers to lay down
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by flatb 7y ago
> harsh, impolite, unempathetic, creepy or whatever BS they are throwing now at RMS. He has been accused, by several independent parties, of, among other things: -Asking female coworkers to lay down topless on a mattress in his office. -
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by flatb 7y ago
Can you detail, without strawmen or anecdotes, the thought process by which you equate asking to use gender neutral pronouns, or discussing the possibility of it, with "attacks"?
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by flatb 7y ago
Stallman was reviled because he has been accused, by several independent parties, of, among other things: -Asking female coworkers to lay down topless on a mattress in his office. -Threatening a colleague to kill himself if he/she didn
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by flatb 7y ago
Can you explain, in general, how armies and war are ethically relevant to Richard Stallman threatening coworkers to kill himself if they don't go on dates with him, or asking them to lay down topless on a mattress in his office?
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by flatb 7y ago
> Where is the crime here? The analogy is between a good thing not cancelling out a bad thing. The police are not involved. There isn't a crime. He has been pressured for making people very uncomfortable in pursuit of his sexual int
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by flatb 7y ago
Do you mean to say that your analogy is relevant to the claims against RMS being partly or completely dismissed as a "necessary evil" comparable to shooting a person who's on a killing spree, when weighted against his contrib
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by flatb 7y ago
Not to be picky, because to be honest I completely believe that what you say is plausible, but that's a lot of outrageous claims with very little in the way of examples or evidence.
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by flatb 7y ago
I second your statement about Google Docs. I find it amazing that they don't put a bigger focus on performance. We're talking about tools that are essentially about being productive! Any Google Docs product feels incredibly sluggi
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by flatb 8y ago
Please don't give tough-guy "smart" advice like this on the internet. You're going to end up getting someone as naive as you into trouble. I can guarantee that most any officer will charge you with 'resisting&#x27

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