micahbright

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by micahbright 9y ago
I'm angry you want to force me to contribute - you douche. I've been contributing to the poor my whole life
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by micahbright 9y ago
I like how you turn a voluntary charitable contribution into forcing other people to pay. If you aren't poor, you should already be making contributions to the poor since you have such high moral standards.
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by micahbright 9y ago
>Only if it's a king and you lay diagonally. Try a California King
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by micahbright 9y ago
"It seemed like he cherry-picked research that agreed with his views and didn’t seek dissenting research or opinions before sending the document to internal Google groups." - The purpose of posting this memo was to seek dissenting
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by micahbright 9y ago
I'm sure you can come up with a better argument. Assuming men are sexist and that you have to prove yourself to them is plainly hypocritical.
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by micahbright 9y ago
Fact: women and men have varying distributions in abilities and traits - due to biology Fact: women and men aren't distributed equally in tech and leadership. And your conclusion is that anyone who presents these facts and says that m
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by micahbright 9y ago
> why should any woman have to overcome the additional barrier of proving that she’s not like other women. Well, she only has to prove it to men that she assumes are sexist or incapable of understanding population distributions. I mean,
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by micahbright 9y ago
Furthermore, simply look for interviewers who tend to reject women and minorities more often. Remove them from the interviewer pool.
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by micahbright 9y ago
The still existing pay gap for men and women, when women make 105% of what men make for the same job title and experience? You need to study more.
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by micahbright 9y ago
So, for reference, after taxes a single person takes home what? $80k. That's about $6,666 per month, leaving $2666 after paying rent. That's not including food. Also for reference, when I lived in a South American country, rent
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by micahbright 9y ago
>Seriously, the evidence is quite clear that this attitude is complete nonsense and only works for people that have certain advantages already. Ahem... citation needed
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by micahbright 9y ago
Interesting perspective, but: >I’m not remotely surprised, however, that Damore naturally assumes the differences between typically female and male traits mean that men are more skilled. He never said or implied that. The whole problem
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by micahbright 9y ago
Ironic, coming at the heels of Google firing someone for being "anti-diversity".
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by micahbright 9y ago
So, to bring things full circle: Are you saying it's necessary or desirable to lower the bar for people to fill quotas, however, when someone writes something that you obviously haven't read or understood, it's rightful that
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by micahbright 9y ago
> Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. You're saying this implies that the author thinks women working at Google perf
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by micahbright 9y ago
> At what point does saying things ... starts becoming 'creating a hostile work environment'? Certainly well known, supported, and referenced scientific facts, are not creating a hostile work environment. The fact that he was
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by micahbright 9y ago
It's weird, but this is all pretty well known stuff in the fields from which he refers. And, as obsessed as we are with instilling diversity in everything , why even common people don't know these things who knows?
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by micahbright 9y ago
>and then present the conclusions that asians in professional basketball perform worse than others (exactly what this individual attempted to do with women) Could you quote exactly the line where he "attempted to do the same with wo
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by micahbright 9y ago
> Employment isn't a protected right. Nice - you just proved that diversity programs are unnecessary with far fewer words than James Damore.
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by micahbright 9y ago
"But, you're wrong. Far more men than women are perpetrators of domestic violence, and far more women than men are the victims of domestic violence. This is true for crimes of sexual violence, and for stalking." I refuted yo
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by micahbright 9y ago
http://www.saveservices.org/2012/02/cdc-study-more-men-than-... But like I said - if you use funding to report violence against men, you won't ever get any more funding. So, you can bring out all the statist
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by micahbright 9y ago
According to Dr. B. H. Hoff's (2012, National Study CDC/DOJ) Report on the National Violence Against Women Survey (notice there's no report on violence against men as anyone who spent money on such research would never be fun
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by micahbright 9y ago
Actually, there is some research showing women are equally physically violent in domestic situations. Men just go to jail more. But, anyone will point out that if black men go to jail more than white men, it means there is a systemic bias
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by micahbright 9y ago
I've seen several comments flagged for no reason - what they have in common is that they cogently refute liberal ideology
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by micahbright 9y ago
Hacker news is an absolute shithole full of liberal pinheads, with a few libertarians thrown in. It's amazing that you can be capable of programming and not be able to see the forest for the trees.
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by micahbright 9y ago
There's actually a complete set of research showing that men as a group pay all taxes in the US and women as a group pay no taxes and receive all benefits. I've read it all before, I just couldn't find it.
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by micahbright 9y ago
Because paternity leave is far less common than maternity leave. Because women expect to be supported during and after pregnancy.
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by micahbright 9y ago
Whoa, people value things higher than or equal to what they pay for them(unless there is coercion as in the case of paying health insurance premiums in the US). In other words, price must be lower than or equal to value.
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by micahbright 9y ago
I haven't. Just wanted to add my anecdote, so that it gets counted when they do a meta-study of hacker news comments.
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by micahbright 9y ago
>This could be due to women being less likely to negotiate salary which has an effect not only on themselves but on every other worker in the industry. It could also be due to men leaving industries that have ongoing lowering of wages.

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