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by newnewnew 13y ago
Christopher Lane
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Asian CEOs and VCs do exist, but I would guess those demographics are underrepresented. I would guess this is due to the first few waves of entrepreneurs being mostly white (Fairchild and Microsoft company photos were much paler than a typi
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by newnewnew 13y ago
When successful hackers from the last generation stick around, that probably helps the culture more than if they disappeared, even if the hierarchical structure thereby created is less aesthetically pleasing to some.
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by newnewnew 13y ago
On the one hand, Asians don't count as "minorities" because there are too many successful Asians. Your startup isn't "diverse" because you have 30% Chinese engineers. On the other hand, their success isn't
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by newnewnew 13y ago
"Let’s deconstruct the common misuse of the word “diversity” as thrown around. In Silicon Valley the word means “non whites”." "The fact is that we don’t have enough black and latino founders" I'm not sure why, but
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Fair enough, it is off-topic. Edited
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by newnewnew 13y ago
It is incredibly difficult to untangle the effects of culture from those of biology, especially when dealing with the measured psychological differences between men and women. But when the effects are purely biological, as in this article,
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by newnewnew 13y ago
I didn't downvote you.
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by newnewnew 13y ago
> "Why are we so obsessed with finding genetic reasons to explain thinking differences in gender(or race) when there are obvious social/cultural pressures?" Isn't that another way of saying "Why do people care ab
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by newnewnew 13y ago
It's good to have on record that you believe in sexual egalitarianism in homo sapiens regardless of any evidence that can be brought to bear. I posted this (admittedly incomplete) list of resources down the page, but let it not be sa
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by newnewnew 13y ago
To understand the call for equal representation in tech, you have to understand cultural marxism. My previous thoughts on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509118
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by newnewnew 13y ago
There is good reason to believe that natural aptitude is not equal[1][2] [1] https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7DMQCP3v6SZQUw1MnNWbXBUV3M/... [2] http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/2012
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Some social scientists are skeptical of the validity of stereotype threat. John List, in a paper coauthored with Steven Levitt at the University of Chicago, was unable to reproduce it[1]. Some scholars suspect publication bias[2]. Also see
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Wow, I never knew that the male-female Math gap was so robust. Look at the tables in the last three pages you linked. Except for Israel, nearly every country has a male-biased Math score gap on standardized tests.
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by newnewnew 13y ago
5 minutes of googling: "MEN, WOMEN AND RISK AVERSION:EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE" - http://aysps.gsu.edu/isp/files/ISP_Ind_3.pdf "Sex Differences in Everyday Risk-Taking Behavior in Humans" - http:&
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Sexual dimorphism is incredibly common in the animal kingdom, and humans are not an exception. You are setting up a non-falsifiable belief system that asserts that men and women cannot be different above the neck. If that's what lets y
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Sexual dimorphism has large and powerful effects in most sexually reproducing species, including humans. Hair color, as far as we know, is just about pigment. Sex differences go much, much deeper.
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Startups try to keep a "high bar", only hiring people with sterling academic credentials or proven work in the field. So I would expect the gender ratio to be less equal at startups that draw from the far right-hand side of the gr
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On Biological Sex Differences(jaymans.wordpress.com)
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by newnewnew 13y ago
> "Is it really wrong to say that women could be better or worse (in general) at one thing or another? Is it sexist to even point out that men and women are different?" Yes to both questions. On the other hand, it's scienc
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Men do better than women at the Math SAT[1]. The male/female ratio is especially high in the higher Math percentiles, where you would expect your best engineers to come from. The polite way to explain this is some kind of "expecta
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by newnewnew 13y ago
I don't think we've come anywhere close to rejecting the hypothesis of some kind of innate personality and ability differences between male and female. Men are higher represented in diseases like autism, which involve lower social
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by newnewnew 13y ago
The people at valleywag have to know, deep down, about the fundamental dishonesty of what they do. They have a choice to do a different, honest job instead of pandering to the worst instincts of humanity. The people at the second-tier mud-s
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by newnewnew 13y ago
It's not as hard as it sounds to report on Silicon Valley from NYC. It turns out, you just have to copy and paste tweets, add a bit of snark, and then contact the tweeter's employer for comment. It probably adds 10k pageviews if y
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Google can do whatever they want. If I was the victim of a public name and shame like this which included a very public Google punishment, I'd think it would be in Google's best interest to make an example of me and to make an exa
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by newnewnew 13y ago
> "These guys are toxic. I'd ban them for a year." Wow, the hate is strong with this one.
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by newnewnew 13y ago
The hate seems to be coming because they're "unprofessional", "disrespectful", "juvenile" and "arrogant" - like people in the hip hop industry haven't heard that before. Don't listen to
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by newnewnew 13y ago
In other words, schadenfreude > public good
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Valleywag is east coast hater bullshit. It's a badge of honor to get attacked by Valleywag[1] [1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/anti-foreigner-vc-also-supports-...
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by newnewnew 13y ago
"Stop using slang. Get rid of that swagger. Don't brag. And wear a goddamn button-down shirt." In other words, stop acting like Jay-Z and start acting like Mark Zuckerberg.

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