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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
Isn't mental instability positively correlated with antisocial, disruptive behavior? I'd imagine that they want well behaved protesters.
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
The segregation happens on more than just class lines. People segregate based on culture and values. Despite there being many poor, segregated communities in the USA, crime is perpetrated by and happens in only a few select communities. In
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
Apparently not in tech though. All the recent sexual harassment accusers are employed
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
It doesn't. He just wanted to argue about minimum wage lol
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
I think that there is a decent case that upper class men do enjoy gender based privileges. But then people use that as evidence that all males are privileged and it's just not true. I mean it would be great if there was a chance that I
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
> The kicker? Wealth killed opportunities for women. Yeah because lower class women do much better compared to lower class men. The study is flawed. It used male hobbies for both males and females. Rich females don't generally sail.
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
No, the leftist position would be writing a well thought out and mild toned argument that the company has pro white male bias in interviewing (which implies that the hiring bar is lowered for white males and that some white males don't
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
> There is systemic discrimination in favour of white men in software engineering Asian/Indian males and females who can barely speak english says otherwise. You can't just drop this controversial statement without any proof
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
Does there even need to be a reason why there is a gender/race disparity in tech? This is not a blip in the radar. It is commonplace for careers to have gender/race disparities. There are more careers with significant gender/
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
The majority(>60%) of engineering in big tech companies who are most affected by these diversity initiatives are either foreign born or have parents who are foreign born.
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
> Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar, they are about outreach What if all you are achieving is rearranging the dirt (ignore the negative connotations to dirt)? Skilled URM engineers who meet the Google hiring bar will find
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
> The whole reason diversity practices exist is because "some classes of people" are already being harmed. Without "diversity practices", we already have practices that emphasize and discriminate sex and race, except
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
> Because gender discrimination is rife Please stop making these unqualified statements on very touchy subjects
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
Maybe I'm reading too much into your post but I sense some anger or indignance. If that's true it is misplaced. Understand that if he phrased it any other way, he would have been further crucified. Phrasing it more honestly and st
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
> due to systemic discrimination in hiring. It's ridiculous how many times I see this dropped out of nowhere in this thread without any sources or proof. This is a very contentious statement on a two sided issue. It is similar to pr
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
> It's (in almost all cases), very small variations of tangential achievements, most of which can be outweighed with a minority group bringing a different group of life experiences to the table. Actually, diversity initiatives can d
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
Perception vs. reality The general perception is that programming is a socially isolating, boring, monotonous job where you stare at a screen all day. People making career choices don't know about the lax environment. So tech completel
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
It would be great if you could point to documents proving all your assumptions on bias. People have been so vehement about their beliefs. But there has never been a succint summarization of the proof. If it's so self evident, someone w
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
> A company and employees really shouldn't get political if at all possible, to prevent a divided customer base. The company and its employees have very publicly political. This is the trend for most of the big tech companies. I wis
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
Do a large amount of moderate leftists actually think a PhD in Women studies is "legit"? Genuine question
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
The devil's advocate says that there are many opinions that you would disagree should be fireable.
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
> The problem with a), is that often women aren't allowed to compete on merit, or they have to perform twice as hard, twice as often as a male colleague in order to prove it "wasn't some fluke." I've seen these a
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by peak_body_yo 9y ago
> increased the false positive rate for underrepresented groups I would object to such a statement Does your recruitment process have a 0% false positive rate? If not, giving more opportunities will yield more false positives unless it&
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by peak_body_yo 10y ago
> Argon2 KDF and ChaCha20 as a cipher Are these a huge improvement from what was offered previously?
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by peak_body_yo 10y ago
Is this any better than KeePassX?