s73ver

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by s73ver 9y ago
When it rains, it pours, I guess.
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by s73ver 9y ago
No, it isn't. Not when many of their female employees were willing to leave the company, and when the existence of that manifesto would make their recruiting efforts much, much harder.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Here's an article from someone who would have a much better grasp on the subject than you or I: http://blog.goldieblox.com/2017/08/open-letter-james-damore-... Here's another breakdown: https:/&#x2
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by s73ver 9y ago
This idea that one can only disagree with it because they haven't read it is extremely uncivil, and does nothing but attempt to shut down the discussion here.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Both of those theses are quite sexist, and no, neither one is appropriate for discussion in the workplace. Especially a workplace that wishes to appear as welcoming for all, not just conservative white men.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"No. His firing confirmed part of Demore's thesis; that Google has monoculture issues and sits in some sort of bubble." Google had to decide which they value more: Demore's manifesto, or the contributions of a third of t
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by s73ver 9y ago
"By doing it in an anti-science, anti-evidence way" But they didn't. That man's argument was not science. It wasn't. There was absolutely no scientific evidence behind his argument. He misrepresented studied, and he
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by s73ver 9y ago
"Healthcare, like, the mandatory profits for insurance companies?" Like the end to discrimination against pre-existing conditions. Like the end to yearly and lifetime caps on coverage. Like the end to insurance companies just bein
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by s73ver 9y ago
No, I got exactly what you wrote. I don't buy it, and I incredibly do not buy this bunk idea that the disagreements are entirely superficial. To those millions who would have lost health coverage under the GOP plan, do you think that d
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by s73ver 9y ago
Only if you're intellectually dishonest, or you've not been paying attention. For instance, how many parties are actively trying to suppress minority voters?
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by s73ver 9y ago
They're being downvoted because their point, and yours, is absolutely bunk. You pick one or two token things on which they agree, and ignore an entire host of issues on which they have significant differences.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Part of the problem, I suspect, is that most startups only target cities, and those who live in them.
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by s73ver 9y ago
No. This both-sidesism is laughably wrong. There are extremely clear distinctions between the two parties. Anyone claiming they are the same is either intellectually lazy or corrupt.
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by s73ver 9y ago
And how does that get me better internet access?
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by s73ver 9y ago
Saying "rewrite the app" is pure hyperbole. You have a few things to update, but that's it.
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by s73ver 9y ago
You don't see anything wrong with the company being it's own ghostwriter? The company, who is clearly going to agree with the contents that are charitable to itself?
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by s73ver 9y ago
You assign it. Everyone knows that there's going to be some of that; that's why it's called "work". But you have to make sure to spread it around as best you can, so that one person isn't constantly being bomba
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by s73ver 9y ago
While most of those boil down to the most common reason: Crappy management, I'm not seeing the second most common reason: Crappy pay (which is just another way that Crappy management presents itself).
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by s73ver 9y ago
Isn't that the problem, though? Bitcoin was supposed to be a medium of exchange. Cash for the internet, in other words. Investing means that people really aren't going to be doing that, and it's just going to sit on a dusty f
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by s73ver 9y ago
I mean, I clearly do as that is my profession. And I really don't think the decision is between "nurse" and "software engineer".
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by s73ver 9y ago
The guy has just alienated over a third of the company. Likely any of the women on his team don't trust him anymore.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"While the author used dubious rhetorical tactics (e.g. stating scientific "facts" without citation), he was never hostile towards any one person or group of people." Most of the members of those groups would highly disa
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by s73ver 9y ago
But are they less interested just because? Or less interested because of things like Uber?
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by s73ver 9y ago
To re-examine why you rejected them, and see if other candidates were rejected for similar reasons or not. There are several studies that show that women and minorities are simply judged harsher than their peers despite having similar level
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by s73ver 9y ago
Let's be frank, here. This is not someone merely "expressing an opinion." This is someone rallying against diversity, using pseudoscience to back up claims that women and minorities are inferior, and thus shouldn't have
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by s73ver 9y ago
As a thought experiment: have you ever seen a team work well together when one of the members has publically said that half of their team doesn't deserve to be there and shouldn't have been hired in the first place?
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by s73ver 9y ago
If the preponderance of current science is against the lone voice, then it's highly likely that the lone voice is not in the right.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Several of them have tweeted about it.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Clueless implies they didn't know what they were doing, or what the outcome of doing that would be.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Unfortunately, how do you control that both groups are the same except for the metric you're trying to measure? And, once again, how do you accurately measure maintenance costs, especially over different projects that would likely have

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