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by xrctl 12y ago
People who belong in tech don't need to be spoon fed. The barriers to entry are some of the lowest for any professional field in history.
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Some data on women's representation among the best on Stack Exchange sites(raw.githubusercontent.com)
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by xrctl 12y ago
It is quite common for Christians in the United States claim that they are oppressed [1]. Shouldn't we try to fix these problems too? http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/christians-pers...
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NYT: "Alpha-male culture" is "endemic in software engineering"(isteve.blogspot.ro)
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by xrctl 12y ago
Good, a necessary pruning from the board of people who are more interested in politics than product.
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by xrctl 13y ago
The problem with the founder's wife sounds like a very one sided account of your standard interpersonal conflict. Everyone who has ever been in one of those has at some point claimed themselves to be a saint and their opponent a demon.
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by xrctl 13y ago
You might want to see a counselor about your crippling interpersonal inadequacy. I think after you clear up your mental health issues you might be less insanely fixated on shoehorning meaningless occurrences into the framework of your delus
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by xrctl 13y ago
This shows why it is best to ignore women's complaining from the start. Github has bent over backwards for Horvath, and it only fueled and enabled her delusions. This "gender based harassment" was most likely someone disagree
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by xrctl 13y ago
> I think it is more likely that their outreach programs (through CS AP teacher training etc.) that encouraged the best and brightest women to apply were successful, so that the pool of women were significantly more qualified. That is en
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by xrctl 13y ago
Um, how CMU:SCS has a gender ratio higher than average is because they accept more women. In 2000 the acceptance rate for women was 39%, for men it was 9% [1]. This is completely boring, MIT could make it so its CS class was 100% women if i
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by xrctl 13y ago
I think most answers here are over thinking it; I do not think he wants a website that can defeat the NSA, just one where the service provider could get subpoenaed and not lead them to him. So, just buy webhosting with Bitcoin at somewhere
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by xrctl 13y ago
The amount of spoon feeding women in tech require is staggering.
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by xrctl 13y ago
That women of lose more than expected when they play against men of equivalent rating is entirely consistent with regression towards the mean [1]. Because elo ratings contain error and men are on average better at chess [2], the average tru
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by xrctl 13y ago
Encouraging women's complaining might be the last thing they actually need. This is kind of like throwing a kegger for alcoholics.
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by xrctl 13y ago
No. No one is threatened by women, just perhaps annoyed by their endless complaining. > To use an analogy, I can't imagine Olympic athletes being happy for the best competitors from another country being sidelined due to their sexua
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Race and sex differences in AP test results(i.imgur.com)
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Gender and the Memorization of Pi(rcm-papers.info)
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by xrctl 13y ago
No. This is wrong. The correct answer is abstract (modern) algebra.
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by xrctl 13y ago
hahah, you recall that the top science students you knew were women? How convincing! I have analyzed the records of the World Cubing Association, and there is 1 woman in the top 100 ranked [1]. I have analyzed the ratings of the American Sc
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by xrctl 13y ago
I would submit that mind sports are the most meritocratic subculture; performance is statistically ranked and sometimes measured directly. And........ we find that there are no women at the top. There is 1 woman in the top 100 at speedcubin
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by xrctl 13y ago
Well, no system could have a perfectly accurate merit assignment system... but the fact is that tech has much, much lower barriers to entry than other domains.
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by xrctl 13y ago
Interesting to note how similar they are to the real "gender pay gap", most commonly claimed to be 77% [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_the_United_St...
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The Gender Pay Gap in Jeopardy! and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?(rcm-papers.info)
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by xrctl 13y ago
The complaining about women's representation at conferences seems to be predicated on the belief that women would be equally represented if merit assessment was unbiased (thus gender imbalance is proof of bias): well, here is a situati
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Gender and speedcubing(rcm-papers.info)
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by xrctl 13y ago
It is true that no system in the world has or could ever have a perfectly accurate merit assessment system... but has any one noticed that improvements in merit assignment and lower barriers to entry lead to less representation of women at