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MollyR

2,460 karma · joined February 25, 2015

If you don't understand my distaste for colleges money sinks read this : alot of these are suicidal kids with degrees who did everything "right" by the authority figures they trusted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/1yktjp/are_the_poor_and_unemployed_supposed_to_kill/

https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/4ogbv9/been_almost_2_years_without_a_job_honestly/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/18/college-drove-me-to-the-brink-of-suicide/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3695613/Student-23-university-hanged-flunking-degree.html

Money, degrees, and productivity are not metrics of a live well lived. There are metrics such as self-reported happiness, marriage and divorce rates, birth rates, and other things that paint a much fuller picture. You need to figure out what is good for you.

Some advice to other women developers. Take the money from silicon valley, then run to a cheaper place to live. Invest it well, and relax.

ex. Buy a duplex, and rent one part of it out to pay your bills.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

— Confucius

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MollyR··on Google faces new discrimination charge: paying female teachers less than men
It looks like that's a somewhat normal ratio for pre-k teaching. The percentage goes up for male teachers as kids age for some reason.

http://www.menteach.org/resources/data_about_men_teachers

MollyR··on Google faces new discrimination charge: paying female teachers less than men
I don't think so, because Google is primarily a tech company not a teaching company.

However I'd be disappointed in Google if they didn't try to even out the gender ratio of the teachers and hire some more males as well. I can understand it would look like hypocrisy to some.

MollyR··on German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account
Fascist techniques won't stop it then, it will only amplify them.

The fascist kind of suppressing (usually disagreements with the establishment or status quo) speech usually ends in violence and revolution.

MollyR··on Google faces new discrimination charge: paying female teachers less than men
Wow the gender ratio is 1 male to 50 women for teachers!

This would be a great chance for google to show the world how its done on equality, and have a google branded push for more males in teaching and more women in tech.

It would definitely show the critics of hiring more women in technology, that it really is about equality.

MollyR··on Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay
That's exactly how I think it will be solved, or more people shift to become contractors.

If the high performers aren't compensated properly, the ones that a company needs the most, they will leave because they have options.

MollyR··on [dead]
I've never heard of "hypergamy" until today.

We (women) aren't a homogeneous group. Sure there are some psychopaths, but there are male psychopaths too.

I don't think "all men are rapists". I don't think most women are going on free trips to dubai or partying with silicon valley elites. Its a small percentage of people who live that type of life.

America is full of decent hardworking women and men. You just won't find them on the tv due to the entertainment cycle.

Sometimes I think the media is warping and twisting people opinions, you meet a lot of decent hardworking people in real life.

MollyR··on After Equifax breach, anger but no action in Congress
Infuriating. We need digital consumer protection laws to put increased pressure on companies to take cyber security seriously.
MollyR··on Trump considers H-1B visa tweak that may lead to mass deportation of Indians
I'm not a fan of the h1b program, after what happened in Disney.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff...

It really soured me on the whole program.

If employers stop using it to undercut and fire american workers while claiming there aren't enough american workers to fill the jobs. I'd feel different.

edit:fixed link

MollyR··on Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers
Another reason to block javascript from your browser. I find myself leaning more and more towards only unblocking js for very very select few trusted sites.
MollyR··on Silicon Valley's Secretive, Orgiastic Side
Women aren't a homogeneous subgroup. Your phrasing is also offensive, but I've dealt with many neuro-atypicals so I'm sympathetic .

I suspect you are asking what is the social contract expectation from women ?

In this period of deep social unrest, I don't think people could give a unified answer.

MollyR··on Silicon Valley's Secretive, Orgiastic Side
Same way as the finance industry, be wealthy ,connected, or powerful.

Those parties and connections are not for normal people, more like 1%.

MollyR··on Extreme event attribution is an expanding subfield of climate science
Yes, it seemed they buried the lede, kind of disingenuous journalism.
MollyR··on Dubai Billionaire's Tech Startup Takes on Amazon
Good luck. Taking on amazon is basically taking on an arm of the USA directly now.
MollyR··on The Robots Are Coming and Sweden Is Fine
Only if the people pay, it sounded like the one of Swedish economists from the article think there is a limit to what you can tax people before the social contract breaks.

I'm assuming this applies to individuals and populations.

MollyR··on The Robots Are Coming and Sweden Is Fine
The title should be "Fine for Now".

Maintaining Sweden’s social safety net also requires that the public continue to pay tax rates approaching 60 percent for their current amount of displacement.

If automation starts to displace a huge number of people, and there is no job to transition, the social contract will break.

I'm really hoping we hit a star trek style utopia (especially in terms of energy and food) before we get close to social contract breakage. I fear we won't though, we already seeing severe signs of the social contract breaking in the United States.

MollyR··on The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy
Immigration is a divisive topic worldwide right now.

Internal political discord is occurring all over the world in the form of nationalist and populists movements including europe, india, south korea, japan, and america.

MollyR··on Towards a bra-free Instagram experience
Maybe to you, but the younger generation is different.

My cousin is a psychiatrist at a college, who has wishes there was a cure to baldness because so many young men become suicidal from balding.

The social media generation values looks very very highly.

MollyR··on Vandals smash beehives, killing 500k bees
I buy meat from a farm directly. According to a couple of farm hands, drunk bored people still try.
MollyR··on Vandals smash beehives, killing 500k bees
Too many beehives to believe for pure vandalism. I could believe one or two.

Imagine someone tipping 50 cows, or spraying 50 buildings. The high amount makes its weird.

MollyR··on DHS weighs major change to H-1B foreign tech worker visa program
I'm not a fan of the program, after what happened in Disney. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff...

It really soured me on the whole program.

MollyR··on UK threatens to tax Facebook and Google if they dont do more to combat extremism
I'd rather people not reward tax dodging, and enforce people paying their fair share.

Combating extremism and taxes shouldn't be combined like this, It's morally repugnant.

MollyR··on Guys, unless you are really hot you are just wasting your time on Tinder
Isn't it just supply and demand.

I know very few women on tinder, but most of my single guy friends are on it.

MollyR··on Facebook Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments
Not surprising. What is surprising is why more world governments don't aggressively clamp down and fine facebook.
MollyR··on Tim Cook is now required to fly on private jets only
Will he still lecture the common person about global warming ?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/03/tim-cook...

I find it supremely hypocritical when the super rich lecture people about their electricity usage when they use an order of magnitude more.

MollyR··on Prepare for backlash against Big Tech
I thought that backlash already occurred in 2016 with a certain election.

I find it a little scary to see how much worse the backlash might look like.

MollyR··on Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life
This is probably the most scandalous part about this.
MollyR··on The destruction of graduate education in the United States
When some of endowments for many universities are in the millions and Harvard has an endowment of 37.5 billion, I find it hard to have sympathy towards this.

The colleges and universities have become corporations that run on student loans and graduate student slave labor. This has to change, and it will be a painful process no matter what happens.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-lis...

MollyR··on Alt-social network Gab booted from Google Play Store for hate speech
Even "meme" apps like 9gag ran into the same nudity/censorship issue.

They worked around it, or at least the users did.

MollyR··on Alt-social network Gab booted from Google Play Store for hate speech
Are you saying we are in a civil war ? I dont want to believe it, but . .

Republicans were shot at by an alt-left radical. Scalise was in the ICU.

Another alt-left radical Clayton Carter murdered a GOP committee member in front of his wife.

Mainstream Media is completely politicized

An alt-right radical murdered Heather Heyer a protester.

Today a missouri state senator Nadal called for the assasination of a sitting us president. It also trended on twitter. Twitter did nothing.

The only thing that gives me hope of deescalation is both the right and left media is finally denouncing violence on both sides.

CNN pundits and FOX pundits are all denouncing ANTIFA and the alt-left, and the alt-right and racists.

MollyR··on Breaking News: Google Has Removed Gab's Android App from the Google Play Store
Have other Twitter Clones been banned ?
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