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chrinic83

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chrinic83··on Google resists pressure to pull LGBT “conversion therapy” app
> Conversion Therapy seems a lot like violence to me...

It doesn't to me. Who is right?

chrinic83··on Can fake names create bias in interviewing?
"Millennial" here.

stcredzero.

Street credit. Usually referred to as social status in the neighborhood and local friend groups. Usually used by rappers and African American neighborhoods. However, people living in these neighborhoods don't actually say this today. Typically middle and high school students hear this on TV/radio and use it in their own (usually upper/middle class) circles to increase their social status.

Zero refers to zero street cred. Username plays a pun, the the user actually has zero cred. Again, only used by people outside the "street" aka in middle and high school. Also 98% chance OP is male. I'd say 50-60% white, sice we're on HN. With the other 40-50% being Asian or Indian.

In summary, yes, usernames tell you a lot.

chrinic83··on Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men
> .... and yet, how many workplaces have an engineering team which are 50% female? 25% female? 10% female? 5% female?

So you're saying, to achieve parity, we need 80-90% of STEM grads to be female and only 10% men?

Or do you think we should bypass the job interview process for women entirely, until we get a 50-50 ratio in software engineering teams?

Shouldn't we apply this to nurses and teachers (for male equality) as well? That is, have more accelerated job and education programs for men?

chrinic83··on Japanese government will access home devices in security survey
> When did blind trust in government become the norm on "hacker" news?

I trust my government more than Facebook or Huawei. Open source or neutral 3rd parties don't exist for this kind of thing.

chrinic83··on OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues
> Anyways, it was worth it, Andrej is doing an amazing job, and OpenAI is still alive :)

Tesla does not even offer their full self driving package anymore. No coast to coast drive yet. Hard to say that's an amazing job.

OpenAI abandons their open source GitHub repos after a year, is now not releasing code, and is always in DeepMind's shadow. Alive, yes. Successful, no.

chrinic83··on Minimum-wage worker needs 2.5 full-time jobs to afford a one-bedroom apartment
> Do you really think Subway franchises are running on such razor thin margins that they'd be forced to shutter stores if they had to pay their workforce marginally more?

No.

However, individuals are not entitled to a job. Take it the low hourly wage, or leave it.

Same thing: not everyone is entitled to live in the bay area. Pay the rent, or move elsewhere.