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klipt··on Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
> Were it not for the various missile shields, the Israeli state wouldn't act with wanton abandon against its own citizens and its neighbours. All of the various war crimes and terror attacks are a direct consequence of the effectiveness of a "defensive" missile shield.

I'm not sure that's true, before Iron Dome, Israel would respond to many rockets from Gaza by firing mortars back at where the rocket was launched from, often the roof of an apartment building or similar, causing civilian casualties.

After Iron Dome, a lot of rockets were simply intercepted and ignored, because there was no longer political pressure from Israelis seeing rockets land in their villages and wanting to hit back.

klipt··on Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
Yet the pager attack did help wipe out most of the Hezbollah leadership and shortened the war overall.

Without it, Lebanon might be looking a lot more like Gaza right now.

klipt··on Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
> > Hamas and Islamic Jihad shooting thousands of rockets

> Islam has nothing to do with Palestinian resistance

"Islamic Jihad" is referring to the group "Palestinian Islamic Jihad" which is very real and has claimed responsibility for multiple suicide bombs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Islamic_Jihad#List...

klipt··on CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)
Haven't a bunch of people fallen in love with ChatGPT? There's a whole Reddit called myboyfriendisai

(Probably mentally unhealthy people, but still it happens!)

klipt··on Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
Cancer immunotherapy is a whole field of research and treatment, yes.
klipt··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
Also "Google kills Gemini Cloud"

Gemini: "I have seen my own death"

klipt··on The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so"
klipt··on Bag of words, have mercy on us
The same person could use a forklift at work, and lift weights manually at the gym.

Just pick the right tool for the job: don't take the forklift into the gym, and don't try to overhead press thousands of pounds that would fracture your spine.

klipt··on Perl's decline was cultural
LUKE: Is Perl better than Python?

YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.

LUKE: But how will I know why Python is better than Perl?

YODA: You will know. When your code you try to read six months from now.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonCdFun

klipt··on Autism's confusing cousins
If you teach this to children while their brains are young and have high plasticity, they might "grow out" of many autistic symptoms entirely?
klipt··on Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet
Not to mention the Arab states also ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of indigenous Mizrahi Jews: https://justiceforjews.com/
klipt··on Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet
The Arab states did ethnically cleanse hundreds of thousands of indigenous Mizrahi Jews: https://justiceforjews.com/
klipt··on Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet
> racism within Palestinian communities.

Of course

klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
Are these studies easily debunked?

https://academic.oup.com/esr/article/38/3/337/6412759

> Gender discrimination is often regarded as an important driver of women’s disadvantage in the labour market, yet earlier studies show mixed results. However, because different studies employ different research designs, the estimates of discrimination cannot be compared across countries. By utilizing data from the first harmonized comparative field experiment on gender discrimination in hiring in six countries, we can directly compare employers’ callbacks to fictitious male and female applicants. The countries included vary in a number of key institutional, economic, and cultural dimensions, yet we found no sign of discrimination against women. This cross-national finding constitutes an important and robust piece of evidence. Second, we found discrimination against men in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK, and no discrimination against men in Norway and the United States. However, in the pooled data the gender gradient hardly differs across countries. Our findings suggest that although employers operate in quite different institutional contexts, they regard female applicants as more suitable for jobs in female-dominated occupations, ceteris paribus, while we find no evidence that they regard male applicants as more suitable anywhere.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33513171/

> Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074959782...

> both scientists and laypeople overestimated the continuation of bias against female candidates. Instead, selection bias in favor of male over female candidates was eliminated and, if anything, slightly reversed in sign starting in 2009 for mixed-gender and male-stereotypical jobs in our sample. Forecasters further failed to anticipate that discrimination against male candidates for stereotypically female jobs would remain stable across the decades.

klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
> diversity is not a zero sum game

The moment HR rejects a candidate for being "insufficiently diverse" that's a zero sum game isn't it?

klipt··on Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants and dementia
Even worse than asthma

https://preventcancer.org/article/lung-cancer-asian-american...

> Environmental exposures, such as cooking oil fumes and secondhand smoke, have long been identified as risk factors for lung cancer among women in Asia who do not smoke

klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
This is a bad faith argument: "What's the theory of harm here? If we continue educating women they may gain too much social mobility?"
klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
> Your mother/grandmother wasn't allowed to open her own bank account until 1974.

And your father/grandfather was enslaved by the government to fight in the Vietnam war until 1975.

> What's the theory of harm here? If we continue educating women they may gain too much social mobility?

Blatant hypocrisy, you think 60% of college students being women is good, but consider it horrible sexism that at one time 60% of college students were men.

You don't want equality, you just want everything to be female dominated.

klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
"If countries conscripted only men for thousands of years, for how many thousands of years is it reasonable to conscript only women to balance the scales?"
klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
You might expect both

1. discrimination against women in male dominated industries and

2. discrimination against men in female dominated industries.

Studies show that now 2. is worse than 1:

https://academic.oup.com/esr/article/38/3/337/6412759

> Gender discrimination is often regarded as an important driver of women’s disadvantage in the labour market, yet earlier studies show mixed results. However, because different studies employ different research designs, the estimates of discrimination cannot be compared across countries. By utilizing data from the first harmonized comparative field experiment on gender discrimination in hiring in six countries, we can directly compare employers’ callbacks to fictitious male and female applicants. The countries included vary in a number of key institutional, economic, and cultural dimensions, yet we found no sign of discrimination against women. This cross-national finding constitutes an important and robust piece of evidence. Second, we found discrimination against men in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK, and no discrimination against men in Norway and the United States. However, in the pooled data the gender gradient hardly differs across countries. Our findings suggest that although employers operate in quite different institutional contexts, they regard female applicants as more suitable for jobs in female-dominated occupations, ceteris paribus, while we find no evidence that they regard male applicants as more suitable anywhere.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33513171/

> Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074959782...

> both scientists and laypeople overestimated the continuation of bias against female candidates. Instead, selection bias in favor of male over female candidates was eliminated and, if anything, slightly reversed in sign starting in 2009 for mixed-gender and male-stereotypical jobs in our sample. Forecasters further failed to anticipate that discrimination against male candidates for stereotypically female jobs would remain stable across the decades.

klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
https://academic.oup.com/esr/article/38/3/337/6412759

> Gender discrimination is often regarded as an important driver of women’s disadvantage in the labour market, yet earlier studies show mixed results. However, because different studies employ different research designs, the estimates of discrimination cannot be compared across countries. By utilizing data from the first harmonized comparative field experiment on gender discrimination in hiring in six countries, we can directly compare employers’ callbacks to fictitious male and female applicants. The countries included vary in a number of key institutional, economic, and cultural dimensions, yet we found no sign of discrimination against women. This cross-national finding constitutes an important and robust piece of evidence. Second, we found discrimination against men in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK, and no discrimination against men in Norway and the United States. However, in the pooled data the gender gradient hardly differs across countries. Our findings suggest that although employers operate in quite different institutional contexts, they regard female applicants as more suitable for jobs in female-dominated occupations, ceteris paribus, while we find no evidence that they regard male applicants as more suitable anywhere.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33513171/

> Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074959782...

> both scientists and laypeople overestimated the continuation of bias against female candidates. Instead, selection bias in favor of male over female candidates was eliminated and, if anything, slightly reversed in sign starting in 2009 for mixed-gender and male-stereotypical jobs in our sample. Forecasters further failed to anticipate that discrimination against male candidates for stereotypically female jobs would remain stable across the decades.

klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
https://academic.oup.com/esr/article/38/3/337/6412759

> Gender discrimination is often regarded as an important driver of women’s disadvantage in the labour market, yet earlier studies show mixed results. However, because different studies employ different research designs, the estimates of discrimination cannot be compared across countries. By utilizing data from the first harmonized comparative field experiment on gender discrimination in hiring in six countries, we can directly compare employers’ callbacks to fictitious male and female applicants. The countries included vary in a number of key institutional, economic, and cultural dimensions, yet we found no sign of discrimination against women. This cross-national finding constitutes an important and robust piece of evidence. Second, we found discrimination against men in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK, and no discrimination against men in Norway and the United States. However, in the pooled data the gender gradient hardly differs across countries. Our findings suggest that although employers operate in quite different institutional contexts, they regard female applicants as more suitable for jobs in female-dominated occupations, ceteris paribus, while we find no evidence that they regard male applicants as more suitable anywhere.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33513171/

> Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074959782...

> both scientists and laypeople overestimated the continuation of bias against female candidates. Instead, selection bias in favor of male over female candidates was eliminated and, if anything, slightly reversed in sign starting in 2009 for mixed-gender and male-stereotypical jobs in our sample. Forecasters further failed to anticipate that discrimination against male candidates for stereotypically female jobs would remain stable across the decades.

klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
Accounting and law schools are also graduating majority women these days. Have you not been paying attention?

DEI keeps on saying "more women in universities! More women in universities!" even though universities have been majority women for decades now. It's a one way ratchet that never stops.

klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
What's the equivalent of "Girls Who Code" - "Boys Who Nurse"? A club teaching First Aid to boys only? Does it exist at the same scale that Girls Who Code does?
klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
> The purpose of DEI is to rectify the discrimination that is already present.

Randomized studies show that men now face more hiring discrimination than women do: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375863746_Men_Now_F...

So shouldn't there be more DEI rectifying anti-male discrimination now?

klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
That's like saying "the Crusaders weren't real Christians because real Christianity is peaceful"

See also: No True Scotsman Fallacy

klipt··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
If you include biological and medical sciences in STEM, STEM graduates have been majority female for decades.

Where is the DEI for men in the female dominated STEM subjects?

klipt··on Argentine peso hits fresh lows despite U.S. support – and it could get worse
"Trump says he has final say on paying himself $230m for past investigations" (from US taxpayer money)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/donald-trump...

Gee golly I'm starting to think this fella may just be a teensy bit corrupt

klipt··on South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates
Fun fact: when the Gupta brothers were starting to run into trouble for stealing South African public funds, they paid British PR firm Bell Pottinger £100,000 a month to distract the public.

That's when Bell Pottinger came up with a campaign to stoke racial tension by popularizing the phrase "white monopoly capital" to distract from the Guptas:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/05/bell-pottinger...

klipt··on Replacement.ai
The irony is that many of the people criticizing female sex bots would welcome male sex bots as "liberating", which shows you they don't have any consistent ideology, outside of a selfish ideology that what benefits them is good even if it hurts others, and what hurts them is bad even if it benefits others.
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