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Looking at her article history in The Guardian, it doesn't seem likely at all: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/kim-wall

> The anti-science bias in this explanation has two faces, both well-meaning but both untrue. First, the science of gender difference is not gender stereotyping but, in fact, real, as the sources above will prove to any executive or person who studies them. Second, even if someone felt like that gender trait difference constituted untrue gender stereotypes, there is no hostility in the science. Hostility is, by its very nature, a violent attack on a person or group. Damore was not hostile nor violent; he was measured and scientifically accurate. Similarly, Larry Summers was not hostile, nor were Barbara Annis, my coauthor and I, in Leadership and the Sexes.

The whole idea that we have to dress up a topic in well-meaning white lies because feelings might get hurt is what has been making me less and less receptive to certain messages and points of view.

Hitting people in the head with bike locks is not speech either.

No violence is free speech. Not from white supremacists, not from antifa, not from communists, not from BLM.

What you had in Charlottesville is two group of thugs looking for a fight meeting and getting the fight they all wanted.

Pretending there are good guys in this conflict is stupid.

> The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.

Would it have been possible to deal with this problem this way instead: http://injury.findlaw.com/torts-and-personal-injuries/defama...

Off the top of my head, I can think that the saw getting false positives or being incapable of cutting anything conductive, which may be my precise goal as a tool user, as dealbreakers on this feature.

Nothing to do with greed.

I agree. The job witch-hunt at conservatives in the IT industry is pretty harmful too.

Let me remind you that who brought up the concept of "acceptable punching targets" to modern politics was antifa, and that staging a counter-protest in the exact same venue and time as a rally / protest is OBVIOUSLY going to cause trouble.

White supremacists are disgusting.

Other race supremacists are disgusting.

Anarchists are disgusting.

Communists are disgusting.

People calling for dead cops are disgusting.

People looting and committing arson during protests are disgusting.

There's a lot of disgusting people out there, and I'm beyond tired of people trying to escalate things even further. If all this political tension in the US escalates to full-blown civil war, it will be to no credit of a single group, but the many who keep getting excused by mainstream politicians, political commentators and journalists.

The fun fact is that most of this could probably have been widely defused by allowing people to speak up in public, and then providing better counter-speech, but I guess that was hurting way too many feelings.

> What happened to the good old days of vim vs emacs?

Whoa, whoa. Are you trying to start WW3?

> Psychology seems to be barely better than guesswork.

It depends on the school of thought and experimentation methods.

Some, for example, will focus almost exclusively in easily measurable physiological responses to stimuli and draw very restricted conclusions on their experimental results.

Others will sit on a desk, reflect on their past and speculate extensively about human nature based on that.

But yeah, it's a rather soft science.

> what scientists think

> one scientist's opinion

We're reaching "both sides of the climate change debate" levels of spinning here.

> There's a penalty in society and your career for being an asshole.

Partially true, Gawker staff thrived on being assholes until they got the Hogan Leg Drop. Are you implying that Damore was an asshole, though? How so?

> That makes for a distraction, not to mention the obvious legal risk if the engineer ever interacts with a woman or minority at Google again.

What about the legal risk of institutionalized discriminatory hiring and career advancement practices?

> You can have all the opinions you want

Thanks.

> think women belong in the kitchen, hell, be a raging neo-Nazi, but please don't broadcast that shit at work.

Oh, did he broadcast any of those kinds of ideas or political leanings?

> If you don't like that Google's promoting diversity, there are ways to make your voice heard like a normal adult.

Like, for example, attempting to discuss a topic?

> I would be livid if I got a link to a doc like this.

http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-div...

> Here we're busting our asses, and this guy has the gall, time, and energy to write a lengthy essay version of /r/theredpill and put it on a company server.

Have you even browsed that subreddit? Damore's views are nowhere even near in the same side of the political spectrum

The confusion comes in the lack of distinction between software programming and software design in these discussions. The former values mathematical thinking, the latter values understanding how much the user will fuck things up for everyone.

It looks like a cunning plan because it doesn't look like it's going to turn out he's going to be forever unemployed after expressing concern about a monoculture, getting extensively character-assassinated by the circus media and coworkers, and expressly fired?

How many steps ahead did he see exactly?

> It's possible to have a discussion about these issues today. It's not rational to give special preference and excessive leeway to discussion that isn't actually fact based (and is in many ways based on nothing related to facts).

Well, that's great, because his points on gender differences are actually extensively backed by research. When he's talking about that, he isn't talking about what should be or what can be, he's talking about what is.

Even after clarifying to the poor-intended reader about what is, he still states that more diversity is what should be. He just doesn't agree with the present method.

The absolute quantity is so far off from being statistically significant sample of the population that the variation rate at this point is a worthless data point.

You gotta understand, those literature students who learned critical theory know far better about these topics than biologists and psychologists.

Of course hormones mean nothing. You think it's adrenaline making your heart beat stronger when you think you're in danger, or is it really social constructs all the way down?

There isn't such as thing as true objectivity.

We shouldn't even aim for objectivity.

War is peace.

> You Waited Until The Exit Interview To Ask What’s Wrong

Also: You Fired The Employee When He Told You What's Wrong

We've already lost quite a large number of democracies all over the world to all sort of oppressive dictatorships and teocracies. Where's the surprise?

It's good sometimes to remember not to take democracy for granted.

I really thought it was corrupt politicians giving away public resources to private mega corporations, irresponsible financing systems, wall street selling lel bonds, the undermining of the national working class, bogus copyright laws that are designed to squish small and upcoming competition, and people purchasing garbage degrees instead of useful ones with money they don't have guaranteeing they'll be indebted for at least two or three decades.

But no, it's just IT. How wrong I was.

> Think of stuff like the quadratic equation, or formula for the surface area of a cone. How many of us were just taught these magic formulae without first deriving them? Why do we start talking about pi without first explaining how it's calculated?

If we're waiting until children are capable to derive those equations before we get them to use those a bit, then we're waiting for very long. And if you just keep telling them to add numbers and multiply numbers together for many years in a row without giving them any interesting problems to go with it, there'll be no one interested in math by the time they'd usually have the abstract maturity to deal with the more foundational modern math problems.

We don't ask Computer Science students to write an OS before using one, we don't ask carpentry students to build a hammer and cast nails before using them.

You seem to assume I'm calling feminists "nazis", or that I'm right-wing, or that people advocating for "punching nazis" are somehow liberal. None of that is true.

> And if you think people aren't campaigning for serious social and political change I don't know what to tell you.

The social/political change they've been managing to make happen is normalization of left-wing radicalism, exponential broadening of the definition of "nazi" and generous application of violence to said "nazis".

They're also bringing back gender and race segregation under the PC-approved expression "safe space".

Definitely it's social and political change they're after.

QuiteRSS

AR won't be worthwhile until:

1) It has a window to the AR larger than a wallet

2) It doesn't hog one of my hands for holding said window into the AR

3) Actually takes into consideration the the environment it's supposed to augment

Decent AR technology will probably be branched from current VR technologies, rather than mobile phones.

I've noticed that I don't care any longer so much about which distributions are available, but more about the preferred packaging system of the distribution + how up-to-date their repositories are.

With many programming languages having their preferred tool for circumventing a distro's packaging system, that too has impacted the importance of a distro's packaging systems a bit.

Still, I think it's excessive to say that "distributions" are becoming irrelevant. There's plenty of opportunity for distros to compete to provide a good out-of-the-box setup, fine-tuning tools, or dumbified interface.

Now we have great discussion forums and link aggregators where a small group of moderators rule over a very large number of places and will frequently go on power trips, dominate discussion (or coddle a power user) and, not rarely enough, engage in doxxing.

One thing that keeps me returning to YC is that I'm not even reminded of the existence of moderators over here.

> spends millions in creating a fork of Ubuntu

Just install plain Ubuntu ffs

> I don't think that the law they passed implies that nothing else will be done to address the underlying causes of these issues. Suggesting it does is disingenuous.

Many politicians, especially in the mainstream, operate on a 'lowest possible effort' basis to pretend they're giving a damn about their electorate, which is why so many completely awful laws and trade deals get passed just by giving it a friendly-sounding name, all while pocketing a hefty 'extra payment' for their collaboration.

I'll be more surprised to find out that something concrete was done about the cause of extremism in Europe than to find out that there was a ridiculously large network of bribed politicians involved in passing this law.