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Luck doesn't reduce skill, it alters opportunity.

The memo didn't cause self doubt, the memo was intended to inspire others to look for doubt (hence the "lowering the bar").

The memo specifically targeted diversity hires as a lower bar. Imagine if a memo started circulating that asked everyone to question whether or not you were hired for your skill. That's a terrible environment to create.

This interview is literally a criticism that says very little about his style of writing. When they talk about "how" he approached this subject, it has to do with overall tone and the medium of delivery, not the nuances of his writing style.

> If he had spoken with some of them individually and spent some time trying to better understand their views on the issues, I suspect he would have done a better job choosing words that would have inspired debate rather than hostility.

That's it. He didn't talk to a single woman at Google about this manifesto before spreading it like gospel. All he had to do was talk to other people.

I'd argue that it's objectively aggressive. His twitter handle "@fired4truth" makes the intention to be so rather obvious (the content he's promoting on that handle is an entire additional ball of wax)...

A 10-page manifesto, regardless of the content, when circulated internally without management's consent is in itself hard to view as anything but an act of mutiny.

You still don't understand what point I was trying to make.

My sole point in this entire thread is that white supremacy is bad regardless of source.

I merely used an extreme example to show you that you were missing the forest for the trees, and you still are. I'm sorry that you're having this problem.

No, I'm making a point about white supremacy and you're being pedantic about something tangentially related. It doesn't fucking matter how similar socialism is to communism when white supremacy is the outcome.

The Titanic is sinking and you're arguing with me about the difference between row boats and sail boats.

so you're saying that I should be responsible for the mental well being of an adult who thinks eradicating entire races of people will solve all of their problems

So you agree with white supremacy because there are similarities between a specific group of communists and specific group of socialists. Fascinating.

Don't pull that alt-right logic-gymnast bullshit where suddenly we're calling nazis "national socialists" and all socialism are the same. It's fine if you've convinced yourself that you can't smell your own bullshit, but don't ask us to be party to it.

I'm going to go ahead and say it's ok to deny the concerns of white supremacists

It's a series of tools and components required to fit certain related theories?

In carpentry you have many standardized off-the-shelf tools and components (hammers, nails, windows, tiles, dimensional lumber) and you have an almost endless number of ways to combine them. You can also create your own tools and components (which is harder). You also have some pre-determined guidelines that are meant to protect/regulate things so that they're safer and easier for a wider audience to live with, maintain, and edit (building codes).

Any of this stuff will work together as long as you stick to the constraints of individual objects as they fit into the laws of physics (a component can only bear X load in Y configuration).

The concept of "properly" is a bit varied. I can build a house with mud and straw and it's a "proper" house in some parts of the world... but it might kill me in an earthquake. This might be due to a pre-determined assessment of earthquake risk, or it might be because of limited knowledge and resources available (very common in coding, and often OK in small scale scenarios).

Not sure what point you're trying to make — I live in Boston and the map seems generally accurate. Sometimes it takes longer, sometimes shorter — that's why we use averages.

There's also a reason traffic to the cape is high during the summer months — the cape sucks in the winter. Not sure how you're using that to your advantage.

As this guy's ongoing reaction verifies (His twitter handle is "@fired4truth"), a manifesto is a "here's why I'm right" rather than a "let's talk about this." This guy has no intention of having an open dialogue.

Trying to circulate a 10-page manifesto explaining how management doesn't understand what they're doing is going to get you fired just about anywhere.

pick it up pick it up pick it up

100? why not 1000!?

I didn't see this myself but the guy who works the drivethru at my local burger king told me that the red team has perfected the flame grilled whopper and they had to be fired because they had gone too far

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I'd wait a few months and tell him to go pound sand. I don't care what his opinion is, he picked a shitty way to express it that's intentionally meant to undermine.

California is an at-will state, so they could also just fire him for any or no reason.

Someone spreading 10-page manifestos internally is generally toxic no matter which opinion they share. It essentially screams "I know better than any manager I could have possibly discussed this with privately." To boot, this manifesto isn't even tactical.

I like it because it essentially forces "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" — I've read more than enough "limitless" threads of utter rubbish, longer garbage is still garbage. There are positives and negatives of every platform.