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> but that doesn't change the fact that there are benefits to having women in visible positions of power, accomplishment, etc

So you're making the same proposal. You want to hire a woman because she's a woman. This is a massive disservice to female empowerment.

> There will be multiple qualified people for any job, and it is 100% acceptable to choose someone because they come from a historically underrepresented group, solely to increase visibility and enfranchisement of that group.

This is an absurd line of thinking. If two people truly are equally qualified, some immutable trait like race, sex, etc. should not be the determining factor. If you are ok with someone being hired for a job because they are a native american or a woman, then you should also be ok with someone choosing to only hire white men and asian men. Both of these scenarios are racist/sexist.

Islam gave rights to woman at a time when they were treated as property everywhere else in the world.

In modern time, I have never heard of someone disqualifying menstruating women from celebrating. Though they are not expected to fast or pray during that time. My wife missed the first and last week this month -__-

There are plenty of products that launch on top tools and frameworks that are worth far more than the underlying will ever be. OpenAI is creating products, DeepMind was creating tools.

It's not a matter of skill as much as objective. And DeepMind would still be starting at zero if they decide to pivot to products.

And here I thought that Google would achieve AI supremacy because of all the data they have been vacuuming for decades, turns out they haven't even thought to utilize it?

How did they drop the ball so hard? OpenAI has been around for less than a decade and as a smaller team with less resources was able to make a better product.

Theres nothing disingenuous about thinking the person that earned the honor should be the one to do it. Your claim that I think I have a monopoly is disingenuous. GP stating it should be a woman, just for being a woman, is being disingenuous.

Most women I know appreciate the "perks" of being a woman, but none of them are under any delusion about it. They would be insulted if they lost on equal footing, and were rewarded for it anyway. I've never met anyone who was happy knowing someone let them win.

If you want to make an argument that men and women are never on equal footing, I could understand that but I'm not even sure what you are proposing instead.

> I personally think the first man down the ladder on mars should be a woman

Shouldn't it just be the commander of the mission?

The way you speak is so condescending to women, as though they wouldn't have the ability to earn their place and it has to be handed to them. I can't speak to your intentions but it's not equality if you thought it was.

SLS will never reach land, you'll be splashing down in the middle of the ocean, stuck inside a tin can getting battered by waves until NASA can scramble their limited resources to get you.

The booster presumably like you will have been thrown into the ocean. Very wasteful system.

That train is about as stable as a washing machine. Can't imagine getting off after 6hrs without latent vertigo.

> Just like they could not foresee Orkut and G+ not becoming successful social networks.

They put minimal effort into their products and prematurely sunset them if they don't perform well enough. Their organization is either so fragmented or toxic that they launch products that are competing against eachother.

It really does seem like there are only morons at the helm. A company with as much resources as Google should not continue to fail so badly. My suspicion is as Jobs said of Apple during his time away, the company is being totally run by the product guys not the engineers.

H1-B should be only allowed in circumstances where foreigners are paid the same wage as their American counterparts, and the employer should have to front a sizeable fee to bring them in to disincentivize replacing American workers and incentivize training Americans instead.

It's absurd that every other nation is allowed to prioritize the employment of their own people but the US should just bring foreigners in to do the job for less. H1-B is a total scam as it stands.

Hopefully. I can't think of a single product that has grown because of him so much as in spite of him.

People living on the street are not citizens.

>Ideally those panels could be optimally placed and generate their full potential.

But then you're trading drag/weight for some system that angles them optimally.

The point of solar on a camper van is to charge an auxiliary battery used for appliances. The range gains for the main battery pack are so minimal it wouldn't make sense unless the car spent the majority of it's time parked in the sun between locations.

Things are worse than ever and reading comments like this that dismiss it genuinely confuses me. So because other cities have similar or worse crime rates, we should just accept it?

Urban decay is happening all across this country and it needs to be addressed aggressively before you or someone you know gets stabbed to death.

> Rust exists for a reason, and it solves specific problems.

But if say the foundation that supports it's development were to try asserting draconian control over it, many may reasonably be turned off.

I'll stick to C/C++ personally, rust does seem less flavor of the month but I can't get behind it if it's clear there are nutjobs at the helm.

So is this the moron that greenlit signal "stories"? Signal seems like a radioactive honeypot that doesn't offer anymore security than iMessage, but possibly less because at least the latter can be used with only an email.

Yes it did. The assertion was that the more people you date the higher your odds of success, when the reality is totally the opposite. People who date less have a higher success rate in marriage.

We live in the US, where the success of a marriage is closer to a coin toss. It's pretty abaurd to try to take the average from across the world in this case.

> It's a numbers game

I think to enter into a relationship knowing there will be an expiration date speaks more to your character. Almost sounds like "I'm with them unless something better comes along or their shortcomings become more than I want to deal with".

If you genuinely love someone, you will stand by them, work on any problems, and remember that you chose to build a future together. Given that the divorce rate in my community is less than 1% we're probably doing something right.

Yes

Doesn't doordash make you tip before you even get your food? I noticed a long time ago it didn't matter what I tipped for delivery ahead of time, or at the register, the service I received was exactly the same. Begruding and slow.

I'm done tipping anywhere but restaurants, where it's after I get my meal and service.

Highly doubt it

Probably to integrate it directly. Doesn't make sense to continue operating a competing service; that's only some idiocy Google would do.

Carmack is truly a one in a million engineer. Such an inspiration that he's still so productive in his 50's.

Twitter is looking to offer subscription services, paid tweets, and longform content. Substack is a direct competitor in that regard.

You underestimate the number of desperate women willing to spend money on this nonsense too.

You're welcome to disagree with my presumption but you don't appear to be stating anything definitive about this matter either.

All these governments have a duty to their aging population, which also tends to make up the majority of the active voter base. Every action they take tends to be multipronged but at the end of the day it's meant to protect those social programs. Consider mass migration to increase labor force and birth rates. Sure they can claim it was purely out of good will, but you'd have to be pretty myopic not to see the reality there.

You presume every kid got the same treatment which is rarely the case.

Governments with heavy social programs can't risk losing anymore taxpayers at a time where their systems are already strained by a lack of workers/population decline. This seems like a preemptive measure to prevent that more than a result of privacy concerns.