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> It's been shown, especially recently, that HR and legal are not necessarily on the side of employees wronged by sexism in the workplace.

Nor are they on the side of employees accused of sexism. They will do whatever is in their best interest. Which can mean both ignoring sexism or wrongfully firing the employee with no proof.

The cost of ignoring sexism is a potential PR nightmare. The cost of wrongfully terminating the accused employee is maybe a low 7 figure wrongful termination suit at the worst.
If you're worried about mutual protection, it would seem that you don't trust the person.

You also seem to imply that harassment is more about having opportunities to harass, rather than a person wanting to commit harassment and waiting for the right opportunity. If someone wants to do something, I figure they could be very patient in waiting for their time.

Also, how would you know until everyone is already uncomfortable? The only way it sounds like to fix that is to trust no one, ever, and have everyone travel in groups of at least 3?
I think this bill is not for asking questions
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Exactly, HR and legal are there to protect the business, not the employees.

They only protect the employees when it could harm the business.
So when there is no evidence one way or the other, you're saying you'd believe the accuser. This pretty much supports the grandparent's statement.

I know of a woman who has made a successful career of extorting "settlements with mutual confidentiality agreements" out of a succession of positions as a PA to multiple high level executives, with each exec settling for tens of thousands to avoid this person leveling damaging public accusations against them. She can get away with it because there is a general consensus that without evidence, the "victim" should be believed and that men are probably guilty.
The vast vast majority of people would never fabricate something so heinous. For the very tiny percentage of people who would, it wouldn't matter if you were ever alone with them or not. Your concerns are unfounded.
> it's also the only reason you are alive

Yep, sex is the recursive part of a function that is life.
I believe impostor syndrome comes from wanting to feel something that it's impossible to feel.

When you look at someone successful, you think "wow, that person is amazing, look how great they are!" But do you think they feel that way about themselves? Idolisation is something you can do to someone else, but, unless you have very severe narcissism, not to yourself.

So, much the same way you can't write a book that gives you the feeling of reading a book, or create a product that gives you the feeling of using a product, you won't ever feel about yourself the way you feel about the people you look up to. You're getting the process confused with the output.

There is one exception, which is that if you surround yourself with people who idolise you, you can see it a bit reflected in their eyes. Most of the people who do this don't seem very happy, though. Probably best to just give up on ever feeling like you've made it and instead learn to enjoy the endless process of getting there.
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We need a law that allows any resident to challenge what's taught in churches.
Don't worry about the virgin thing - but there is plenty of time to socialise (and now you have the full time $ to support your hobbies which most 20 year olds don't.)

I didn't start drinking until 23 and didn't start going out with friends until 25. I moved city and made all of my friends through the local live music scene, I'm sure you could have similar results.
In summary, respecting market forces is more efficient than regulation and gov monopoly.
Another lovely aspect to this problem is that the quintic _is_ solvable if you allow yourself to use certain special functions naturally associated to the icosahedron.

The genesis of the relationship is that the group of rotations of the icosahedron is the same group, A_5.
Yes, but the smartphone adoption rate is faster than mobile money adoption. I'm positive it'll take a different turn in a few years to come.
The same is true of eBooks.com.
Do you have a source for that, how do you know that? That sounds like an urban legend to me.
This is both true and sad. It's also why I've stayed predominantly technical (I did take a managerial role at one point but changed jobs for a technical lead position). Some people may be cut out for middle management corporate bullshit...I am one of those that is not :)
I'm not even considering the case where the woman is being malicious; even in the case a misunderstanding her feelings could be completely valid. For example, she could take me buying her a drink as an advance when I'm really just getting the next round. Or I could be venting or speaking passionately about something and have it come off as scary; I'm a pretty big dude and I have a hearing problem so I talk too loud sometimes.
In theory, I agree, but in practice, no two are exactly equal. Even if they have the same title, some have more influence, connections, respect. And if it's just a drink, that's totally fine too. The concern is that if one, the other, or both become intoxicated, it may become more.

The solution isn't hard, bring a buddy with you, or do something that doesn't involve drinking.
Good response; I'm glad it worked out for your friend.

I would agree that it might be a disadvantage for women, but conversely I would just make an effort to ensure there was _someone_ else with us, male or female. So instead of drinks 1:1 outside work, or a 1:1 meeting, It would instead be three people which mitigates both parties liability.

I am a senior engineer, not a manager, but if I were a manager one on ones would be necessary, I would attempt to have HR in each 1:1 as an ass-saving measure anyway.

But then again, I believe I would be a poor manager so I don't wish it on anybody.
While the title of the article makes it seem like a good (or at least neutral) thing, the content of the article makes it quite clear that this is going to be a gift to the anti-science crowd.

So no, it won't encourage people to think, it will just give more weapons to climate-change deniers and abstinence-only sex ed supporters.
Our society, our justice system, and our corporate culture has an enormous bias in favor of harassers, abusers, and rapists. There is enormous pressure to marginalize, ignore, and punish victims, to ignore accusations, and to protect aggressors.

See - practically every single instance of rape/harassment/abuse that has hit the public eye. The consistent pattern in all of them is how many victims had to come forward, how many complaints were filed against HR, how many people had to tell the same fucking story until someone took them seriously.

If you are an actual harasser, the deck is incredibly stacked in your favour. The odds that you'll be punished are low. If you also have actual innocence on your side, and lack of any proof on theirs, the odds are even lower.
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There's hope that convincing simulation technology can remove other humans from the equation and keep the stupidity contained, the way we've done with other intoxicants.

But that's a chicken and egg problem, because a prerequisite is getting society to accept it as ok to be sexually fulfilled by technology when your tastes are considered illicit. People still get sent to jail for having racy cartoons in some parts of the world.
Finally we can challenge so called "science" teachers about gravity: http://www.theonion.com/article/evangelical-scientists-refut...

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At some point if we can augment humans to separate reproduction from sex (act of sex), we can free sex from the 'heavy' meaning it receives in social contexts being the subject of so much drama and tragedy. When sex and reproduction divorces, we ll pave a new way for reproduction to be made more reasonably and sex to become more abundant - by implanting Krause bodies all around the human skin not only few current locations.
I didn't downvote you, but your post is hyperbolic and creates barriers for women out of unrealized, unrealistic fear. In particular:

> One accusation of ill-doing on my part and my life is essentially over.

This flies in the face of of...well, just about everything, in most industrialized countries. Serial sexual harassers get away with it for a long time and men who out-and-out assault women do to; somewhere almost certainly north of 50% (NARAL says 90%) of rapes go unreported and of those something like a quarter are ever brought to trial. Being fired--maybe--doesn't make your life "essentially over", and (in the US and the parts of Europe I'm familiar with) there's nothing that can be disclosed to a future employer to say "hey, that dude's a creep" without opening the former employer up to potential danger.

And to be crystal clear, everything I just said is a bug, not a feature. Sexual predators in the workplace, most of whom are male, by and large get away with it. It's why the last couple weeks of dudes not getting away with it are so notable. Fearing the same is temporarily-embarrassed-millionaire silliness projected into a new realm, nothing more.
Yeasts are like "nano bots" that you can program to create very complex chemicals. In this case they are used to create specific taste molecules.

They are also used in some breads so they stay soft for weeks.
I don' think you understood what I said.

My point is that a woman (or man) will not come out of a 1:1 or a drive home or talks over dinner and take an ambiguous statement or thing they thought they saw or heard and run to HR. People are rather loath to make the wrong conclusion and will give other the benefit of the doubt.

Now, bad, vindictive, extortionists, etc., will not need you to take them out for drinks or have a 1:1 to get their way. So it's beside the point. I'm speaking of interpersonal communication, work relationships, etc. with normal people. We need not fear normal people.
How is it irrational? According to the UN, 40-50% of women in Europe experienced unwanted sexual advancement at work[1].

That is, statistically speaking without breaking it down by industry, close to half of women at your workplace are getting harassed and could report the perpetrator.

For comparison, lighting kills 0.000017% of the population per year.

[1] http://endviolence.un.org/pdf/pressmaterials/unite_the_situa...
This is the exact opposite of allowing people to ask questions, it's helping to ensure that their pre-existing beliefs never have to be called into question.
I think one aspect that makes it workable is that it's about the power imbalance, not simply being alone with someone. It's ok to date a coworker. It's not ok to express or receive interest in someone who works under you. So it's not that everyone needs to travel in groups of 3, but rather that the people who have power over you are held to a different standard.
I see no value in Dropbox since using GDrive (have it anyway because of GSuite) and using a decent sync client like InsyncHQ. Never looked back at Dropbox.
Just out of spite? Is there any business advantage?
What is the public benefit of snapchat ?
I think if you're worried about woman calling you out for being a dick, you're probably worried because you're a dick to women.

People aren't malicious in my experience unless you give them cause to be.
Yup, and the first question on everyone's mind should of course be "proof, or faith?" The second, "to know, or to believe?" Seriously, the fricking Pope has more faith in science than the people who support these kinds of laws, at some point you gotta ask yourself "am I a good Christian, or a Christian extremist?" If the Pope distances himself from your religious practices, it's starting to look like the latter
Sure. I know one person who claimed sexual assault to try to get a better business deal. But in my experience, the opposite is way more common. Among my wife's circle of friends, several have been literally raped without consequence for the perpetrator. Nevermind things like groping, now you're looking at a 100% hit rate.
I'm also surprised by such a large percentage. I suppose that the problem of having a "work meeting" is that some workplaces are very uneven - i.e., management position is only hold by men.
Might be a fun system upon which to use Alinsky's fourth rule: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
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I use it for mirroring a significant percentage of my disk across Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android. There's no way I'd ever drop it for one brought out by a platform vendor, especially not one brought out by Apple.
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Not an urban legend, it's been well publicized, here's a whole congressional hearing on it (warning, it's long): https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112shrg72702/pdf/CHRG-112...

Not good enough, here's a few more, but there is plenty else out there:
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I agree. There are a lot of very smart people on both sides of the issue. It is better to be exposed to both sides.

Also, I think it is good that they are trying to limit nudity in textbooks. Even Steve jobs, who was by no means traditional, prohibited nudity from the App Store because he thought it was bad for young people.
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Flagging is for when things are against site guidelines. Downvotes just mean disagreement; it's been that way since forever, and pg has stated that downvotes-for-disagreeing is fine on HN. They're just imaginary internet points anyway.

The stupid thing is that it just takes one person disagreeing in order to grey out your text - that's an HN fault, not a human fault.

> shouldn't people be offering me counter-arguments instead of downvoting?

Probably, but there's a lot of things people should be doing which they don't do.
you blind people to it, and you can absolutely cause normal wine enthusiasts to not know which they are drinking.

I believe one such demonstration of such was done on John Cleese's wine for the confused.
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It's Business Insider so I expect this kind of drivel
Well, they were located in the area (Boston), and one of his cofounders (RTM) teaches at my school, so it probably wasn't that hard to organize a little talk.
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The current pope is overturning hundreds of years of catholic doctrine. He's not a benchmark of a traditional Christian. Also, most American Christians aren't catholic.
People who work 70 hours a week on a sustained basis are just bad at saying "no". Not saying "no" often is the surest way I know of to disappoint all those people you're saying "yes" to. People's attention span to things that are peripheral to them is very short, so no amount of commitment is ever enough, and you have to deliver (most of) the things you have signed up for.

You can't do that if you bite of more than you can chew. You _can_ do that if you manage your time properly and say "no" often. That way you have some slack to recover if things go wrong, and deliver on your commitments.
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A circuit board where you replace one of the specified chips with a completely random one which only has the same pin count won't pass even basic QA controls something like what, 99% of the time?

As another commenter said, smells like an urban legend.
Then just say that's what you're doing. Ask her if she feels uncomfortable and say you want to have a productive but professional working relationship.
> If they don't, you just eliminate them from the pool and your decision is that much easier.

You're somehow assuming that salary is the only relevant parameter in choosing a job, or even that all jobs are equivalent in career growth and creating more job opportunities. Some jobs are dead-ends and career killers, even if they pay more. This sort of stuff needs to be considered.
> BY DEFINITION a free market in healthcare MUST kill people

I'm not sure this is true. Does a free market in food require that some people starve to death? Right-wing ideology says that even the poor have enough to buy food, clothing, shelter and medical insurance. If a poor person buys a mobile phone instead of health insurance, it's because they value the phone more than their health - why should you force someone to buy something that is less valuable?

Perhaps you argue that the poor don't have enough money to buy health insurance. In that case the right-wing answer is to give the poor money with which to buy whatever they prefer. Hypotheically everyone could buy health insurance and noone would die of treatable diseases.
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When I was in college I was a team lead at Best Buy for a while. I was in charge of a mostly female team of cashiers, and I was alone with them in the cash office frequently while they counted their tills.

I made one of the cashiers mad by reprimanding her, and she decided to get back at me by claiming that I grabbed her and shook her while we were in the cash office.

I never touched her, and luckily we still had video from the day she claimed it happened. After my manager reviewed the tape with her, it was clear she was lying, so she dropped her claim.

Despite what we might wish, society treats men and women differently, and women are viewed as being particularly vulnerable. If a man had accused me of something similar, no one would have cared. When a woman accused me, without that video, I would have been fired.

It's a complex situation. In many cases, people don't believe women when they really are assaulted, or they're force to share the blame when they're blameless. But in other cases the pendulum swings too far in the opposite direction. Like many things it's primarily a function of the relative power of the victim and the accuser.

A powerful man can get away with harassing much less powerful women. But a relatively powerless man will quickly find himself in a world of hurt with just the hint of an allegation. A company doesn't want to fire their CEO without hard proof (or at least a lot of bad press), but they'll drop a low level employee quick just to avoid the
slight possibility of looking like they aren't taking sexual harassment seriously.

I'm not going to let that experience keep me from being alone with a women at work--I don't think I'm very likely to run into another women like that again and avoiding being alone with a women in a modern workplace is just too difficult. But I do understand the rationale driving people to be cautious.

I do want to make it clear that I think that the vast majority of times when a women reports assault or harassment, they're telling the truth. But I do think that in some situations where we've started to completely shift the burden of proof to the accused (some employers, certain colleges etc..), we run the risk of creating perverse incentives and punishing an awful lot of innocent people.
So anyone can file a complaint for "in appropriate" material to be removed..

I guess kids in Florida won't be taught anything. The right will ask for evolution not be taught, and the left will ask for the Bible to be removed from the library on grounds that it has pornographic sections in appropriate for kids.

- just kidding the left won't fire back :)

On-topic: it's very sad when people wants to debate basic science. I might be religious, but I see no conflicts between my religion, the theory of evolution or the laws thermodynamics.. faith is not about evidence.
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I think a policy of having more than one person present in these kinds of meetings, especially if they are off site or after working hours, is certainly a good way to mitigate any risk as well as ensure everyone is still receiving the support or mentorship they need.

As an aside, it's always nice to hear someone who recognizes they aren't a good fit to be a manager. I'm not sure I would be good at it either but it seems that even people who very obviously don't have the personality for it tend to jump at the opportunity.
I get what you're saying. There are many examples of people doing shitty things and getting away with it; at the same time I work in Sweden; a country that has quite some sensitivity regarding what constitutes rape (strongly suggestive comments are legally rape).

It _might_ slide off me if someone accused me of something. But I really wouldn't put that to the test; at the same time. If you can mitigate the risk then why wouldn't you?

And again, the female perspective (that I could be abusive, hurtful or a rapist) is certainly enough to dissuade "alone time" for them, _especially_ if I, as a man, were able to get away with things like you were suggesting.
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This is true, but it would be more difficult for the mud to stick if it hard for that person to prove you spent large amounts of time alone with them.

note: I don't believe that many people would be vindictive like that, but the impact of such an accusation is so large means that even a very small chance of it happening is something worth protecting oneself against.
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