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> If one of the things you have to deal with as a woman in tech is seeing 10 page pseudo-intellectual manifestos about your inherent inferiority at performing in technical and leadership roles published at one of the premier tech companies in the world, and then see that piece supported on the most popular tech social sites then it's no wonder we have the gender gap we see today.

Could you provide citations in the manifesto that were oppressive to women?

Manifesto was pretty neutral and pretty clear that this was not at all a text about the abilities of women and how they are inferior. It was about motivations women have given their biological traits.

Google, Facebook run unconscious bias training which has no support in scientific research. At best it does not work at all.

It really was not misogyny.

The manifesto is inspired by Jordan B Peterson, and that guy is not a misogynist or a racist or whatever. He's a psychologist that complains about HR departments of the world that are filled with other psychologists and sociologists. He thinks they have to start looking at science and get to the root of the issue. Unfortunately, they use methods that have no support in science and misuse their position to push their ideology.

One good example is Iran. Where women are oppressed. Yet they choose STEM more often than not. How come our free/tolerant culture allows women to move away from STEM fields, and their oppressive culture pushes women towards STEM fields? Maybe motivations of free and oppressed women are different and free women just don't want to work in STEM? Abilities of men and women are identical (or at least the bell curves overlap significantly). Motivations depend on biology and culture. Motivations are what is differing and no unconscious bias training will fix that.

For example, I know plenty IT women that don't want to work in offices that don't have dress code. They all went working in banks. How is anyone going to fix that bias if women just like dressing well (on average) and being in a dressed up fancy environment.
Way to prove that he was right.

The problem with diversity programs is that you only need them if you don't treat people equal to begin with. And then, thanks to the diversity program, you still don't treat them as equals, but give an advantage to the group you consider to be weaker.

In the end, it's not about treating people as equals, as it should be, but about political correctness and conformity.
> Only someone who is not a woman or not from a minority could say this. People tend to dismiss other peoples problem or minimize them, even when those people are telling they are hurting.

Only someone who is a woman or from a minority with liberal views could say this. How can you speak for 70% of people? How are you hurting from being treated equally to the 30%?
I think a strong pattern here is:

the more cultural/social homogeneity the more willingness to fight a war for your country.

See Italy, Spain, Belgium for instance: people from different area of those countries really feel belonging to different cultures.
Contrari to the Nordic & Easter European ones. In Germany is more of a historical thing instead.
But it's not slow and unintuitive anymore
It looks like the closer you are to a thread, the most willing are you to fight.

Being close to Russian is a good indicator on how much you are willing to go to war.

So I agree with other comments, probably people that feels threatened read the question as "I'm willing to protect my country from an outside attacker". While people in "safer" places read it as "I'm willing to go to war with another country for some strategic/economic interest". (Judging by my own ethics, I guess)
> I doubt immigrants would have the same interest in war as the natives.

Often (a bad qualifier) immigrants (an ill-defined word) want to prove their willingness to integrate their hosting society much more than native that take things for granted (a very variable behavior depending on cultures).
Do you think defending your country from invasion is worse than letting some assholes conquer your home?
I'd love to see a p2p wikipedia and a p2p twitter alternative

Moving bittorrent away from it's present image could be achieved by making p2p useful beyond bluray rips
Given all the commotion about this memo I expected it to be some kind of a rant (similar to something I would write in 10 minutes), but it's actually a very well thought out and well articulated piece.

Being fired for writing such a memo is very disappointing. If I were an engineer at Google I would probably be looking for somewhere else to go.
Write down what it means for the Cartesian product of some collection of sets to be nonemtpy. You'll see that it's exactly identical to saying there's a choice function on that collection of sets.
Linked from the article: http://gallup-international.bg/en/Publications/2015/220-WIN-...
So you wouldn't risk your life but you would risk your family's, friend's and colleagues instead?
Class =/= race|gender. Could be argued that race|gender equality distracts from class divisions that are far more ingrained.
The discrimination problem is very real, and our current solution is just a hack which works as long as you agree that perfect is the enemy of good. The weird thing about this particular situation is most pro and anti positive-discrimination comments are made by idealists who should be more or less perfectionists in their subject by definition. One side complains about society not being perfect and the other complains that the solution to fixing it is not perfect.

Meanwhile normal people deal with more practical problems like yours.
> The amputation of a quarter of Russia's territory

Soviet Union is (was) not Russia, it was a multinational empire, similar to Roman or Mongol Empries. AFAIK, Russia itself did not loose much (any?) territory after 1989.
As far as I understood the original manifesto was about the average population characteristics of currently existing men and women, so those studies shouldn't have anything to do with Evo-psych, I mean they would be valid even if evolution didn't exist.
Why would you want to change layout on a switch statement? That feels very early 2000s web. Just use auto layout and constraints so that all of the new iPad split screen stuff and any new device sizes comes free.
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The value proposition depends on the country. For instance, Finland absolutely needs high level of support for it's concript army to stop Russia even of thinking of an attack (it's not about would it succeed but at what cost). Better to offer worse odds to the generals throwing dice in Kremlin or what ever other apparatus was responsible for Ukraine.
Sorry I am not sure why is that. Would you mind explaining?
Countries like Greece, Finland, Ukraine and Turkey have military conscription.

Additionally there are underlying tensions between a lot of these nations, e.g. Ukraine/Russia, Greece/Turkey etc

I wonder if that skews these figures somewhat
OK, but the Department of Labor suit claims that Google "discriminated against its female employees". And Damore almost claims reverse discrimination. So I don't get how they'd work together.

However, Damore did file a NLRB claim before he was fired. So he seems prepped to sue, or perhaps to negotiate a private settlement.
I always cringe a little when I read these naive white-boy style of stories, in form of documentaries or texts like this one. Reminds me so much of how I acted the first time I was in a country where people are still required to face reality much closer than they like. Reminds me of how I probably still act considering how good a life we live here in the West.

It's really a pity when these documentaries don't contain literal quotes and face expression images, since there is so much that a naive documenter can't see, and therefore can't write down. For instance in these situations for the man it's usually an exciting adventure with sexy cherries on top. But for her it's often an attempt for a better life, a very serious matter. But because she knows that the John Snows don't know anything, she also needs to play the relaxed sexy lover.

This, I believe is true strength. Constantly for weeks, maybe months, acting relaxed and enjoying having another person inside you, not because it's the truth but because you hope for your daughter, your blood, that she will have a better life than you. It's an amazing thing to watch. And really painful when she dies in the end like in this story, to some degree because the guy wasn't able to even get a hint of the situation.

For other people who also enjoy that I suggest the movie "The Banquet (2006)" (夜宴) from China. It gives a good opportunity to get an inside view into that kind of situation. Quote (own translation): "The true art is not to hide your feelings behind a mask. The true art is to turn your face into the mask."
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You've touched on one theory of why European governments are seemingly so in favour of mass immigration; a people with no common identity are much less willing to go to war for it.

The theory goes that this is favourable for the wealthy euros in power because it lets them hold on to their wealth.
Having spent 9 years in the military, I can say with some confidence that even soldiers are not willing to fight a war. War is evil. No one looks forward to it (except the generals). But when its thrust upon you, you rise up to the occasion and defend your motherland.
Regulative approval of a generic drug is given by the FDA on the therapeutic effect of the drug, which must be within a 90% confidence interval of 80–125% based on the original. The FDA evaluated 2,070 studies conducted between 1996 and 2007 that compared the absorption rate, and found that average difference between generic and brand was 3.5%, comparable to the difference between two batches of a brand-name drug.

Some comments in here talk about Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient or excipients, but a generic isn't given approval based on their active ingredients. This is one of the common objection given to the patent model for drugs, in that generics still need to show that their version with their unique combination of active and excipients have the same therapeutic effect, which normally means that they need to conduct new studies. The only way you can "copy" a drug is if you make a identical copy in every aspect, including the excipients, and the patent don't include enough information to do that.
I doubt you'll find that quickly. You can't do much in 2kb if you don't want to mutate your data, I think. I don't know much about STM, but I'd wager that uses some extra bookkeeping memory as well. So unless your own memory requirements are really low, this won't work.
I think any company should hire diversely in terms of qualifications too, regardless of gender; there's far too many job postings out there where they ask for 5+ years of experience. Even entry-level with X years of experience.

I'm glad at least that some IT employers care less about education and look more at potential and whatnot.
Is there a map of percentages of people who responded with "what's the pay like"
Is the question "Will you fight a war for your Country?" even valid in today's Europe, with open borders and mass immigration of millions of non-citizens. Why would a German fight for the social construct "Germany", when his neighbour was given asylum on grounds of escaping military duty in his homeland?
Unedited version of the memo: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
There's no way they could plausibly determine this in the time they have had. And, there's no way there aren't people at google who don't agree with him. Which is why they had to act.

The key to large organization management is control: they are doing this quickly before anything else happens. His presence both legitimises his point of view, and acts as a rallying point. If others are sufficiently emboldened, they may also act out. If they start organizing together, this has the potential of rapidly turn into a long standing issue for google.
That, or employers should up their professionalism. Bring back the 9-5 job, the clean desk policy, the grumpy boss that will chew you out if you come to work wearing shorts.
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> The US only had two bombs. They weren't even sure they'd work.

It worked. It didn't have to happen twice. It shouldn't have been used like a human experiment.

> It might take months to make and deliver more.

Wait until you are prepared. Or you can stop with a bomb. The US was preparing for 10 bombs until the end of the year.

> Thousands were dying every day on both sides.

No, such number of non-combatants were dying only in Japan.

> The US leaders decided a demonstration was too risky, what if it failed?

No, the bombing succeeded. No need for second one. Also Japan was ready to surrender two months before Hiroshima.

>Meanwhile, tick, tick, thousands more would die every day while the US dawdled.

The bombing in Tokyo is also known as one of the most inhuman bombing ever recorded. Bombing never happens like a natural disaster. If the US does not take such action it will never happen.
I'm having trouble accessing that. Press release from 2014 also available here: http://www.wingia.com/web/files/richeditor/filemanager/EOY_r...
That is a fantastic outcome, and the sort of end goal that affirmative action should seek. But it doesn't always end that well.

In India, affirmative action has basically served to deepen the lines between castes/religions etc. More and more sections of society demand that they be included in quotas. The people who do get in using such programs rarely succeed in suppressing the nagging question of whether they earned it (and that questioning stays with you all your life). Meanwhile, people forge identity documents to make it through such programmes, and the abuse of the system means that no one trusts that it is doing any good overall. In fact, by now, it has become a tool for politicians to appease fractious sections of society.
> Also, can't blame the Germans for being unsure which side to be on in the next great war..

Nah that's easy, we just look which side is losing and take that.
Historically the large powers have instigated conflicts as much as defended against incursion. So, I think it's highly context sensitive what sort of war people are thinking about depending on the country.
Unfortunately it is never the people who start wars. Politicians do. If you want to decrease the chance of your country going into war it would be an easy fix to introduce laws that mandates pro-war politicians to submit their family members to service to fight at the front in case of a war.
He's not saying that the diversity programs are alienating conservatives. He's saying that if Google really wants to care about diversity, they should be more open to political diversity.
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Have you ever considered the option that your black friends was wrong? (Hint: if he was saying you can't be racist against whites, he was wrong and, funny enough, racist.)

Edit: to expand on the above point, the funny thing is, people peddling this kind of bullshit know it's bullshit. For example, feminists want "social justice", and try to redefine "racism" as "institutional racism". But, obiously, by prefixing other adjectives to the words, they're modifying the words themselves - "justice" is just "justice", if you're talking about "social justice", you're obviously not talking about actual "justice", because if you were, you'd simply use the word "justice" without any additional qualifying adjectives. But then, most people respond to emotional arguments way more than to rational arguments, so that's where the war is fought, and it keeps escalating until we get Trump.
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From the article

Since World War Two, Europe has been relatively peaceful with major exceptions of the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s and various political suppressions during the Cold War. However, the 19th century was also a relatively peaceful time for Europe that ended with the start of World War I.

So no, the vividity of the world wars is popular but unconvincing.
In North America, you would need to resolve responses down to state/province to see anything meaningful. Between the three countries, it would be difficult to understand how percentages translate to the overall population.
> Why would that be the case?

If free societies don't want to defend - they are conquered by the oppressed societies, and cease to be free.

And it's not like in modern Europe there are no wars (Russia-Ukraine for one example), or aggressive dictatorships (Russia, Turkey, less agressive but 100% dictatorship Belarus, and a few more dictatorships in making, all of them using nationalism as the building block).
> Cited primary sources

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression was that he did cite sources, but that Gizmodo decided to remove them. In addition they also re-badged this internal email as a "manifesto" and presented it as a war-cry rather than a basis for discussion. Pretty dishonest changes really.

These dishonest changes certainly helped further this shitstorm. Knowing Gizmodo (and their sister-website Jezebel which has no issues with domestic violence against men), I'm just going to assume this was the intended consequence.
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People need to experience true risk and true loss before they develop true feeling. Before that it's all flat and simple. Of course it's hard to say if you would like someone to experience such a bad thing to gain that inside or rather want them to experience such a flat life. In my eyes not an easy choice what to wish for others.
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> So why does it need approval? This is science. What kind of science needs approval?

One word: Capital.

There's a hell of a lot of money tied up in the carbon industry, and maintaining the status-quo for that section of the capital class is predicated on not acknowledging climate change.
The Finns are always ready to fight the Russians again...
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> The more the value continues to increase, the less people want to spend it.

Exactly the opposite. Bitcoin value has gone up, my purchasing power has increased. Now I can finally I can afford that silver Bugatti. Why not spend the money now so I can have the life that I want rather than taking all those nice digits into my grave?
You may want to research the early days of McCarthyism and the blacklist.

Is this the first firing that was perhaps an overly sensitive reaction concerned with appeasing a very touchy ideological base? Because I can think of a number of other people railroaded out of a job because of online "outrage."

We aren't all that far from an Inquisition (not prongs and tongs type Inquisition, but a "your job depends on agreement" type Inquisition). The most significant thing missing from the equation is that the most vocal social justice voices lack political influence and power. If you see this movement organize politically and get candidates in office, any student of history should recognize that things will get worse for open expression of ideas before things get better.
This seems like one of those questions that definitely can't be studied with a survey. The context of 'fighting for your country' differs quite a lot; there's a major difference between fighting a defensive war against a brutal opponent and fighting an irrelevant war on the other side of the world.

Look at the US, and how many soldiers signed up to "fight for their country" in the invasion of Iraq, a country that never threatened the US. Compare that against how many would sign up if the US mainland was actually attacked.

Likewise, if Russia threw caution to the wind and started marching through Europe again, I'd be surprised if only 18% of Germans would fight to defend their country. But if Germany were to invade an Iraq-a-like, I'd be surprised if as many as 18% would.
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Which are the best products or frameworks to query & plot data?

Normally I'd write rather complex queries in Python or Javascript, grab the data from JSON APIs and SQL databases, and plot them via D3. I know there are products out there that could do this, but which ones would you recommend? (Could be paid if it's a sensible amount.)
It got hotter until 1998 and plateaued until today 2017+, occasionally setting small new highs (0.1C when margin for error is 0.4C).

That was already accepted and should not be trumpetted as further "proof".
Understandable. Germany has experienced crushing, humiliating defeat not once, but twice in a hundred years, and the second time it was abundandtly clear that they were on the wrong side of history. No wonder the fightin' spirit hasn't recovered.

That said, when certain substances start hitting the fan, no one will ask you whether you want to fight. Read some WW2 memoirs: the shit was so horrific that even hardened patriots had serious second thoughts from time to time. I mean, imagine living in a trench for five years and watching your buddies die one by one. People get PTSD in as little as 6 months in conditions far less gruesome. Now imagine 10 times as much time in conditions that are easily 10x worse. It sometimes worries me that kids these days know nothing whatsoever about this. Those who don't know history are liable to repeat it.
Apart from finding a good coffee shop and activities-on-offer because of geo-location. I would look at potential employers around and see what (tech based) jobs they offer. And how I fit into place if I have to stay long. To write this: I have been living in relatively small town for few years and only in last year I have paid attention to employers around.
I think this is the kind of stupidity that women actually filter for, not filter against. Because that kind of stupidity can only come with a save and comparatively rich life.
Some European countries, like Sweden, now have 25% of residents with a motherland which is not the country they live in. Would an Afhan boy living in Sweden fight for Sweden, or would he just take a flight back home to his real motherland? Would an American living in Germany fight for Germany, or take the next flight home? I think we all know the answer, and therefore large parts of the people living on European soil will not fight anymore. They would just leave.
> It looks like the closer you are to a thread, the most willing are you to fight.

I don't think its that simple. The question is "willing to fight a war". German people have learned that when Germany goes to war it is usually not for the best of the country. On the other hand, Germany had "the threat" next door for 40+ years and the willingness to defend was very high. So I think when you ask Germans this question, they will consider the question as if it were "Are you willing to fight an attack war?", not "... to defend your country".

Finland is probably exactly the other way around.

It should also be considered that central Europe has been a very stable place for some time, so somewhat similar reasons will probably apply to other countries as well; wars are not fought in the home countries of central Europeans any more; wars are in the east or south, so when a European country today starts a war, it's difficult to not consider it an attack war along at least one dimension.

Needless to say, "the aggressor in an attack war is practically always the bad guy" has pretty much become kind of a European core tenet.
As a German pacifist I feel like Germany is partly responsible for refugees fleeing wars as long as German companies sell weapons and whole plants for weapon fabrication.
Yes exactly. And also the question "Would you fight for your Country" is silly to me because I wouldn't fight for a country or nation. I would happily fight for my family or my people but the country is just an authority to me.

For example if the roman empire would invade and bring roads, a type of democracy and bureaucracy I maybe would not pick up arms to depose them.