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Was horrified to see this flagged. Why would anybody flag a scientific viewpoint from a credible source with citations? Refute and discuss it, sure, but why flag it?
Not even close to coherent.
News articles about scientific studies may be wrong, misconstrued, misleading, or not statistically significant.
For the record, the "facts" cited in her post are indeed questionable. A decent sociological analysis has been making the rounds, including https://ifstudies.org/blog/five-facts-about-women-and-men-in... and https://ifstudies.org/blog/what-the-google-engineers-manifes... among others, including a presenter at Google https://twitter.com/histoftech/status/894418661741649920

Even a brief analysis of sociology would reveal a deeply seated counter argument to much of the "fact" present in the screed and the OP link.
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> It wasn't many people's first instinct.

There were many people doing exactly what I said in the HN comment threads, and, for another example, in the comments under George Takei's Facebook post on the incident.
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It feels like those guys in Silicon Valley are trying their best ways to homogenize their minds
It would be interesting to study what other activities trigger 'response learning' - I would imagine most sports?
Working with your mind in a stress free environment will make you old. Mining coal, crawling around in asbestos, being pushed by a never ending competition or sitting still doing nothing won't.

So there are upsides and down sides to work/retirement thing. The best you can do is academia or a retirement spent learning new things.
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80 bits of entropy is between 12 and 13 visible ASCII characters and between 14-15 ASCII letters.

Yes, if you go below that I'd say it's insecure. It's a conservative estimate, I admit. An entropy of 60 might be okay, too, but there is no harm in making passwords more secure.
Likely 4% of his paycheck or 0.0385 of total pay after matching.
This is a good point - what strikes me about these arguments, however, is that the biggest problem (IMHO) stems from the fact that the economy often relies on local optimization, not global optimization.

If we optimized human life quality globally everyone would get better healthcare etc., but since everyone makes the decisions that benefit them (+family and immediate surrounding), then we end up with worse healthcare for the vast majority of the population.

As such, it should probably be the job of governments (regulation, incentives) to make 'globally' optimized decisions more attractive (centralized healthcare). In a best case scenario at least.
Only thing I find compelling is many of the GMOs are just IP locked products that allow you to use more herbicide/pesticide on your crop.
Well written and well presented.

This exactly the kind of solid out-reach that gets me to click through and take a look at the axibase product.
> Dying from a sudden stroke induced by a lifetime of lethargy isn't.

Lethargy has never gave anyone a stroke

But drinking 20 coffees a day for staying awake working 80 hours a week for your startup while you could easily have a normal job, that grants you a normal, quite life, had.
That cruel volcano god is the hive mind of a handful of people making their personal lives better.
Compared to Trump's rhetoric during the campaign, "basket of deplorables" is about as mild as it can get...
purely anecdotal, but when my Doctor tells me he cannot tell fat people to diet because bad surveys affect the reviews of Doctors and their hospital; surveys from both government and insurance companies; it should be a clear indicator we are doing something wrong. He cannot connect their diabetes to their weight, only suggest what foods would help manage their diabetes without crossing the line into mentioning weight management.

what are people's actual expectations for how long they should or can live? I am at the age where I am not seeing relatives who I grew up learning from passing on, I am even having coworkers pass on. Perhaps I notice it more when people younger than I go.
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I see. I've interpreted "the wealthy" meaning too narrow and haven't taken in account everything you've mentioned.

Thanks for the info.
"But this, on the other hand, would create an odd situation where actually the vast majority of people might actually wish for rebellion, but none of them actually acts out on that wish."

AKA, collective action problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action#Collective_a...
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If you want to suggest that Debrah Soh blundered by expanding a rebuttal to Yonatan Zunger's piece into a broader defense of the very dumb "anti-diversity memo", I am prepared to stipulate that. Like I said: while I may be on the same side as Zunger, I found his blog post shrill and unpersuasive. He had the facts on his side, but didn't know where to look for them, and waved his hands instead.
Or they firmly distanced themselves from the author, just like what happened to both sides in Donglegate.

Not sure if the author can sue the company though, I mean on what grounds was he fired?
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I don't think opinions should just be dismissed outright. I think there's a scale on a) how inflammatory they are and b) how well-argued they are.

"Hitler did nothign wrong, let's kill the Jews" should be judged differently from "Maybe Hitler was right on some points, here's why:".
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Not really, the societies are too different to draw such conclusions. In less gender egalitarian societies a women without income is at the mercy of a sexist society. In more gender egalitarian societies, there is more social support and safety for women at lower economic levels. So in these less gender egalitarian societies, the drive to secure income is much greater and thus you would expect women to take lucrative but otherwise unappealing jobs. In societies where these pressures don't exist you would expect women to be less attracted to income in career choice. And this is how it plays out.
> She's explicit that statistical observations can't be used to judge particular individuals.

That's perfectly fine but there's a lot more to it than the statistics, even if they're valid. Moreover statistics doesn't necessarily suggest a clear conclusion and course of action for organizations and decision makers.

That didn't stop the author of the original manifesto, however, from proceeding to make a bunch of bogus smug prescriptions for what google needs to do like "de-emphasize empathy" etc. These were way above his pay grade and I find it hard to believe that diversity has harmed this person.

The fact is, Google is doing just fine. They're not in a downward spiral because of diversity initiatives. They're thriving. At a minimum one could argue that Google's diversity programs aren't hurting the performance of the company.

The author of the manifesto clearly violated Google's Code of Conduct and got fired for it.
More referring to all the overpriced pay to own links.
I'd wager that's because (aside from Apple generally being US-based) international distribution rights are an even bigger minefield than US distribution rights.
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In my experience, FPS enthusiasts do tend to manifest some pretty bad traits that are less common among other types of gamers. Interesting.

Especially stuff related to "race realism" and various forms of sexism.
The MTA has a similar 2D version of this on their website, divided into the "Neighborhood Maps," which are also posted in some stations[1, 2]. Apple maps has had this for the New York City Subway for a while[3], and Google is adding it but still doesn't have the entrances/exits like Apple Maps has (which are very helpful!)[4].

[1]: http://web.mta.info/maps/neighborhood_maps.htm

[2]: http://web.mta.info/maps/neighborhoods/mn/M12_MidtownEast-Gr...

[3]: https://i.imgur.com/nDsEOIP.png

[4]: https://i.imgur.com/Mc0WTAc.png
Worse, with social justice this usually takes the form of a motte and bailey argument. The statement that "we don't mean all white men" and "we mean a system of systemic biases/practices" is usually a defense in response to being called out for dismissing someone for being white or male.

"Mansplaining" is the clearest example of this. Supposedly it's only used to describe a man condescendingly explaining something a woman already knows, but in practice it's used to belittle and condescend any man criticizing a woman or women as a group. i.e. "Google employees are furious following the internal distribution of a memo mansplaining away low diversity in tech"

The only constant is the preconceived notion that they always know who the victims are ahead of time. The reasoning is then reverse engineered to suit the situation.

A man is talking based on feelings and anecdote? He's ignorant and pathetic, and probably needs to get laid. A man is citing scientific studies and making a cohesive argument? He's a mansplaining dudebro here to dogwhistle sexism and racism. If it's woman though, she's respectively sharing her lived experience and fighting the endemic patriarchy by being forced to work twice as hard as any man.
You're confusing the way things are versus the way things should be. Evolutionary biology explains the way things are. Diversity measures combats that with the goal of getting us to the way things should be. There are a host of reasons why things are the way they are now. The memo tries to offload some of that to biological explanations and cites studies. Then he makes a leap of faith and recommends the should based on that. The studies only explain why things are the way they are, not whether that is a good or a bad thing.

Specifically, he says at the top of the memo "Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business." I'm not aware of any studies that backs this up.
> "you people"

Do you mean black people or women? Or is this an attack on educated people regardless of their gender or racial orientation or identification?

The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The Big-Five model which underpins most of the relevant research in psychology) dates to the mid-1990s. If you want to attack it for being unscientific, you will have to learn about it. Good luck.
> If the main argument is that women do not [by nature of our scientific understanding] have minds tuned to engineering prowess to the extent that men do for whatever cause, then just how does that itself prescribe that we should stop pushing for an expansion there?

You are wrong in this assumption. I am going to try to explain it. We have group A and group B with different genetics. We measure everybody in the groups A and B in a particular skill and we get the average of A is lower than B. We are not saying everybody of A has lower skill than B (it could be the case but we cannot say anything without knowing the distributions). For this particular case the ranges of scores for A and B overlap a lot. It means that if you take someone from group A and someone from group B, it is more probably that the person from group B have a better score than the person of A, but you find a lot of cases where someone from group A is better than the person of group B. If you repeat this a lot of times and take the winners you would end up with more people from B than for A. But all those people are better than the one you don't selected and probably have the same average for the skill.

What does it means in tech? that you see less women in tech positions but the ones that are there are as same as good or better than the men. In other professions will happen the opposite.

Note: I am taking account only the genetic part, but there is one part that is based on the environment that can lead to sexim and alter the final distribution of the selected people. And this unfortunately happens and we should try to prevent it without having unrealistic goals in selection distributions.
> it arrived at grossly inappropriate conclusions

Which conclusions were inappropriate, specifically? The memo I read made several suggestions that would only help women in tech. If that's "inappropriate", then it proves his broader point: our biggest diversity problem is really the lack of diversity of thought.

If any of the conclusions are wrong, then no amount of shouting or complaining should be necessary; just refute the basis of those conclusions using facts rather than feelings.
He's filled his cabinet with Nazis?

For example?
You could loop through the file counting braces, storing line numbers. Then split the file along those line numbers. The smaller files might not have the exact formatting you need to run through a parser, but you should be able to manually adjust it then, hopefully.
Good luck overthrowing the strongest military in the history of humanity with a militia...
i'll repeat this slowly just for you: it's obvious that physical characteristics are different, so by extension it is not impossible that mental characteristics are different, too.

Exhibit A: top chess players.

Exhibit B: it is known that gender gap in tech is _higher_ in more advanced and liberal countries (i.e. it is higher in Sweden than in Thailand)
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There is no problem with this approach! The blogpost also contains a video which explains how to use rebase in sample use-cases.
> without experience... who have no tech skills

Sorry, who are you describing? What group?
Well, clearly this is incorrect because San Francisco isn't number 1.
Someone who actually studies this stuff can maybe correct me but I think this adds only a single bit of entropy (multiplies the possible combinations by 2) and thus is almost negligible.
Scores lower on goodwill points. Diversity is often used as a marketing tool.

Mind you, that industry needs a lot more men - nurses move people around, people are heavy, and nobody's denying that generally, men can lift more weight than women. That's a much more obvious biological distinction than in the more brainy areas like STEM.
If you couldn't tell, the debate was tainted before it even made it to the public.
The issue with the original article was two-fold:

1. It used strawman arguments. Notably that the world is looking for a 50/50 split in gender ratios. Most reasonable people believe that even in ideal equilibrium state that this is not the expected outcome (although I'm sure there exist some people that push for 50/50 or greater). But that the current ratio is not the ideal equilibrium state. The author of the paper seems to point out that 50/50 isn't likely the expected ratio -- and then jumps to trying to dismantle affirmative action.

2. He selectively uses research and data from research. For example the impact of stereotypes and individuating. But the research shows that while individuating is effective when it shows clear discrepancy, it isn't effective when there is any ambiguity. That is Maryam Mirzakhani will likely make someone who thinks women aren't good at math think, "But yes, she's actually quite good." But when it comes to more nuanced decisions and decision with a lot less data (which is more commonplace in the workplace), individuating isn't so effective. Determining who should be promoted to lead or VP from a group of pretty strong candidates, will often have the stereotype bias still play a role (and in fairness, depending on exactly the role -- it can benefit females too). This is meant to be an example of research where in the memo one part of the story is told, but not the other. Based on my limited investigation, I don't trust him being impartial in presenting these facts. In much the same way that climate change deniers often point to facts too -- its what they don't point to that is worrisome.

Lastly, there is a difference between speaking truth and how you speak truth. This seems obvious to most people outside of engineering. Putting "Catherine has big boobs and I'd have sex with her, if she consented" as part of your sig may be completely factually she true. In fact, it may be obvious to everyone who reads it, but there is a time and a place. If I were a female, I'd have a hard time reporting to Mr. Damore. If I didn't get a promotion, I don't think it would be out of line, to consider what he wrote in the memo. If Mr. Damore ignores my suggestion in a design review, I'd have to again strongly consider if he did so because of my gender. If he rejects all of his women interview candidates -- is that a problem or not? The context of what he wrote, even if done in good faith, creates a more difficult working relationship.

My hope is that if Mr. Damore wrote that in good faith, he will take this feedback and make things better for everyone, male and female. He certainly won't have trouble getting job offers (if he wrote it in good faith or not -- there are enough people in tech who don't like women in the industry) -- and if his end goal was to create the environment for the discussion, then he's done that too.
To be fair, we censor a lot of content distributed by such organizations.
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It seems every startup confronts the linked challenges of picking a name and accompanying domain. ICANN's domain registration rules and fee structure encourage speculation, making it harder to find a quality domain. WHOIS proxies can make it impossible to even submit an offer to a domain owner.

How would you reform domain registration/renewal to encourage more transferability, treat current domain holders fairly, and preserve (or increase) ICANN revenue?
So we've been denying biological reality for a generation, and now the chickens are coming home to roost?

What's the takeaway for teenagers or those in their early 20s, who are being encouraged to plan their life?
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I have an instant pot and have only used it once :(

Any ideas on recipes or good things to make that aren't just soup of some kind?
> [Prettier] It’s basically like gofmt for JavaScript.

Gotta mention jsfmt, which is actual gofmt for JavaScript. Awesome tool, hasn't been updated in a while though. RIP Rdio.

https://github.com/rdio/jsfmt
So what about strategy games then, such as Civilization?
Tell that to my now missing mall brand all plastic low grade mountain bike. It had the lowest value possible; I took the seat, and I parked it because one pedal was failing that day. Not even pretty (blue/white/fluopink) It was at best worth the frame metal.
She is arguing against the way the memo was reported by the media. Like this piece http://gizmodo.com/men-have-always-used-science-to-explain-w...
Maybe it is just difficult for a women to manage a bunch of guys? Maybe if the team has more women, this wouldn't be a problem?
The US has generally done well in expanding access to schooling. That has not been the same as strength in education.
I sometimes wonder if a lot of the freshly educated programmers I hire really know what they are in for.

In 25 years they'll still have 25-30 years of work left in their lives, and by then most of them won't have received any significant reschooling, and they will still be competing in a tech world, where 10 years ago there wasn't a thing called smartphones.

Some of them will do just fine. I know a lot of old programmers, but I also know a lot of former older IT employees who are spending their 60ies in the unemployment lines.
Even the guy behind the research thinks that Googler is wrong
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Silicon Valley is like USSR in 70s-80s: you can say anything, but for saying things not in the party's line you would be expelled from a higher social class.
And we could promise the VCs 100x returns in the afterlife.
You might be asking how one fails the state testing (then gets put in remedial class) but gets accepted to college (particularly a CA state one).

Let me tell you a funny yet embarrassing story. I went to GaTech and I failed the English Regents test not once but twice!

Now at first I thought it was my fault. I didn't really take the test seriously. However I was seriously embarrassed. After all this was Georgia not California.

Long story short after having to go through a remedial english class that was a complete waste of my time and somewhat embarrassing I learned the reason I was failing.... the exam testers could not read my hand writing!

To this day I'm still sort of jaded about the whole thing.
They also wield a lot of social clout, as we've all seen from this event among others.
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CDC methodology vs UK methodology doesn't explain why California has a rate of 7.3 maternal deaths per 100,000 compared with 22.0 for the US as a whole. Or why the rate in California is falling (like other developed countries) while the rate for the entire US is rising year on year [1].

The author just threw out data (with no explanation of their methodology) until they got the American rate similar to the UK rate and then stopped so they could assert that there's absolutely nothing wrong with the US health industry. The author would have been fully aware of the regional differences in the US because the Economist article is a response to the various articles this summer about maternal deaths in the US which have generally focused heavily on the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative and the improvements California has made compared to other states[2][3].

Not that I'd take the 21 year old interns writing without bylines in The Economist very seriously on health matters (or anything else for that matter).

[1] https://archive.cdph.ca.gov/programs/mcah/Documents/MCAH%20B...
[2] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/29/15830970/wo...
[3] http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-dur...