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Inferiority nor superiority was argued. So, quite frankly, this doesn't fall into this category. You can admit to a difference without falling privy to pseudo-science. Men and women's brains are structurally and chemically different as is each individual's unique brain. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that this manifests itself in real-world observable differences.

Misapplying a wikipedia link brings zero support to the parent comment. It possibly demonstrates that you have no truthful, factual, or logically sound arguments against the facts/science that have been stated thus can only resort to demonization .. Aka trying to thinly imply what has been presented is scientific racism.

I'm African American and I'd hire this guy in a minute. Why? because I can be assured that he is capable of sound root cause analysis and wont hold back his tongue w.r.t to presenting his findings... Even if the document was 100% about the inadequacies of African Americans, Id still give him the opportunity to debate and highlight his supporting data/arguments. This is not grounds to be fired. This is grounds for a promotion.

This is invaluable in engineering...
The fact that company's in the valley have grown so high and mighty that they feel that such people are dispensable is a clear sign to me that the current tech giants have no place in the future of technology that is set to unfold... As such, the problem quite clearly will resolve itself.

Good luck discovering and developing the future of technology when you can't stomach viewpoints beyond the least common denominator social consensus.... I'm so glad I ignored google's attempts to recruit me as a quota hire... which is a whole other discussion on its own (hiring minorities for market/social currency and to pad your statistics while throwing them into b.s roles that don't allow them to develop further). I went through enough of that crap in my internships. Ironically,many times I was overqualified yet constantly was looked at and treated like the dumb minority who is there to fill a seat.

The problem and wrong minded culture that select people have embarked and forced on society is clearly going to fix (sink) itself.
Wait, we agree on all points? Meh, this is boring :)

Oh, I found something to pick on:

> I'll accept and tolerate our divergence

Would you continue to be friends in the same way with someone who came out and said "I just joined the KKK!"?
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I don't want to stream, which puts me in the minority. I want services similar to GOG.com or Steam. I want to buy something digitally, have it stored remotely, but allow me to pull it down locally and have it so I can take it elsewhere if I want. That way old, unpopular or niche media can exist on the platform forever and I get my content on my devices when I want it. No fancy monthly subscription with a subset of content, I'll buy each piece of content and pay full price for it.

I realize this is not the 'vision' Hollywood has for their media and most people just want to stream content and not own it anyway, but all of this is very anti-consumer.
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>I think the trash talk was always in this community.

This seems true, considering John Gabriel formulated his Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory[0] way back in 2004. But it's not a good thing. Some people just want to play video games without being subjected to racist, sexist, and ableist harassment.

[0] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
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Technically, Uber has the loss even before the car is returned, since the asset value has already declined. Businesses are supposed to report losses and profits when they occur, not when cash changed hands. Companies are supposed to "mark to market" assets that are on the books at an inflated rate. But, most companies resist doing this until an auditor or government agency forces them to do it. This was the crux of the financial meltdown, banks were reporting mortgages on their balance sheets that were effectively worthless, given risk of non-repayment and depreciation of the collateral, as full-value assets. Thus, they were not seen as being insolvent.
An average 1 bedroom in Inglewood ranges from $1350 to $1600 a month. An average 2 bedroom ranges from $1650 to $2000 a month.

Someone making $43k a year would end up with $2,667.51 a month as take home pay. This would not include health insurance, which could run anywhere from $100 to $400 a month (and potentially much, much higher).
Would phrenology be acceptable to "debate"? Or race based "debates"?

It is remarkable how the need for debate is disproportionately forwarded from the side with power.
For what it's worth, the stuff I've read on societies that flatten our social pressures for job roles, specifically the most egalitarian societies like in Scandinavia, have larger exaggerations of traditional job preference for the sexes rather than more equal distribution.

I don't think it's clear why both of these occur however and I haven't been convinced that people who try to derive a position solely off societal level trends tend to do anything other than show off their ideological preference on both ends of the debate.
The article in your second reference uses income as proxy for competence. Are you sure you want to support a study that's based on that assumption? That measurement would probably rank Trump to be highly competent among politicians.
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I've used password managers for about 15 years now. I just counted I have ~400 passwords saved, most of which I'm obviously not using and a large number for services that do not even exist any more.

As I can't be bothered to even check which ones to delete, I will definitely not be updating any of those.
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We need both electrical engineers and licensed electricians. If you want to be an electrician, don't sign up for an engineering class taught by a pioneer in the field of electricity and then complain that there is too much theory. Coding bootcamps and vocational schools already exist to meet the needs of those who only want to be practitioners.

Everyone learns by practice, but that applies to math just as well as programming. If you don't practice it, you won't learn it.
I think he was fired because he offended people in the company (with his opinions). If this is the case they should fire everybody because someone is going to be offended by the opinions of others. I found very stupid what google did without taking some time to analyse what happened and the consequences. The research community is turning against google with this type of articles now.
Oh my, you can't read text with serifs? That sounds like a horrible affliction!
I hear North Korea has a similar policy.
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> If you couldn't answer that in 5 or so words, we knew you weren't to be hired.

I could answer this questions, but have a tendency for long, technical explanations. ;-)
There's some similarities. The old new math was all about learning abstractions early. The new new math is all about approaching math problems from many different angles to build a sense of when you'd use certain techniques and why they work. The common thread is a lack of emphasis on rote application of algorithms without explanation of how they work. Arguably, that's less important in the era of pocket calculators and computers.
We most certainly are not. We are really, really far away from it. Beginning of the 20th century was a time when Europe had high child mortality, utilized lots of child labour, pretty non-existing retirement benefits except for a very narrow elite, and abysmal maternal and hospital care. "Spanish disease" (in this case, the bird flu) wpied out hundreds of thousands of people at end of WW I. And even outside wars, violence was much more commonplace than today.

Sorry, I must say it's outrageously ignorant to say what you say.

Incidentally, I just wrote about early 20th century in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14966404

When Bismarck introduced the old-age pension system in Germany in late 1800's, the retirement age was 70 years. Life expectancy in these parts of Germany was 67 years.

As to the OP article, it seems that surprisingly few people have read this:

There’s no simple answer for why longevity gains are slowing. For years, economists and public health experts have been trying to ascertain what’s behind America’s troubling death trends, among them a rise in death rates for certain demographic groups. A much-discussed 2015 paper suggested that mortality was rising for middle-aged white Americans, citing suicides, drug overdoses, and alcohol, collectively sometimes referred to as “deaths of despair.” Women have been particularly affected.

What America then is seeing is not that old people, retirees, would die younger. It is seeing working-age people (not necessarily working people) die of unnatural causes.
> participants who use hippocampus-dependent spatial strategies

My first questions were: "How was this measured/detected? How might I know whether I used these strategies when I play games?"

The answer from your Nature link is very detailed, too detailed to reproduce here. See the section titled, "4 on 8 virtual maze". IIUC they partitioned the groups into "spatial" vs "response" learners by determining whether they navigated a maze while using a memorized sequence of landmarks or without.
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Even less expensive options (ie. less than $60k) are going to perform well...and Dell offers new out of box Linux on Precision workstations and driver support for it.
I'm just gonna copy another comment I made elsewhere:

The problem is that the gender differences cited cannot, in aggregate, explain the 70/30 bias toward men in the industry.

There's a real similarity to the global warming debate, here. There are many factors that affect global mean temperature. For example, over the very long term, the sun will get brighter. But that can only account for an astonishingly tiny fraction of the warming observed on the planet.

Someone who wishes to debate honestly would admit that, while there are many factors that affect global mean temperature, the rise on CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is significant, and has a demonstrable effect on temperature, making it by far the strongest influencer.

Someone who wishes to debate dishonestly will use these other explanations as a method to muddy the debate and try and turn attention toward lesser factors that cannot explain the whole effect.

Now, if you look at this current "debate", yes, there are undoubtedly biological gender differences that can explain some male/female bias in engineering (among many other disciplines).

But no serious psychologist or sociologist would claim that those differences can account for the dramatic real world bias in the industry. It simply doesn't follow.

So to claim those gender differences lie at the root of bias in the industry is a distraction. At best it's a gross misunderstanding of the science and statistics. At worst, it's a deliberately dishonest attempt to muddy the waters and confuse the debate.
Personally, my bet is it's more the former than the latter.
I'm having trouble with appreciating the point of it. My understanding is, if all we need is to visit each and every element of an array in a pseudo-random order, and if we just shuffle the array with Fisher-Yates, then iterate the newly shuffled array from 0 to n-1, and we are done right? So what's the point of looking it as a graph and the cycle thing?
Welcome to 2017 where we're currently in the throes of an ideological civil war.

Politics used to be a gentleman's game. Sure, you argue and huff and puff over bills, and the opposing parties viewpoints, but at the end of the day - you found compromise. The last decade or so? No such thing. Politics is now a bloodsport. Total victory is the only option.

- Different viewpoints? Not allowed.

- Compromise? Not allowed.

- Rational discourse? Not allowed.

- Don't believe what I believe? Your're a racist, bigot, homophobe, xenophobe, misogynist.

The Liberal ideology that has dominated politics for the last decade is now eroding, the Republicans own Washington DC right now and its rather off putting to the people who used to be in power. The whole Google issue just highlights that this isn't going to end anytime soon - but it sure didn't start with Trump, and it sure didn't just "land on Silicon valley's doorstep" this past week.

I think the larger question is when is rational discourse going to return? Google had an incredible opportunity to create a forum to discuss the issues the author brought up. Instead, they had a knee jerk reaction, based on the current environment, and fired the guy. They would rather deal with a lawsuit, a ton of backlash and a social media furor I haven't seen in a while, instead of having an open dialogue on what happened and why this guy believes what he believes. Can him, put him the box and label him an evil person and let's move on.

Nobody wins, and nothing is gained.

Another wasted opportunity.

Sad and depressing this is where we are as a country.
It's more than video games:

- Becoming pregnant reduces grey matter[0].

- Watching porn reduces grey matter[1].

- Heavy use of Facebook reduces grey matter[2].

- Tweeting while watching TV reduces grey matter[3].
etc etc etc.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/pregnancy-brain-mean...

[1] http://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-find-association...

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432817...

[3] https://www.fastcompany.com/3036198/people-who-jump-from-scr...
> inappropriate conclusions

"Inappropriate conclusions" resembles "thought crimes" applied to a corporate/social context.

I'm fine if people think his conclusions are "incorrect", "garbage", "shoddy", "poorly argued", "unsubstantiated", and a whole host of other adjectives. These are all responses that can be part of a discussion, even a healthy one in the right context.

But "inappropriate" is a lot more puritanical. It implies the thoughts are unwelcome and should be shunned (or worse). It implies that the appropriate response isn't reason-based but power-based. Some power is social (shunning, blacklists, twitter shaming) and some is corporate (HR training, formal reprimands, notes in files, demotions, firings).
Which is why "the Left" didn't make that lazy argument. They added laws which protected that sort of speech, which took years of political effort.

The Left's arguments were also much more concrete than an appeal to "free speech". Suppress the right to unionize and there will be wildcat strikes and a return to the violent actions of the 1800s. Allow workplace discrimination on the basis of skin color and there will be a return to the horrors of the Jim Crow era. Don't discriminate against women in the workplace because the experience of WWII shows that women are much more capable than was previously thought. [0]

You'll also notice that "the Left" deliberately made it harder for people to make some sorts of speech at work, if it results in a hostile workplace. Why, it's almost as if they consistently believe that "free speech" at the workplace has a lesser standing than free speech in a public arena.

Sure, there's more to free speech than the First Amendment. There's also more to freedom of assembly than the First Amendment. There is a necessary tension between the two no matter how it is embodied. If freedom of speech trumps the freedom of assembly then there is no liberty.

[0] Also, don't discriminated against men, eg, "men aren't allowed to be nurses." Really the argument is that there are very few jobs with a bona fide reason for discrimination on the basis of gender.
We do see people-focused fields like psychology dominated by women. Perhaps law is somewhere in the middle.

The memo didn't say biology was "larger than any/all combined societal/'nurture' effects". In the memo there is a section with this title:

> Possible non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech

Note "possible". No one knows the exact combination of causes of the gap, it likely has many factors. The memo is saying there may be non-bias factors too, and that Google is blind to those, so it's pointing those out. That's not the same as saying non-bias factors are larger than everything else.
It says the NUMBER of people doing so is at an all time high. How many per capita? The absolute number is kind of silly to use as the population grows over time...
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And traffic accidents are far more common in all western countries than terrorist attacks. But you would never know that reading our newspapers or watching our TV.
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They should not. However in a badly designed system they will. It turns out to be harder than you might think to not leak information. If you apply a hash to the password (which you should) and then check the hash you need to check all characters of the hash before announcing yes/no. Otherwise the attacker then time how long it takes to get to the no, when it takes longer they know that the first byte of the hash matches - this lets the attacker eliminate most of the possible passwords quickly and thus break in faster.

The above is just one of the subtle things you need to worry about when trying to design a password checker. If you get it right the answer is NO, the attacker doesn't know when he is getting close.
The author mentions many many times throughout his memo that these are 'average' observations and by no ways representative of the entire female population. The author did not say that all women are more interested in people, merely that there is a higher proportion in comparison to the male population.

The author suggests that when these average statistics propagate into life decisions and employment preferences, you end up with an equilibrium with less females in these roles.

You write 'This can be used again to claim women don't belong in those roles' but the author did not use this to claim such a thing! 'I know several women' precisely coincides with what the author wrote. Again, he pointed out multiple times throughout that he was not generalizing but was merely looking at average trends.
> That's fine by me. I just have to adjust my trajectory.

And silence your mouth? There is a big difference between "I'm fine with this" and "Anyone who isn't should be fired".
Is science not about finding the truth above all else?
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Yeah. I would expect all competitive gaming to have a much heavier mental load than lower-level gaming.
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That article is trash as well, and it fairly got flagged when it was posted here. I think HN is a place for a more enlightened discussion.
>Are you saying that Bernie endorsing Hillary is proof that there aren't conflicting views within the Democratic party?

It is a proof that that the Democrats knows where their real opponents are, and that is in the Republican party.

>Are you saying that Ron endorsing Trump would've been equal to Bernie supporting Hillary?

Pretty much, yes. Both have a non-mainstream and dedicated following. Both were screwed by their respective parties when they tried to get the nomination.

>Qualifications and platform doesn't factor in?

I'm not sure what do you mean by that, unless you are trying to imply that Ron Paul has a serious ideological foundation deriving from the Mises Institute and based largely on Murray Rothbard's 20th century interpretation of classical liberalism upon which the United States were founded in the 18th century, while Bernie Sanders is pushing USA towards the fate of USSR and other similar implementations of socialist ideas that always end in a disaster.

>Here's an example of GOP acting as a herd and DNC acting on policy:

I knew it's war-related even before I clicked the link. Unfortunately, the same doesn't apply in other areas.
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The problem is downvotes mean different things to different people. IMO a point based system for comments particularly one with downvoting is a sort of an aggressive one that may steer certain folks away when really good community shouldn't. It might even create a bad culture and attract hyper aggressive and deter more passive folks. There are other gamification systems that don't allow downvotes (e.g. Quora) which I think are better.

When I have been downvoted in the past for opinion things I'm immediately concerned that I have offended someone. It actually is painful not to know... did I say something factually wrong... is my comment being misinterpreted... am I coming off as offensive?

I'm sorry I'm not an "adult" but I need explanation as to why a comment is incorrect or why you might disagree otherwise I'm not going to sugar coat... it doesn't feel good to be downvoted and I'm sure others feel the same.
The hypothetical managers (women) with no tech skills. The comment I was replying to said many women might do better as managers than in tech.
Part of what makes Disney Disney is that their content is extremely guarded and restricted. This makes the perceived value higher.

Let's take straight-to-DVD movies for example. Anytime a movie is released straight-to-DVD, that immediately signals to the market that it's a lower-budget, lesser-quality movie. Yet that's a far more effective way to get it the widest possible distribution than screening it in select theaters for a $14 admission fee.

This is essentially what Disney does. Disney has earned a brand that distinguishes its movies from any other movie producer out there. When Disney makes a movie, people want to see it, because Disney has a certain standard of quality. That's not to say that I think every movie Disney makes is gold, just that every movie that Disney makes is perceived as gold by the public. The reason for that is that Disney guards its IP perhaps more stringently than any company. They don't make all of their movies available to everyone and they don't have buffet-style streaming ala Netflix. Anytime a potential competitor arises, they buy them. They now own Marvel and the Star Wars franchise, as well as Pixar and probably several others that I'm forgetting.

I'd argue that if Disney did stream all of their movies online for a flat rate to any and all who will add it to their lineup for an affordable rate (YouTube TV, Directv Now, Sling, Hulu, etc.) they would instantly lose a huge part of what makes their brand so powerful.

They actually did this in the 80's- they had their own channel that you had to get a separate cable box for to stream it into your home.
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