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Oh please. Are far right and right organizations bastions of free speech ? How many churches and religious organizations are writing memos on gay rights or abortion rights ? Zero.
Sure, if you define diversity as having nothing to do with gender, then of course you don't need women to have diversity.

And if you define corporate responsibility as doing only what is needed to put effective people in chairs, then there is no need for diversity programs to meet corporate responsibility (at least, assuming sufficient talent).

But your entire comment misses the phenomenon of biases having affected women their entire lives, from what hobbies they were steered towards, to their experiences during education, to their interviewing process, to their working environments after having jobs. These are all part of what gender diversity programs are trying to combat.

And honestly, I'd say that this statement right here:

> These programs are most likely not responsible for qualified women getting jobs and even if they are they are also responsible for qualified men not getting the jobs so nothing is really gained.

is more of a really effective example of the actual problem, and an illustration of why gender diversity programs are needed, than an effective counterpoint against them.
I think he's saying he accepts that sexism is present in the hiring process, as are all biases, but the answer to that is not diversity programs. My guess is that he believes market forces will sort it out (i.e if someone is qualified regardless of sex or race, they will be hired because it makes sense economically). I'm not saying I agree or think that diversity hires will happen naturally, just extrapolating from what I got from the original post.
> My job is not to balance an arbitrary math equation that x% of engineers are supposed to be women

It really sound like Goodhart's law. It no longer matters that corporations wanted to remove bias from hiring process and access mostly untapped pool of talents. Now it is important how well they are doing it, measured by single % value.
Couple this with Google's policy to censor (demonetize & shadow ban) Conservatives on Youtube & in the search results, & we have some disturbing patterns.
Peace is only good for the wealthy?
I like KDE neon because it comes without too much baggage. If you have 8GB+ RAM, you should give it a try on a live USB. You can install software using apt, use it, and discard it by just rebooting.

Edit: try the dev stable.
How hypocritical.

Tolerance is only tolerance if it's voluntary.

Otherwise it is coercion at best, tyranny at worst.

If you have to impose it, it's not tolerance anymore.
Let's see. Under single payer system, it's illegal to purchase medicine or health care. Only the government can do it. The government does not get sick, and so is primarily focused on cutting cost. Government picks generic drug that works for most people and has no incentive to worry about the 5% - 10% of people it doesn't work for. Oh, well.

This is pretty much what we have now, except with an oligopoly instead of a monopoly. Not really seeing how going even more in the direction of a monopoly helps.

When people can make choices, thats when things change. People actually get sick, so paying for healthcare is more than just a cost, it can have a value as well.

At least with the current oligopoly system, there is a small amount of choice, and you can choose to purchase a drug on your own if what your insurer has on offer does not work or is more expensive. We should be going in the opposite direction - away from monopoly instead of towards it.

Instead of a single payer, we should have a single market.
ok, you were right.
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You misunderstand the biological component argument, I think. It's not that men are massively more suited to some jobs and women are massively more suited to some jobs. It's that for some abilities the the center of the wide bell curve for men is not at the same place as the center of the wide bell curve for women.

For example, for verbal abilities the female bell curve is a little to the right of the male bell curve. For spatial abilities, it is the other way around. Does this mean men cannot be excellent writers, and women cannot be excellent mechanical engineers?

No.

It just means that if all else were equal, we would expect writing and mechanical engineering to have gender distributions that don't match the general population.
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> The whole reason diversity practices exist is because "some classes of people" are already being harmed. Without "diversity practices", we already have practices that emphasize and discriminate sex and race, except they happen to be the status quo.

Wrong. Everybody has an equal opportunity. Equal results are not guaranteed, nor should be guaranteed.
"The author does not claim selling gedit binaries is illegal. Only that it is unfair."

Agreed but it depends on what services you add to that piece of code, and in any case good information about the open nature of what is sold can help.
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Many people take offense so easily these days that I doubt it is possible to have a decent discussion about these issues without offending quite a few people.

Our mistake is prioritizing offense mitigation. So long as a person's primary intent isn't to offend then they should be able to say anything without being fired.
Many have large deductibles as well, so it's common for yearly medication costs to be out of pocket.
How is meta (windows?) + ` intuitive? It is only intuitive if you come from Mac os.
No I don't, because I don't live in the U.S.

Google didn't fire him for the reasons I gave.
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>I have a lot of experience of soldiers and junior officers competing to get posted into units scheduled to deploy on operations.

In the Army there are three types of people: psychopaths, brainwashed patriots, and scared kids. You're describing the first two, and the second one will become the third as soon as bullets start flying.
Saying "the workplace is no place for politics" is basically saying the workplace is no place to be human.

All workplaces are political. The politics of founder/owners/executives are in every fiber of he workplace. Denying it is highly disingenuous.

Moreover, said denial is one of the root causes why we are having these issues. The tech industry likes to project an image of being "liberal", when in fact the culture is highly conservative. Until recently, people like the author felt perfectly at home in most tech companies, including Google, because its politics quietly aligned with their politics.

And now that he's making it explicit he is suddenly the one politicising the workplace?

To be clear, I vehemently disagree with the author. But until about ten years ago, most of the industry quietly agreed with these views, which is why we have these problems in the first place.

It was political then and it is political now. It took political resistance to put diversity on the corporate agenda in the first place.

The workplace culture is and will always be a primary political arena. Especially with a company like Google, that is actively involved in politics and shaping our society in general.

What people who claim that the workplace is no place for politics are basically saying is that the workplace is no place for politics they disagree with. (Ironically, the position that the workplace is no place for politics is a traditionally conservative position. Worker bees should keep their ideology at home, whereas corporations are free to politically indoctrinate workers through euphemisms like "culture" and "values".)

I applaud the author for standing up for his political believes as much as I applaud Google for firing him.
> especially his third point, in the following post on Medium:

Relevant parts:

> (3) And most seriously, the author does not appear to understand the consequences of what he wrote, either for others or himself.

...

> These views are fundamentally corrosive to any organization they show up in, drive people out, and I can’t think of any organization not specifically dedicated to those views that they would be welcome in. I’m afraid that’s likely to remain a serious problem for you for a long time to come. But our company is committed to maintaining a good environment for all of its people, and if one person is determined to thwart that, the solution is pretty clear.[2]

...

>[2] https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
Isn't burst performance more important for nearly anything that is not a server?

The main application where I expect to care about sustained load on such a machine is watching movies, and even then I assume modern systems have good enough hardware acceleration that this isn't much of a load.
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Holy shit I was wrong.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fi...
My comment about 'White Male Persecution Complex (PC)" was tongue and cheek. I should have known that would be a mistake in this conversation.

I have many white male coworkers (as you'd expect given the demographic statistics for tech) and I have nothing but the utmost respect for their ability. I don't harbor any assumption that, "that they've had a silver spoon in their mouths their whole life."

I don't think that believing that there are groups that have been more economically and socially marginalized than white males is alienating. I also don't think that it implies that I believe my white male coworkers have been given a free pass to the positions they are in today. Everyone I work with has had to pass the same bar.

As I've stated, all of the statements I've made here are my own, made on my own time, on a public site and do not represent the views of my employer. I leave my politics at home.
Brilliant way to actually take a break, or holiday, for those with the means to do it. I only plan my holidays down to which airport to arrive/leave and where to stay (yes im picky about that). Everything else in between arrival and leaving i prefer to depend on what I see/find/hear when walking around. That is my idea of a real holiday. Each to their own - YMMV.
So you're open-minded to what you're open-minded and closed-minded about what you're closed-minded about. Cool.

That's the same as saying freedom is being allowed to do what we should do and not allowed to do what we shouldn't.

You're not anymore open-minded than anyone else.
> Maybe our field just sucks a bit more than we like to admit.

That would imply that men are lying when they tell us their field is perfect for them and women should just learn to fit in without changing any culture.
Although it is tough to tell, it definitely seems like Gizmodo may have stripped out some of his sources. From Gizmodo's preamble:

> Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted.

I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt that there were probably sources. As has been noted in the original YC post about this, it seems like he gets a lot of his info from this study:

http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00320.x
This is a realm with dragons, trolls, orcs, elves amd dwarves, I am not sure it is a huge stretch to consider that magical wars between good and evil, dragons, dwarves tunnelling etc could have been responsible for the formation of weird geographical features.

On another note, if geography is important to you then the world building done within the game that features in REAMDE by Neal Stephenson should make you happy. In the game mining gold is part of the economy of the game (a bit like WoW) but they have an algorithm that determines where gold should be found and how much, as well as all other geographic features being carefully considered.
It's just that drug makers cut deals with insurance companies. Drop competing generics from your formulary, and we'll give you a good price for our brands. Or maybe on a basket of products. So you get more money, both by paying less for the drugs, and by charging patients more.
How does that signal for professionalism? How does that make a healthier workplace culture? It just becomes a management minefield. People can commit crimes in suits too.
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>>I have never seen discussions about gender-based discrimination for plumbers

In general only jobs which have a high value of effort/money-earned are preferable to anybody.

Im pretty sure most plumbers don't get into plumbing because they are passionate about it.

Also curiously you can be passionate about something if you earn well doing it. So, ultimately its all about home much money you can make, at what effort.

Make plumbing a high paying job and calls for diversity in plumbing will go up like no tomorrow.
I hate that the diversity issue has been tightly coupled with left-wing politics. Now you can't take a stance on the diversity issue without aligning yourself with left/right wingers by proxy.
It doesn't matter how good or bad the reasoning in the memo was, nor whether you think the conclusions it draws were good or bad, writing and circulating a memo like that should not be grounds for firing someone. I think this is Google being evil, and makes me seriously question whether I'd ever want to work there.
Diversity by its essence is about diversity, and hence accepting people who are opposed to diversity is antithetical to the idea of diversity. So this argument of accepting diverse viewpoints including those against diversity is non-sensical.

The idea behind diversity is not to ignore gender differences, or racial differences, but to have the belief that skill and talent exists can come from anywhere. So these viewpoints that make generalizations about people because of their gender, race etc. serve to exclude the talent that can come from the non-white/male quarter.

Now this person is probably a good engineer, but its fair to say his impact to computing will never be as great as Ada Lovelace, Anita Borg, Fei Fei Li etc. So if a viewpoint like his hinders the next Grace Hopper then firing him is a worthy price.

The thing that the anti diversity warriors fail to understand is that their viewpoints are exclusionary to a whole swath of people, so please dont expect sympathy for your opinion when your viewpoint tells some people to go away just because of their gender/race.
I think class divisions are intertwined with race and gender divisions. You can't ignore the effect of being hired at, say, Google will have on your class.
"Jordan Peterson also argued that "Now only rich women get married."

I couldn't decide from your comment, if you think the fact is wrong, or you disagree on ideological grounds, or he is a nutcase.
In the same vein - "Life begins on the other side of despair" -Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm on a netbook and had to dissapointedly move away from both Openbox and Xfce as there kept being issues. I'm now on LXDE and very happy. These things bloat over time it seems.
Ever tried shotwell?
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell
I use it under XFCE, does wonders with my Nikon camera and some old tablets.
There are 2 uses of the hashes in bittorrent. a) integrity checking b) as unique identifier for the swarm.

The hash only gets truncated when used in places as unique identifier. When you start with a v2 magnet link or torrent file you get the full 32bytes hash, which means your integrity-checking is unaffected.
I find everything I read about OTOY's stuff (seemingly purposefully) confusing.

They seem to have a render farm, light field format and renderer, and a streaming video format that they will always mix together in their demos.

"Look at these amazing renders. It runs on a phone!"*

*its actually just streaming video to the phone.

I'm pretty excited about this stuff but I keep finding myself frustrated trying to crack through OTOY's marketing to get my hands on something I can try myself.

Can someone please break my incredulity?
Perhaps reframing the question to include remote piloting for take off and landing.

Pilots are needed for small fraction of flight time, and air travel continues to boom.
The sort of strategy that enforces existing, useful social norms in my country. Nobody in any company I have ever worked at has done anything like this. If anybody ever said "the Marxist intellectuals transitioned from class warfare to gender and race politics" as part of a justification for changing a company policy I would immediately a) tell them they are out of line and b) report them if they continued. It's rude and counter productive in so many ways.
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To quote NY Times - "Algorithms lead us to Anagrams"
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All of that is great as a signal, but both the memo and these scientists have all more or less uniformly asked one thing: Respond to the points on their merits. So, if you'd like to note that these individuals may be right leaning, and that they are not a random sample of scientists, that's fine, but it's not much of an attack on the credibility of their arguments, or analysis of the science.
hybrid torrents essentially consist of two swarms, so you announce twice.
Kudos to BBC for linking to actual research articles. I wish everyone was doing that.

This is off topic, but I was looking for a long time for a weekly print journal with a mixture of tech news (focus on IT and CS), science news, and a selection of news from global politics, economics and culture ( the latter e.g. like in the International New York Tribune). This mixture doesn't seem to exist and the magazines I've found didn't provide full references. I used to read Wired but this has become a gadget advertising magazine, and unfortunately it also promoted the wrong kind of gadgets for me.

Maybe there should be a printed international version of Hacker News!
> Everybody has an equal opportunity

Citation needed.
It will be settled out of court I can almost guarantee that.
Google has internship programs specifically targeted towards "underrepresented groups."
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The ACLU claim to be non-partisan and crucially actually put their money where their mouth is. The ACLU has defended:

• The KKK (https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-em-defends-kkks-right-free-sp...)

• Neo-Nazis (https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...), something their history page refers to as "our finest hour"

• Milo Yiannopoulos (http://www.npr.org/2017/02/12/514785623/the-aclu-explains-wh...)
The problem with this line of reasoning is that Google can make a legitimate claim that the firing was for cause. Creating a hostile work environment is sufficient cause for termination, and I am quite sure that something like this is buried in some clause of the standard Google employment contract.

You don't have free speech rights at work, or more to the point you can say whatever you want and the company can do just about whatever it wants in response to this speech. To go full Godwin here, if this employee had, instead of talking about how women and minorities "lowered the bar", wrote and distributed interally a manifesto about how Google had too many Jewish employees and how these employees were mostly hired because of post-Holocaust western guilt and maybe we need to reexamine whether this whole Holocaust thing really happened I can assure you that he would have been shown the door within the hour. No one is locking him up for his speech act, but Google would have had no problem in firing him for that same speech act.

Others have pointed out in great detail all of the unpleasant future consequences for any potential interaction that leads to conflict between this employee and his peers. This situation was created entirely by the employee who posted the manifesto. He can sue Google, but he will lose.
welcome to the world of computing/computers :)

Then again, i swear often i should have become a farmer, though i somehow doubt same principles don't apply there too.
His opinion was, "exclude these other people" because they are not likely to be good at it just because of they were when they were born. So I have no sympathy for him, he got excluded for being exclusionary. and I hope he further gets excluded from any good jobs. Then he will realize the consequence of trying to exclude other people from a job.
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It's not illegal to purchase medicine or healthcare under most single payer systems.
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It's not the track that breaks down, it's what runs on it. I don't see a reason why the electricity or signaling infrastructure can't be redesigned to have redundancies built in. If the aim with modernization is to replace old signals by new signals and still have just a single signal, that is still inviting calamity.
Nice catch ;) The "implied contract" at-will exception in CA in recent years can be avoided by specific language and precautions in your contract. So yes, theoretically a former employee can sue and win for unjust termination, but practically speaking this never happens, particularly for large, careful employers.
LXDE is the one that keeps my netbook running. The others will freeze or crash repeatedly. Don't know anything about Window Maker. Is it any good?
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Oh I wasn't sarcastic, totally with you on it :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry is an extremely common practice across the world going back a very long time. The fact that Peterson asserts that "only rich women get married" was not the case in the past shows an atrocious lack of knowledge about anthropology.
May be because I grew up in a third world country where we have to deal with real problems, like getting molested in public transport or gang raped while traveling back from work, I don't see the big deal here. Some guy who was full of himself and wrote a memo. Then he got canned from a business organization. End of story. Google is not here to settle political debates. Google is here to make money for it's share holders.
I tried Gnome 3 a few years ago, when it had already matured somewhat and was curious how it turned out to be. First impression was good, looked pretty and seemed well-polished. However, I found the default font size too large for my taste. No problem, I thought, just head to the preferences and make them smaller. So I opened the prefs and searched and searched... and couldn't find it.

At some point I thought I must be stupid for overlooking it and turned to google. Among the very first hits, google showed me a posting on google+, written by Linus Torvalds himself. In there he was ranting about exactly my problem: not being able to change the font size in Gnome 3. That was kind of a relief: at least I wasn't being too stupid to find it.

In the end I found out that Gnome 3 indeed doesn't have that setting! To change it, you had to install a thing called Gnome Tweak Tool (IIRC). By default, this was seemingly deemed a too advanced feature for normal users.

I then quickly decided that Gnome 3 wasn't for me. (Admittedly, I don't know if this has changed since then in newer version.)

I'm all for usability and not providing a million settings (hello KDE), but changing the system font seems so very basic to me... I still can't fathom why they'd remove it.
I just can't relate that to the people I know in the military at all. Most people are skilled professionals who are keen to do the best job they can in what are almost always complex situations.
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