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Or, maybe they're drawn to companies that aren't already filled with men with antiquated attitudes toward women.

I run a product & design team for a high growth startup. Very demanding and volatile. We coincidentally will have exactly 6/12 female after our newest designer starts after Labor Day. While we definitely cultivate a spirit of diversity and inclusiveness, we don't have any explicit hiring practices other than requiring a woman to be on every hiring panel.

Even a basic perusal of the tech press should make it really easy to understand why it might be important for a workplace to have gender diversity.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/14/betterworks-duggan-kim-ass...
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/03/dave-mcclure-has-resigned-...
[3] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/23/female-founders-accuse-vc-...

We are literally working in an industry with an unacceptable amount of sexual assault and harassment. It doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to form some strong hypotheses around how a male dominated workplace/industry might contribute to that. It doesn't exactly take a "leftist-feminazi-crusader" to be disgusted and want to make a change. It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that it might be good business to expand the talent pool in business/industry that faces endemic labor shortages.
What people mean by "the workplace is no place for politics" is that the workplace is no place for employees to express their political views. E.g see this Quora question: https://www.quora.com/How-not-to-get-fired-while-organizing-... The first answer is depressingly: "First, learn all you can about union organizing and learn to keep your mouth shut. Accept the fact that eventually they will know who you are." You can also use Google and find about a million examples of people who have been fired for trying to unionize workplaces.

We have already accepted that de facto some speech is suppressed in the work place. That's why I think this story is a little hypocritical. Lots of people are arguing for this persons right to express his opinion that men are more suited than women to work in tech, but no one is defending workers rights to advocate for improved labor conditions.

Fwiw, I definitely don't think Google should be allowed to fire him. But I feel a little ambivalent about defending him, since "his side" wouldn't defend my rights to voice my opinion.
Damore wasn't disrupting other people's lives either. Or at least nobody has alleged he was, except via the oil-covered argument that "by expressing his concerns he has disrupted my mental wellbeing".

You very clearly cannot tolerate people who disagree with you: you just expressed support for firing him. That means people around you absolutely WILL hide their true feelings from you because they will perceive you as a witch-hunter who is out to get them.

You are making a hostile workplace environment and you can't even see it.
It seems like half of this debate is utterly preoccupied with misrepresenting the other half. I guess the social justice position is too weak and it's adherents lacking in integrity.
OK then, but who draws the lines on what's extremism?

Do you have to want to overthrow the government? What about just heavily reform it?

What lines on immigration policy would put you under prosecution, Total ban? Muslim Ban? Point system?

I have no support at all for white nationalism but it's insane and counterproductive for big "service-like" companies to be enforcing their own political correctness through bans.
Are the lower caste people on average inferior?

If they're not, then why does it matter?

If they are, then is it a) a tragedy that should be remedied by providing better nutrition, education, opportunities, or b) are they a lower level of sub-human who we just have to put up with in menial roles?

I'll note that if you do a) then the problem of them getting in on lower grades solves itself, as they compete for the limited slots available to them. And at that point you can remove the system entirely.
Of course they do mostly for historical reasons which are changing and partly because of industry choices.

Most structural issues are gone today and those that are left benefit women as much as men. In Norway where they have quotas all that happened is that now there is just also an old ladies network with the same women sitting on many of the boards.
A minority may think they're punching up at someone they consider to be in the majority based on obvious characteristics, and yet if they don't know the individual they may actually be punching down.

Assuming a person's privilege based on race, gender or other immutable characteristics is imprecise and counterproductive.
The article doesn't say how this was apportioned between men and women in each country, and if it was the same across the countries. I would imagine you would see higher percentages all round if you asked just men. Men do the actual "fighting" in most every case.
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The problem is that as a rich white dude, he's really not ever going to be on the receiving end of those things and his "just rise above it" stance consequently doesn't carry any weight.
But nothing was being pointed out, neither was the implication of drone-ness taken away.

GP's point was just that a sweeping generalisation of "the modern Left" is a meaningless statement, because it doesn't address a well-defined group, and the Left generally is not similar enough among itself for those broad claims to be true. Representing an entire swathe of the political spectrum as one homogeneous group is completely dishonest and unrealistic. It's definitely not "pointing out a trend".
There's some discussion about that here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=17890
But at the start both France and the UK actually considered sending troops to assist Finland against the Soviets - this was when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was in place so the Soviets were effectively Nazi allies at that point.
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Not sure why you were downvoted. "Of course I like my city to be destroyed, we need more of that".

I remember when during inauguration those brats wearing all black came and burned cars, trash cans in the street and a bunch of other vandalism.

Though I think they ended up with pretty steep charges, it turns out rioting in DC is not like in other cities and carries pretty heavy penalties.
Switzerland has the same system with deductibles and after that you need to pay 10% with a maximum of 700 per year.
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Most Linux work for modern POWER seems to be for the ppc64le target, which runs the CPU in little endian mode.

That being said, there's probably a lot of libraries with x86-64 ASM kernels in them which will run slower if they have to use the generic C/whatever version on power.
Why do you find it surprising? They cost money and provide little benefit (for me).

Some vendors accept them but charge extra for it, which I consider fair.
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Right, they rebranded last year or whenever. I'm sure for completely apolitical reasons. If you're familiar at all with the APA, you know what a joke that is.
Sure you can.

But if your group is so wide that people so different as H.Clinton and Chomsky could be inside it, and you talk about their motivations instead of a specific idea, I think you deserve some criticism.
Exactly. Such is the entire point of a firewall.

If you don't have a remotely exploitable vulnerability, it doesn't scale to global panopticon levels.
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For a lot of people, 4WW was a "think and grow rich" kind of pressure cooker. Sure, you may be able to do with if you combine the highly marketable skills of being a certain kind of programmer with a low-rent country. Those folks are corner cases. The main beneficiary of the book was Ferriss, who's just selling the dream, like a lot of people in the "information business".
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There question is not whether gender imbalances exist. The question is whether it's a "problem":
Most kindergarten teachers are women. Is that a problem?
Most lumberjacks are men. Is that a problem?
Most graduating pharmacists are women. Is that a problem?
Most graduating CS are men. Is that a problem?
Most college graduates are women. Is that a problem?
Most (93%) work-related deaths are men. Is that a problem?
Most garbage collectors are men. Is that a problem?
Most dentists are men. Is that a problem?
Most fisherman are men. Is that a problem?
Most pilots are men. Is that a problem?
Most childcare workers are women. Is that a problem?

Notice how there are literally hundreds of DIFFERENCES that we can identify. But that we only want to call it a PROBLEM in certain instances. Who gets to say what is a "natural difference" that we can ignore, and what is a "problem" that we should move heaven and earth in order to try to "solve" it?
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Even if logically valid, literally any criticism of any existing hiring policy except "hire the best candidate" falls into that category.
I believe cannonpr meant that no English language proficiency tests were required to be taken as part of the citizenship tests, as they accept a large number of qualifications (and thus only need to take the test if you do not hold one of these qualifications). So while you might have to take a test, it is separate from the UK citizenship tests.
I haven't seen anyone on the left (in fact, anyone aside from Ron Paul [1]) being critical and calling for the end of Affirmative Action and similar practices, which does not surprise me due to to the "no enemies to the left" formula [2]. I invite you to show me a few examples.

[1] http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/161217-paul...

[2] http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0701-whitehea...
I once had an English flatmate (I'm Australian) who had a Scottish friend come to stay. I could nae understand a word he said, and she had to translate everything - from English to English. He could understand me fine though.
Sure. See this comment I just made in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956998

The trouble with avoiding "all right-thinking people know" is that I have no idea how to find a solid citation for the claim that, say, software engineering is at least as much about people as things. It's a thing you will find anyone senior who's good at their job to agree with. Would you accept books by experienced software engineers as evidence of this point?

Once you grant that point, much of the argument falls apart, as it's clear he's arguing about very junior-level coding and not software engineering as a whole.
I don't think people necessarily understand which career they choose. When girl wants to become ballerinas it is presumably because they have some idea that it is glamorous, not that it entails working hard under strict discipline for many years. They figure that out later.

What happened in the 80s was likely because computers went from being for business to being a hobby with the home computer [0]. I would imagine that because men dominated technical professions at the time most computers were bought by men, which then shared their interests with their sons [1]. Programmers like John Carmack and Linus Torvalds is born around 1970 and would be teenagers when home computers became available [2]. Games went from adventure quests and puzzles to shooters like quake and duke nukem. Social settings like mailing lists became more important to learn programming through open source. So the cycle continues.

Of course just like girl, boys probably didn't know what the profession actually meant. They wanted to be programmers because of things like video games, but ended up making business systems.

How do you fix it? Many CS programs are antiquated and changing the curriculum to software engineering doesn't seem to help much to attract a broader group of people. If the large companies are serious about this, they should do what the banks did and train smart people with more generic backgrounds.

[0]

1977 Atari 2600

1977 Apple II

1981 Sinclair ZX81

1981 BBC Micro

1982 Commodore 64

1983 WarGames (movie)

1983 Nintendo Entertainment System

1985 Amiga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_home_computers

[1]

"When I was 5 or 6, my parents got me a Commodore 64."

"My dad left his old Atari (2600 Junior, I think) in my room and I found basic on there towards the end of grade school."

"1982-83 (grammar to high school age): My parents bought a word processor in the 80's that you could also program."

"In 1982 my Dad brought home a Sirius microcomputer for his work."

"My dad brought home a 386 IBM-PC so he could learn AutoCAD."

"I got started with BASICA on a Tandy 1000. My dad had a newer computer at the time but he certainly wouldn't let me use it."

"I'm not sure if this counts; the birth of my hacking started on my dad's lap, doing amateur radio."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1015879

[2]

"It was his maternal grandfather, Leo Toerngvist, a professor of statistics at the University of Helsinki, who had the greatest influence on the young Linus. In the mid-1970s, Toerngvist bought one of the first personal computers, a Commodore Vic 20."

http://www.linfo.org/linus.html
Seriously, what does this have to do with anything?
Here are some sources:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/5/paris-climate...

"Some analysts say the final figure for worldwide compliance with the Paris pledges would be in the trillions of dollars. U.N. officials estimated that it would cost at least $100 billion per year, and that figure could rise to more than $400 billion per year by 2020 to ensure compliance"

Are we going to sign a treaty and spend $0 to comply with it? Is this all supposed to be symbolic? China and Japan and other major economies had not pledged any money toward the treaty while Obama had committed to 3 billion according to the article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Climate_Fund

This is the supranational entity with a board that gets to disburse the fund. It's like the EU commission all over again.
If correct, this is very bad. Applying a political filter to deny lodging to people who are visiting for a purpose the corporation does not approve of is a very bad idea.

I could understand if hosts who objected to renting out their own place to someone based on the renter's beliefs that they strongly disagree with; but even this is borderline and the corporation acting as a moral police is, to me, a very bad path for a society to start on.
it addresses a familiar group to those with a similar perspective/experience to the GP. I immediately thought of the progressive movement and especially the media outlets associated with it. I'm not even particularly conservative but I've definitely noticed the trend of anti-Western attitudes in outlets like the Guardian, Buzzfeed, Gawker (RIP) and so on, as well as an associated culture on sites like reddit.
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"free speech" is a mild indicator that the person in question is almost certainly libertarian or right-wing leaning. Doesn't generally mean they're biased, though.

"SJW" is a very strong indicator of right-wing leaning and generally does mean they're strongly biased against the left.
I think that is the core of the problem. People who need to see other people do something first don't have the burning desire.

I've countless interviews with vets. When a person becomes a vet they do it because they want to help animals or want money and to help but rarely because someone else did it before them who looks like them.
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But that is only because you did not study psychology in which case you would know that most things in that manifesto are scientifically proven and what he said does makes sense for women AS A GROUP not individually... :/
> That's why they're not widely adopted in data centres.

I don't think that's the entire picture..

If you're running systems at full capacity, throughput vs power consumption becomes a relevant equation - e.g. if the chip runs code 2x faster but is 1.5x less power efficient, I'm still saving .5 of power to get the same data processed.. Not sure of power consumption specifics for POWER, but they've been about to 4x faster than PC for some workloads.. E.g. 4GHz CPU + giant cache and 4x the registers will tear through matrices like a hot knife in butter... Also, there's the question of density vs performance - e.g. I only need X sq units of datacenter to process this dataset within the timewindow..

Also, historically the only people 'needing' power and willing to pay for it were companies with deeper pockets who wouldn't mind shelling out for AIX and the rest of the IBM stuff that goes along; linux is to some extent an 'afterthought'/'second tier' OS for this market though that has been changing in last few years. People using IBM or AIX have typically tended towards being risk averse and have been on POWER for ages; for everyone else, people haven't wanted to spend the money to migrate to a platform controlled by one company, etc.
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That's quoting from Chaos Monkey. His numbers. Includes stock options.
> Everyone agrees the rant author is a scoundrel.

No, not everyone. And even people that think he was inappropriate not necessarily picture him as en evil person.

Under this premise, I stopped reading the article.
There is NO perfect healthcare system. But I feel, its fairer to consumers in Switzerland and the UK. Its kind of turned in to a sick (excuse the pun) joke here in the US.
But that's a meritocracy right? Those white execs got there fair and square. Probably Asian people just prefer not to be paid lots of money and run companies, it's a genetic thing that can't be helped.
Not in the competition - racing to change between the 3 horrid color schemes in the suite.
Question, how do other concurrent languages like Java or C# handle the concept of 'thread context', and cancellation?

To me it sounds like having to pass a context everywhere is something that should be handled on the language level, just as concurrency.
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It must feel great to see things so clearly. The people on HN causing this nightmare surely deserve your contempt rather than your consideration.
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Consumption is already subsidized in those countries by not internalizing the carbon externality. The border adjustment puts US exports on a level playing field with other products in that country, saving the distortionary effects of imbalanced taxes. Meanwhile, the import tax adjustment makes sure that goods from that non-complying country aren't at an unfair advantage.

But of course optimally all countries pass a similar carbon tax in the medium term so border adjustments are unnecessary.
"If I were I woman (or belong to minority) I would prefer to be being hired without any diversity program."

This is like saying "I'd enjoy my success more without the Mortgage Interest Deduction unfairly advantaging me financially". Theoretically feasible, but in practical reality, uh no. If you're hacking it in a competitive environment and you have a life, you most assuredly have 1,000 more important/interesting things on your mind.
> You are assuming that women are choosing their college degrees in a vacuum. They don't. They ask: can I see myself doing this job? Is this a worthwhile investment? And when they cannot see themselves working in tech, because they see no-one like themselves in IT, they choose other fields.

If anyone, man or woman, decides to pursuit a given career because they can see others like them in the field, then really, I am grateful they don't. I want to work with people who deeply care about their choices. Who are dreamers. Who are willing to give a lot to fulfill their drive for knowledge. Who learns out of sheer curiosity of the world around them. Who can ask a meaningful questions. Who believe in what they do. Not with a sheep who chooses to follow other sheep.

If people want diversity at work, they should start with elementary school first. Do not assume any biological equality or lack of it up front but also do not ENFORCE any. Just give people equal rights to study and to make their own choices.
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This seems perfectly fine to me. They're a private company and can decide which customers they want to serve and to which they want to refuse service.

Of course if you allow this you'll also need to accept that a baker can refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
It definitely did. I feel for OP – my family has also had its issues with money. Particularly money grabbing individuals who don't mind walking over bodies, family or otherwise, to get what they perceive as "theirs" by some metric. Whether or not these people are technically correct doesn't really matter when in the end, people who truly used to love each other are now sworn enemies. Cliché as it may be, it's very sad to see and be close to.
>But more women had the freedom to take action and leave the job.

Sounds about right in my estimation. It fits the pattern of social/economic leftovers from when women weren't expected to be a significant economic contribution to the household.

Women are less likely to be the source of the large majority (e.g. 60% or more) of household income for households > 1. Those that are the primary source of income aren't expected by society to do that job.

At the statistical level this results in more women quitting because the negative economic and social implications of doing so are less severe (at the statistical level) than for men.

Edit: tl;dr women are statistically more likely to be in a position to be more picky about working conditions.
A lot of the popular fashion designers are men too.

It's almost like there's some sort of social factors which will ensure men get to the top!
>Or is this "Fight for your country" as in join team America in invading Afghanistan and Iraq and <Insert next country here>?

>Because the first one: probably, yes. The second? No thank you.

Typical NATO free rider. Do you have the word ALLY in your culture?
Oh shit. You're right; I thought for sure I read otherwise. My mistake. As my sibling commenter notes, it is apparently illegal in CA.
> What lines on immigration policy would put you under prosecution, Total ban? Muslim Ban? Point system?

You are projecting your own thoughts on my previous comment. I honestly had no idea it can interpreted like this ... read it again and if you see any suggestion that I would condone any kind of ban based on religion, gender or skin color I will ban myself from HN.
Sure.

He challenges unsupportable mental hangups with data and reason. Fuck yes I'd hire him (and if he lived in a different part of the world I could, because I am a hiring manager for a software engineering team at the moment).
People were donating to defeat the patent troll though, not settle with them. There were many boxing analogies made.
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Interesting. I have to admit, I didn't even know there were MasterCard/Visa debit cards. If I may ask: Why do you think Maestro debit cards are "worthless"? Because they aren't part of the whole MasterCard/Visa ecosystem, or for other reasons?
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"Under single payer system, it's illegal to purchase medicine or health care."
<2 mins of googling, can easily prove you wrong on this. I personally know from experience you are wrong.