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Hardly, it's just that the left are bigger hypocrites because free-speech is ostensibly a core tenant of liberalism, however, conservative ideology rejected free-speech as a value long ago. The only reason these liberal anti-speech protests make the news is because colleges invite speakers to their campuses. Imagine how conservatives would react if Richard Dawkins or Bill Maher tried to give a speech in a Christian church? Imagine the reaction if liberal thinkers spoke up during church sermons to exclaim that scientific evidence conflicts with many contemporary religious ideas. This never happens because they're never invited or welcome to do so, thus conservatives are able to relish the comfort of their safe-spaces while lambasting liberals for protesting openly antagonistic speakers like Ann Coulter on college campuses.

It's a well established fact that conservatives are, at a minimum, just as guilty of hostility to ideas they don't like as liberals.

Consider Megyn Kelly, a celebrated conservative journalist whose career was completely destroyed simply because she asked Trump some tough questions.

Consider Tomi Lahren who was a cherished conservative icon until she came out in support of abortion based on her conservative principles of individual freedom... following that expression of free speech she was squeezed out of her job and destroyed in the conservative press.

Consider Gretchen Carlson who was humiliated and dragged through the mud in conservative circles after she spoke out about her own experiences with sexual harassment in the workplace.

Consider John McCain who is regularly blasted as a RINO because he occasionally takes an action that is not in complete lockstep with the party line.

Consider Glenn Beck who was on the receiving end of boycotts and death threats because early on, he spoke out against Trump in favor of the eminently conservative Ted Cruz!

Consider Ted Cruz himself who was literally booed off stage during the RNC because he dared to instruct the audience to "vote with your conscience" instead of blindly praising Trump.

The list goes on and on, so I have to reject your assertion that "suppressing free speech is 90% leftist" as utter ignorance.
That many technologists are being hypocritical by wanting to prohibit electronic voting because of "security concerns" while at the same time developing and using other institutional systems with equal or greater attack surfaces and consequences.
> bland corporate diversity training class

Not bland if it offended him enough to prompt his memo.

> The tell here is "you can't say that" with no antecedent for "that". Yeah: if you tell your diversity class that women aren't cut out for work at Google, you're going to cause a fight.

There is no evidence at all that he said anything like that during a diversity class. The only evidence we have is his memo. Which doesn't say women aren't cut out for work at Google. Thanks for playing.
This also broke for me a few days ago. I sent an email to the contact address.
There's welcoming political discussion, and then there's saying that all gay people need to be euthanized because god wills it. You could say that it's just another "political opinion" and I shouldn't face blow-back for expressing it in an open environment, but, no, that's just not the case.

If I say something like that, I will (rightly) become a social pariah immediately and nobody would want to be around me.

Same thing with that guy. Yeah, you can joke about Trump, and you can joke about Hillary's emails, but saying that women are inferior due to biology makes you an unpleasant human being to be around and I don't want to be in the same room as you, much less on the same team or the same company as you.

If they hadn't fired his dumb ass, it would have sent a very bad message to all of Google's women employees.
My University had a policy of letting you retake things and take the new grade. In the modern world, I think you should be able to retake the tests and rely on MOOCs. I'm not at all a fan of allowing failure to pass or even average for a first attempt in a hard subject to pass. I had a few courses that I should have failed and I never revisited them because I got a B or even an A.. Today I am falsely educated in most of those subjects.
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To me that just means the weights are wrong.
> I couldn't get past the first few paragraphs of the memo

So you didn't read it? Because ... you were offended or because of practical reasons (like you are illiterate) ?

I don't think that the memo asked for "less diversity" just not forced diversity, at least not the way it is forced at google.

> , however Google rejects the idea that conservative views (that are compatible with Google's HR policies) are discouraged

I have a hard time believing that since they already take a hard stance against their conservative users. Also have you seen some of the tweets from the opposite forces at google? I don't think so...
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Sounds like Google wasn't a good fit for this guy.
This whole thing has been a wonderful example of trolling, in the old-school sense where you say something superficially calm and reasoned but which will inflame passions and start a big argument.

We are so prone to evaluating messages based on their form. If someone is ranting and cursing and shouting, we fundamentally assume that they're irrational. If someone speaks calmly and clearly and uses objective wording we assume that they're rational.

We read this statement, see "there was lots of just shaming," and our immediate natural reaction is to think, "Well that sucks, Google shouldn't shame people, this guy is being persecuted."

But that's not the information actually presented here. All this statement tells us is that this guy felt shamed. Was that because the people were actually shaming him? Or was it because they stated facts that this guy feels shamed by? Or something else? We have no idea.
No, that's a total misrepresentation of what I said. I'm saying whether he's right on that one point is irrelevant, because he tries to make a hundred others that are just as bad. But thanks for showing how Damore's supporters are just as guilty of "virtue signaling" as they accuse others of being.
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I think you're reading way too much into this. If the author has an opinion on the subject that doesn't mean they're wrong. You can be completely correct and also a dick.
I'm not familiar with the experience that you're describing; does an in-app purchase itself prompt security questions directly? Or do you need to reset your AppleID password and that's why you're getting security questions?
It means I don't have to wake up to an alarm, have most things automated, work 4-5 hours per week, and live like someone who is retired.
I think its fine to point it out for clarification, its not really a nitpick though because it is correct within his context.
I think in this instance it means not accepting venture capital, which gives them greater flexibility to travel.
If I'm correct you only have to do a federal tax return (not state) and you have a tax credit equal to what you paid in your residence country.

So yes, I understand filling a tax return is a chore, but you'll only pay taxes if the amount you paid in your residence country is lower that what you would have paid in federal taxes alone.

Considering how low US income tax is, in most countries you won't have to pay anything.
Defined benefit plans are often required to invest in investments with a terrible return.
James, you should really stay off the of the internet. The reaction to your antics may be depressing.
To me traveling with a laptop and working is neither traveling nor working well. Im sure there are ways to eeke it out to make a ramen diet more pallatable overseas, but you arent really connecting with locals and local culture if youre online "hustling".
It's just terribly convenient to believe that everything that's good for large corporations is also good for "the little guy".

Considering the balancing of these interests (which most people consider to at least sometimes conflict) is the core issue of politics, such a belief would actually render politics useless. You could just appoint the top 10 CEOs and wait for the trickle-down wealth to wash over the masses.
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Not even close.

Facebook didn't even have a 401(k) last time I interviewed there. This was after they went public.
There's sugar in everything. It's pretty difficult to avoid unless you're willing to take drastic measures when compared to the average person.

All you can do is attempt to minimize your intake.
People say the weakest link is the user in passwords, and that's often true. But for more security conscious users the weakest link is the helpdesk. It may not even be where you expect. Plenty of people have been hacked because the hacker called the support line for their registrar, hosting, email provider, or ISP and got a password changed without any form of hard verification.

It can be extremely frustrating to do everything right and then have your knees cut off by some script reader in a cube farm somewhere.

Also, if you do email verification for accounts, whenever someone changes their email send one to the old account saying 'Hey, this is being changed, are you OK with it?" and if they say no, revert the email and reset the password on the spot.
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I can't say I completely understand the entirely apologetic tone towards the memo at the start of the article, but overall this is an interesting post which takes a mostly even-approach from a relevant perspective.

I think a major thing the memo misses is that the fact that gender differences are scientifically measurable doesn't mean they're not a reflection of societal inequalities that enforce them. Wouldn't you be more neurotic if you were consistently under-paid and more likely to be sexually assaulted?

What's worse is that while there are people who respond to the memo with a moderate approach like the author of this post, there is a huge and incredibly damaging response by people like Robert Verbruggen who use it as proof that "biological underpinnings such as testosterone" (as opposed to discrimination) are responsible for the gender wage gap [0].

[0] http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450202/google-employees...
It's the "best cities for startup employees" not "best cities for startups"
From the business pov, it usually means that it generates enough profit to sustain a person or family without growing massively or becoming a "unicorn".
So, according to you, there is no statistical difference in preference between men and women? Is that not at odds with the entire field of evolutionary psychology?

I'm not saying that "women should be carers", I'm saying that there are personality traits that women are statistically more likely to have due to how we evolved as primates (the evidence of which has been cited widely). Those personality traits may result in different life decisions being made, especially traits related to being stress-averse. Again, I did not say that women cannot program, I said that there are statistically significant biological biases that need to be accounted for.

In my mind, the biggest problem with the under-representation of women is that school-level education about technology is horrific. That's not a problem you can solve at the tail-end of the pipe (and it's not helpful telling the pipe that it's sexist).
A 401(k) (defined contribution) is not the common parlance "pension" (which would be defined benefit).
Choose a language, make an immaculate/by-the-book demo project and open source it on Github, shotgun apply to many jobs.
This generally refers to a business setup specifically to throw off enough cash to support a certain lifestyle. You never plan to sell or IPO. The main goal is to tweak process until it essentially runs itself with only occasional oversight from you. The level of lifestyle (and cash) you want decide how long that will take you.
After reading the article, that doesn't seem to be the case.
In Corporate World of the 1990's it was pretty much Windows Only. Much of the corporate world has moved on, largely spurred by managers adopting iPhones.

The last two companies I worked for — a creative agency with ~50 people, and a larger more anonymous company with ~2,000 employees in 10 states — both were 100% Mac. The first one, because that's how creative agencies have always been. The second for security. The IT dept's policy was no Microsoft hardware or software allowed other than Office: Mac.

As for the workflow, it's like this:

- See file on desktop.
- Right-click and select "Airdrop"
- Choose destination computer
- Notification appears on target computer stating that someone wants to send a file
- Destination user clicks "Accept"
- File transmits super-duper fast in the background and lands in the destination computer's download folder

Or if you're sending a file to yourself (both devices have the same iCloud/.mac/.me ID) skip everything after the third step.
The cryptocurrency market is so volatile that probably 30% of the list(made in July) is no longer in the top 70.
Brazil as well.
> the world is looking for a 50/50 split in gender ratios. Most reasonable people..

This exact target has made it into more than just a few institutions.

> He selectively uses research

In inviting discourse, he is also inviting "the other side" of the argument to do as much the same. I think his effort was big enough without raising the bar - why not bear the burden of evaluating the evidence alone? This memo is explicitly a work in progress, the choice to cherry-pick sources that support his conclusions is purposeful, since he is trying to demonstrate the that the status-quo might be wrong.

> climate change deniers often..

There is something of an active debate on that topic, I haven't heard of any tech worker fired for discussing the issue.

> but there is a time and a place

Did he not release to the correct forum? What is the correct time and place? I'd also note: statements have implied/pragmatic meanings. A statement like "I'd have sex with [Catherine]" would be assumed to have an implicit meaning. The memo, in contrast, is pretty explicit in its stated aim.

> then he's done that too

Well, maybe. He certainly lit a match..
You mean they haven't already? I have no idea how an idea as simple as Uber, where they clearly don't give a fuck about rules, regulations, or paying taxes, still can't make money.

It's like a mob running a casino that's laundering money and it bankrupts itself, you know, like the Taj Mahal in New Jersey. It takes an astonishing lack of talent to make that happen.
Nice idea ! I'll explore this direction, definitely !
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I have a feeling the details are scant because they are banal. He probably got some bland, generic HR talk and felt extremely uncomfortable discussing gender and race, so much so that he wrote this diatribe. He would still have a job if he just wrote it as a first person perspective of what made him uncomfortable at the diversity training, instead of making it this indictment of Google and their efforts at diversity as a whole.
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Matching isn't affected by the tax deductible contribution limit. There is a separate and much higher limit for employer contributions (~$35k/year).
Independent of the other things wrong with your argument, I find it curious that you think that designers are among those who benefit from empathy. Given knowledge of aesthetics, psychology and the general identity of the target audience, empathy should be all-but-unnecessary for a designer.

(Edited for clarity; namely, the italicized clause is new.)
lines of code as productivity measure is not the best example. Can you provide a better example?

I can drop your example just with this: maybe your 100 working/tested lines produce more money for the company that the ones Joe wrote. Or the company needs the 250 lines of code to produce any money, without all of them your value for the company is 0.
Traffic deaths are not entirely accepted. There is a constant trajectory of better infrastructure and more safety systems in vehicles.

Of course we are still accepting traffic deaths at some level, but there is a lot of effort and resources devoted to reducing them over time. It's just expensive and disruptive.
Counter-anecdote:

I passed University physics by watching MIT OpenCourseWare lectures and those kids learned in a week what took us three...
Personal opinion: Life expectancy gains will actually reverse over the new 20 years, given how little is being done to combat extremely poor health choices many Americans make.

Then it will skyrocket due to medical innovations like CRISPR.
Find 1 client that will pay you to develop something small for them. Ideally something taking 1-3 months of part-time focus. Repeat for 14 years.
definitely yes :) thanks for the ideas anyway ! a bit too programmatic for me
Not accepting VC is more a side effect of having a lifestyle business than the aim.

A startup's main aim is growth. Most VCs won't accept an idea that doesn't have the potential to be worth a billion dollars. One amazing investment must have a 10x return to pay for the 9 shitty investments that failed.

A lifestyle business' aim isn't growth. It's aim is to provide enough money and use a small amount of the founder's time, so the founder can enjoy their life.
My high-school math teacher used to say that we have our best ideas for solving problems in the shower and on the toilet. :)
Haven't used Go in about a year and change, is Google going to pull an Angular and pull the rug out from under developers for Go 2.0?
I wonder how many sites have been taking down by SQL injection attacks inside of a password. That would take something of a perfect storm of bad design, which is why I'm pretty sure there are sites out there that are vulnerable.
I can't get a cache page from google either?
I think that Bitcoin's intrinsic value lies in its system that can securely, verifiably, transferably and trustlessly store numbers, assign them to password-protected wallets and keep the sum of those numbers below a constant (21M). Due to these traits, such a system is suitable for representing value just like gold (but BTC is more easily transferable). It is pretty hard to create such a system, therefore it is valueable.
It's definitely not just right-wing
I disagree with the authors feelings on code formatting. Gofmt is one of the best features of Go, especially when reading others code.
> it's obvious that physical characteristics are different, so by extension it is not impossible that mental characteristics are different, too.

It's easy to say things are "not impossible." It's not impossible that were society restructured to systematically favor the current (vs. innate, whether ostensible or in fact) female gender roles that women would significantly outperform men on more mental tasks than they do today. No, it's not impossible. It is highly speculative based on many assumed truths.

In truth, I don't have an issue with the belief or implication that women and men think differently. I do take issue that one is superior to the other based on present-day conditions. Men used to be better doctors. Men used to be better dentists. Men used to be better lots of things, when you took a snapshot in time. But, as barriers to entry were removed, and the gender balance began to change, and more women were participating in developing the next generation, and shaping the roles they were now participating in, the innate capability gap seemed to disappear. That may not be a phenomenon that repeats itself in every occupation, but I don't think we can say that about technology yet.

What I'm not saying: men and women are innately equal at everything. What I am saying: relying on the analogy of physical tasks implies females are the disadvantaged group, where there is much more cultural noise that works to favor men on many sets of criteria.

> Exhibit A: top chess players.

There's no historical context to the game of chess that has traditionally favored men over women? This male-dominated mind game, taught by men, in ways that were honed around how men learn, in an environment that men were always welcome in, somehow has better results for men? Am I off-base here? I don't know the history of chess.

> 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)

If you've got a reference for me I'd read it. I can't honestly react to this known fact without seeing the research behind it. I'm dubious that enough of the surround contextual variables were controlled for (e.g., size and maturity of the tech industry, workforce participation of the genders, etc.).
I don't really see anything wrong with using a ghostwriter, as long as the person/organisation whose name is on any document fully read and agreed with the contents, and would stand by them as their own.
Pensions in the popular sense are more properly named "defined benefits plan" in financial jargonese.
I've been doing a successful lifestyle business for over a decade, the best advice is to research one very specific consumer area, and provide information that will save people time - mostly through presenting research in as concise a way as possible.

Most people underestimate the desire of humans not to think. We all need to do research when we're buying something we're not familiar with, nobody wants to spend time thinking and comparing and figuring out what the best option is - save them time and you'll eventually develop a lifestyle business.

It's important to note that it takes time, perhaps up to 3 years to really get going, but once it gets going, it's like a flywheel that's hard to stop.
Ahh, I see why we aren't on the same page. My reading was that the cars leased in this program were used cars, with values substantially less than $22k.

https://www.uber.com/drive/vehicle-solutions/leasing/

"The majority of eligible vehicles will be pre-leased and/or pre-owned inventory"
Site seems to be down. Here's the cached article: http://archive.is/p5ZLR
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And after the CEO of YouTube called you out, no less
Exactly. Really, this is the strongest, best-constructed and best-applied "anti-SJW screed" we've seen yet. Gamergate sucked young-white-male-techies in, but made no sense to anyone else. This is the spin they should have taken from the beginning. "Guy got fired by Google for making perfectly reasonable points about why women aren't good at tech" is something every conservative can get behind.

Clearly Google messed up here and walked into a trap.
Depending who you ask it means anything from "I only work 4 hours a week" to "Not about to be sold to Amazon for $1.8b". My personal definition would be a business that explicitly has a goal of focusing on employee (and by extension founder) well being over profit margins.
That's exactly what happens when you snatch up the commons and parcel it out to private and governmental actors, depriving people of the means of their own self-sustenance, thus turning them into a landless class that have to sell their labor in order to survive.

If only there were an alternative to this inevitable, natural, inexorable economic process. Too bad there isn't.
Anecdote applies to me.

I experience some headphone fatigue nowadays too. Once upon a time I must have been listening to music for 60-75% of my waking minutes.

Also somehow I feel much more tranquil in just walking and listening to my thoughts and feelings (even unwelcome ones). I think I listened to a lot of music to experiment with different identities and ways of feeling, and approx. since I turned 30 I started to develop my own in a much more interesting way.
It varies widely. I have had nominal 3-6% matching, but it was capped at an absolute dollar amount. That amount made the effective match more like 1.8-3.8%.