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> That's she's brilliant, and lots of people assume she isn't because of some arbitrary prejudice

So let's create tolerance programs for the people who has this prejudices. This will solve the problem, lower the bar for minorities it is only a treatment of the problem which won't do anything in the long term. Because if they hire you and then the cultural corporation is broken you are going to be very unhappy and probably leave the career (his actually happens)

Anyway see countries like Norway consider one of the most equality countries, and also one with the more gender inbalance in careers like tech. We should consider that some people don't like a professional and also work in way to make this profession more appealing if it is possible. But if it not possible just understand that the imbalance is natural. we
Hard to blame you for selfishness, when the topic is literally how to save the lives of you and your family, should shit hit the fan.

I did some introspection on that topic myself, and I realized that while my desire to help people in need is strong, my own desire to stay alive is strong as well.
It's just this habit I have where if I'm interested in challenging someone's ideas or preconceptions, I do it in a gentle way and from a place of curiosity and understanding rather than reinforce their misconceptions by being condescending and unpleasant.
"A Google spokesperson told Inc. that the practice of keeping blacklists is not condoned by upper management, and that Google employees who discriminate against members of protected classes will be terminated."

Yikes! Actually terminated.

Grammar jokes aside.. they can't really choose to not protect the protected classes eh? But everyone has their blacklists, whitelists, etc. No rocket science.
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> You can't just publish a manifesto about the benefits of slavery without some backlash

And that's the problem. In a truly open forum for ideas and discussion I would expect ideas about, like your example cites, the benefits of slavery to be actually freely discussed without negative consequence to the people involved. We don't get better as a society by not examining ideas in detail frequently.
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Does anyone else get irked when articles use photos of nuclear power plants when talking about pollution or climate change? I'm certainly no expert, but my understand was that the 'exhaust' from nuclear plants is just water vapor and with the exception of finding a place to store spent rods, it's an incredibly green source of energy and has little to no bearing on climate change?
Rats... unmaintained. This is sad, really.
About your wife problem, it might be due to a daemon being instructed by the DM to automatically mount and open any newly inserted memory card or USB devices appearing as such.
I don't know about Gnome as I use XFCE, anyway on the removable media options there is one to auto mount removable media and I keep it unchecked. Their icons appear anyway on the desktop, but until I access them they don't get mounted so they remain accessible for other software.
I'm sure there is such an option on Gnome too.
Are they evicting leftist groups demolishing cities like they did in Hamburg couple weeks ago?
When it's a widely circulated internal document criticising the hiring practices behind 40% of the company's workforce, it's hardly surprising.

He put them in a difficult position. The brand and employee-esteem damage caused by tacitly condoning his manifesto by not firing him, vs just getting rid of one engineer. Easy maths. He's gone.

Edit: backwards words not now.
Probably yes, at least the people interested in the position. Considering that distributions on both sets are the same, lowering the bar in the minor set is an unfair advantage of positive discrimination
Blaming the American people is like blaming the cogs in a machine for the design of the product it produces.
> But tuples can be mutated in-place: >>> b = (1,) >>> b += (2,) >>> b (1, 2)

That's not an in-place mutation any more than

>>> a = 1
>>> a += 2

is.

The oddity is that most people assume `a += b` is the same as `a = a + b`, but Python allows overloading both separately and list.__iadd__ is an alias for list.extend, hence being able to += any iterable onto a list whereas `list + non_list` generates a type error.

The original intent is an optimisation (to avoid copying the subject list) but it's a broken one as it behaves very inconsistently with regular concatenation/addition: it mutates the subject in-place and allows a different (wider) set of parameters.
Men are disposable and get no sympathy from anyone in the society.

No one attaches any "inherent" value to a man. It's all about their power and status.

Women also contribute to this by rewarding the high status men.
To be fair this is the fourth draft of "Let localhost be localhost". Internet Drafts deliberately "expire" unless you write an updated version every so often proving it's still interesting and being worked on. @agwa says they have "no weight" but pragmatically what matters is always whether people do what the document says, not its supposed "weight" within a standards body.

For example many of you will have used Let's Encrypt, the whole of Let's Encrypt is built upon a standard issuance and management protocol, ACME. But ACME is still only an Internet Draft, albeit it's likely to go to RFC before the end of this year. So it didn't matter that in your view it "has no weight", it had millions of people using it.

If this I-D takes off and is widely accepted by, say, Microsoft and Apple, even if it never becomes an RFC it has a real effect. On the other hand, if it becomes a standards track RFC but Apple decides to ignore it and never promise that "localhost is localhost" in their operating systems then it's worthless despite the "Standard" tag.
Seeing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers chrome seems to dig other browsers.
Who's to say Pichai hasn't used data? I think you may be presuming too much.

If one thing is true, there's plenty of data to demonstrate non-merit based discrimination. For example, studies that send out the same resume with different names is a common source of data: http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2014/why-does-john-get-stem-...

If you think discrimination only affects women and POCs, you'll be delighted to learn that from second tier law schools that signaled middle class were overwhelmingly the least likely to get called. Being a middle class women yielded 7x better chances and being a wealthy male yielded 13x better chances.

Ironically, being wealthy as a woman put you as a disadvantage.

https://hbr.org/2016/12/research-how-subtle-class-cues-can-b...

This type of discrimination is real because our brains don't like doing rigorous evaluation. To save energy, we'll substitute in some heuristic and tell ourselves we rigorously evaluated a person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution

Here's the point. Discrimination is real and it costs businesses money. It's like Moneyball. You can be like the Yankees and overpay for players that fit superficial molds, or you could actually be methodical like the 2002 Athletics and hire undervalued players their competitors discounted.

There are real economic incentives to focusing on diversity, especially if you can demonstrate your employees are passing on qualified people for superficial reasons (right school, hobbies, similar to me, culture fit, etc.)

The company that can successfully exploit an industry's hiring bias by targeting discounted groups and evaluating candidates rigorously will have the pick of the litter.
Wow you mean you just have to be a billionaire and start your own company to find work after committing the sin of being a conservative? Not really a great counter-example.
The main problem with this article is that it assumes that the only resource consumption is CPU/memory on the server. With that assumption, it makes complete sense to limit the number of concurrent connections.

However, if you do so, then your server can be brought to its knees by a single client opening that many connections, and then just being really slow in accepting the data down the network. Then the limited connections on the server are all sitting there doing nothing, and no new connections are allowed.
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I think that there is a decent case that upper class men do enjoy gender based privileges. But then people use that as evidence that all males are privileged and it's just not true. I mean it would be great if there was a chance that I could become a CEO or an exec, but 99.99% of people won't so it doesn't matter to most males if all execs and CEOs are male.

On the disparate power dynamic, I doubt the males with power care about the wellbeing of the other 99.99% of males. They will look out for the interests of super high class males which may not overlap with the interests of lower class males.

I think that non high class females benefit much more than non high class males from the power of super high class males. The super high class males will spend time around females and make transfer payments in the services industry. Sugar babes, prostitutes, strippers, webcaming, regular waitresses, etc. They are more likely to enjoy the wealth of high power males and have a much easier time forming a relationship (romantic or platonic) with a super high class male.
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Correct you are. I thought the wiki reference was annual, having to do with the far larger temporary work immigration that Australia allows.
Resubmitting is specifically declared welcome here. The mods not only send out invitations to resubmit, they even implemented auto-resubmit.

Maybe read at least the FAQ and the guidelines before trying to police others?
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They also a have ton of licensees which are AAA game studios with qualified profesionals often backporting fixes and features into the main branch. Appart from that the engine is completely open sourced.

I also get the impression Tim Sweeney, the one man developer behind the first engine, is rather good at assembling and managing tech teams.
> explain the relative ratios in CS, math, EE, CivE, AE, MSE, and ChemE?

What are the relevant ratios you mean here? I found this data[0] on engineering degrees by gender. Here is the percentage of female graduates for each of the ones you mentioned:

14% - Computer Science

13% - Electrical Engineering

22% - Civil Engineering

14% - Aeronautical Engineering

13% - Mechanical Engineering

32% - Chemical Engineering

Other than Chemical, they're all in the same ballpark. My wife studied Chemical Engineering; I'll have to ask her if she had any thoughts about why it's a higher percentage female.

Interestingly, that same chart has two engineering disciplines that tower over the other two: Biomedical, and Environmental, which exactly squares with the hypothesis put forth by this blog post author.

[0] https://www.asee.org/papers-and-publications/publications/co...
I tried changing industry and feel as a man it's very difficult to change once you've been pigeonholed. maybe for women there's this thought, "oh of course she's had enough of it" and they are taken seriously in their switch.

Not that it's of any benefit to either gender.
I'm not sure how generational wealth inequality is relevant to gender diversity? Surely rich and poor families in the US are having boys and girls at roughly the same rates? Or have I missed something here?
The other way around is already implied by the previous property.

Maybe it helps to consider finite sets. A finite set should clearly a minority, and the union of two finite sets, though bigger, is still finite; similarly, the intersection of two co-finite sets is smaller, but still co-finite. Minority and majority are generalizations of finite and co-finite, respectively. (A set is co-finite if the set of elements in some universe that it doesn't contain is finite).
Just because it's their own private pharmacy doesn't necessarily mean they follow a different set of rules. The PBM probably has that pharmacy set up like any other and treat it as a preferred pharmacy with internally negotiated discounts.
If this was the US, an unsatisfactory vendor would almost certainly be there because of some political crony situation. Sometimes merit has no bearing on goverment procurement.
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What physicality ?!?! We're all born same and equal!
Answering myself in part: I'd read the copy of the essay on Vox Day's blog (since I like to see opposing ideological opinions just to make sure I still disagree with them), which, like most other copies, did not have links.

The copy on the documentcloud link floating around this thread shows that "effectively lower the bar" is a link to an archived thread from the internal Google Group "coffee-beans-discuss".

I am curious if that post, or a summary thereof, has been leaked: I find the use of this phrase just baffling and technically incorrect (in addition to being insulting) and it seems like the author did have some specific intention here. Is he quoting someone else who's arguing that false negatives "effectively lower the bar"?
So you do think these people should have been evicted?
Anecdotal of course, but here in Austria I know a lot of people without credit cards (myself included). The people who own credit cards are mostly frequent travellers, since it's easier to buy plane tickets if you have one (I was lucky enough to always have had at least one person with a credit among my travel partners, so I could just pay them by bank transfer or in cash later). AFAIK no one in my close family circle has a credit card.

edit: According to the Austrian National Bank the number of issued credit cards in Austria was 2,85 mio. in 2012, compared to 8,5 mio. debit cards (population: 8.747 million (2016)), and the amount of credit cards was growing rapidly. Seems like there are more people with credit cards than I thought.

https://www.oenb.at/en/Payment-Processing/Card-Payments/Card...

edit2: Statistics Austria has the percentage of households with credit cards at 53% in 2014

http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/menschen_und_gese... (German, it's the bottom row)
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The "Hollywood Ten" screenwriters who were blacklisted by the film industry (private employers making employment decisions!) were, in fact, members of the Communist Party USA...

Yes, but 1) that was just the tip of the iceberg labelled "McCarthyism," and 2) even at the time, the issue wasn't that they had joined a political party, the issue was what that party proposed to achieve.

In the case of the Google's manifesto, I don't see anyone upset that the author holds an unpopular opinion or that he publicized his unpopular opinion; it's the content of the opinion itself that's at issue.

Both McCarthy himself and the Googler in question here tried to harm other people's careers by spreading untruths in a self-aggrandizing way. That seems like the most natural parallel to me.
Not so awfully long ago when I worked my entry level job, I made roughly $800 biweekly. Do you know what that's like? And that's a pretty comfortable wage for my area, compared to others, but $4,000, are you joking? Might as well be $400,000 or $4,000,000 for as attainable as $4,000 was. Yeah sure, I could save that by spending literally nothing outside essentials for three years, but who can live like that without losing their minds?

I don't want to be rich. Being rich blows by many accounts. I want enough money in the bank where a bang in my car isn't enough to send me to the poorhouse and where a visit to the ER isn't going to render me homeless. Wanting financial security: the thing you have and are describing; is perfectly natural, except that it's nearly unattainable by I think the vast majority of the population. And don't sit there and tell me that it's all our fault for needing to finance shit when we barely make enough to live already.
Is Google being blind to the bubble they exist in 'good for business'

As best I can tell Google is within their legal rights to employ this individual as they see fit

I'm going to disagree that getting rid of inconvenient truth tellers is 'good for business' though
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> The only way you can make me reconsider is to make education free of cost and open to all candidates regardless of merit.

This is true for some countries and the problems and solutions are still the same.
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There is no "hundreds of years of scientific consensus" that suggests women are worse than men at math and science. What consensus are you talking about?
Google encourages "free" speech between employees on the same topics as long as it tracks with their moral narrative.

This is the largest point for me and what distinguishes them from "Know and repeat the company value statement." If they take an organizational position in promoting certain values past a certain degree, then they absolutely have a social responsibility to make space for those who would discuss counter-values.

At will employment has historically been a smokescreen for companies to fire people for all sorts of abusive / illegal / poorly intentioned reasons. The fact that they can fire people for saying anything doesn't mean they should.

Is this really the path we want to go down?
We can also just project into a field where were are a minority. So maybe a man can't consider what it is to be a diversity hire in tech, but he could consider being a diversity hire for a number of other industries which where the majority of employees are women.
There are like 3 or 4 completely different definitions of sexism, only some of which would have an affect on hiring rates.
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Waiting for more non-white non-male applicants, and actively hunting for non-white non-male applicants, does not imply or necessitate a lowered standard.

It means that applying is no longer first-come, first-serve.
True, but what's troubling isn't that he was fired, it's that the memo got leaked, caused a bunch of controversy and basically forced Google to take a position on whether they want to discuss this stuff. Yes, one guy getting fired for sending out something inflammatory and critical isn't a huge deal (although I would have expected Google to be more tolerant), it's the fact that it went public and then when
Google had to make a public statement deciding whether to fire him or not they chose "we don't think these ideas should be discussed".
Within class bodies, symbols prefixed with two underscores get "mangled" (prefixed with the class name).

This is intended to avoid risks of collisions for classes built specifically for inheritance so you'd usually use it with attributes e.g. `self.__name = name` (that way if a subclass defines its own "name" things will work as expected for both). I was unaware this also worked for straight local variables.

I was unaware it happened for all symbols, but I guess it makes sense as the Python compiler does very little analysis.
This is a dumb info-graphic. It basically all depends on the war in question.

Another round of playing world police? Not my thing.

California seceding from the union? I'll help you pack.

Canada annexing Vermont? Depends on how Vermont feels about it.

Actual foreign invasion? Where's the nearest recruiter.
I don't know that "fight for your country" is "bad" or "good".

Defending your country against outside aggression seems "good." Fighting in a war of convenience is "bad".

I think an interesting qualifier is if the person answering assumed "fighting for your country" meant defense or offense.
Note that this is a definition of majority/minority, not a theorem proved about them. It's indeed true that by definition, there are no majorities for finite sets.
The thing is that this guy clearly thinks some things that affect his ability to do his job. Would you trust him to write a peer review for a female colleague or mentor a black intern?

I think what you say is true about people searching for ways to express themselves when the lines between work and personal are blurred but fundamentally people have to attempt to be unbiased. It's pretty clear that this guy wasn't willing (or able) to do this and keeping him on would open up Google to a lot of bad PR and potentially lawsuits from people who's reviews/interviews etc that he was involved in.
I love the Guardian (I read a wide range of other sites and papers/magazines), but then I am a dull lefty - but this felt like a bit of a jump the shark moment to me: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/may/...
Interesting to see what the apparent reaction was. In america, i think the guy would have been locked up and charged a huge fine.
Earlier today I posted my medium article on HN that is this exact article with a bunch of sections taken out. It was starting to rise but was then flagged.

I apologize to the HN community for driving traffic for my benefit using other people's work.

I honestly was just amazed with how valuable this post to me that I wanted to share it with as many entrepreneurs as possible and used my growing medium account to do that.

However the people that flagged me are right that even though that was the correct format to share his essay on medium, it was not the right format for HN, I could have just linked to the original post.

I have done that now because I still believe that this article is so good and I want as many people to read it as possible.

All the best,
Jeremy
This is a really good one, in my view: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man....

I agree - the discussion around this topic is very frustrating (more frustrating to me than the actual content of the manifesto by far), and everyone's trying to make it so black and white.

I think the current top comment has it right; it makes good points (there are statistical differences in traits across genders), it makes bad points (the wage gap...just doesn't work like that), and it contains some really bad non-sequitur conclusions (measure how a person leads on the outputs of their team, not how "assertive" or "technical" they are).
>The piece is also full of guilt for American foreign policy that's mainly decided by special interests, but then gets blamed on ordinary Americans.

Well, ordinary citizens also get to benefit from a strong position of their country in the world arena.

Plus, in a democracy ordinary citizens are also to blame for their government's decisions. They can always vote something else, protest, revolt etc. People all around the world have done it for their governments (and of course Americans at different times).

Lastly, some (if not most) of those actions also have strong popular support (whether for misinformation, misplaced patriotism, or just because of strong propaganda).
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The title claims than Venezuela's situation shows that democracy can be lost. That is akin to saying that a car crash shows that strong enough forces can bend metal. That would be a bad title, because we know that metal can be bend by strong enough forces.

Also, we know that democracy can be lost. There have been instances of rather lawful transitions, there are examples of even malicious foreign manipulation.
if they evict right wing groups meeting, why don't they do the same to left wing anarchist groups?

The true is I believe they should not involve themselves in politics as it never ends good.