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Biology get's odd when you start looking at 0.01% cases.

Some people have both sets of reproductive organs at birth. Others lack many such structures which is arguably just sterility but in some cases no gender is closer to the truth.

Genetically you have XX (female), XY (male) but also XXY or XXXY. There are even Chimera where you can have both male (XX) and female (XY) cells in the same body.
Simply unbelievable how much garbage is on that web page without an ad blocker (I put a box around the actual content that appears without having to scroll): http://i.imgur.com/0S2FIAW.png
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TL;DR: The article offers no evidence that this has started to happen but raises the sensible point that Uber, Snap, and Blue Apron are all poster children for "founder-friendly" terms run amok.
It's hard not to interpret this as a dishonest question with how you've phrased it and in particular your last sentence.

This is a question you can answer for yourself trivially by googling the relevant terms as well as learning about intersex individuals.
Lets assume that we're in an alternative universe where the document was never leaked.

The document still did harm. Just read this quote from the posted article-

> When I walk into my job at a tech company, how do I know which of my colleagues thinks I’m an outlier among women versus someone who was hired because I’m female that doesn’t deserve the job they have? How do I prove myself to people one way or another? The additional mental and emotional burden on me just to do my job is not negligible at all, and it’s also a pretty crappy way to start every day thinking: “Will the team/manager/VC I talk with today realize I’m qualified, or will they be making stereotypical assumptions about my abilities and therefore make it harder for me to do my job?” To me, that absolutely makes for a hostile work environment, and it’s an unequal burden my male coworkers don’t have to deal with every day.

That quote wasn't caused by this going public in the way it did, it was caused by it being posted in the first place. There is real harm done if women who work at a company don't feel they are welcome there.
Everything you write at a company should be assumed may end up printed on the froom page of the NY Times.
But aren't web rings just composed of vanilla hyperlinks? Why does that need to be added as a feature? What's stopping people from making them now?
Some think decreasing poverty/disease actually decreases population growth. This is what Peter Diamandis argues in his book "Abundance: the future is better than you think". His reasoning (based on correlations and maybe causational data) is poor families have a lot of kids because they think many of the kids are going to die. But once their situation improves they have less kids.
I'm not going to comment on gender, but doesn't hermaphroditism result a non-binary classification of sex?
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Does one actually own a domain name? I thought one owns a license to a domain name, which can be revoked at any time by the issuer, and that if it is seized, then it is the license that is seized. Interesting.
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It was a question about categories. Are there two categories of gender / sex? The answer is no. These people exist. They have entire lives which are as meaningful as any other. Why wouldn't they matter?
Well, executives and modern presidents.
I have a lot more respect for someone like Elon Musk who invests his money back into new ideas than someone who simply gives most of it away to charity.

Malaria, low literacy rates, etc., are the byproducts of failed political systems and corruption.

Musk's impact on electric vehicle technology will drain a great deal of despotism from the middle east as dependence on oil wanes, far more effectively than any philanthropic contribution he might have made would have.

There are a number of technologies that can drastically change the dynamic between the elites (officials) and everyone else worldwide. Our most gifted thinkers and entrepreneurs should be inventing the next printing press or cotton gin, not attending charity functions.
> Instead of facing the truth: the game is stacked against you, you may just not be that good etc., it is far easier to devise some sort of massive conspiracy or pseudo-science to justify your prejudice.

I suspect that you do not see the irony in this statement.
If I'm not a raging douchebag, I might be low on testosterone? I'm sure that's not what you meant, but that's how I'm reading in light of the original comment. Serious question to a serious post: do you have anything more concrete on which to base one's decision to get checked?
In my experience leaders are seldom judged on being right, and that's the cognitive portion of their job. A leader may be organized, sociable, disciplined, but a leader also has to make choices. A leader in particular must make a choice if there's no consensus, and so there is not an agreement on the right course of action, and presumably there is no identifiable "right" choice. In fact, though, there is usually a right choice, it's just that no one knows for sure what it is. But as events transpire we learn about the effect of decisions (though we still lack the counterfactual), and often it becomes clear if a decision was right or not. I seldom see leaders judged based on the result of their cognitive decisions.

I find there's a strong bias against even attempting to make that judgement. "In hindsight" is used to dismiss criticism: sure, you can say that in hindsight, but I had to make the decision at the time with the information I had. But very few outcomes are actually entirely surprising, we weigh information and risk and probabilities, and these can be improved. An example I remember with particular frustration was Hillary Clinton, repeatedly confirming her decision about the Iraq war given the information she knew at the time. There was lots of information available, she made particular choices about how to weigh the information and risk, and while within her decision framework at the time the choice may have seemed right, clearly her framework was wrong even given her own conclusions. (It's also hard because we expect leaders to always be right, and if they aren't then they shouldn't be leaders, which leaves no room for improvement.)
But I can, and I do; that's still too much noise for me. I'm sure the code is fine by Rust standards, but to me it looks like Perl with control issues. I don't need any help from my programming language with micromanaging the code I write or the way I write it. I'll ask when I want assistance, and until then I prefer if they stay the hell out of my way. I won't claim to write bug-free software; the only way to write bug-free software is to not write it at all; spending half my energy on sweet talking a psychotic compiler around every single detail is a perfect recipe for missing the bigger picture and ending up solving the wrong problems.
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> "success" isn't about being an individual that becomes rich

Independent of the rest of your comment: the quoted concept is trivially false as long as resources are scarce. (i.e. the foreseeable future; barring severe, draconian and arguably-unethical controls on population size)

("Powerful" being an additional non-redundant qualifier, is merely a consequence of the monopoly called "government".)
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I agree, and I suspect the attitude of cooler heads may act in Damore's favor when all is said and done.

The number of leakers has to be quite the headache for Google's StopLeaks folks. Between people leaking Damore's memo because they were upset by it, and people talking to Breitbart because they were angry he was fired, there's been a LOT of leaks. How Google approaches handling this issue is going to be interesting, there's a lot of hurt feelings on all sides.
Are women not taught to compete? I do not remember girls being any less competitive (in school, in sports, etc.) Almost everyone wants to stand out and be better than others in some aspects and is proud when they can achieve that.
Life is very competitive, I am not sure why need to de-emphasize it to much. Making it "us" vs "them" is the more problematic part, but individual competition is a pretty constructive force overall, for men and women of all colors.
I think you missed the point of the study. "Normal" has nothing to do with it. Presented with a variety of toys to choose from, girls picked the stereotypical "girly" toys, even when encouraged to pick the "boy" toys by their parents. This means that you could give a Lego mindstorms kit to a girl and there's a good chance she just straight up wouldn't be interested in it, and would seek some other form of entertainment.

In light of that, we're left with an awkward situation. Should we force kids to play with certain toys and do certain activities even if they're not interested just so we can get to gender balance in lucrative fields? Maybe. Parents certainly do that sort of thing already with piano lessons and language classes. But if you don't think that's a good way to go, then you have to be open to the possibility that, left to their own choices, fewer girls will be interested in things that lead to a tech career than their male counterparts. Certainly it should be better than the (at best) 70/30 split we see now, but targeting 50/50 is not realistic.
Given the post I was replying to it seemed important to reiterate this fact.
Youtube has a much better library of music than Google Play Music even.

For example, my Google Home can play the Beatles on Youtube, but it fails with Google Play.
The article title is

> Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?

which is much less provocative than the HN title which is

> Experts think there is a 35% chance of an another American Civil War

The former specifically mentions "kind", suggesting we are talking about something very different than the past civil war. The latter implies 35% of repeating the past one.
Brilliant article. Whatever versioning schema that you use, you should at least start with _something_ at the outset of an application IMO
I think his motivation was much closer to "I feel irritated because I was just forced to attend a feminist indoctrination program and I want to let management know I disagree with this kind of thing". And then he proceeded to make his request obliquely, by attempting to couch it as a scientific debate, when really it was a cultural one.
It's actually quite weird, I do HIIT/strength/cardio training for a few days, I feel awesome, and then one day suddenly I hit a cliff and my brain is shutting down. The thing is I can't predict when it happens; I saw some relation to NO (sometimes adding NO-inducing supplements alleviates issues) though it doesn't seem to work 100% And if you read fitness articles, I am not the only person that has this issue. I mean "neural fatigue" is pretty common, so probably it goes further up with some people like me...
It's not as simple as that. The word 'gender' has a history of being used for biology - think of every form you've ever filled out. The OED [1] says:

> Either of the two sexes (male and female)

before following up with:

> especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones.

And also notes:

> The sense denoting biological sex has also been used since the 14th century, but this did not become common until the mid 20th century. Although the words gender and sex are often used interchangeably, they have slightly different connotations; sex tends to refer to biological differences, while gender more often refers to cultural and social differences and sometimes encompasses a broader range of identities than the binary of male and female

If it's unclear, I'm not saying either is correct. Many people don't like saying 'sex' as its also a verb for copulation hence use 'gender' as a polite alternative. The idea of gender as an entity separate from biology is from Dr John Money, who has his own sad and controversial history [2], though his ideas have gained more popularity recently.

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gender

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Money
I think this misses the real point. The idea is presenting a reason why google (and all of tech) has more male engineers than female that aren't based totally on bigotry and discrimination. He is right. Google isn't hiring female engineers because they simply aren't applying.

In reality their aren't enough trans-gendered people to really involve that in this conversation.
It would be the shortest war in history
> When you see a headline like "P versus NP", do you look at criteria like http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304 to check for signs of credibility?

It's funny that you reference another person who was pilloried by the social media masses for being a misogynistic monster because he made a post that conformed to certain maligned social patterns (http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2119)
Well, to me at least, you came across as more than just saying "here's a solution to the excessive pedantry". I read your response as being more judgmental than that. Perhaps that's my problem rather than yours, but that's how I read it.

As qbrass pointed out, though, a functional language doesn't really save you from (most of) the detail, but only lets you express it somewhat better. (Your foldM reply, if I understand correctly, only eliminates the loop of taking steps. Somewhere you still have to put your hand on the door, turn the doorknob, swing the door open, etc.)

So the excessive pedantry is still there. It's just slightly less, because you use a fold[M] rather than explicitly write the for loop. That's... a bit of improvement. It's a detail you don't have to pay attention to when you don't need to, which is most of the time. But (at least in this example), the vast bulk of the detail remains, even in a functional language.
Are intersex or transgender considered to be viable sexes though?

What seems reasonable to me is M/F/N where N is not capable of reproduction due to some kind of outlying error, so they cannot be a part of sexed reproduction. Are they omitted?

Sex and reproduction seem binary to me and most people. We should ignore technological or medical assistance and sort those results through the gender buckets which are more important to how they are perceived semantically, as you said.
Currently halfway through: Emperor of all Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Amazing portrait and biography of cancer. It outlines the history of cancer, chemotherapy, surgeries and the drugs use to treat so many patients who gave their lives for cancer science.

The author is a good writer, but occasionally delves into minute historical details that I sometimes don't care for. Still, it's very enlightening.
I would not call the USB connection "aux" neither, but it looks like that is the term car manufacturers are using.
Every single one of them matters and deserves the same dignity and respect you expect for yourself.
It's the whole experience. The huge screen. The sound. The seats. The memories of going there as a teenager on a date. Watching a movie together with 200 other people. Zero distractions.

I still love going to the theater.
I think this is one of the better responses I've seen

This line really struck me as being spot on:

>There’s a difference between “let’s have a discussion” and “let me tell you what’s up, all you wrong people.”
Since TripleByte also has companies in NYC, I'll provide a datapoint if you are considering NYC instead of the bay area. Our (my spouse and mine) goals around financial independence are similar to yours. We left the NYC area.

Before I say anything else, one of the major benefits of both NYC and the Bay Area is that you have a lot of opportunites to climb the career ladder. If that's what you want, you'll have a lot of opportunity to increase your salary beyond the range you've stated.

For that salary range I wouldn't recommend the greater NYC area unless there is a significant bonus and you know you'll get it. Housing becomes cheaper once you get away from NYC. But home prices are still high and property taxes are shocking in New Jersey, varying widely from town to town. At one point I was evaluating NYC/NJ vs the Bay Area, and concluded the property taxes and various fees (e.g. HOA) made NJ almost as unappealing as the Bay Area. The housing stock isn't great either.

Everybody says NJ has decent public transit to NYC. That's only if you can afford a home near a NJ Transit or PATH stop and your office is near a train station on the same line. Otherwise you might be driving to an NJ Transit station (and pay $100/month+ for parking), NJ Transit to Path Train/NYC MTA, then walk. Plus, all those are very crowded at peak times. Somebody I worked with had car->bus->train->train to get to work.

In NYC it's easy to get trapped in cycle of climbing the job ladder (maybe taking jobs you hate) just so you can feel like you can accumulate savings and an emergency fund. I was amazed by how many tech people I met who worked in banking who hated their jobs and worked way more than they wanted to because of the pay and a desire to stay in the NYC area.
This is less surprising if you imagine evolution to be a reinforcement machine learning system. The dung beetle actors are given all the sensory inputs of their environment. Those that used the inputs (which happened to be our galaxy) where better at satisfying goal and thus had higher selection rate for next iteration of system. The actors, much like machine leaning, AI, don't have any logic nor any reasoning. They simply are a ludicrously complex, but deterministic state machine of inputs -> mess -> outputs. The mess being seeming unintelligible, not rational, with lots of "cruft".
While the National Guard (and even occasionally the federal mikitary) has been periodically called up for disturbances, very few of them involved rejection of traditional political authority. (And while here have been numerous movements rejecting traditional political authority, they have rarely been met with the National Guard.)

It's true that the standard has been met more than just in the 1860s, but it has not been met “for a significant part of [the US's] existence.”
Are you arguing we should spare factual discourse for the sake of someones subjective feelings?
A business is required to do due diligence for the business it does. Doesn't matter if it's a marketplace, a seller, a reseller, or whatever.

Avoiding quality control on purpose is no excuse. That's a proof that you are not following the law and that can be considered as aggravating circumstances if you avoid it on purpose. That's the sort of thing that a judge may consider as a reason to send you to jail for longer.
Is there a biological basis for this? I do not want "Gender Studies" references. I want real BIOLOGICAL, you know code mother nature put in you.

Sex is basically binary in mammals (do you have the gene that triggers producing sperm versus the gene that triggers you producing eggs), the only exception being incredibly rare intersex disorders. Read more here: http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/why-sex-is-binary-but-gende...

Based on sex, people have different traits, physical and mental. Some of these traits are close to binary between the sexes (having a uterus, etc.). Some traits are a matter of distributions (such as differences in physical strength, or willingness to take risks).

Society then considers certain behaviors and traits more masculine or feminine, and creates norms and roles around these. Some of these norms and roles exist on a spectrum, some are more binary.

Gender for a long time was used either as a synonym for sex, or only this case of describing language (gendered pronouns). In the mid-1900s academics in the social science used it to mean "the social norms and roles society creates based on biological sex." Then more recently some academics have re-defined gender again to mean "ones own innate conception of one's male/female identity." There isn't any scientific proof that such a thing exists or doesn't exist, nor can there be, because we don't have mind reading machines.

Sexual identity has also been redefined recently. So now if you were born with the egg producing equipment, but are taking male sex hormones some people will now define you as of the male sex. Frankly, I find this redefining of words to be pretty Orwellian.
Some people, pedantically, agree xD

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When it comes to policymaking, any prudent work requires the analysis of how many people would be impacted. It's not enough to just say "well there's like 100 people in a population of 300M we should change everything just for them".
Intersex traits cover a fairly broad range of things, and there's a reasonable argument that up to 1.7% of people are intersex. Visibly atypical genitals are fairly rare (1 in 1500 births or so), on the other hand, but don't cover the entire range of intersex traits.
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I would argue that writing it in C++ would have gotten you there faster, assuming a decent level of experience with the language. There's no ecosystem in the world that beats seamless integration with C and no language that even comes close to being as pragmatic.
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Already done elsewhere in this thread; the links from that article in turn provide a mountain of detailed responses.

Also consider whether you hold all refutations of random screeds to the same standard of evidence, or if this one somehow deserves more credence. The memo itself was written by a random engineer with no particular qualifications or expertise or interest in past work on the topic, but somehow anyone wishing to respond to it must write an academic paper with citations? And furthermore, somehow a "line-by-line breakdown" is required, rather than, for instance, finding and refuting the actual points made as in any other normal argument?
Stefan Molyneux and Jordan Peterson are just right-of-center. They aren't hate groups or extremists. Peterson in particular is emphatically reasonable and moderate, if a bit disagreeable.
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Corporations are already limited by normal laws and by market forces. I'm skeptical when people claim that isn't enough.

Political influence reform is a whole separate issue and I think the problems are structural and go much deeper than just "corporate money in politics."

Personally, I think the idea of a "representative" democracy is simply outdated and problematic. Representatives can be bought, and that will always be the case. I'd prefer to see more direct democracy (with constitutional constraints.) I believe you'll see society gradually transitioning towards that, as in California.
I've used nom to implement a Turtle parser. The result was fast (it runs the test suite in 50ms) and the code is pretty readable. Certainly much more readable then if I'd used a homegrown set of functions. I've documented the specification grammar rules next to the nom rules. They match up well.

Nom can be tricky to debug, but Rust can host tests in the same file as the code, so debugging by writing new tests is convenient.

The syntax takes some getting used to. The hardest part for me was learning to order the grammar alternatives correctly. The order matters for performance and correctness.
> by that same token, all of psychology is also physics.

Yes, it is, which would be relevant if someone suggested there was no physical explanation for a psychological phenomenon (which is, in fact, what they are usually claiming when they claim it is not biological.)
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