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Your '2' all by itself if you are not invited to do so by your employer is most likely going to get you fired especially if you document said potential illegal practices in a widely shared memo.

Most companies would - right or not - try to keep their dirty laundry indoors and the right way to deal with such stuff is to first try to take it up the chain and if you are ignored you can decide if you're brave enough to become a whistle blower with all the fine consequences that tends to have, one of the most likely results of which is that you will find yourself suddenly unemployed and if you're unlucky also unemployable.
As a longtime female engineer at fintech startups, there was absolutely nothing new in Damore's memo. The only thing that gave these tired arguments any cachet at all was Google's name.

And I really wish Google hadn't fired Damore. Special projects exists?!

For years I have worked with and continue to work with guys who think just like this. In fact, thanks to Twitter, I now know all of my followers who also follow Damore. Thanks for that?

When I interview you and ask you a technical question, you don't meet my eyes and then you answer the guy sitting next to me. When I present my own ideas in a group, you ignore them; fine, I'll pregame males colleages and let them present my ideas instead. If I brainstorm as part of the group, you think I'm asking you to explain basic programming concepts to me. You probably think I'm not that smart. And that's OK. Good news: getting things done requires multiple skills. One of mine is overtaking you from behind.

Nobody ever thinks of promoting me first. Whatever I get, I work twice as hard and twice as long for it as you did. The existence of a female networking group does not represent an unfair advantage: it represents barely any advantage at all, on the basis of the ones I've attended. And anyway, I don't have time for that, I'm trying to figure out what's caused the unexplained performance reversion over the past two days.

Whether you think I am a diversity candidate or not, I am here to code. That is all. Statistically speaking, biology does give me one edge: longer life span. I'll imagine I will still be here doing just that long after everyone else has forgot James Damore exists. ;)
> Stop talking about white men like we've never experienced pain.

What kind of discourse are you referring to? I hate that there's this notion that trying to hire talented people from underrepresented communities somehow requires oppressing white people.
Maths doesn't have to agree with physical experiments and observation.
I can only speak from personal experience but I grew a great deal as a person while pursuing my B.S. I had experiences and met people I never would have otherwise. I very nearly stayed in my small rural town working retail and farming jobs but my education opened doors to new people and experiences. My worldview is much different now than it was before college and my life is much more fulfilling on a personal level.

While I was fortunate to select a degree that had positive economic benefits for me that is far from the only benefit. My B.S. was far from just a job training course. I studied a variety of topics and was exposed to ideas that I never considered before. I learned to think much more critically and to be more open to the world.

You should care about this because money and a job are not everything in life. I know that sounds cliche but I am finally reaching a point in my life where I understand that. My education helped me reach this point.

I really cannot say enough about how much my education means to me. Even if I did not leverage that education to start my career I would still consider it to be completely worth it.
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> He claimed that Google's diversity policy lowered the bar for hiring, how can you read that and not think he was claiming that a portion of his female/minority coworkers were underqualified for their jobs?

This is the full quote, "Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for 'diversity' candidates by decreasing the false negative rate." Latter emphasis mine.

I read this the same way that he writes it: that Google takes steps to reduce the false negative rate for diverse candidates but does not take these steps with non-diverse candidates. Policies like re-trying failed phone interviews, or automatically passing resume review for diverse candidates are examples of this (these are examples I've witnessed, I don't know if they in place at Google). They still need to pass the final interview loop, so they're not underqualified. But extra steps earlier in the interview process reduce the false negative rate.

Personally, I think these steps are an acceptable means of getting a more diverse group of candidates but I'd still respect my co-workers if they disagreed. To point out the fact that this results in some non-diverse candidates being denied when they could have gotten offers is factually correct. More importantly, to point this fact out is not to call the diverse candidates passed under such a system underqualified - as I pointed out earlier all candidates pass the final interview loop so all candidates are qualified.
Basically the plot of Inherent Vice (the move at least)
Did you ask to have a colonoscopy done? I had some bleeding but my doctor seems to just dismiss it as standard eat more fiber Hemorrhoids etc.
Fact: women and men have varying distributions in abilities and traits - due to biology

Fact: women and men aren't distributed equally in tech and leadership.

And your conclusion is that anyone who presents these facts and says that maybe one causes the other means that women are "less suited" for engineering?

There is no logical basis for this. He didn't say what you are attributing to him.
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Amongst progressives, busing is considered one of the only effective mechanisms for reducing educational inequality.

That it only moderately alters test scores is also true, but that is far, far from being the same thing as a failure.

Busing is largely out of favor because it’s inconvenient for parents. Even I, who live in Berkeley precisely because it still buses-to-desegregate its students, was relieved when the school lottery meant my daughter would attend our nearest school.
>Per student funding in the private system is lower than per student funding in the public system.

If you dump all of the special needs kids and the kids that require a ton of effort to learn into a single group then OF COURSE these kids will be more expensive to teach per student than the most motivated students who can afford outside tutors etc.

The whole premise of the article is that selection bias is a big deal.
"This is the very definition of idealism and being naive about how much your vote matters,"

I was a California resident at the time. My vote was about as close to irrelevant as one can get; California's electoral votes haven't turned red since Reagan.

Even if I had moved to Nevada by then (that is: a few months before I actually did), I would have had zero regrets voting for Johnson. Neither Trump nor Clinton deserved my vote, simple as that.

"There is no equivalence between Trump and Hillary"

There is plenty of equivalence between two corrupt and most-likely-actually-criminal sociopaths. There's also plenty of equivalence between two presidential campaigns that went out of the way to present a "if you're not with me, then you're against me" mentality and alienate every supporter of the other candidate.

Importantly, and more specifically, both candidates' campaigns utterly alienated me as a voter simply because I did not precisely align with their "one true policy" or whatever. Neither candidate gave me any reason to vote for them, and every reason to not vote for them.

"2nd preference"

I had no second preference. If I did have a second preference, it might as well have been Mickey Mouse.

"vote trading"

Oh yeah, and make my vote even more worthless than it already is.

(Of course, vote trading as a California resident would've been an upgrade no matter what, but now that I live in Nevada, it'd be entirely irrational to want to dilute the power of my individual vote any further than it already is).
If the numbers are true and the gender distribution in STEM graduates is 80/20, and you are intent on increasing your number of female employees, you have two choices. You either lower the bar on the 20% or you raise the bar on the 80%.

This seems to be the common argument against diversity programs, but it strikes me as statistically true only if we assume a very even distribution between STEM graduates and prospective employers. Given tech's reputation as being relatively hostile to women, a company could theoretically find ways to advertise to prospective women employees that their internal culture was more welcoming of them -- that, in fact, they wouldn't be subject to the sexism that the female engineers in the linked article all said that they routinely face. This doesn't require the company to have different hiring standards between genders, or to pay women more. It does require them to change their recruiting practices in ways that acknowledge they may have to make specific outreach to women and other underrepresented minorities, but that doesn't strike me as having to be inherently discriminatory.
I have used the Pomodoro Technique to help me here. After 25 minutes work get up and walk for 5 minutes.

Adjust duration and ratios to suit your own environment.
What are you trying to say? That insurance companies shouldn't have to cover drug treatments? Perhaps, instead, this is an issue with lack of regulation and inspection. Fund treatment, but also fund inspections and required standards (which it seems, according top the article, is finally happening). It's not like health insurance companies don't want to see the treatment work, they make their money when their patients are healthy.
In the history of the paper she mentions some summer research, but that is for undergrads. Harvey Mudd is all undergrad and tends to emphasize teaching over research (at least, that was the philosophy 20 years ago o_O).
It's worth mentioning: Google broke the web when it monetized linking via PageRank. Literally overnight links went from being an organic expression of organization and interest to being currency that needed to be carefully hoarded and "spent" to increase PageRank. The organic web is dead. What we have now is essentially spam, content farms created not to appeal tohumans but rather whose primary audience is Google's algorithms.

Google could fix this btw -- it's not that hard to identify artificial link clusters (sites that have an unusually high number of inbound links) and dead zones (sites that have an unusually low number of inbound links) ... but to do so would not be profitable in the slightest.
Yeah where I live, if there are no cars the lights don't change.
I don't have any direct experience with "deep submicron" stuff, but from what I've read you basically can't trust these numbers to be comparable. The various sizes/spacings don't scale together the way they did for larger feature sizes, so you could have e.g. a "14nm" process where the area of an SRAM cell, NAND gate etc. ends up the same size as another foundry's "20nm" process even though the actual transistors are smaller.
So he was wrong. That doesn't make him the devil in disguise.
Intel's are actual measurements. TSMC, GF, and samsung are all marketing bs.
It's always been a curiosity of mine why SVG didn't get more attention from browsers through the years to solve the performance issues. It's open source, cross platform, "dynamic" in a sense AKA no compiling needed, light weight, supports shapes and text, offers immediate responsiveness, etc. Why the lack of love while we pour ever increasing energy into mangling HTML and CSS and every six months a new JS framework/module/whatever to try to make it work?
Some great points, and I totally agree with all of it. The parent implied that it always makes sense in general to borrow if the return is greater than the interest:

> If your investments make a better return than you'd pay interest on debt, it makes sense to take out a loan

Which doesn't quite add up!
You didn't just add emphasis, you changed the original text from "leftist" to "leftists" and failed to indicate this, which is dishonest.
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That is the same link which GP gave and it did not have any examples. Not sure why you linked it again

So let me ask again, do you known any specific examples?
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There's a scene in HBO's Westworld which revolves around this.

"My father used to say that only boring people get bored [...] I used to think it's only boring people who don't feel boredom, or cannot conceive of it in others."

I personally like the idea that only boring people can't conceive of boredom.
Thanks for this. These comments are a wasteland.
Think of them as relative indications of feature size and of spacing between identical parts (arrays if you want to use a software analogy), so even if an actual transistor will not be 10 nm or 14 nm their relative sizes will relate on one axis as 10 nm to 14 nm. Keeping the numbers from a single manufacturer will definitely aid in the comparison.

There is a ton of black magic going on here with layers being stacked vertically and masks not having any obvious visual resemblance to the shape they project on the silicon because of the interaction between the photons / xrays and the masks due to the fact that the required resulting image is small relative to the wavelength of the particles used to project it.

There is a super interesting youtube video floating around about this that I highly recommend, it's called 'indistinguishable from magic':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4

It's up to date to 22 nm. Highly recommended.
> There were no banner ads

There were, however, tons of animated 'under construction' banners, which gave the same 'visual noise' problem.
Where was this? When I lived in Tigard Frontier had fiber the next block over and I couldn't get them to lift a finger.
I would like to apologize for calling people idiots. It is not a nice thing to say.
It's some of undeterminate without data on longevity because on the other hand we could hypothesize that even with equal gender representation initially maybe men would stay longer because women want to spend time raising children and that would skew things. Also, there might be some self filtering as you described in the last sentence where I could speculate that maybe the average man is used to being rejected a lot so they apply more to places that are hailed as hard to get into, though with the 30% figure female representation in CS touted elsewhere in this thread, it leaves the question where are these 30% women going to in CS?
It's pretty simple what the answer is. It is two territories, one exclusively for blacks, and the other exclusively for whites. The rest of the USA can stay as is. But of course, why would HN readers accept the obvious truth when it's easier to downvote and dismiss.
I didn't know it. But according the introduction in its website, the differences are very easy to spot on: the syntax is obviously different; Stanza compiles directly to native code, but Dao doesn't; Dao supports class and inheritance, but Stanza not; concurrency support is also different. The main similarity seems to be both having optional typing.
> I very nearly stayed in my small rural town working retail and farming jobs but my education opened doors to new people and experiences.

So, that still falls under career path and earnings.
I hate, REALLY hate the intersections that try to be smart about me taking a kitty-corner crossing by pressing both direction buttons.

When I do that, I'm trying to tell the light what I need so it can figure out the correct timing signals to get me where I need to go faster.
The Osborne effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

Although it has been deliberately deployed many times now, as you note one example of.
Let's start by burning books we don't like and disagree with...
Smartphones killed the compact and now they're coming for entry-level ILCs
People wonder why there was such an outrage. This article is a good starting point showing some of the effects that stereotypes can have on people:

http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/picture-yourself-as-a-s...

Two examples extracted and paraphrased:

* When women and men were both asked to "think like men" (article details how this was done) on a mental rotation test, they did about the same. When asked to think like women, there was a significant difference - around 1/3 drop of average score for women, 10% for men.

* Two groups were asked to take a test, but one of the groups was primed by the statement: “This is a genuine test of your verbal abilities and limitations due to various personal factors involved in performance.” - the test takers were given the impression that their score on the test was associated with their personal academic aptitude. The second group wasn't primed in this way. In the primed group, black people had a drop of performance of 2x (the number of items solved was halved).

Imagine having looked at studies like these. They show how severely people can be affected by stereotypes - orders of magnitude more than any statistically insignificant biological differences. If even the stereotyped are personally affected, imagine how much worse that can be in multiple-people situations (interviews, meetings etc) where the other people are not the target of the stereotype but has been influenced by it in their life...

So now a colleague is seemingly perpetuating stereotypes and those stereotypes are going viral. His argument may be more nuanced than that, but you fear that the stereotypes are all that people will take from it. For the most part that fear seems to be coming true. Whats the normal reaction there?
>But the main reason that Damore's argument is outrageous is that the arguments about interest and fundamental biological differences have been used to hold women and people of color back since the inception of the US

What you do with the information that science provides is your problem. If a society (such as a workplace) doesn't have the capacity to logically process the scientific facts, and uses them to enforce psycho-sociological diseases like racism or discrimination, the solution is not to deny the scientific facts or erase the question. The solution is to foster capacity in society to process and respond to scientific facts in a logical manner
My issue was more the opposite. If the author is saying, hey, only 3% of kids take the SAT which creates selection bias, most people will immediately wonder why the low percentage. The ACT info adds support and explanation to his own argument, so it should have been included.
>He merely states that it can have that effect.

He "merely" says that Google is doing it, and that doing it lowers the bar. Therefore he's saying that Google lowered the bar. It's a pretty simple a = b = c scenario

>It looks like a logical conclusion to me. Care to explain why you think it's not?

Because women can achieve at the same level as men? I thought it was pretty obvious.
I was referring about hiring people, not studying them. But I can't say you're wrong.
While true, the same math holds for 22 nm^2 (484) to 14 nm^2 (196).

Real world gains will never be as high as the math suggests, as you get into leakage currents etc.
Network Information API and Device RAM API sound like great ways to make it easier to fingerprint a browser.
>The problem is that it creates an unfair black mark against every woman who doesn't get hired at Google

Can you elaborate on this more? Or give examples?
Everything you said that's wrong with the interactions you have with male engineers, I'm not sure that James Damore would disagree with any of it, or claim that it doesn't happen, or say that we shouldn't be trying hard to change it.

What James argued is that the efforts Google is making and the way they are doing it are in some ways contributing to and making all of those bad experiences you listed worse.
Well, I've never been insulted by a Northern Irish 8 year-old!
Non-local hidden variables have not been ruled out, as evinced by the de Broglie–Bohm theory.
Roosevelt protected Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they were barely touched while he was president.

Truman dropped nuclear bombs on both cities, and the vast majority of their citizens survived the bombings.
Nice, I never knew what it was called. Thanks!
But it is when the problem he was trying to address was the effect of diversity politics at google. Where else should that be discussed than in a small closed group of people.
Exactly!

Why did more people not mention this fact? The guy wrote on a topic that the corporation could not afford to indulge him on.
There was a 20 year delay that allowed a massive preparation, including big changes in tactics and strategy by the Europeans. If Chenggis had lived, they wouldn't have had but a fraction of that time.
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=emoji+bookmarks+safari&saf...:
Intel chips have a giant iGPU, that on certain models occupies near half the space. It can currently decode 4k Netflix. The technology is equally applicable to GPUs.
Exactly my point. The NSA is only allowed to work overseas.
A theoretical approach based on computability theory is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmically_random_seque....
I'm sure you can come up with a better argument. Assuming men are sexist and that you have to prove yourself to them is plainly hypocritical.
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The government and society's (including workplaces) responsibility towards gender/race equity is to remove any legal/moral/social barriers for anyone (provided they have the interest and qualifications) to become anything. Going beyond that and trying to enforce a 50-50 gender quota/division in everything is itself ideologically motivated and an idiotic attempt at fighting biology. All you have to and should do is let anyone be anything. Whether this leads to a 50-50 division (gender-wise) is something biology and other factors will determine and should not concern us fundamentally.
MoviePass would have brought more viewers to their establishment. The customer would now have saved $10 on admission, and can now use that towards concessions. Since their concessions are basically 1000% markup, its pure profit for them.

I don't understand their complaint other than, they didn't think of it first.
This is also the case where I live - if you don't press the button the whole thing stays unlit so you know it's "off".
Can someone who knows how that works do the math for us?
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"Working purely on lithographic nomenclature, Intel has three processes on 14nm: 14, 14+, and 14++. As shown to everyone at Intel’s Technology Manufacturing Day a couple of months ago, these will be followed by a trio of 10nm processes: 10nm, 10nm+ (10+), and 10++"

What imbecile thinks these are good names for the processes? Especially in an era where the consumer is already totally confused about current CPU offerings and rightfully views incremental CPU upgrades in a stalled Moore's Law world with suspicion already?
Not so sure about frame, they solved 90% of the problems that SPA's are used to solve today, they could have been improved rather than replaced.