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Idontknowmyuser

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    Comment #17111396

    I'm not that involved in wikipedia, but I do recall his name. It came up during a discussion on reddit about aljazeera documentary "the lobby"[1]. He was accused of actively censor…

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    Comment #16765030

    I've been Tunisia where they had a hose like this in the hotel, as you can see it has variable pressure, and even without setting it to the maximum it's sufficient. https://media-c…

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    Comment #16408088

    what did he say worse than that?

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    Comment #16228299

    I feel like this is bullshit. It's very clear that the photo is inspired by the cat, not the photo of the cat. There are many different details between the two images to the point …

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    Comment #16116992

    a limit to how hot something can get get, doesn't imply that something shouldn't be hot.

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    Comment #16114316

    do you believe that the authors falsified their findings? and also the idea is not to justify sexism, but to provide another possible reason for why a trend seems to perssist after…

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    Comment #16112961

    wait so a correlation between brain size and "generral intelligence score (g)" is phrenology? don't you feel like your mispresenting the study?

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    Comment #16110937

    do you have any proof of this claims? and if they were true how and in what you way would this matter if we were to compare one individual to one individual instead of treating peo…

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    Comment #16110879

    freedom of association is incidental to my initial response. I was speaking about freedom of speech they are different things.

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    Comment #16108953

    by check if the point values are reasonable I meant that the amount of points is not a major outlier, and if it is the interviewer should have written an argument why it's differen…

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    Comment #16107612

    that was actually a point in his memo. "Women on average show a higher interest in people and men in things ○ We can make software engineering more people-oriented with pair progra…

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    Comment #16106916

    mordern feminsts professors hold fringe ideas about human nature that are far too extreme to the point that it contradicts current scientific findings while also being caught using…

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    Comment #16106456

    The idea is that instinct has in itself an unconscious bias. By making the reasoning part conscious we hope to eliminate some of it.

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    Comment #16105683

    so let me get this staright: when Damore is being rated politics have an effect on ratings and promotions when Damore speaks out against politics affecting hiring and promotion, he…

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    Comment #16105130

    2/2 Step 2: peer-review The highest candidate is selected, interviewers exchange notes and are asked to: * check and discuss if their colleagues reasons’ are valid and reasonable (…

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    Ask HN: Critique this hiring procedure

    I've been thinking about hiring processes in General and I think some of the problems that they face are a result collapsing a complex question very hastily into a binary decision.…

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    Comment #16104124

    so you believe that physical difference between sexes in size of the brain, is not due to sex? what would you say this is caused by? I would like to point out that saying this chan…

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    Comment #16103926

    Yes isn't it?

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    Comment #16103545

    The study examined female and male brains, found that males on average had a higher general intelligence score and a higher standard deviation. The study also found that male brain…

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    Comment #16103408

    ok what about this "Sex differences in brain size and general intelligence (g)" ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616... ) "Abstract Utilizing MRI and cogn…

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    Comment #16103390

    a - Women have a higher capacity at empathy ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19476221 ) b - higher capacity of empathy might be in part to biological: "Testosterone may reduce…

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    Comment #16103014

    This is a strawman I'm very hard pressed to find anyone in HN at least who would deny Goolgle's right or another other party's right of writing a rebuttal to his claims. A free and…

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    Comment #16102924

    another study supports this claim: "The trial found assigning a male name to a candidate made them 3.2 per cent less likely to get a job interview." "Adding a woman's name to a CV …

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    Comment #16102891

    I feel like this study published in july 2017 is very relevant: "Sex differences in brain size and general intelligence (g)" link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/…

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    Comment #16102862

    "The far right is just a slip away from the reasonable right, therefore the reasonable right is dangerous?" I'm pretty sure this is textbook slippery slope fallacy