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So is the lock on your front door.

>As far as I'm concerned, diversity for the sake of diversity is a noble goal. Diversity of what? Age? Political stance? Language? Accent? Socioeconomic status? Wealth? Religion? F…

I work in conditions very similar to what he mentioned. I work with several people remotely, have for months, have made paying projects, haven't heard their voices ever (or even se…

The Soviet pattern is reproduced today in places like Iran, where many more women study engineering. Meanwhile, in Scandinavia, the traditionally-female professions like nursing ar…

There is no way to measure (or even define?) "benefiting the field". For example, women leave the workforce earlier and more often. So we now get less work years per education year…

I think what you said about height might be a bit off since you're dismissing the possibility that tall people actually are better at their jobs. E.g. looks and facial symmetry bot…

Let's compare this to height as you did. Because of how gaussian distributions work, the differences at the outlying values are huge even for small differences in the average. For …

Not really; I've got a multimillion dollar company started with personal savings. And even leaving aside companies - it doesn't cost anything to contribute to FOSS projects.

People don't give (or often even know) the real reasons they do things. Steeped in a culture of sexism accusations, it's not surprising that you'd hear reports of sexism from women…

You're mind reading the worst possible intentions. This is the exact opposite of the principle of charity. Why insist on mind reading evil from people who vehemently state other id…

Land really isn't that valuable. You can build a great country without it. See Israel or Japan or SK or HK or Singapore. Its the people and way of life that matter. Primary resourc…

>the people in it suck, the government they built sucks, and the ideals they aspire to suck, and that the solution is to deal out cruelty to the right kinds of people. Amazing real…

The slave holding states are now the poorest and were under-industrialized even during the Civil war. The correlation between historical slavery and industrialization/modern wealth…

Absolutely people should be allowed to say what they want without consequences. That's what freedom means. It means freedom from consequences. If there are heavy consequences, you …

Wouldn't it be a lot more feasible to just make the datacenter on the shore and make a liquid coolant loop that cools in the water? Like the Toronto office towers.

I used to think that way but over time I've moved much more toward the conclusion that the great mass of people really are not mentally prepared to make decisions in a modern idea …

Parent is not complaining about how FB affects him personally and directly, but about how it is affecting society. Perhaps you have the mental context and farsightedness to just no…

Even more so given that the people involved in Gamergate are young people forming political views that they'll hold for a long time. When a young person develops a view that "the m…

Let's also not forget ageism, heightism, voice-ism (positive affect of rich voices).

That's actually a good point. Everyone is incompetent; we just don't have a way of filtering that in our leaders. Possibly because the people selecting those leaders are incompeten…

I'm sorry but this is pure myth. There has never been a human society where primary political/executive power was vested in women, except some developed and recent examples. The id…

Wow, a lot of prejudice and hysteria in this thread. Trump is explicitly pro immigrant and pro business (including tourism). It's remarkable how otherwise smart people are taken in…

Who says it's a noisy minority? I'm not talking about extremist actions like pulling fire alarms at university talks. I'm talking about really basic things, like campaigning for mo…

Ah, the old, "We can't say X about this group because doesn't apply to every single member" fallacy? Of course we know you don't believe that, otherwise you'd be unable to have any…

Having visited China, I can assure that it does exist. As for 'generations behind', this is the whole point and the linchpin of global military stability. https://en.wikipedia.org/…