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The _very first sentence_ is a misrepresentation of Damore's memo. "Why aren’t there more female software developers in Silicon Valley? James Damore, the Google engineer fired for …

> I'm simply supposing that he tried out the same argument in an informal context first, and that's what he's complaining about here. Right, so you made that up. You're objecting s…

> bland corporate diversity training class Not bland if it offended him enough to prompt his memo. > The tell here is "you can't say that" with no antecedent for "that". Yeah: if y…

Yeah - a high caste Tamil Brahmin has fired someone for expressing the belief that not all people are equal :)

More than a third of respondents to his survey either strongly or almost agreed with the documents point of view.

Down in Cape Town.

That second paragraph is the most succinct and elegant explanation of deep learning I've ever read.

The Rise of ARM? No, this is more like when a wildly popular and universal software package gets ported to AIX or something.

> It's unclear what exactly you're agreeing is "true". Everything he said. > If you're agreeing with the "incorrect to conflate", then it is true that it would be incorrect, but no…

Not realizing that the mind is supreme and the mind is fallible.

I loved Dalton. He was such a hard bastard.

Indeed - I used to write them when I was young and had more time :)

Quite true. I personally don't have a problem that PC 64k intros today will leverage the GPU as much as possible, with all the help from the driver code that that implies. It's how…

Claudius's confession of murder in Hamlet comes right after Hamlet has put on a play to prick his conscience. This girl's confession comes right after her friend reads Claudius's p…

Aldine Cursive reminded me immediately of Operator's monospaced italic font.

It's criss-crossed with fiber, the ICT policy is very open and the leadership friendly. Also it's a small country.

You're right - I should have used cuckolded.

Huh? If you could point out the uncivil bits, that would be helpful.

> I am privileged in that I understand machines, art, language, and education. Those privileges have directly and indirectly resulted in almost every success I've ever had. I am a …

> Because men – and especially white, professional men – occupy a uniquely privileged place in society, I don't know any white, professional men who got where they are because of p…

Sheer volume is meaningless unless we know how many times it's been successfully summitted. Mont Blanc is dangerous because it's easily accessible to lay people and despite being a…

Just a nitpick on an otherwise excellent piece: Annapurna is actually the most lethal mountain in the world, just ahead of K2. It claims 34 deaths per 100 safe returns over K2's 29…

Several times a month.

I've been using this recipe for a good seven or eight years now and it has never let me down. But you really do need an oven that is capable of 800F. I eventually knuckled down and…

Because it's so easy. From the manual: So here's something to pop up a message box on Windows: local ffi = require("ffi") ffi.cdef[[ int MessageBoxA(void *w, const char *txt, const…