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Equality of opportunity after centuries of slavery and then legal discrimination in a society that allows (and even outright promotes) inherited wealth and opportunity is not possi…

Rich Hickey's talk "Maybe Not" has some interesting thoughts on this: https://youtu.be/YR5WdGrpoug

He's still on the board...

We'll have to agree to disagree about the invasiveness. In the case of the lawsuit in the original post, it's the search of all your electronic devices. I consider that to be quite…

I don't have a source at the ready, but my understanding is that the existing law and/or case law determined that traveling domestically entitled one to such protection. Various fe…

I'll (possibly inaccurately) assume this is in good faith. The most obvious reason that profiling is bad, even in your inaccurate and simplistic hypothetical scenario, is that just…

> Say I use Uber to take advantage of HOV lanes going to and from work (and make a little extra cash) No one does this. This argument exists in a fantasy land.

I also think it's an attempt to ward off a nascent unionization push. Regarding a different, recent "olive branch" type proposal: "The one thing they don’t want to give you is the …

The point of universal programs is that the "condition" for eligibility is existence [1] and thus there is nothing to optimize for, by definition. [1] This is obviously a simplific…

My comment, and the article posted here, are about financial assistance to pay for college, not the admissions process. I agree admissions processes have problems, but I don't see …

This is the strongest argument that can be made for universal programs when it comes to designing progressive public policy. Rich people have the time and resources to aggresively …

Yeah, that's not what's happening with the people in this story...

I agree. I think the quoted professor-authors' point in the quoted passages is to make a book like SICP, designed to teach deeply rooted computer science concepts more approachable…

I suppose it can be. The natural follow up is what you think it is about, say, engineering or law or finance or [insert field here] that men have a higher propensity toward? And wh…

I think nursing may be a field where certain stereotypes, etc. keep the gender balance of the working population a certain way. And I think you correctly point out that men do have…

If women aren’t having the same access to more lucrative positions or fields that men are, then that is discrimination — in education or the workplace or both. Unless you believe t…

> So you tolerate that a complete sex shall be punished for former sins. You are not inoculated from the past sins of gender discrimination. So simply because you did not discrimin…

Unconscious (and conscious) biases on looks and personality and looks certainly do happen but the specific issue with pregnancy is gendered discrimination[1]. And while I agree tha…

So similarly, potential investors should screen all men to make sure they and their partner aren't expecting children anytime soon? This would maybe be a defensible* position if it…

I believe the author is female.

Yep. Growth almost never happens by continually attracting more users than you lose. It happens by not losing your current users and continually adding more.

This definitely rings true to me. The company I work for has been around for ~6 years and while we have made money and grown in that time, it wasn't until the last year really that…

I thought it was against App Store guidelines to charge a different price in the app than one could get on the same feature outside of the app.

1. It sends an alert to your phone with the price and easy cancellation. (I was actually surprised at this feature, because I cynically agreed that Amazon would use this to constan…

I believe it said the default setting is that it will only register a click as an order after the previous one was delivered. I could have misread that, though.