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I think Github could create a good nucleating community for federated networking. They could host a giant pod of Github users (could be the next venue following slashdot>kuro5hin>r…

Poverty is one factor, race and gender are others. A middle class black girl is definitely at a disadvantage compared to a middle class white guy. All impact equality of opportunit…

Lol at you fumbling for anecdota about MM when you hear a fact you don't like. Yes, I'm pointing out that women-owned tech companies financially outperform male-owned tech companie…

On the contrary, growing up white and middle class stacks the odds in your favour in the same way. Many well-off Asian families possibly even more so for the reasons you point out …

Well this is the thing, you can't really discriminate against somebody with privilege, simply by definition. You have to actively promote those who don't in order to come anywhere …

> Have you ever considered the option that your black friends was wrong? Yes of course, it was the first thing I thought and I held onto that. If both parties were on equal ground …

The argument is that there is already a discriminatory quota in favour of white men (as any casual inspection of the figures will demonstrate and would require wilful blindness to …

Yeah that's what I thought until a black friend very kindly and patiently spelt it out and it still took me a while. It's counterintuitive and nominally smart people don't get it -…

I didn't suffer some gun nuts gladly, what can I say. I think I may have committed the offence of calling them aspergic after they were repeatedly and passively aggressively obtuse…

> When has this happened? Happened to me a few months back. > Actually, it was a term first popularized by the socialists, to attack the communists. I'm talking about it becoming p…

> people tend to choose more to their liking and "follow their passion" Not to have a go at you personally but this is revealing of a highly middle class bubble that a lot of peopl…

The irony of this post when you will get reported and hellbanned for questioning libertarianism on HN. As for "political correctness" it was a term that was first popularised by th…

A lot of work has been done on this at - https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/SW... and https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtXMsLaocacrdDAwTzd...