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    Comment #14999815

    Hadn't heard of Halt & Catch Fire and Scorpion, will check them out. Mr Robot seems to reinforce the stereotype of social outcast computer kids, definitely not glamorous. I doubt S…

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    Comment #14999740

    Women in tech.

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    Comment #14994495

    The horror. Where should people turn to get their approval stamps before they are allowed to write documents? Is it only bad to write about things, or should thinking about things …

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    Comment #14993918

    Yes, because women speaking up about issues in tech never get any platform at all. "Attention whoring" is definitely the standard reaction.

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    Comment #14993764

    Unless she lied on her resume, it is hardly her fault if recruiting agencies rank her resume so highly. Maybe they should fix their algorithms.

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    Comment #14988815

    It starts to matter once the winners of the race get serious amounts of money.

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    Comment #14988219

    Do you have kids? Who got to stay home with the kids? Who got to work only part time when the kids grew older? Who pays the rent? That sort of thing. And, as always: on average... …

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    Comment #14980132

    As I said, it depends on the circumstances, but I am sure a lot of "hey would you like to grab lunch sometime" end up as a number in those harassment statistics. It is also a very …

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    Comment #14980113

    It's not just that, it is that women have the greater bargaining chip in the relationship. They have the womb for creating babies, so they can make more demands. Also, they make th…

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    Comment #14978916

    Women marrying up is historically the biggest driver of equality in Western societies (poor people becoming richer). Economist have identified it as a problem because as women get …

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    Comment #14978898

    Thank you for the links. I don't think they are as convincing as you make them out to be (the second does not even talk about women specifically), but I don't have the time to disc…

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    Comment #14978451

    Isn't a minority person who decides against some career because few people "like him" are in it racist against themselves? Why do they consider their skin color their defining feat…

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    Comment #14978423

    There is also the study where they changed peoples voices in phone interviews, and the women with male voice were suddenly less likely to be hired (although the effect was small, i…

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    Comment #14978373

    It's usually the other way round - women don't want to date men who earn less. You probably heard your version from the feminists.

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    Comment #14975092

    Anecdotally, it was often guys who had no shot at being high status anyway that chose CS, or earlier, who picked computers as a hobby.

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    Comment #14974492

    Law and medicine are high status jobs, with a lot of people interactions. Yes, programmers have meetings. Not the same level of interaction as medicine, by a long stretch. There ar…

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    Comment #14973418

    Israel is small, and they have many enemies, so presumably they simply can't afford not to have women fight, too. That they have women in the army doesn't imply that the women are …

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    Comment #14973161

    Give me the real data about women claiming to leave because of harassment, please. Anecdotes are not data - harassment stories might just get disproportional attention. At the mome…

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    Comment #14971710

    I'd like to see Google become 100% female engineers.

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    Comment #14971518

    Sure - the economic dynamics and valuation are complicated (I don't understand them either), but I don't think that is what the article was talking about. The tech is fairly simply…

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    Comment #14970742

    Hyperbole - it's not really that hard. But it uses maths, so maybe not everybody has the stomach to try to understand it.

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    Comment #14970186

    Wages are determined by market forces. Most nurses may earn less than techies, but their work might be more rewarding to them. They are helping human beings get better, not optimiz…

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    Comment #14970104

    The hypothetical managers (women) with no tech skills. The comment I was replying to said many women might do better as managers than in tech.

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    Comment #14969497

    I seem to have heard different views a lot from trans people, or the whole gender crowd. I thought the current "correct" stance is that you should not be allowed to prefer one gend…

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    Comment #14969275

    According to Google, the definition of sexism is "prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex." So if you don't consider dating somebod…