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I don’t think political correctness is the correct description of what he is trying to complain about. The word he is looking for is “entitlement caused by excessive privilege.” Th…

The only way to think like this is to have never left the US. Unfortunately, too many American grow up not having the exposure of how people speak in the rest of the world. Ever se…

Hacker News is meant to be a sort of non-political oasis, which I apppreciate and which helps to greatly improve the quality of discussion and the content. Their moderation does a …

“A lot of the ideas here will not actually get you ostracized from Silicon Valley society.” Oh dude you have just not been paying attention. Can you show me a single example of som…

Sam Altman was headed in the right direction but his point is completely malformed. He shouldn’t have used the term “Political Correctness.” He also shouldn’t have provided the exa…

I am still really puzzled over exactly why Peter Thiel so so hated. I believe the level of hatred is completely unwarranted. From my understanding, it boils down to this: - He is r…

If you are one of the people who wants to end "Fake News," you are also on board with ending Net Neutrality. What do you think ending Fake News involves? The only way to do it is t…

This is going to be somewhat long and heartbreaking but I promise it will converge on an intelligent point at the end. Every time I visit San Francisco, the heart of America's tech…

You know something? I have come around on my thinking on this topic. There is a single central point where everyone on both sides of this debate are getting stuck and that is in th…

I do not like this article or the author's approach to argumentation. The author attempts to argue like this: "I am so right I do not have to argue why I am right and even if I did…

You are completely correct, the people quibbling with you about statistics have not been paying attention to what is going on and are hopelessly naive about human nature and psycho…

I used to sort of laugh at this kind of thing. Ok, people who believe weird things are fighting with each other. Then they relabeled every bathroom in California as being "All Gend…

This is an article about nothing. People used to fall for articles like this, not anymore. Lets deconstruct it. (a) Select for examples where white men (who the tech media has gene…

Engineering is, in many ways, a bad job. I was a software engineer for years and can assure you that it isn't an attractive profession. Many of the tech companies I worked for wher…

I used to be a huge supporter of diversity initiatives in tech. That has changed. Over the years, I noticed more and more that diversity as a topic in high tech had morphed from so…

Hello, I went through something similar. As a self-taught software engineer with a business background from a not great school, the hiring process at most large companies is specif…