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> We used to teach kids to be colorblind but now we're teaching them to see nothing but color. I don't think either method worked.

> Pinterest has a Head of Diversity [1]. Her name is Candice and she's great. I think the question is: What does the role actually do ? The cynic in me says it exists to signal tha…

> Calling a company with a head of diversity bloated for instance is telling of your politics. Calling a company with a head of diversity-- and that loses tons of money-- bloated, …

> Many of these comments seem to indicate that lots of people are threatened by diversity Because the position of "VP of diversity and inclusion" sounds ridiculous? > These results…

> But we will also see a huge proportion of sites that could use it continue to ignore it for years to come. There are big business opportunities in finding ways of making a dent i…

> I personally know people who went to the Standing Rock camp that were not paid protesters. I didn't see OP claim that there weren't "real" protesters, only that some were paid.

> Any place doing serious ML Good thing the vast majority of businesses won't need "serious" ML, but instead will require only simple implementations to help solve business problem…

> Prime has a boat-load of movies and tv shows available for free or pay to watch on demand. ...in the US.

> Or buy it and wait hours to download it? How it it streamable on Kodi, but takes so long to download from a legitimate source?

How valuable is this without any of the discussion context surrounding these books? It seems unlikely that I'm going to purchase a book based on a metric like "mentions", when much…

> I personally have 4 factors for my gmail account Tack this on to the list of reasons why no normal person will use bitcoin in any quantity.

So why aren't the sellers before PE and buyers after PE aware of the fact that no value is being added by PE in the interim, and hence sell cheaply and overpay? Why is it so obviou…

> blind reliance on algorithms can be catastrophic. And in other places, basic algorithms smash human judgement: https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Versus-Statistical-Predictio...

> Another 10 years from now, what will anti-EV people be saying Pointing out facts is now "anti-EV"? Many a car can be optimized for acceleration: http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/22…

Assuming that anyone who works for GS, or banking in general, are homogenous in morals and ethics and ability is equally delusional.

Only in America is locking people up the solution to all life's problems.

The NFL nailed it with Sunday games (although more and more are added to the schedule). It allowed you to to follow the sport closely without memorizing a team schedule, and every …

Lending is pretty lax, just like it's been in spots all over the planet for over a decade.

> Are there (tech) news-sites which do not have this 10-100MB bloat with three js framweorks and gifs, ads and whatnot? The HackerNews comment section, with the added benefit of it…

> id honestly be curious to why this comment is being downvoted so much Because it confuses revenues and earnings? It defends Snap chat for not having "negative billions" when, in …

> Snap also has google by the balls here. Surely they don't. > What if snap comes out with a statement saying Gcp sucks and they're moving to aws? Then we question why Snap committ…

> similarly configured PC laptops cost just as much or more. I guess that depends on what "similarly" means. The Dell XPS 15", for the same price has a far better processor, far be…

> How many Macbook Pro users fit that profile? The vast majority.

I think you should provide a bit of evidence for the "large numbers" of people in favour of "reducing civil liberties" on these boards.