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Did Ray DeGiorgio skip his ethics classes while earning his certified engineering degree? Did he further to wear his iron ring on the day he approved this part? I'm trying to under…

Getting grant money and government contracts is the real reason. Edit: actually it seems like they plan to rent it out to people funded by grants money and government contracts: Pe…

Netflix engineers are better than the average engineer (even in a given job title), so the prevailing wage calculations don't represent the true economics. But in any case, H1-B vi…

The blame also lies with the study authors and the peer reviewers for allowing the article to make these claims based on their results. E.g. from the abstract As a consequence [of …

All imports are "cheap" whether labor, steel or iphones. Cheap is good, because if you can get something cheap it means you can get it with minimal resources. The only reason to li…

Actually the article is completely wrong. If you make money "squarely" as described in I-IV, then you have created some value. Cashing out in section V is simply consuming that val…

I really liked the compassion and care that MMM shows for his kid. In too many articles like this, it's clear that the author cares more that the child adopts the parent's ideology…

There is an inversion in politics, where the left are more anti-Asian than the right. Letting people express anti-Asian sentiment (even though equivalent sentiment against other gr…

In case you thought the United States lacks this kind of prosecution, an American student was charged with "one count of conspiring to violate civil rights and another count of usi…

I'm not sure what you mean by "clinical" in this context, but I don't think the prescription thing was a charade to add some extra placebo effect. Rather, it was probably because o…

Just think how much worse the WASP landlords are, given that the WASP elite are the ones with actual political power.

Existing welfare addresses the problems of unemployment. Not as well as welfare in other English speaking countries, but it still ameliorates the problem. My position is that even …

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Be inspired, as we were, by the terrible and strange creations at the original (NYC) Stupid Hackathon. And the topics (the problematic ones of which I listed) clearly suggest they …

If by safe you mean you can ridicule anyone as long as they are a cis white male, then I'm sure they are keeping it very safe.

A separate event, but one that they link against, and with identical format and almost identical categories. Social justice warriors like you whine. I expose hypocrisy.

I don't care. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy where any remotely sexual imagery[0], comment[1] or performance[2] in tech results in controversy, firings and apologies, and yet …

This isn't even sex-deprived male cisgender nerds, most of the sexual content is created by females of various ethnicities. That's precisely my point. I don't think that it's ok th…

Whatever issues I have with your hackathon, I gotta hand it to your for trying to pull off George Bush jokes in 2015. Same for Mitt Romney.

See my footnote at the start of this thread. And please stop progressive-splaining to me.

I don't believe that the difference is serious vs non-serious events. It's pretty clear that no company or group would dare to create a light hearted hackathon featuring sexual con…

see http://stupidhackathon.github.io/ and http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9521510

But we don't owe it to make sure that no one is ever worse off. There are people who never had jobs in the first place. If a trucker loses is job because of technological change, w…