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A key point that I was making (and a point which your rewriting of my comment completely erases) is that parenthood can be planned ahead for (or avoided) to a much greater degree t…

Policies that encompass parental leave as well as more general family leave situations, obviously.

> I'm not sure why the solution should be to discontinue offering parental leave. I'm not sure where you got the idea that I'm suggesting that solution. In fact, I explicitly said …

Yet again, people who have family responsibilities through no fault of their own (e.g., taking care of a sick parent or sibling) are ignored while companies fawn over people who (l…

The Silicon Valley empathy vacuum strikes again.

How many of the lost hundred cantatas do you think contained new (unknown to us) music, as opposed to music that was parodied in a surviving cantata?

The creation of Maine from Massachusetts shows that there is a way to redraw the borders of a state already admitted to the union. It may not be an efficient or repeatable process,…

> They don't actually care to collect any info about you beyond what you do during the test. Allegedly.

A comment amounting to "that's how capitalism works, so tough shit!" is such a perfect example of the SV empathy vacuum that I almost think it must be satire.

You've explicitly rewritten it as "if X, then maybe Y", exactly as I said. "If corporations write the laws, then maybe they will restrict or mistreat their users." That's not a law…

No, you can't just take a statement and call it a "law", even in a facetious sense. Murphy's law, Betteridge's law, or other facetious laws are at least roughly formulated as "if X…

The post you replied to was talking about white supremacists, with no mention of Trump voters. You are the one who brought up Trump voters at the first mention of alt-right white n…

> Have to be careful with definitions. OK, so let's spell it out explicitly. The term "alt-right" was created by Richard Spencer, who is often described as a white supremacist. htt…

The reddit admins allow subreddits that loudly promote white supremacism. Comment editing is not the most pressing ethical failing of that site.

Maybe for you this is some abstract problem for which you enjoy dreaming up an endless stream of meandering questions. For me it's a matter of "are the people above me in managemen…

> Is there a better descriptor for what Eich was put through? Yeah. He was given a taste of his own medicine with regard to what it feels like to be victimized.

> You've now provided two examples: firing and voting. Voting someone out of office is firing them. We're talking about firing.

> there was nothing reprehensible at the time Lots of people knew proposition 8 was reprehensible and protested accordingly. Eich chose not to listen. > if we purge people based on…

> It's a form of cultural terrorism, where one's private ideas can get them killed. 49 people were massacred this year for going to a gay nightclub, but Eich was a victim of terror…

> Brendan Eich, former CEO of Mozilla, fired for a donation, Fired for a donation that supported enshrining discrimination in a state constitution. It was a good firing. Support na…