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Since most new cars now have "infotainment" systems which are basically like an iPad on your dashboard, and are used for both navigation and music, doesn't that mean that anyone wi…

After all the massive down-voting I'm getting now, and all the pro-dick-joke comments, I've changed my opinion. Apparently American tech workers (esp. Silicon Valley ones, since th…

How is Brave New World really all that dystopian? If you're highly conservative and think having big families and lots of babies is your life's goal, then sure, BNW is going to see…

You really think female coworkers want to hear about your sexual organs at work? You're exactly like the men in the article, and everything that's wrong with this industry. I guess…

I guess the downvotes here show that Silicon Valley tech workers really are as sexist and misogynistic as the French jerks in the article. I guess I just never noticed because I've…

>I have never encountered anyone near these levels of sexism in many years of working in the tech industry (albeit in Sweden). Nor have I, albeit in the US (even in the parts that …

As a male, if you said that around me on an all-male team, my opinion of you would plummet to close to zero. Comments like that are entirely unprofessional. Are you French by chanc…

Not exactly. Suppose you're living in Saudi Arabia as a woman, and men there are treating you very poorly and in a sexist manner. Should you conclude that "men have a big problem w…

Which one will? You can't bring a lawsuit unless you have standing. Does Oracle want to sue? I kinda doubt it: if they did, they would have done so by now. Is the Linux Foundation …

>My kids played with it a few times on long drive to tell me where he spotted the police car(s) There's something seriously wrong with society when both kids and their parents are …

That's fine, just don't complain about it then.

They have less time to spend it themselves. Sure, they can give it to some charity, or their kids, but when you have a lot of money when you're young, you have far more time to do …

You can't do this any more if you're stuck with the very latest infotainment firmware version. It locks out the tweaks. Even if you don't have it yet, be careful because your deale…

What chemicals could you possibly need in your water? There aren't any; the only thing you'd reasonably want in there are some minerals to make it taste good (totally pure water ta…

It is. People who have to resort to drinking bottled water because the tap water is unsafe do live in a third world country. Draw whatever conclusion from that that you like.

I'm curious: if you run that substandard tap water through a reverse-osmosis system, how clean is the resulting water?

I fail to see the problem. If you don't like Windows, don't use it. They're under no obligation to support whatever hardware you want to use. In reality, people are going to do wha…

There are some such teachers, but it's a totally mixed bag and for every good teacher, there's a couple of lousy ones. This comes down to the administration, since they control hir…

I haven't asked any that particular question, but I see no reason to think that many religious people, engineers or not, would answer that they believe that unbelievers are incapab…

>I don't know any scientists or engineers who would be willing to sign on to this kind of bigotry I guess you don't know many engineers, or you only know software engineers in Sili…

If you're talking about the US, no kids are getting the support and role models they need in the schools.

Writing code in leisure time has given us some really great FOSS applications. But like many things, it's a double-edged sword: it's also given us Gnome3 and a lot of today's unnec…

The counterargument to this is that Apple does not have a monopoly, or anything even close to it, even in the mobile device space. It's of course the most profitable company there,…

There's really no way to know without doing an extensive survey/study, but from what I've seen personally in the dating market, I think it's more a case of high-status-career women…

Unless you have a private jet, or perhaps you only fly first-class, I'm not sure how you actually sleep or get any work done on one. As someone who's over 6 feet, I'm so cramped in…