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" there is no a priori reason for women and ethnic minorities to be less prevalent in our high-paying fields." Sure there is: racist and sexist white males making decisions and dev…

If you think any of those stock images "accurately represent the life and death of drug users", you are delusional. Normies like yourself tend to out themselves as 90% ignorant of …

s/difference of a few yards/difference of 1 yard/ signed, this totally not still upset Seahawks fan. (re: 2015 Superbowl)

How can anyone make an empirical statement about AA -- an organization that does not collect any sort of statistics about itself what so ever?

Actually, after reading the whole article, he was picking an unidentified mushroom that later proved to contain psilocybin. This point seems relevant.

30% feels like a decent bargain if you finally get to take the other 70% out of the duffel bags/safety deposit boxes. Especially if that enables you to spend it on things that miti…

Check out something the historians call "presentism". It's really enlightening in regards to helping think about why past breakthroughs were not fully realized.

Etsy anecdote from someone generally outside of their main market: I have ordered something off of Etsy 3 times. 2 of those times, there was a minor "customer service" level issue.…

For some commutes, particularly to Capitol Hill and the University District, or into South Seattle or the airport, Link Light Rail is much better than the buses, largely due to it …

http://ghdx.healthdata.org/ihme_data too

https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/ enjoy

I think the bigger problem with naming is simply being consistent. Ask 5 developers what the variable name for an important filehandle should be and you'll probably get at least 3 …

I'm sorry but I am not reading an article that says, "You're lucky I wrote it," in the first paragraph. And from the comments, it sounds like I'm not missing much. Author, don't tr…

Well I'm not trying to troll you or anything but my friends haven't named their 2 day old baby yet. That's a person, right?

Obviously you've never read a Steinbeck book.

Evergreen is a cool school.

English degree with focus on "modernism/postmodernism" literature, literary criticism, and philosophy. University of Washington, Seattle, 2006. I never expected to go back to schoo…

Anecdotally speaking, in the last 2 years, I've seen 3 ex-Twitter (as their most recent position) people apply, and none of them made it passed the second phone interview, which wa…

Might be a Chrome issue? There is something that locks scrolling about 500ms after the page loads. No overlay or anything, just a totally unresponsive picture of some sad kids. Ove…

This page is so poorly designed that I -- an engineer with 15 years experience and a mid 6 figure salary -- can not figure out how to read the actual article. Why are newspapers tr…

What a great example of why Twitter is a terrible communication platform!

This was definitely the first thing that came up, as you found. To be honest, I just don't remember. There was something about something that made something scary to the PM who was…

I ran into this at a consulting job recently... MySQL claims to support utf8, but in reality, it doesn't. You need utf8mb4 to support certain common Kanji characters. This company …

I hope I am wrong, though! Doctors are already fighting the good fight every day -- carrying the fire (the vast majority, at least). I have always mostly lived in a liberal bubble …

My dad recently retired after 30 years of practicing oncology and hematology in a private practice ran with a female colleague, located in an office building adjacent to a very lar…