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Lots of books I want to reread but hard to justify when I already have more books on my "to-read" list than I can read in a lifetime. I do, however, try and re-read Dune once a yea…

Indeed. Tons of kids' shows have adult-themed subtext sprinkled in. Kids wont catch it but it makes the shows more bearable for parents. Spongebob has some good ones.

>I suspect this plays out in the dating scene as well (e.g., a small percentage of men sleep with a disproportionately large percentage of women) I've seen studies that say 20% of …

Care to elaborate? I don't see anything wrong with this and can't imagine how it "sums up everything that's wrong with programmers and the community in general". It's a very clever…

Exactly. The diversity hand wringers could be targeting any industry they want right now but are lasering in on tech. They smell the blood in the water.

Many of the "social justice" crowd get off on the moral superiority they feel from engaging in rabid political correctness. Unfortunately for them, moral superiority is by definiti…

The slide share only attempts to address difference in ability, not inclination. If women are just as capable programmers, but, on average, tend to have a natural inclination towar…

Or the skewed gender ratios in various fields are due to innate biological differences. Sexual dimorphism, which includes psychological traits, extends to humans as well. We are an…

You do see also occasional diversity attacks against the really high earners (managers, sales, finance, corp. law, certain posh local FD/PD, maybe some doctors?) but since they don…

"Gang-Bang Interviews"? Really? SV tech is getting the diversity shakedown hard these days. Plenty of other fields have sex ratios just as skewed. Why is tech getting the brunt?

I had the same reaction. If I'm going to be in interviews (however informal) all day for multiple days I'd need to lock myself away in the evening to recharge. I get the impression…