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Location: Irvine, CA (US) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Not at the moment but willing to discuss hybrid work arrangements Technologies: Languages - Primarily Go, Typescript, som…

Believe it or not, one of the worst things that you can do is try to ignore it. Ask any minority why “I don’t even see race, just people” is so infuriating. By ignoring the issue, …

The rebuttal is “these facts were cherry-picked to support the author’s interpretation of observable events.” From the article: “He also said that he himself was overlooked for a j…

Sorry, I should have been more clear. Hundreds of millions included spending in categories not directly allocated to homeless services but impact line items in other budget categor…

Disclaimer: Amazon is my employer, thoughts on the article my own. The agenda in the article is the head tax currently being debated and fought in Seattle city council. This is abs…

I’m not sure if the problem is that the average HN reader doesn’t believe that sexism is everywhere or if the problem is that the average HN reader doesn’t believe that sexism as i…

I think that's the source of my confusion. I've generally accepted that women's issues are uninteresting to this audience unless it's about a startup disrupting some issue and that…

No. What I am saying is that I don't fully understand the logic that dictates that while both articles I pointed to discuss women's autonomy and the right to decide how use their r…

That's the one! Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14944904

I love how in the past hour, a NYT op-ed discussing motherhood and women's agency is flagged as irrelevant but an article on decriminalizing prostitution is at the top of hacker ne…

I cannot imagine why someone who works with catty gossips and you, who reduces her achievements to female stereotypes, would act as if they are operating in a hostile work environm…

That feeling of being "insufficiently nerdy" and the mild paranoia that arises from being subconsciously labelled as such by your peers is one of many things I've learned to deal w…

Engadget summary: https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/02/facebook-coding-sexism-a... I don't work for Facebook so I can't speak to their particular culture problems, but I am a female…