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Thanks for summarizing. I suggest you reread #3 and note the use of language like "suggest", "consistent with" and "perceived". Authors use language like this because its really ha…

Thanks for the play-by-play! I do disagree about winning/losing. I feel I've done a good job representing my views. I fixed the typo in my statement, sorry for the confusion. As I …

See citation above. I'm saying its much too strong a claim to go from this paper to the conclusion that women are biologically less inclined to engineering. EDIT: To be consistent …

You made a blanket statement about discussing offensive things and I wanted to point out there are some limits, especially at the workplace. In this particular case, I feel that le…

Well, saying things that are clearly wrong and offensive to large numbers of people is typically looked down upon amongst educated people and highly discouraged at the workplace. F…

Maybe. I don't think Sundar Pichai or Danielle Brown did though, they just said "this is not OK" and "code of conduct". Perhaps they felt they didn't need to engage with this kind …

I see. Well I'm saying it does not. Obviously we disagree about what the scientific research says.

I'm not sure what the contradiction is here? Also, I wasn't making any claim about my own feelings, the massive response shows that the memo was highly offensive to many people.

You're right, my one sentence is just trying to explain the basic point to people who may not get it. Its not trying to lay out a complete thesis in support. I'm not sure if thats …

I'm not sure what you are arguing, can you be more explicit? You're saying that you agree with the fundamental point of the memo?

A lot of people on "our side" did a bad job of simply refuting the argument presented. Its straightforward to do in one sentence: "While there may be scientific evidence of differe…

I agree that the document blurs the line between preference/aptitude and is not totally clear which is one of the reasons overall it is a mess. Nonetheless, many of the statements …

Well said, it's a massive leap to go from biological gender differences to differences in aptitude for engineering. The gross oversimplified claims from the document that attempt t…

Many methods in machine learning and statistics benefit from two types of theory: 1) Optimization theory - which says, if I repeat this iterative method N times I will find a (near…

I see, that's interesting. It does seem to be a tough business, but I guess don't see why it's not "naturally competitive" (as the author claims)

What about Southwest, JetBlue or Virgin? Or in Europe, RyanAir and EasyJet? It seems there is at least some competition, United is just not a very good airline.

Wow this guy really needs to take it down a few notches. Yes, PG's articles present a magical fantasy world dominated by the masterful hacker and visionary entrepreneur. They are i…

Theyre writing long term contracts for power production which provide a fixed price for the resource developers and by consequence provide them with a fixed cost. Typically, these …

The particulars of the interface are really not the point of these exercises