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This is a good point. Here's an open question: How do you know when you have enough positive discrimination? Do you just make sure that the representation of different groups is th…

Yes, but what happens when the voice of science is underrepresented? Now read the grandparent comment again. Perhaps it's just that the people who actually have the useful-science-…

I really like the "What You Can't Say" essay. Interestingly, what it says is not that speaking out is bad. It says that you must weight the benefit of speaking out to society, to t…

Ugh. It doesn't matter how good your math is if your model is wrong. Here's an outline of what I believe to be a useful model, and some useful questions to ask, and experiments to …

+1 this Does more than putting buttons on existing commands Improves discoverability of interesting combinations of commands and option flags to make higher order commands

This was an excellent read about how to deal with the irrationality and repression of mobs. Thanks. Perhaps this is where anonymous speech is important as it allows the discussion …

TED: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_y...

This discussion should be about empowering women. Not about painting people who've made mistakes with a brush. Not about placing blame. If a friend / family member of yours, a woma…

Women in cave feeding the babies. Men venture far and hunt with spear. Welcome to the stone age all over again :)

THIS. What a wonderful study. Given a problem statement, the questions that emerge should objectively be largely based on the problem itself: the industry, competition, business mo…

From linked nytimes: > Many of the women also said they believed they had limited ability to push back against inappropriate behavior, often because they needed funding, a job or o…

Scroll down to the bottom comments for real personal anecdotes and experiences; and contrasting perspectives. The bottom comments are important to complete this discussion if you a…

Microsoft Dynamics / Salesforce allow you to set up a data model without any code. Turns out you still have to be able to model things, and understand the mental model for programm…

This is interesting. The only way to do it should be to sync your observation to other observers as soon as the observation is made. The other observers can confirm the time then b…

"while each additional choice beyond two decreases the maximum load by only a constant factor" Mathemagical!

I've also been thinking that the world needs to begin banning American software. We already know that the totalitarian government that it's becoming is a threat to the privacy and …

Thanks for engaging honestly with that forward comment. Yes, I have. No, I have not sold to engineers. To add some perspective: Airbrake/Sentry error monitoring; NewRelic monitorin…

This is nonsense. And therefore dangerous if used as some form of inspiration. Great engineers do cost benefit analysis. They solve real problems. Great engineers do not just write…

Thank you for this. It was enlightening to go through the do not click link to see what this extreme viewpoint looks like first hand.

I second this. Looks like a less complete knex. Also, in recent times, I like objection.js for a level up on knex.

Your shitty speakers simply were not shitty enough :)

Here’s how to use the Us/Them instinct to our advantage. Us is merely what we empathise with and understand, that which is similar to how we identify with ourselves. The “Other” or…

- no ads based on scanning emails - no scanning emails Are different things