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Christopher Lane

Asian CEOs and VCs do exist, but I would guess those demographics are underrepresented. I would guess this is due to the first few waves of entrepreneurs being mostly white (Fairch…

When successful hackers from the last generation stick around, that probably helps the culture more than if they disappeared, even if the hierarchical structure thereby created is …

On the one hand, Asians don't count as "minorities" because there are too many successful Asians. Your startup isn't "diverse" because you have 30% Chinese engineers. On the other …

"Let’s deconstruct the common misuse of the word “diversity” as thrown around. In Silicon Valley the word means “non whites”." "The fact is that we don’t have enough black and lati…

Fair enough, it is off-topic. Edited

It is incredibly difficult to untangle the effects of culture from those of biology, especially when dealing with the measured psychological differences between men and women. But …

I didn't downvote you.

> "Why are we so obsessed with finding genetic reasons to explain thinking differences in gender(or race) when there are obvious social/cultural pressures?" Isn't that another way …

It's good to have on record that you believe in sexual egalitarianism in homo sapiens regardless of any evidence that can be brought to bear. I posted this (admittedly incomplete) …

To understand the call for equal representation in tech, you have to understand cultural marxism. My previous thoughts on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509118

There is good reason to believe that natural aptitude is not equal[1][2] [1] https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7DMQCP3v6SZQUw1MnNWbXBUV3M/... [2] http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/20…

Some social scientists are skeptical of the validity of stereotype threat. John List, in a paper coauthored with Steven Levitt at the University of Chicago, was unable to reproduce…

Wow, I never knew that the male-female Math gap was so robust. Look at the tables in the last three pages you linked. Except for Israel, nearly every country has a male-biased Math…

5 minutes of googling: "MEN, WOMEN AND RISK AVERSION:EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE" - http://aysps.gsu.edu/isp/files/ISP_Ind_3.pdf "Sex Differences in Everyday Risk-Taking Behavior in Huma…

Sexual dimorphism is incredibly common in the animal kingdom, and humans are not an exception. You are setting up a non-falsifiable belief system that asserts that men and women ca…

Sexual dimorphism has large and powerful effects in most sexually reproducing species, including humans. Hair color, as far as we know, is just about pigment. Sex differences go mu…

Startups try to keep a "high bar", only hiring people with sterling academic credentials or proven work in the field. So I would expect the gender ratio to be less equal at startup…

> "Is it really wrong to say that women could be better or worse (in general) at one thing or another? Is it sexist to even point out that men and women are different?" Yes to both…

Men do better than women at the Math SAT[1]. The male/female ratio is especially high in the higher Math percentiles, where you would expect your best engineers to come from. The p…

I don't think we've come anywhere close to rejecting the hypothesis of some kind of innate personality and ability differences between male and female. Men are higher represented i…

The people at valleywag have to know, deep down, about the fundamental dishonesty of what they do. They have a choice to do a different, honest job instead of pandering to the wors…