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> Can you explain to me the point I've made that you're arguing for or against with your question. The idea in your comment is that you can't, or at least are dissuaded, to express…

You realize his paper was posted to a list at google called "pc-considered-harmful"?

I stumbled on that one too. But of course a high cost of living results in a low score and vice versa. Probably should have called it affordability.

As far as I know the concept is the same in every country. I really don't understand what you are talking about. When you sign a contract you agree to become an employee under the …

> If you sign a contract with your employee saying you won't do no-poaching then doing so would be a breach of contract obviously but that would be a specific use-case. You contrac…

This is one of those arguments the grand parent was talking about. Unfortunately this argument is why someone has a larger salary than someone else, not why there are disparities b…

I think it was wrong to fire him too. But honestly it somewhat of a feat to manage to criticize large parts of the organization, make a large part of the company angry and end up o…

It's pointless to claim "lack of critical reading ability" without presenting an argument, since anyone with critical reading ability would have to dismiss that statement as unsupp…

Everyone is saying that they are open to discuss this, but as soon as someone says what they think about the paper they are met with dismissal. People interpret his large focus on …

Women 31% overall, 20% tech. https://www.google.com/diversity/

> I haven't seen a single criticism of the paper that even recognizes the author is referencing large-scale incontrovertible research involving the Big-5 personality model (the giv…

I don't agree that this is a benign reason in itself. Regardless if you say that women don't want to be programmers now or that women never wanted to be programmers, you have to fi…

> The question is: where are the goalposts? Is the industry sick and oppressive towards women until it hits 50% representation? I don't think that's a fair expectation. It's hard t…

Much of CS is more similar to economics, accounting, statistics etc. than engineering. Making a statistical model is generally much closer to CS than making the hull for a boat.

The "facing 40 years" is a quirk of the US justice system. While still often out of proportion he's not going to get 40 years. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/41-months-weev-…

They could presumably investigate you with much greater power outside of the US where you don't have the same rights. I don't know if they could later use that in court, but that w…

While it's a different situation, it's still not a good one. The lack of rights for foreigners, the NSAs reach, the willingness to prosecute citizens of other countries, long deten…