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> "Should we let children cut off their genitals?" It is currently against any kind of recommended practice to perform genital surgery on children. It is not approved nor is it pra…

Well, I know both gay and trans people who have survived conversion therapy, but there's a really high incidence of suicide among people who have been through it. Also, the people …

Amazon is in Seattle. We are arguably the most trans-accepting city in the US (source: being a trans person living in Seattle). Trans people are mostly just an accepted part of the…

Depending on how much volume you have, inventory turns are an important gate on how many items you can afford to carry. And I would imagine that there are practical limits on how m…

Another big difference between this and Wal-Mart is geography. Wal-Mart's strongest areas are less-densely-populated rural areas where one store can draw customers from miles aroun…

It's in no way clear that Amazon wins on selection. In 25K SKUs, Amazon will have electronics, but almost certainly hace fewer SKUs than a dedicated electronics store. They will ha…

Only people who are not members of minority groups think that someone saying something degrading to you is an easy path to riches. It simply doesn't work that way in real life. Fir…

When people "unknowingly" out themselves as bigots, no, you don't have to be "considerate" and take it to them. That's terrible advice.

Yes. And those people are racists.

In general, if you make jokes that a member of another race would perceive as racist, you've already done something wrong, even if you don't perceive it as racist, but just as some…

Sam didn't start this in a vacuum. He started it after women in the tech community laid a lot of groundwork educating the community about gender diversity problems. Are there speci…

Given that these supposed "energetic amateurs" have created an enormous percentage of the code that web applications across the internet run on, their votes automatically count. If…

These goals aren't in opposition. But they aren't the same thing. Women don't launch startups as often as men, and black people don't launch startups as often as white people, but …

Given the widespread use of PHP for web programming, it seems obvious that in the domain of web programming, developers have voted with their feet for PHP.

Facebook doesn't use web servers or operating systems written in PHP either, right? So if the language that web applications are written in isn't very important to the overall depe…

What does it mean to say that it lasts longer than wood framing? There are wood framed houses that are well over a century old, right? So is this being measured in centuries, or am…

Yes, that's exactly what that kind of tax is for.

According to the article, she did this because she was being anonymously, publicly slandered on Secret.

It's not just for the benefit of hotel owners. Cities typically charge huge taxes on hotel stays, so illicit hotels are dodging taxes. And there are actually some vestiges of regul…

1. Which is why I have to estimate risk from incomplete information. Which is a pretty common thing for people to have to do in real life. If I'm in an unfamiliar city and someone …

No, I'm using risk analysis to conclude that the cost to me of accepting a job there if she's telling the truth is much higher than the opportunity cost of not taking the job (assu…

Being an evangelist for women at a company is actually not the same thing as having the right to speak for all of them any more than a "developer evangelist" has a right to speak f…

It sounds a whole lot like you're saying: A. There are only two impossibly simplistic solutions to the problem. B. Neither of them are workable in practice, so clearly the problem …

So if you were a woman considering taking a job at GitHub, this would have no influence on your decision? Really? All it would take for me personally to reverse my stance on an emp…

You are starting from the assumption that this movement is in error rather than arguing it to be. The whole point of their argument is that the word "bossy" is used to police women…