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People won't generally admit to these sorts of uncomfortable estimations, but pretty much everyone makes them internally. If it makes you feel any better, as a rule I give diversit…

Among other things, he wrote this: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/magazine/the-singer-soluti...

Sure. Again, costs nothing.

The author of the memo indicated that special steps were taken that would/might lower the false negative rate. Unfortunately the reference points to an internal document, but this …

Well, or the suspicion is confirmed. But in any case, "a few years" is a long time to labor under a cloud, esp in an industry where switching jobs every couple of years is common. …

Re the "fatigue", that sucks. But unfortunately, it's a rational reaction to AA, etc. I recall running into women in CS in the 80s, far before the days of diversity hires. It was i…

If Peter Singer thinks it was wrong, you've got a tough road ahead of you justifying what you've done. (Full disclosure: Singer is one of my personal heroes.)

Google could easily have blacklisted him from any future management positions. This would have been essentially cost-free to them.

This fear would be a little more credible if we hadn't already read that the original memo caused widespread "terror" in a number of employees.

Actually, rhetorical forms are fallacies if they are not universally true. That they may be true in particular instances is not important.

Is there a name for this rhetorical form? If X was a true Y, they would do what I say all Ys should do.

It does seem like a pretext. My guess is that the execs realized that they have a bigger sh*tstorm--both internally and externally--than they realized on their hands, and want some…

It'll be interesting to see whether any of the leakers that caused that bad PR are actually fired. Seems doubtful.

"they won't start a hissy fit"? That's not what their comments (in the leaked screenshots) would seem to indicate. On the contrary, they seem ready to go to great lengths, lengths …

It's not the augmentation method that's the problem. It's the apparent fact that managers/etc at Google are apparently building secret lists of people they won't work with because …

I've worked successfully with a number of people whose opinions on many subjects were radically different than my own. It's called being a professional.

The media isn't even getting the real story, which is the reaction to all of this going on inside of Google. This post is reputedly from a director there. In it, he states that the…

Well, they get a message anyway. And then they have the opportunity to decide how they will react. And perhaps that outcome will be far different from what the ostracizors had hope…

Apparently the negative effects on pedestrian safety are not considered to be worthy of study, or even mention. One of the worst things about walking around Manhattan is being buzz…