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The new generation is more censorious and intellectually sheltered than before. Blame schools and colleges who decided to focus on providing a safe space, and the tech companies th…

Blame shitty mobile developers who screwed the pooch on Android. Even if you avoid shovelware, the quality is abysmal. My Android phone still randomly lights up its screen several …

There are trolls on the internet, but pretending it's a unified front is a ploy only useful to those seeking to play out their victim status. Pao got roasted on reddit because she …

You're right of course, but telling the truth gets your comment flagged. I wonder what they're so afraid of...

I agree that her gender and ethnicity were a factor: when a white male is a CEO, nobody will conclude he isn't in full authority in his role and deserves full responsibility and bl…

And chauvinistic and sexist is a word reserved for men, but few seem to notice that. Equality goes both ways. I looked around for a follow up to the lawsuits but the Vanity Fair ar…

There are trolls on the internet, but pretending it's a unified front is a ploy only useful to those seeking to play out their victim status. Pao got roasted on reddit because she …

Assuming this is all true, it would confirm my suspicion that when people talk about techbros, they're talking about the rich 0.001% handling the money rather than the vast bulk of…

Luckily programming or computing hasn't changed at all since the 50s and 60s, so we can effortlessly assume that what people said about it then still applies perfectly to today's d…

Not necessarily. Identity politics is when issues get defacto interpreted through the lens of social identities, even if that identity is irrelevant or even meaningless for the mat…

The way you get people to not care about real Nazis is to cry wolf every time you encounter a political position you don't like. If we apply those same standards to antifa, they to…

He didn't aim to piss off all his coworkers, he posted a memo in an internal forum designated for that explicit purpose, i.e. "skeptics". It was the sjw-types clutching pearls who …

But one unhinged guy in a car is suddenly representative of the right wing? I say this being on the left. I'm utterly appalled at what goes on in social media. People who a few yea…

What is disingenuous is labeling a statement that starts with the words "I support diversity and inclusion" as being against diversity. Claiming he violated a code of conduct by do…

If this is such a problem, do you think it's a problem too that English doesn't distinguish between singular and plural you?

This is a long standing pattern. Whenever a thread about a social justice topic gets too far away from the orthodoxy, it gets flagged and hidden. In some cases I've seen a thread w…

I see the tolerant flagging brigade is here to push for a statement for reason, compassion and holding corporations to account, which we all know are their most deeply held values.…

Now apply your last paragraph to the people who tell us their efforts will increase diversity. For that matter, apply it to the people who complain about how a memo makes them feel…

You mean when she violated the code of conduct that she was claiming for herself, by engaging in harassing photography? Disguising their attacks as a defense, and blowback as an at…

It wasn't an academic paper, it was an internal memo posted to a discussion forum. Even then, it was well structured, moderating in its commentary, and peppered with links to suppo…

This is great insight, but it seems a bit silly to act like you don't need a 4D / hypersphere representation when the 4th one is hiding in plain sight. For the not-quaternion to de…

Good thing the original memo author has a PhD in biology then. That post is a cowardly and smarmy non answer, and it contradicts itself in several ways. Aside from the one already …

This is a strawman retort. The principle is far broader than that, it is about respect for the exchange of ideas. When a private company serves a public function, you can absolutel…

The keybase identity model combines the worst of the 90s geek internet with the worst of the 2010s social media. Instead of private and distributed trust, we got public and central…

Healthy competition optimizes for value, HFT is just optimizing for profit. These are not the same. It's paperclip maximizing, using an economic Maxwell's demon.