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Bioinformatics scientist here. 1) There are lots of brilliant people in the field, but it is also the degree that dumb people who want a science degree or are "pre-med" get. It tre…

Mine did for most of it, still a rip-off. But at the same time I got a much better job out of it, just didn't actually need the degree to do the job.

While I think it's ridiculous for women to have to dress a certain way, we also have to understand that sex sells and it's not illegal to use sexualized images to sell products. Ne…

Apple's entire music ecosystem is garbage and it makes me very sad.

So she completely disagrees with sociology as an academic discipline? That's just all sorts of crazy/anti-intellectualism

I did a masters an Johns Hopkins and completed it all online. It's a similar style program where you can do it all online, on campus, or as a combination. Still cost me slightly ov…

So you can never use the phrase "backed up by studies", then?

I've long had this thought about charity itself, it seems that a lot of charity is propping up bits and pieces of capitalism so we don't look at the root causes of why we "need" ch…

but I only allow my close friends to follow me on Instagram...

And your vague replies are meant to paint him in a corner and shut down all discourse on this subject. So...

But what if that person is black? And they don't want to work with you because your black? Or insert trait here_____ Woman Gay Right-wing Omnivore Muslim

It makes points that children can be upset about, adults need to learn to have discussions. Even on topics that they think are sensitive. If they can't do that, maybe they shouldn'…

Focus on the pipeline, k-12, getting girls excited about tech. Then in a decade you'll have a much wider pool of talent to select from and can just take the best while appeasing di…

So much respect lost for google. If you're gonna be bigoted and fire people that don't have the same views as you, fine. But at least own up to what you are.

What would be a better comparison is someone in the NFL saying racial diversity is stupid, black people tend to be better at sports. Stop trying to bring in Japanese and Chinese me…

If a doctor misdiangosis someone based on an outside errant lab test, what happens? I think the situations would be viewed identically. I don't know the exact processes, but lots o…

>If an employer names a range, all applicants would be demoralized if they don't reach its upper end. Probably expecting to reach that pay-grade sooner or later, somewhere else if …

Caveat: It's only a no-win situation because workers will waste their time sending resumes, interviewing, etc before learning the salary range.

Spitballing, but I have read that when an industry begins to be dominated by women the average wages decrease and when they are dominated by men the average wages increase. This co…

yep, and as a pleb I don't know if I should hold onto my ethics or say fuck it and follow in their footsteps.

Which industries do you think are MORE meritocratic than tech? Tech's not perfect, but I think they do it better than most (all?).

I'm of the opinion that we will have to use technology to restructure the fundamental ways businesses work. Whether that means every person is their own business or we try some oth…

First job out of college Inhad something to prove and worked my ass off. What I did was extremely measurable and I was easily doing 2x the work compared to the department average. …

If you enjoy nursing, after a couple years of experience you can go on to get your NP (and I believe work full-time/half-time while you are doing it - and/or get it paid for by a h…