#53 is interesting!
I assumed that there would be more 20-something founders. But 31-35 year olds account for 23%, and 41-50 year olds account for 30%
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#42#9 reveals the prejudice of the authors. It's about founders who experienced difficulty in fundraising because of their sex. Last sentence of that paragraph, in bold:
To the 12 men who said it hurt their chances... really?
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It was a spur of the moment thing. I just didn't like feeling like I was asking for her number when it was only about the product. Obviously, this is a dumb way to feel. But from what I've heard on HN and other places, this type of thing is starting to become more common. Men are starting to take precautions like never having a one on one meeting alone with a female coworker. How much worry is the correct amount of w…
> But she offered first I think it’s mild paranoia. Don’t worry about it. As someone else said here, the best way is to pretend that you’re interacting with a male. Without the bro jokes..
I'd agree, but... Well, she mistyped the number, then typed out a text and didn't send it. One hypothesis: it was creepy for some guy she just met while working on her product to be asking for her number. Which is true.
You can't really pretend you're with a male, any more than women can pretend they're with a woman. I wish you could.
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> But she offered first I think it’s mild paranoia. Don’t worry about it. As someone else said here, the best way is to pretend that you’re interacting with a male. Without the bro jokes..
I'd agree, but... Well, she mistyped the number, then typed out a text and didn't send it. One hypothesis: it was creepy for some guy she just met while working on her product to be asking for her number. Which is true. You can't really pretend you're with a male, any more than women can pretend they're with a woman. I wish you could.
It’s entirely possible that you’re misreading the situation. Here’s my anecdote, which is similar to the girl’s:
I used to be really tensed in public, and when I have to take a phone number from someone (networking event etc) I would fumble a lot, make all sorts of silly mistakes while feeling the intense pressure of the other watching me. Sometimes I give up, pretend that I’ve taken the details, and smile, half friendly, half apologetically. Then I’d go away feeling super bad.
Now I understand that it was silly to feel pressured in the first place. But you know, it happens.
>You can't really pretend you're interacting with a male
Well yes, with practice. Just how you learnt to overlook skin colour, height, dreadlocks etc, by understanding that we’re all fundamentally humans.
Can’t comment much about humour, I’m an ethnic minority so have the unusual advantage that some banters are forgivable ;)
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#45Are we still pushing the idea that superficial diversity is something to strive for? How about diversity of thought?
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article on drupal controversy somehow misses last drupal association statement - the one written after investigations were over: https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/drupal-association-a... Their lawyers believed there is legal and ethical risks to the Drupal project and investigation was under way. it is quite clear that situation was solved badly and their communication muddled. However, the girlfriend being…
I'm glad you brought up that article, because it illustrates that two consenting adults were participating in their own life choices -- choices which we as a community feel obliged to be inclusive of, no matter how much they offend us or make us uncomfortable; the essence of tolerance -- and yet once Larry was cleared of wrongdoing, he wasn't reinstated. In fact, he was asked to resign before the investigation was ev…
I would not trust him much, after I have seen the difference between how he framed situation and what the issue turned out to be. It sounds like the people in drupal organization ended with same opinion. Framing it being issue if comfortability is just manipulation.
I don't know who it is "we" in what you wrote.
I for one, feel no duty to include things that offend me. People, both men and women defend themselves when they are offended and those who don't are perceived as weak and treated as such. Also, trying to frame disagreements or ethical issues as "being offended" is yet another lately popular disengous framing.
None of that has anything to do with lack of trust toward Garfield.
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#47Wait, why are autonomous vehicles not AI anymore?
The general rule is: Nothing is called AI anymore once it works. Like with magic tricks, once we know how it works it seems a lot less impressive. So we stop calling it AI. When you think about it, everything computers do could be considered AI.
> everything computers do could be considered AI.
That's like saying everything a human does is art.
Ai involves actions by computers which are not specifically programmed
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#48Sexual harassment is a scorn that refuses to die. In any industry.
Because in human history it's unlikely that people who perpetrate it will ever realize and/or admit it. And so it goes.
The numbers kinda prove this point. 35% of these founders believing sexual harassment isn’t under-reported is a problem. That’s how you get here, people willfully living under a rock.
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#49Since 3 out of 9 are about sexual harassment and one is about politics, I was hoping to get your thoughts. These days, people feel increasingly under fire. We have to watch what we say, what we do, who we offend, what our political affiliations are, and whether we are crossing any lines. A little anecdote: I was hacking away on a couch in a mall, and a couple of techies came up to me doing a user study. They asked me…
> We have to watch what we say, what we do, who we offend, what our political affiliations are, and whether we are crossing any lines.
People felt the same way in the 90s when the "Political Correctness" movement really took off. It did feel like a bit much at the time, and if tumblr existed in 1991, surely it would have gone overboard... but at the end of it all, we did move to a culture that was more conscious of diversity and developed communication styles that didn't exclude people.
I think we're in the same place now -- hyperaware of what actions we take, and how everything is being perceived, with some people struggling to recognize and adjust their own behavior to match new cultural norms that they never thought were a problem in the first place.
And in 10-20 years, we'll likely end up with a better culture for it, even though not everyone is going to enjoy how we get there.
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#50#53 is interesting! I assumed that there would be more 20-something founders. But 31-35 year olds account for 23%, and 41-50 year olds account for 30%
Same here, but on the other hand I never worked with Maybe this feeling comes up because they prefer to hire <30 people because they are cheaper?