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I notice no stories about how Damore lied about having a PhD from Harvard have made it to the top.
> I notice no stories about how Damore lied about having a PhD from Harvard have made it to the top. http://sysbiophd.harvard.edu/people/alumni/james-damore
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I notice no stories about how Damore lied about having a PhD from Harvard have made it to the top.
citation?
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I notice no stories about how Damore lied about having a PhD from Harvard have made it to the top.
> I notice no stories about how Damore lied about having a PhD from Harvard have made it to the top. http://sysbiophd.harvard.edu/people/alumni/james-damore
You can "be on a PhD program" without having completed it.
[1] https://twitter.com/nitashatiku/status/894939560391565317
Liberals / progressives keep missing the point - silencing your opposition and calling them names only shows how weak your side of the argument is. That's how you get 4 more years of Trump. Fight bad ideas with better ideas, better arguments.
By which I mean, there are people on either side of any big debate who try to silence the opposition and call them names.
As Adlai Stevenson once said, "when you sling mud, you lose ground."
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citation?
Here you go: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/technology/google-enginee...
I believe there are less female graduates in software engineering than male, and more male software engineers so wouldn't it follow that they would be underrepresented? Unless that underrepresentation is in relation to those figures?
Liberals / progressives keep missing the point - silencing your opposition and calling them names only shows how weak your side of the argument is. That's how you get 4 more years of Trump. Fight bad ideas with better ideas, better arguments.
You're conflating a political movement with a company doing PR damage control. Google management didn't "call him names".
You're not thinking about it like a corporate manager. Google is trying hard not to be seen as just another Frat startup like Uber (albeit an older one). They are actively trying to hire the best engineers in the world and this memo just put a dent in their hiring process for 50% of their potential hiring candidates.
> Fight bad ideas with better ideas, better arguments.
Of course.
The irony is that social conservatives are usually the ones to cry foul when an employee sues a company for firing the employee for social/cultural reasons. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, both political poles are shown to be hypocrites.
What escapes this whole shebang is the fact that his post went Viral inside google. Would he have been fired if it didn't?
I suspect it's the fact that his PR event caused by the memo makes it harder for the company to hire women and to draw a clear distinction between Google company culture and, say, Uber company culture.
I see people attacking him in general terms, calling him a bigot/sexist/etc, but they never mention anything specific he wrote.
Can anyone point to anything specific that is upsetting so many people?
Liberals / progressives keep missing the point - silencing your opposition and calling them names only shows how weak your side of the argument is. That's how you get 4 more years of Trump. Fight bad ideas with better ideas, better arguments.
> Liberals / progressives keep missing the point - silencing your opposition and calling them names You're conflating a political movement with a company doing PR damage control. Google management didn't "call him names". You're not thinking about it like a corporate manager. Google is trying hard not to be seen as just another Frat startup like Uber (albeit an older one). They are actively trying to hire the best en…
Google is heavily invested in the political movement. Lets not pretend google is an objective observer in this.
> They are actively trying to hire the best engineers in the world and this memo just put a dent in their hiring process for 50% of their potential hiring candidates.
Can you point to anything specific that was written that would scare 50% of potential hires? That is quite an assertion and I would love to here the rationale for it.
> Now that the shoe is on the other foot, both political poles are shown to be hypocrites.
That's the point. Why are you defending one foot and not the other?
Getting flagged in 5, 4, ...
.. 3, 2, 1 ... Lets see what he wrote that was so offensive, remembering that it was to a private list and only posted to the wider Internet by Googles 'diversity' chief Danielle Brown. "Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber" https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
1. There are biological differences between men and women.
2. Because #1 and and evolutionary psychology, this makes women bad engineers.
3. Because #1 and #2, diversity programs are harmful.
Saying one of those three things creates a hostile work environment. Nothing in that manifesto provided any unique, novel, or original insight. It was the same old, same-old, 'computers are for boys, talking to people is for girls' nonsense.