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PC and popular are not at all the same. A vocal minority gets to define PC, and that minority happens to be on the left. If the right were as aggressive as the left were about PC, they'd say &quo…

As I understand it he was raising on an internal issue that was generally accepted as open for discussion (hiring and quotas). I think likening it to "mailing a manifesto out" is a deliberat…

Except "what is correct" is the whole point of the debate, so nobody knows which side is doing the former until everybody agrees, which they most certainly do not agree yet. Mind you that to…

Wow. I really feel like this was a missed opportunity to close the gap. I feel like some very unreasonable thing are being said in a reasonable/polished way. >> A lot of people have used th…

Seems like a tough problem (if you consider it a problem). The unfortunate reality of a power-imbalance is that those who are giving out their expertise expect something in return (ROI, promotion, att…

Hooray for Bill. When I was young the joke was how he was a crazy man trying to monopolize/take over the world. Seems ironically he may be the single man who has given the most to the world. Hope…

Are you serious? This is almost too goofy to merit a response. Yes, when a billionaire gives away billions of dollars he's not accountable to anybody else. Why the heck would he be? If he were, t…

I'm glad that you brought this up, and how you brought it up (as somebody coming from the opposite side). To answer your question, I didn't actively consider diversity in tech a problem befo…

>>> I can only assume that the reason why you are being so incredibly defensive, offended and acting like a child is because the criticism hit home. Uh. You could assume that. You could als…

Well I was thinking they'd best have done this before firing him, instead of firing him. And after 6 months if everybody, after cooling down, still thought what he did was fundamentally inappropr…

Don't you think though if google had really dived into the science they'd have just opened themselves up to even more criticism than handling it the way they did?

Fair question. Perhaps they could just tell the truth a la "We live in contentious times, we've surveyed our employees and thought about it ourselves, and decided that no matter what we say …

I disapprove of this response on a number of levels. One of the biggest reasons I avoid these discussions is ironically, the "safe-space" crowd has managed to offend, insult, and ignore me m…

I believe interviewing.io did something with voice-pitch-adjusting (to make girls sound like guys, or vice-versa) in phone interviews to try to study exactly this effect. I think their results were co…

I was having a conversation about this yesterday with my girlfriend. What minorities need protection and rebalancing? We rarely talking about supporting the Jewish, for example, or Mexicans, or gays r…

So how would you counteract that stereotype/bias? Author would suggest lowering the bar [for women] would only reinforce such stereotypes, do you agree or disagree?

I really agree that social skills are the biggest missing component in effective engineering collaboration (because there are so many Loner Genius Nerds who refuse to use each others software but woul…

To me, if you want to regulate controversial opinions, you have to err strongly to the side of too-open. Remember, before the declaration of independence our founding fathers were terrorists/rebe…

If your facts aligned with my experience, that'd be fine. But let me tell you a story. Once at an SF unicorn a girl said in a public slack channel "I'd feel unsafe as a woman if my mana…

So there's no way I can "vouch" for it to not be buried somewhere off the front page? That's too bad. I understand the intent of the algorithm, but personally I feel these are some…

Sure. And I think what you're bringing up here is the debate I'd like to see. I was lamenting that I'm not seeing that debate, but rather a blanket dismissal which seems disingenuous --…

Oh. Does the flag penalize it in the rankings?

How does one vouch for this? I don't think this article deserves to be flagged. I'm also unclear if whoever flagged it was trying to flag the article itself or the discussion it created.

All due respect, wikipedia cites only published scientific articles. You're of course free to edit it if you think it has an anti-left bias...

Who gets to decide who's the victim? How come I'm not allowed to have my own, equally-valid opinion about who's the victim? Doesn't seem fair to me. I think the victim is the perso…

Or maybe there is a large community of very angry people who identify as victims (gunpowder) and this particular piece was the spark. Maybe it's just a matter of time until this same group gets o…

I don't think the author specifically claimed that men are better at engineering (if he did, I'd love if you could point me to where). I think he said that biological mental differences on a…

Can anybody please talk about the actual science here? As far as wikipedia is concerned, yes there are biological mental differences between men and women. I see a lot of "This is so disgusting I…

Does it have to be addressed? It went largely ignored for months. I suspect the reason this went viral was the offended parties recirculated it amongst themselves. If the explosion is the problem, con…

Agreed. They also have now unfortunately signaled to that they will make hasty personnel decisions if enough politically-minded individuals complain at once. This encourages people to find new things …