So is the lock on your front door.
>As far as I'm concerned, diversity for the sake of diversity is a noble goal. Diversity of what? Age? Political stance? Language? Accent? Socioeconomic status? Wealth? Religion? Food preference? IQ? Personality traits?…
I work in conditions very similar to what he mentioned. I work with several people remotely, have for months, have made paying projects, haven't heard their voices ever (or even seen photos of them in some cases).…
The Soviet pattern is reproduced today in places like Iran, where many more women study engineering. Meanwhile, in Scandinavia, the traditionally-female professions like nursing are even more female-dominated than in…
There is no way to measure (or even define?) "benefiting the field". For example, women leave the workforce earlier and more often. So we now get less work years per education year in these fields. Benefit? Not from the…
I think what you said about height might be a bit off since you're dismissing the possibility that tall people actually are better at their jobs. E.g. looks and facial symmetry both correlate with fertility and IQ,…
Let's compare this to height as you did. Because of how gaussian distributions work, the differences at the outlying values are huge even for small differences in the average. For example, men are taller than women in…
Not really; I've got a multimillion dollar company started with personal savings. And even leaving aside companies - it doesn't cost anything to contribute to FOSS projects.
People don't give (or often even know) the real reasons they do things. Steeped in a culture of sexism accusations, it's not surprising that you'd hear reports of sexism from women leaving the industry. A man doing the…
You're mind reading the worst possible intentions. This is the exact opposite of the principle of charity. Why insist on mind reading evil from people who vehemently state other ideals? By your mindset, you'd mind read…
Land really isn't that valuable. You can build a great country without it. See Israel or Japan or SK or HK or Singapore. Its the people and way of life that matter. Primary resources can be bought. In fact land can be a…
>the people in it suck, the government they built sucks, and the ideals they aspire to suck, and that the solution is to deal out cruelty to the right kinds of people. Amazing reality inversion. Trump never said…
Absolutely people should be allowed to say what they want without consequences. That's what freedom means. It means freedom from consequences. If there are heavy consequences, you don't have freedom. Otherwise you can…
I used to think that way but over time I've moved much more toward the conclusion that the great mass of people really are not mentally prepared to make decisions in a modern idea marketplace. Working through the haze…
Parent is not complaining about how FB affects him personally and directly, but about how it is affecting society. Perhaps you have the mental context and farsightedness to just not log on. But, you still have to deal…
Let's also not forget ageism, heightism, voice-ism (positive affect of rich voices).
That's actually a good point. Everyone is incompetent; we just don't have a way of filtering that in our leaders. Possibly because the people selecting those leaders are incompetent too. It's incompetence all the way…
I'm sorry but this is pure myth. There has never been a human society where primary political/executive power was vested in women, except some developed and recent examples. The idea of tribes controlled by women just…
Wow, a lot of prejudice and hysteria in this thread. Trump is explicitly pro immigrant and pro business (including tourism). It's remarkable how otherwise smart people are taken in by the histrionics of the media…
Who says it's a noisy minority? I'm not talking about extremist actions like pulling fire alarms at university talks. I'm talking about really basic things, like campaigning for more women to enter university (and not…
Ah, the old, "We can't say X about this group because doesn't apply to every single member" fallacy? Of course we know you don't believe that, otherwise you'd be unable to have any opinion about any large social group…
Having visited China, I can assure that it does exist. As for 'generations behind', this is the whole point and the linchpin of global military stability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_T._Allison#Thucydides_T...
A movement is defined by what it does, not by the image it puts up when people question it. The trick of throwing up a super-acceptable cover story when questioned, while returning to hate-oriented attack patterns when…
>A quantitative analysis reveals that immigrants, even illegal ones, tend to commit fewer crimes on a per-capita basis than their legal neighbors I'd be interested in the source on that. I'm also curious if they're…
Stalingrad and Leningrad are not good examples. They both had other names before the Soviets did exactly what you're advocating and swept away history to make way for their new era of equality.
So is the lock on your front door.
>As far as I'm concerned, diversity for the sake of diversity is a noble goal. Diversity of what? Age? Political stance? Language? Accent? Socioeconomic status? Wealth? Religion? Food preference? IQ? Personality traits?…
I work in conditions very similar to what he mentioned. I work with several people remotely, have for months, have made paying projects, haven't heard their voices ever (or even seen photos of them in some cases).…
The Soviet pattern is reproduced today in places like Iran, where many more women study engineering. Meanwhile, in Scandinavia, the traditionally-female professions like nursing are even more female-dominated than in…
There is no way to measure (or even define?) "benefiting the field". For example, women leave the workforce earlier and more often. So we now get less work years per education year in these fields. Benefit? Not from the…
I think what you said about height might be a bit off since you're dismissing the possibility that tall people actually are better at their jobs. E.g. looks and facial symmetry both correlate with fertility and IQ,…
Let's compare this to height as you did. Because of how gaussian distributions work, the differences at the outlying values are huge even for small differences in the average. For example, men are taller than women in…
Not really; I've got a multimillion dollar company started with personal savings. And even leaving aside companies - it doesn't cost anything to contribute to FOSS projects.
People don't give (or often even know) the real reasons they do things. Steeped in a culture of sexism accusations, it's not surprising that you'd hear reports of sexism from women leaving the industry. A man doing the…
You're mind reading the worst possible intentions. This is the exact opposite of the principle of charity. Why insist on mind reading evil from people who vehemently state other ideals? By your mindset, you'd mind read…
Land really isn't that valuable. You can build a great country without it. See Israel or Japan or SK or HK or Singapore. Its the people and way of life that matter. Primary resources can be bought. In fact land can be a…
>the people in it suck, the government they built sucks, and the ideals they aspire to suck, and that the solution is to deal out cruelty to the right kinds of people. Amazing reality inversion. Trump never said…
Absolutely people should be allowed to say what they want without consequences. That's what freedom means. It means freedom from consequences. If there are heavy consequences, you don't have freedom. Otherwise you can…
I used to think that way but over time I've moved much more toward the conclusion that the great mass of people really are not mentally prepared to make decisions in a modern idea marketplace. Working through the haze…
Parent is not complaining about how FB affects him personally and directly, but about how it is affecting society. Perhaps you have the mental context and farsightedness to just not log on. But, you still have to deal…
Let's also not forget ageism, heightism, voice-ism (positive affect of rich voices).
That's actually a good point. Everyone is incompetent; we just don't have a way of filtering that in our leaders. Possibly because the people selecting those leaders are incompetent too. It's incompetence all the way…
I'm sorry but this is pure myth. There has never been a human society where primary political/executive power was vested in women, except some developed and recent examples. The idea of tribes controlled by women just…
Wow, a lot of prejudice and hysteria in this thread. Trump is explicitly pro immigrant and pro business (including tourism). It's remarkable how otherwise smart people are taken in by the histrionics of the media…
Who says it's a noisy minority? I'm not talking about extremist actions like pulling fire alarms at university talks. I'm talking about really basic things, like campaigning for more women to enter university (and not…
Ah, the old, "We can't say X about this group because doesn't apply to every single member" fallacy? Of course we know you don't believe that, otherwise you'd be unable to have any opinion about any large social group…
Having visited China, I can assure that it does exist. As for 'generations behind', this is the whole point and the linchpin of global military stability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_T._Allison#Thucydides_T...
A movement is defined by what it does, not by the image it puts up when people question it. The trick of throwing up a super-acceptable cover story when questioned, while returning to hate-oriented attack patterns when…
>A quantitative analysis reveals that immigrants, even illegal ones, tend to commit fewer crimes on a per-capita basis than their legal neighbors I'd be interested in the source on that. I'm also curious if they're…
Stalingrad and Leningrad are not good examples. They both had other names before the Soviets did exactly what you're advocating and swept away history to make way for their new era of equality.