Hadn't heard of Halt & Catch Fire and Scorpion, will check them out. Mr Robot seems to reinforce the stereotype of social outcast computer kids, definitely not glamorous. I doubt SV glamorizes the tech world, but I…
Women in tech.
The horror. Where should people turn to get their approval stamps before they are allowed to write documents? Is it only bad to write about things, or should thinking about things also be frowned upon? Where can I get a…
Unless she lied on her resume, it is hardly her fault if recruiting agencies rank her resume so highly. Maybe they should fix their algorithms.
It starts to matter once the winners of the race get serious amounts of money.
Do you have kids? Who got to stay home with the kids? Who got to work only part time when the kids grew older? Who pays the rent? That sort of thing. And, as always: on average... If you don't see it, I don't think I…
As I said, it depends on the circumstances, but I am sure a lot of "hey would you like to grab lunch sometime" end up as a number in those harassment statistics. It is also a very one-sided narrative, omitting the…
It's not just that, it is that women have the greater bargaining chip in the relationship. They have the womb for creating babies, so they can make more demands. Also, they make the greater investment into kids (at…
Women marrying up is historically the biggest driver of equality in Western societies (poor people becoming richer). Economist have identified it as a problem because as women get richer and they don't want to marry…
Thank you for the links. I don't think they are as convincing as you make them out to be (the second does not even talk about women specifically), but I don't have the time to discuss it further in all detail.…
Isn't a minority person who decides against some career because few people "like him" are in it racist against themselves? Why do they consider their skin color their defining feature (the "like me" feature)? Most…
There is also the study where they changed peoples voices in phone interviews, and the women with male voice were suddenly less likely to be hired (although the effect was small, iirc).
It's usually the other way round - women don't want to date men who earn less. You probably heard your version from the feminists.
Anecdotally, it was often guys who had no shot at being high status anyway that chose CS, or earlier, who picked computers as a hobby.
Law and medicine are high status jobs, with a lot of people interactions. Yes, programmers have meetings. Not the same level of interaction as medicine, by a long stretch. There are many TV shows glorifying medicine and…
Israel is small, and they have many enemies, so presumably they simply can't afford not to have women fight, too. That they have women in the army doesn't imply that the women are capable of the same things as the male…
Give me the real data about women claiming to leave because of harassment, please. Anecdotes are not data - harassment stories might just get disproportional attention. At the moment every Tech harassment story refers…
I'd like to see Google become 100% female engineers.
Sure - the economic dynamics and valuation are complicated (I don't understand them either), but I don't think that is what the article was talking about. The tech is fairly simply, at least the principles. As simple as…
Wages are determined by market forces. Most nurses may earn less than techies, but their work might be more rewarding to them. They are helping human beings get better, not optimizing ads. Nobody is forced to choose…
I seem to have heard different views a lot from trans people, or the whole gender crowd. I thought the current "correct" stance is that you should not be allowed to prefer one gender over another. What makes you say it…
According to Google, the definition of sexism is "prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex." So if you don't consider dating somebody because of their sex, by that…
If you are not bisexual or asexual, you are sexist by definition.
But that is not related to "shortage of women in tech/STEM". More women in management wouldn't change that. Maybe it is just difficult to put managers without experience in the trenches in front of people? That is,…
Yes that is what I meant - I don't know Ethereum as well, so I assumed Solidity is the already the level of the VM (the "assembly"). Thanks for clarifying!
Hadn't heard of Halt & Catch Fire and Scorpion, will check them out. Mr Robot seems to reinforce the stereotype of social outcast computer kids, definitely not glamorous. I doubt SV glamorizes the tech world, but I…
Women in tech.
The horror. Where should people turn to get their approval stamps before they are allowed to write documents? Is it only bad to write about things, or should thinking about things also be frowned upon? Where can I get a…
Unless she lied on her resume, it is hardly her fault if recruiting agencies rank her resume so highly. Maybe they should fix their algorithms.
It starts to matter once the winners of the race get serious amounts of money.
Do you have kids? Who got to stay home with the kids? Who got to work only part time when the kids grew older? Who pays the rent? That sort of thing. And, as always: on average... If you don't see it, I don't think I…
As I said, it depends on the circumstances, but I am sure a lot of "hey would you like to grab lunch sometime" end up as a number in those harassment statistics. It is also a very one-sided narrative, omitting the…
It's not just that, it is that women have the greater bargaining chip in the relationship. They have the womb for creating babies, so they can make more demands. Also, they make the greater investment into kids (at…
Women marrying up is historically the biggest driver of equality in Western societies (poor people becoming richer). Economist have identified it as a problem because as women get richer and they don't want to marry…
Thank you for the links. I don't think they are as convincing as you make them out to be (the second does not even talk about women specifically), but I don't have the time to discuss it further in all detail.…
Isn't a minority person who decides against some career because few people "like him" are in it racist against themselves? Why do they consider their skin color their defining feature (the "like me" feature)? Most…
There is also the study where they changed peoples voices in phone interviews, and the women with male voice were suddenly less likely to be hired (although the effect was small, iirc).
It's usually the other way round - women don't want to date men who earn less. You probably heard your version from the feminists.
Anecdotally, it was often guys who had no shot at being high status anyway that chose CS, or earlier, who picked computers as a hobby.
Law and medicine are high status jobs, with a lot of people interactions. Yes, programmers have meetings. Not the same level of interaction as medicine, by a long stretch. There are many TV shows glorifying medicine and…
Israel is small, and they have many enemies, so presumably they simply can't afford not to have women fight, too. That they have women in the army doesn't imply that the women are capable of the same things as the male…
Give me the real data about women claiming to leave because of harassment, please. Anecdotes are not data - harassment stories might just get disproportional attention. At the moment every Tech harassment story refers…
I'd like to see Google become 100% female engineers.
Sure - the economic dynamics and valuation are complicated (I don't understand them either), but I don't think that is what the article was talking about. The tech is fairly simply, at least the principles. As simple as…
Wages are determined by market forces. Most nurses may earn less than techies, but their work might be more rewarding to them. They are helping human beings get better, not optimizing ads. Nobody is forced to choose…
I seem to have heard different views a lot from trans people, or the whole gender crowd. I thought the current "correct" stance is that you should not be allowed to prefer one gender over another. What makes you say it…
According to Google, the definition of sexism is "prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex." So if you don't consider dating somebody because of their sex, by that…
If you are not bisexual or asexual, you are sexist by definition.
But that is not related to "shortage of women in tech/STEM". More women in management wouldn't change that. Maybe it is just difficult to put managers without experience in the trenches in front of people? That is,…
Yes that is what I meant - I don't know Ethereum as well, so I assumed Solidity is the already the level of the VM (the "assembly"). Thanks for clarifying!