> We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. You seem to only take issue with one side of the "ideological battle", it's almost like you just banned the account because someone said…
> False claims aren't conspiracy theories. Are you saying that conspiracy theories are all true? > I'm not sacrificing truth to point out your mistake. You are wasting 100% of your effort on arguing semantics instead of…
I'm going by this definition: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/conspire Claiming that across the US women get paid 20% less than men, for doing exactly the same work with exactly the same qualifications with everything…
If my argument is "mistaken", why are you focusing on the language that I used instead of just disproving my argument? I would also be interested that if the gender wage gap is real and it is as believers describe it,…
> People here might be more willing to respond to your question if you didn't refer to a highly researched Washington Post article as a conspiracy theory. People don't have to respond, trying to dodge the question with…
If this conspiracy theory would be true, companies would only hire women, because they are 20% cheaper. Why is this not happening?
> A colleague was groped. She didn't report it. What do you think should happen to people who grope other people? > A friend was asked out on dates, unsolicited, multiple times by coworkers. What's the alternative? How…
Ask yourself the following questions: - would you intentionally treat women badly? - are you responsible for the actions of other men?
> suggesting that we've not hit natural diversity levels yet. What is the natural level and how did you find it?
> The reason promoting diversity (e.g. in tech) is good is because there is a shortage of qualified people. Are you implying that for some reason we don't hire qualified women if there are no men to fill in the roles?…
> Debating this memo is like debating about crime statistics every time a black person gets shot by the cops. There are people that understand the role social forces play in inequality, and there are those that don't…
> 1) Fatigue > 2) Women’s resistance to the “divide and conquer” strategy https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-emotion > 3) The author cites science about “averages.” But Google isn’t average.…
> To me, that's a pretty extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary proof. The extraordinary claim here is that there are less women in tech due to sexism from men and we have yet to see the extraordinary evidence.…
> train them to properly identify their own unconscious biases > not once have I seen an inferior female candidate picked over a superior male one because of a diversity initiative What if you have an unconscious bias…
This makes me wonder if Google will at some point start introducing algorithms that will block search results that dare perpetuate that men and women are not totally equal biologically. The same justification they used…
> through his memo, has created a hostile workplace for women at Google. Can you point out the part of his memo that created a hostile environment for women?
Stop nitpicking about pointless semantics.
Should people not be allowed to build a startup or a company where some groups of people might feel unwelcome?
Preamble: I am not defending the guy mentioned in the article, his only defence could be that he was drunk(not good enough imho). What about when at a nightclub? What about women who rely on easily misinterpret-able…
I'm pretty sure if we go back long enough and stretch our imagination we'll find out that the nazis were also the result of video games. :)
Preamble: I am not defending the guy mentioned in the article, his only defense could be that he was drunk(not good enough imho). What about when at a nightclub? What about women who rely on easily misinterpret-able…
If a women who I find unattractive would ask for me to sleep with her for a contract, I would just find another contract. I get to choose who I sleep with, she gets to choose who she awards the contract to, we both have…
That's a different kind of experience. If you would want to build race cars, most likely you would want to hire a person who can design race cars instead of people who know how to drive them. A man can be just as good…
> A man's perspective on these issues is always going to be an academic rather than experiential one. So should we make decisions with "feelings" instead of rational logic?
> We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. You seem to only take issue with one side of the "ideological battle", it's almost like you just banned the account because someone said…
> False claims aren't conspiracy theories. Are you saying that conspiracy theories are all true? > I'm not sacrificing truth to point out your mistake. You are wasting 100% of your effort on arguing semantics instead of…
I'm going by this definition: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/conspire Claiming that across the US women get paid 20% less than men, for doing exactly the same work with exactly the same qualifications with everything…
If my argument is "mistaken", why are you focusing on the language that I used instead of just disproving my argument? I would also be interested that if the gender wage gap is real and it is as believers describe it,…
> People here might be more willing to respond to your question if you didn't refer to a highly researched Washington Post article as a conspiracy theory. People don't have to respond, trying to dodge the question with…
If this conspiracy theory would be true, companies would only hire women, because they are 20% cheaper. Why is this not happening?
> A colleague was groped. She didn't report it. What do you think should happen to people who grope other people? > A friend was asked out on dates, unsolicited, multiple times by coworkers. What's the alternative? How…
Ask yourself the following questions: - would you intentionally treat women badly? - are you responsible for the actions of other men?
> suggesting that we've not hit natural diversity levels yet. What is the natural level and how did you find it?
> The reason promoting diversity (e.g. in tech) is good is because there is a shortage of qualified people. Are you implying that for some reason we don't hire qualified women if there are no men to fill in the roles?…
> Debating this memo is like debating about crime statistics every time a black person gets shot by the cops. There are people that understand the role social forces play in inequality, and there are those that don't…
> Debating this memo is like debating about crime statistics every time a black person gets shot by the cops. There are people that understand the role social forces play in inequality, and there are those that don't…
> 1) Fatigue > 2) Women’s resistance to the “divide and conquer” strategy https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-emotion > 3) The author cites science about “averages.” But Google isn’t average.…
> To me, that's a pretty extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary proof. The extraordinary claim here is that there are less women in tech due to sexism from men and we have yet to see the extraordinary evidence.…
> train them to properly identify their own unconscious biases > not once have I seen an inferior female candidate picked over a superior male one because of a diversity initiative What if you have an unconscious bias…
This makes me wonder if Google will at some point start introducing algorithms that will block search results that dare perpetuate that men and women are not totally equal biologically. The same justification they used…
> through his memo, has created a hostile workplace for women at Google. Can you point out the part of his memo that created a hostile environment for women?
Stop nitpicking about pointless semantics.
Should people not be allowed to build a startup or a company where some groups of people might feel unwelcome?
Preamble: I am not defending the guy mentioned in the article, his only defence could be that he was drunk(not good enough imho). What about when at a nightclub? What about women who rely on easily misinterpret-able…
I'm pretty sure if we go back long enough and stretch our imagination we'll find out that the nazis were also the result of video games. :)
Preamble: I am not defending the guy mentioned in the article, his only defense could be that he was drunk(not good enough imho). What about when at a nightclub? What about women who rely on easily misinterpret-able…
If a women who I find unattractive would ask for me to sleep with her for a contract, I would just find another contract. I get to choose who I sleep with, she gets to choose who she awards the contract to, we both have…
That's a different kind of experience. If you would want to build race cars, most likely you would want to hire a person who can design race cars instead of people who know how to drive them. A man can be just as good…
> A man's perspective on these issues is always going to be an academic rather than experiential one. So should we make decisions with "feelings" instead of rational logic?