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  1. Re:Why the comparison? on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This seems to be a common misconception.

    In a rape case it is often very hard to prove what happened. There is often little or no evidence and witnesses. The standard for criminal convictions is "beyond a reasonable doubt" in most places and it can be quite hard to reach that bar.

    No, that's not the reason false rape accusers get away with it at all, as could be easily demonstrated:

    Girl made false accusation of rape after her ex-boyfriend rejected her

    As far as punishment goes, there is a which is, of course, overlooked, for reasons not that widely known and even contrary to the mainstream narrative.

    It's just not perceived as such a big problem (as made up statements about such false accusations "rarely happening" were repeated so many times, people started to believe it was true).

  2. The need to realize the financial scale of SJWsm on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    People need to realize the financial scale of SJW business. Since mid 90th USA alone spends more than 1.5 billion dollars on fighting "domestic violence against women", a case founded on outhright lies, called out in Christina Sommer's book, "Who Stole Feminism". It's one out of endless government programs spent with zero or even negative effectiveness.

    It isn't just someone out there with some crazy ideas, ignoring glaring evidence, it is mostly people and organizations who are paid for solving made up problems it is people who would lose their jobs if we finally figure what is going on.

  3. Re:Why the comparison? on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Erin Pizzey, the founder of the first shelter for the victims of domestic violence, had to run after getting death threats from the feminists for daring to state that violence is not a gender issue and more than 60% of women in her shelters where themselves violent.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Now, applying "gamergate was about harassing some random people out there including those who have literally nothing to do with anything, bar being victims" logic, we can conclude, that feminist movement is about harassment.

  4. Re:I'll take the karma hit on Uber Drops Arbitration Requirement For Sexual Assault Victims (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Where have you been all this time?

    There have been stories like "we had sex and he put finger into my mouth and I didn't like it". (one POC celebrity)
    Or like "he asked for oral sex, I asked maybe later and then he kind of slightly nudged my head" - James Franco.

    The pinnacle of sexual harassment, assault, rape and eating people alive (if we conflate definitions, let's do it grandly) for me was a Doctor, who "sexually harassed or assaulted or raped or eaten alive" by inviting her to become a "friend" on the facebook (something, that evil serial harasser/assaulter/rapist/cannibal did to all his patients).

    The bloated approach to what does constitute sexual (insert something from unwanted comment to brutal murder) went so far, that when applied to men, figured that 6 million of american men are sexually assaulted/raped/murdered by women every year National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2010

    But wait, it's not yet finished, these numbers are not scary enough some are working hard to get even more impressive figures.

  5. Speed cameras please on Google Maps Is Getting AR Directions, Recommendation Features (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd rather they'd add something practical, so that I don't have to stick with Waze.

  6. " uses AI to ensure the phone screen's brightness is more appropriately set for your surroundings"

    What a brilliant excuse to know your "surroundings", just in case some pesky commission asks "why, google?".

  7. Why did these Free Speech Believers close /r/incels.

  8. Re:Success! on Valve Removes Steam Machines From Its Home Page (extremetech.com) · · Score: 2

    Windows Store not taking off hardly has anything to do with Steam Machines.

  9. Re:GPS not proof of dark matter on Galaxy Without Any Dark Matter Baffles Astronomers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You are not getting it.
    GPS accounts for gravitation as well as Einstein's common relativity effects.
    Which as OP stated were wrong (hence we have invented "dark energy").

  10. I'd also struggle to name 10 female romance authors, heck, even one...

  11. Re:I can barely name any either on People Were Asked To Name Women Tech Leaders. They Said 'Alexa' and 'Siri' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    She didn't invent frequency hopping (which was a known concept decades before her) she co-patented actual device that could do frequency hoping.

  12. Fast forward to today. Girls are playing video games left and right. And it's not just dating sims or Barbie Adventure or whatever, they're fragging people online.

    Women gamers mostly play:
    1) all kinds of "mobile games"
    2) Sim's kind of games
    3) very little of "frag" kind of games (outnumbered 20 to 1 or so)

    So while there definitely is a sizable pool of girls playing "boys games", that's not what most girls do.

  13. EU is tightening CO2 limits on car fleets on Ford's Badly Needed Plan To Catch Up On Hybrid, Electric Cars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Regulations on CO2 emission in EU are being tightened up. (decision was made back in 2012, actually)

    All car manufacturers would need to pay about 100 Euros for each extra 1g of CO2 over something around 100g CO2. (that's average over all sold cars)

    Diesel engines are actually more efficient as far as CO2 metrics go, but after VW scandal, demand for diesel cars dropped sharply.

    So the only options car manufacturers (all of them, not only Ford) have, is:
    1) Sell more pure electric vehicles (0 CO2)
    2) Go hybrid
    3) Raise prices

  14. Spent 10 over a decade, revenue of 7 in one year on Uber Spent $10.7 Billion in Nine Years. Does It Have Enough to Show for It? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Spent 10 billion over a decade, revenue of 7 billion in one year, what am I missing?

    There is no way Uber's infrastructure/staff costs even remotely close to 7 billion a year.

    What else did we learn from the article? That Uber gets about 20% cut of what you pay for the drive. That's more than I'd thought (about 10%).

  15. Re:Minorities, Behold! This is what success looks on YouTube Hiring For Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Men, Lawsuit Says (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In 1906 an Indian man named Bhagat Singh Thinde made the crazy argument that he was White, (He argued he was from a high caste, despised low caste people, had enough prejudice in him to qualify as White.

    You are making stuff up. Indians belong to Caucasian race, race is not always about skin color.

  16. Hiding is not a problem on YouTube Hiring For Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Men, Lawsuit Says (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  17. There is plenty of evidence that having people with different backgrounds and ideas results in better outcomes for companies.

    Results of numerous academic studies of the topic suggest that the presence of more female board members does not much improve — or worsen — a firm’s performance. In this opinion piece, Wharton management professor Katherine Klein summarizes academic research on the topic and discusses the possible reasons and implications for these surprising findings. Klein is also the vice dean of the Wharton Social Impact Initiative

    Research on this subject ins't too consistent either: Rigorous, peer-reviewed studies suggest that companies do not perform better when they have women on the board. Nor do they perform worse.”

  18. Re: Why do his politics matter? on Most Cities Would Welcome a Tech Billionaire, But Peter Thiel? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't american left look authoritarian to you?
    There is no valid criticism, it's all misogyny/some sort of nazi/bigotry/etc.
    Only one right way, silence/ban/fire everyone who disagrees,

    European social democrat voter here, if it matters.

  19. Linking actual complaint is a "troll" post??? on James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you fucking kidding me...

  20. And yes, there are the outright legitimate arguments about women simply being paid less because they are women

    And why would you ever hire men, if you could hire women to do exactly the same job for less money?

    In South Africa, where black population was actually paid less than whites, they had to enforce quotas for whites.

  21. Re: alabama on Why Google and Amazon Are Hypocrites (om.blog) · · Score: 1

    Not long before that (less than a century, closer to half a century) only rich could vote which was roughly 3% of population.

    What "working" meant has also changed a lot, going from "place where you are likely to die from an accident that is also likely detrimental to your health" to nice office jobs.

    WW2 has accelerated the process (commies in USSR were pushing women to work starting 1920).

    Attributing "women can work now" to emancipation movements is rather naive..

  22. Google changed Android so that all apps have on A Popular Virtual Keyboard App Leaks 31 Million Users' Personal Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Google changed Android so that all apps have "internet" rights.
    Smart move, it's an advertisement company after all.

  23. Oh, please, it also affects Porsche, BMW, Mercedes on Tesla Proves To Be Too Pricey For Germany, Loses Tax Subsidies (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Porsche Panamera Hybrid
    Mercedes S Class Hybrid
    BMW 7 (eDrive)

    Just off top of my head. All of these would be eligible if they were cheaper.
    If you got 60k+ for a car, you don't need 4k tax reduction.

  24. Disclaimer: I work in automotive (not by Tesla)

    Complexity of cars goes like this:

    Hybrid > Diesel > Otto (traditional gasoline) > Pure electric

    The only problematic component of a pure electric vehicle is the battery array. Everything else (compared to traditional cars) is both cheap and/or lasts forever. Hence, ignoring battery, it is hardly surprising that PE vehicles are cheaper to keep running.