It makes some good points. Since you were demanding that people read and respond to the points in the original memo, why not lead by example and do the same here?
"For instance, what if we replaced the word âoewomenâ in the memo with another group? What if the memo said that biological differences amongst Black, Hispanic, or LGBTQ employees explained their underrepresentation in tech and leadership roles?"
Most debates about that devolve into arguments about skull measurements... But perhaps someone would like to try.
It's funny how psychology and sociology are bunk, soft sciences with no reproducible results and the kind of thing only SJWs study... Until they agree with the rationals.
Even if people didn't take the photos themselves, there have always been people trying to point cameras at beaches or up skirts and then masturbate over them. I guess you can argue "don't wear those clothes if you don't want to risk this happening" but most people prefer a society where women don't have to wear burkas just to avoid becoming part of some internet porn site.
So called revenge-porn or posting stolen nude images is illegal in many countries. Not sure about Canada but the people doing it could be breaking the law... The problem is, with an anonymous site based in another country, how do the police stop it?
If it is illegal there then I imagine a few people will get arrested. The police will go to the people who the victims tell them have those images on their phones. Might get to test Canada's laws on forced revealing of encryption keys.
The only people who can really stop this are the AnonIB site owners. A simple database of image hashes, which they probably already have in the place to stop people posting child pornography and the like, would do a lot. Sure, it's easy to defeat, but the small effort required means most users will just move on to other things.
Okay, let's look at some stuff he says. On my phone so excuse the lack of linkage, see previous posts for some.
"Theyâ(TM)re universal across human cultures"
I posted links demonstrating that to be untrue before. Some countries have better gender balances in tech, some have girls doing get in maths than boys etc.
"They often have clear biological causes and links to prenatal testosterone"
Confusing correlation for causation.
"Biological males that were castrated at birth and raised as females often still identify and act like males"
Cherry picking, ignores e.g. transgender people.
"Status is the primary metric that men are judged on"
For context, he is saying that this explains the gender gap in high level jobs. It's actually quite anti-male to suggest that this is an acceptable situation that isn't worth remedying.
"For example currently those trying to work extra hours or take extra stress will inevitably get ahead and if we try to change that too much, it may have disastrous consequences."
The implication here is that such people are necessary and more valuable, and those who don't are if less value to Google.
It's not all bad though. I agree on several points, such as this:
"Feminism has made great progress in freeing women from the female gender role, but men are still very much tied to the male gender role. "
I've actually been modded down several times for saying that. Suddenly it's all good because this guy said it.
It sounds like they created their own DLL hell by requiring every app to have a copy of the library for compatibility reasons.
Of course, it wouldn't matter so much if they priced flash memory fairly and if they made the app download/install system clever enough to check if it already has a copy of that version of the library and use it.
Both are political issues, but that's irrelevant in this case. The issue is not that his views are political, it's that he created a hostile work environment and made his job, which includes evaluating other employees, impossible for him to perform as the content of the memo would be used to question every criticism and decision he made.
Can't read that paper for free, but did you notice how all they claim is a correlation? Not a cause, just a correlation.
The cause is the important bit. I don't mean the testosterone, I mean why does pre-natal exposure to it cause this correlation later in life on this particular test? And can we make education and testing less a measure of pre-natal exposure to testosterone and more a measure of Java programming ability, or are the two somehow the same thing in which case is it all computer languages, or computers themselves, and what can we do about that, if anything?
At best this raises further questions. It doesn't prove what you think it proves.
in California, political opinions are protected in the work place
That doesn't mean what you think it means.
It means that the company can't fire you merely for holding those views, or being a member of a particular party etc.
It doesn't mean that if you bring your political views to work and tell other employees that you think, e.g. Republicans should be strung up by the balls, you haven't created a hostile environment and can't be fired for it.
Google didn't do any of that. They fired him because he said that women are inferior engineers and dismissed the issues they face as biology. Since Google has a system where employees are involved in evaluating each other, and he was in some kind of managerial position with power over others, that made his position untenable.
Google couldn't expect other employees to accept being evaluated by him or working under him after that. It almost looks like he martyred himself, based on the precision with which he made his job unworkable.
I don't know... AC clear it in a few seconds, electrically heated windows take much longer. I don't really want to wait ages for the windscreen to clear.
I imagine the AC is more efficient than resistive heating too.
Once they get the range up the continental United States makes a pretty big, hard to miss target. Doesn't matter if it ends up in some remote, unpopulated area. The threat is enough.
That's the point really. A mad man got control of nuclear weapons and a powerful army, but they had the foresight to develop defences that would assure mutual destruction. Remember that if the US were to use nuclear weapons, the Chinese would like do so too, and their's are much more advanced.
We focus too much on coming up with strong passwords, when we should really be focusing on what the actual threats to those passwords are.
For online services the biggest danger is that someone will steal the password database and crack the password hashes, assuming they even are hashed. The best defence is therefore to use a long, random password and keep it in a password manager. It's also fine to let your browser remember it for you, if your computer is reasonably secure.
Now you only need to remember a couple of really strong passwords for your password manager and your machines. Ideally you can use two factor auth for those things too (Keepass supports this, as does VeraCrypt).
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Yeah, I knew this guy too, real moron, obviously hired by his bro manager... He got promoted over more deserving people, of course.
See how this works? Anecdotes are worthless because they are unverifiable and because one example does not disprove a more general trend.
Have you read beyond the first sentence?
It makes some good points. Since you were demanding that people read and respond to the points in the original memo, why not lead by example and do the same here?
I find this question particularly interesting:
"For instance, what if we replaced the word âoewomenâ in the memo with another group? What if the memo said that biological differences amongst Black, Hispanic, or LGBTQ employees explained their underrepresentation in tech and leadership roles?"
Most debates about that devolve into arguments about skull measurements... But perhaps someone would like to try.
It's funny how psychology and sociology are bunk, soft sciences with no reproducible results and the kind of thing only SJWs study... Until they agree with the rationals.
Note to self: Verto Analytics are idiots, don't trust their analytics.
Even if people didn't take the photos themselves, there have always been people trying to point cameras at beaches or up skirts and then masturbate over them. I guess you can argue "don't wear those clothes if you don't want to risk this happening" but most people prefer a society where women don't have to wear burkas just to avoid becoming part of some internet porn site.
So called revenge-porn or posting stolen nude images is illegal in many countries. Not sure about Canada but the people doing it could be breaking the law... The problem is, with an anonymous site based in another country, how do the police stop it?
If it is illegal there then I imagine a few people will get arrested. The police will go to the people who the victims tell them have those images on their phones. Might get to test Canada's laws on forced revealing of encryption keys.
The only people who can really stop this are the AnonIB site owners. A simple database of image hashes, which they probably already have in the place to stop people posting child pornography and the like, would do a lot. Sure, it's easy to defeat, but the small effort required means most users will just move on to other things.
Score 1 is the default for logged in users, and +1 for high karma.
The point is that the score being lower is likely a combination of biology and the nature of the test. We can change one of those things.
And to be clear, I don't mean make it easier.
What is this sock puppet shit? I asked you to post an example if it. The posts you complained about had no mods at all, still don't.
You do know you can click on the score to see moderation applied to a post, right?
Okay, let's look at some stuff he says. On my phone so excuse the lack of linkage, see previous posts for some.
"Theyâ(TM)re universal across human cultures"
I posted links demonstrating that to be untrue before. Some countries have better gender balances in tech, some have girls doing get in maths than boys etc.
"They often have clear biological causes and links to prenatal testosterone"
Confusing correlation for causation.
"Biological males that were castrated at birth and raised as females often still identify and act like males"
Cherry picking, ignores e.g. transgender people.
"Status is the primary metric that men are judged on"
For context, he is saying that this explains the gender gap in high level jobs. It's actually quite anti-male to suggest that this is an acceptable situation that isn't worth remedying.
"For example currently those trying to work extra hours or take extra stress will inevitably get ahead and if we try to change that too much, it may have disastrous consequences."
The implication here is that such people are necessary and more valuable, and those who don't are if less value to Google.
It's not all bad though. I agree on several points, such as this:
"Feminism has made great progress in freeing women from the female gender role, but men are still very much tied to the male gender role. "
I've actually been modded down several times for saying that. Suddenly it's all good because this guy said it.
There is much more, but I'm on my phone...
Yes, it's the same. We understand the mechanisms behind climate change. You seem to be agreeing with me.
It sounds like they created their own DLL hell by requiring every app to have a copy of the library for compatibility reasons.
Of course, it wouldn't matter so much if they priced flash memory fairly and if they made the app download/install system clever enough to check if it already has a copy of that version of the library and use it.
That site was debunked last time.
TL;DR the experts they selected are on the fringes, the vast majority of experts do not support their views.
Both are political issues, but that's irrelevant in this case. The issue is not that his views are political, it's that he created a hostile work environment and made his job, which includes evaluating other employees, impossible for him to perform as the content of the memo would be used to question every criticism and decision he made.
The white male who wrote this doesn't seem to have been held back in his career progression, at least until he sabotaged it.
Spoiler alert: The citations themselves are mostly fine, but don't really support his the conclusions he draws from them.
Can't read that paper for free, but did you notice how all they claim is a correlation? Not a cause, just a correlation.
The cause is the important bit. I don't mean the testosterone, I mean why does pre-natal exposure to it cause this correlation later in life on this particular test? And can we make education and testing less a measure of pre-natal exposure to testosterone and more a measure of Java programming ability, or are the two somehow the same thing in which case is it all computer languages, or computers themselves, and what can we do about that, if anything?
At best this raises further questions. It doesn't prove what you think it proves.
Furthermore, scientist after scientist are coming forward saying he is right about the science.
Now that really is total bollocks. Genuine fake news.
in California, political opinions are protected in the work place
That doesn't mean what you think it means.
It means that the company can't fire you merely for holding those views, or being a member of a particular party etc.
It doesn't mean that if you bring your political views to work and tell other employees that you think, e.g. Republicans should be strung up by the balls, you haven't created a hostile environment and can't be fired for it.
Google didn't do any of that. They fired him because he said that women are inferior engineers and dismissed the issues they face as biology. Since Google has a system where employees are involved in evaluating each other, and he was in some kind of managerial position with power over others, that made his position untenable.
Google couldn't expect other employees to accept being evaluated by him or working under him after that. It almost looks like he martyred himself, based on the precision with which he made his job unworkable.
I don't know... AC clear it in a few seconds, electrically heated windows take much longer. I don't really want to wait ages for the windscreen to clear.
I imagine the AC is more efficient than resistive heating too.
Once they get the range up the continental United States makes a pretty big, hard to miss target. Doesn't matter if it ends up in some remote, unpopulated area. The threat is enough.
That's the point really. A mad man got control of nuclear weapons and a powerful army, but they had the foresight to develop defences that would assure mutual destruction. Remember that if the US were to use nuclear weapons, the Chinese would like do so too, and their's are much more advanced.
We focus too much on coming up with strong passwords, when we should really be focusing on what the actual threats to those passwords are.
For online services the biggest danger is that someone will steal the password database and crack the password hashes, assuming they even are hashed. The best defence is therefore to use a long, random password and keep it in a password manager. It's also fine to let your browser remember it for you, if your computer is reasonably secure.
Now you only need to remember a couple of really strong passwords for your password manager and your machines. Ideally you can use two factor auth for those things too (Keepass supports this, as does VeraCrypt).
We seem to have a de-facto standard .js library for everything, except the most important security stuff like password validation and storage.