You seem to be arguing for a system of enforced equality of outcomes
Not at all! I'm arguing that if disagreeable is correlated to "men" and agreeable is correlated to "women", then obviously your average male-dominated field will also be disagreeable-dominated. This is simple and obvious. Your argument is thus circular and reduces to "women are not dominant because they are too woman". It in no way follows that disagreeable people necessarily are suited to leadership positions.
And again, you are using narrative and specific examples which support your view, rather than looking at numbers and statistics. You can weave a nice story, but without supporting evidence, it's easily written off as confirmation bias.
In many professions, agreeableness is a liability in leadership positions.
You are begging the question.
Women are agreeable. Agreeable is a liability. Therefore, women have a liability. This argument is both circular and makes two assertions that need to be backed up. The first is probably the easiest - that women are more "agreeable". The second - that this is a liability - is supported only by evidence that disagreeable people tend to be in leadership positions. And who is disagreeable? Men. So is the correlation men or is the correlation agreeableness? Is there bias against agreeableness because so many men already occupy leadership positions, and they promote other disagreeable people like themselves? How is this better?
Same job, same hours, same education, same time working in the company? It seems that when this variables are take into account man and woman in about the same.
It shrinks but does not disappear.
You also don't address the absence of women in leadership roles.
You are deflecting the argument. The problem is not that women can't be lumberjacks. The problem is that women who can do things that men do tend to make less money. The problem is that fewer women inhabit leadership positions. These jobs do not require, or even benefit from, brute strength.
Again, cherry picking. So far you have exceptions carved out for heavy lifting and sales jobs. There are many, many jobs that do not require heavy lifting or sales, and women lag in salary and representation there as well.
Using a truck driving example is cherry picking. There are a lot of desk jobs without a manual labor component where, in the same position with the same skill set, women still don't make as much as men. You could probably come up with specific counter-examples, but statistically women are still not earning as much as men and they are underrepresented in leadership positions.
Or, you know, do both. Work for social cohesion, and in the meantime lock up murderers and rapists. If you have an infection, by all means take something for the fever and pain even while you take antibiotics for the root cause.
No I think you are actually not being fair to Apple, which generally has decent quality. No need to be subjective - just Google for surveys and such. Apple is always at or near the top when it comes to quality. Consumer Reports has them at #1. PC Magazine ranks them even with HP and Toshiba. Square Trade has them at #4. And so on. You are talking about this like it was a hardware design problem, and it seems to have been a problem with an unsigned driver. It's a stupid mistake, but I mean, they fixed it and bugs do happen.
I don't think you can really fall behind by skipping an Intel dev cycle. You need to start from the new chipset either way. These laptops all come out of the same factories and are all based on the same reference designs - granted Apple does a little more customization than most, but it's not like they are starting from scratch... the newest machines all look essentially like the last generation.
You aren't, but there is a tone of that on here. If Apple held the parts back longer for testing, people would bitch about how Apple's offerings are behind their competition. Like it or not, the market demands some balance between buggyness and performance. People probably undervalue stability and overvalue new shiny, but Apple is not really in a position to change that. Cars had useless fins way back in the 50s.
Somehow Best Buy in the US is allowed to advertise Apple stuff for below retail. Our local Best Buy is a mile or so from an Apple store and they undercut almost every price. Not sure how that works out. As an example, the latest circular has current-model iPads for $30 off. The Apple store is selling them for $329 (full retail) and Best Buy is selling them - advertised - for $299. I guess some people won't travel a mile for $30, but I certainly will:)
You can print it on the book, but then Barnes and Noble can put a giant 30% off sign right above the display. The retailer wins because people don't behave rationally when shopping and think they are getting a "deal" and the publisher wins because they keep the perceived value of a fancy photocopy high. To some extent, the larger and more ridiculous the printed price, the better.
Amazon does something similar with their stupid crossed-out list price, when in practice their prices are usually competitive-to-high.
Yeah, I have a 128GB SD card permanently stuffed in my HP Envy. It is a target for backup, but it's obviously not big enough to do everything. I'm sure there is some fancy backup application that would be happy to use it for incremental storage until the next online backup, but it isn't that big of a deal to just be cognizant when I'm away from the internet. Hotel wireless can be pretty crappy overseas.
I don't have a list of every Dell in front of me. It was indeed "barely a laptop". The point here is that Apple is not the only manufacturer using these things, but they were the only manufacturer as far as I can tell who ever made a way to access them. Maybe they set themselves up to be held to a higher standard, or maybe people just look for reasons to hate them. Either way, I've never seen MS or Dell - or any company except Apple - criticised on Slashdot for not having SSD recovery tools.
Yes, the Inspiron was a (very crappy) 3000 series with a ridiculously small SSD soldered on. Either way, those are two major players in the laptop that also do not offer on-board SSD recovery options. I'm sure if I looked into it I could find Lenovo, ASUS, etc models which commit the same sin.
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You seem to be arguing for a system of enforced equality of outcomes
Not at all! I'm arguing that if disagreeable is correlated to "men" and agreeable is correlated to "women", then obviously your average male-dominated field will also be disagreeable-dominated. This is simple and obvious. Your argument is thus circular and reduces to "women are not dominant because they are too woman". It in no way follows that disagreeable people necessarily are suited to leadership positions.
You have evidence that women are less ambitious, or this is just your own explanation?
And again, you are using narrative and specific examples which support your view, rather than looking at numbers and statistics. You can weave a nice story, but without supporting evidence, it's easily written off as confirmation bias.
In many professions, agreeableness is a liability in leadership positions.
You are begging the question.
Women are agreeable. Agreeable is a liability. Therefore, women have a liability. This argument is both circular and makes two assertions that need to be backed up. The first is probably the easiest - that women are more "agreeable". The second - that this is a liability - is supported only by evidence that disagreeable people tend to be in leadership positions. And who is disagreeable? Men. So is the correlation men or is the correlation agreeableness? Is there bias against agreeableness because so many men already occupy leadership positions, and they promote other disagreeable people like themselves? How is this better?
Same job, same hours, same education, same time working in the company? It seems that when this variables are take into account man and woman in about the same.
It shrinks but does not disappear.
You also don't address the absence of women in leadership roles.
You are deflecting the argument. The problem is not that women can't be lumberjacks. The problem is that women who can do things that men do tend to make less money. The problem is that fewer women inhabit leadership positions. These jobs do not require, or even benefit from, brute strength.
Again, cherry picking. So far you have exceptions carved out for heavy lifting and sales jobs. There are many, many jobs that do not require heavy lifting or sales, and women lag in salary and representation there as well.
Using a truck driving example is cherry picking. There are a lot of desk jobs without a manual labor component where, in the same position with the same skill set, women still don't make as much as men. You could probably come up with specific counter-examples, but statistically women are still not earning as much as men and they are underrepresented in leadership positions.
You might not realize this, but Bernie Sanders never said that. It comes from an op-ed article linked on his website.
If you are aware of this but posting it anyway, thank you for intentionally making America a little worse.
Pretty sure you can still sideload arbitrary code. The Play Store is not the only feature of your phone.
Or, you know, do both. Work for social cohesion, and in the meantime lock up murderers and rapists. If you have an infection, by all means take something for the fever and pain even while you take antibiotics for the root cause.
No I think you are actually not being fair to Apple, which generally has decent quality. No need to be subjective - just Google for surveys and such. Apple is always at or near the top when it comes to quality. Consumer Reports has them at #1. PC Magazine ranks them even with HP and Toshiba. Square Trade has them at #4. And so on. You are talking about this like it was a hardware design problem, and it seems to have been a problem with an unsigned driver. It's a stupid mistake, but I mean, they fixed it and bugs do happen.
I don't think you can really fall behind by skipping an Intel dev cycle. You need to start from the new chipset either way. These laptops all come out of the same factories and are all based on the same reference designs - granted Apple does a little more customization than most, but it's not like they are starting from scratch... the newest machines all look essentially like the last generation.
I'm not just picking on Apple either.
You aren't, but there is a tone of that on here. If Apple held the parts back longer for testing, people would bitch about how Apple's offerings are behind their competition. Like it or not, the market demands some balance between buggyness and performance. People probably undervalue stability and overvalue new shiny, but Apple is not really in a position to change that. Cars had useless fins way back in the 50s.
Why do you say "other than a Mac"?
I've got mixed feelings about rsync and Windows. Right now I just use Microsoft's SyncToy.
And if he's like most people, he already pays for Netflix anyway so adding that to the "non-cable" side of the equation is actually a false cost.
Somehow Best Buy in the US is allowed to advertise Apple stuff for below retail. Our local Best Buy is a mile or so from an Apple store and they undercut almost every price. Not sure how that works out. As an example, the latest circular has current-model iPads for $30 off. The Apple store is selling them for $329 (full retail) and Best Buy is selling them - advertised - for $299. I guess some people won't travel a mile for $30, but I certainly will :)
You can print it on the book, but then Barnes and Noble can put a giant 30% off sign right above the display. The retailer wins because people don't behave rationally when shopping and think they are getting a "deal" and the publisher wins because they keep the perceived value of a fancy photocopy high. To some extent, the larger and more ridiculous the printed price, the better.
Amazon does something similar with their stupid crossed-out list price, when in practice their prices are usually competitive-to-high.
I mean, that's meant to be a feature. Even if the drive was removable, it would still be encrypted and wouldn't do you a damn bit of good.
Yup! That's my point. They are just back to baseline. For a while they were better - now they aren't. But they also aren't worse.
Yes, it's almost impossible to open up without damaging it.
Yeah, I have a 128GB SD card permanently stuffed in my HP Envy. It is a target for backup, but it's obviously not big enough to do everything. I'm sure there is some fancy backup application that would be happy to use it for incremental storage until the next online backup, but it isn't that big of a deal to just be cognizant when I'm away from the internet. Hotel wireless can be pretty crappy overseas.
I don't have a list of every Dell in front of me. It was indeed "barely a laptop". The point here is that Apple is not the only manufacturer using these things, but they were the only manufacturer as far as I can tell who ever made a way to access them. Maybe they set themselves up to be held to a higher standard, or maybe people just look for reasons to hate them. Either way, I've never seen MS or Dell - or any company except Apple - criticised on Slashdot for not having SSD recovery tools.
Yes, the Inspiron was a (very crappy) 3000 series with a ridiculously small SSD soldered on. Either way, those are two major players in the laptop that also do not offer on-board SSD recovery options. I'm sure if I looked into it I could find Lenovo, ASUS, etc models which commit the same sin.