I'm more concerned about it being done intentionally to people who are politically "dangerous." Think about all the political "criminals" that were thrown in gulags in Russia.
I'm worried less about ageism and the cargo-cult programmers who latch on to the newest shiny constantly. They tend to shun engineers who are more reserved about their technology choices. "You're not a good programmer unless you used at least 15 different frameworks for your project..."
Two things, first you have to establish what discrimination means in a concrete way, and second you have to prove that Harvard is doing it. With regards to the first, the only statistically meaningful mechanism of measuring institutionalized discrimination is by looking for a difference between demographics of the institution's selection population, and the general population. With regards to point two, Harvard is obviously extremely discriminatory, but not to Asians.
Couple of more things:
There are more people applying than can possibly be admitted, the entire process of selecting applicants is designed to discriminate.
SAT scores are one of those means TO discriminate people.
You're assuming the ability to PAY for school doesn't factor in at all in the admissions of a private institution.
You're assuming there's some kind of metric that makes a person "qualified for admission to Harvard." There is no yardstick which you can take to a person and say, "this person has N harvard admission units."
As an active member of the D community, I agree with what you're saying. Some of it is an issue of manpower though. I've seen these things start to change recently as more people have come onboard.
To be honest, I like California weather. What I DONT understand is why all these startups cluster so close to downtown San Francisco. I'd love to be up somewhere a bit farther north like Ukiah, or Willits CA.
Automation is happening with or without raising the minimum wage. The real solution to the problem is not raising the minimum wage, but abolishing it and replacing it with a basic income guarantee.
It's funny, because if you go find their actual paper, they didn't measure testosterone at all.
"In this paper we examine whether testosterone, which is associated with male dominance seeking and which we have proxied by male CEO age, is associated with M&A withdrawals, the use of tender offers, and bid initiation."
Fucking ridiculous, I'm surprised this paper even got published.
From their actual paper's conclusion section:
"In this paper we examine whether testosterone, which is associated with male dominance seeking and which we have proxied by male CEO age, is associated with M&A withdrawals, the use of tender offers, and bid initiation."
No, they didn't sample anyone's testosterone. Go RTFA the real FA.
From their actual paper's conclusion section:
"In this paper we examine whether testosterone, which is associated with male dominance seeking and which we have proxied by male CEO age, is associated with M&A withdrawals, the use of tender offers, and bid initiation."
Fucking ridiculous, I'm surprised this paper even got published. They didn't even sample anyone's testosterone.
I read the article. There is nothing written in this article to suggest that experience and testosterone were deconvolved suitably in their analysis. Do you have the actual paper, where they somehow account for age and wisdom? If they did not test *before* and *after* being giving people testosterone there is no basis for claiming their results were from testosterone and not wisdom.
It's more likely their statistics are fubar than this is a good study.
He did not equate iPhoneOS and Microsoft Windows.
Notice how he was quoting someone? "At least Microsoft allows me the freedom to be "tasteless".
He was responding directly to the 2nd Reply from "jedidiah" that equated the two. Please read the whole thread before in interject nonsense.
Apple does a lot more R&D than you have stated. They are responsible for FireWire, the Capacitive multitouch displays used in the iPhone, Altivec, etc. etc.
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This technology doesn't cause the problem, but it certainly exacerbates it and grows the power of the people who are currently burning people.
I'm more concerned about it being done intentionally to people who are politically "dangerous." Think about all the political "criminals" that were thrown in gulags in Russia.
You didn't need to say your age, your user id gives it away.. Wow that's low. :)
I'm worried less about ageism and the cargo-cult programmers who latch on to the newest shiny constantly. They tend to shun engineers who are more reserved about their technology choices. "You're not a good programmer unless you used at least 15 different frameworks for your project..."
Tell me more about white men...
Actually, "no discrimination" means selecting applicants at random. And that *would* result in demographics that matched the general population.
Nothing in your post disagrees with what I said.
Two things, first you have to establish what discrimination means in a concrete way, and second you have to prove that Harvard is doing it. With regards to the first, the only statistically meaningful mechanism of measuring institutionalized discrimination is by looking for a difference between demographics of the institution's selection population, and the general population. With regards to point two, Harvard is obviously extremely discriminatory, but not to Asians.
Couple of more things:
You're assuming there's some kind of metric that makes a person "qualified for admission to Harvard." There is no yardstick which you can take to a person and say, "this person has N harvard admission units."
*All* Asians make up ~5.6% of the population of the United States, but they make up 20% of those admitted to Harvard. Discrimination?! https://college.harvard.edu/ad... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
As an active member of the D community, I agree with what you're saying. Some of it is an issue of manpower though. I've seen these things start to change recently as more people have come onboard.
That's completely false. The posters on the D Forum are made up of almost complete C and C++ programmers.
To be honest, I like California weather. What I DONT understand is why all these startups cluster so close to downtown San Francisco. I'd love to be up somewhere a bit farther north like Ukiah, or Willits CA.
Automation is happening with or without raising the minimum wage. The real solution to the problem is not raising the minimum wage, but abolishing it and replacing it with a basic income guarantee.
It's funny, because if you go find their actual paper, they didn't measure testosterone at all. "In this paper we examine whether testosterone, which is associated with male dominance seeking and which we have proxied by male CEO age, is associated with M&A withdrawals, the use of tender offers, and bid initiation." Fucking ridiculous, I'm surprised this paper even got published.
From their actual paper's conclusion section: "In this paper we examine whether testosterone, which is associated with male dominance seeking and which we have proxied by male CEO age, is associated with M&A withdrawals, the use of tender offers, and bid initiation." No, they didn't sample anyone's testosterone. Go RTFA the real FA.
From their actual paper's conclusion section: "In this paper we examine whether testosterone, which is associated with male dominance seeking and which we have proxied by male CEO age, is associated with M&A withdrawals, the use of tender offers, and bid initiation." Fucking ridiculous, I'm surprised this paper even got published. They didn't even sample anyone's testosterone.
There's nothing in the article to suggest that testosterone and age were suitably deconvolved in their analysis of the data.
I read the article. There is nothing written in this article to suggest that experience and testosterone were deconvolved suitably in their analysis. Do you have the actual paper, where they somehow account for age and wisdom? If they did not test *before* and *after* being giving people testosterone there is no basis for claiming their results were from testosterone and not wisdom. It's more likely their statistics are fubar than this is a good study.
He did not equate iPhoneOS and Microsoft Windows. Notice how he was quoting someone? "At least Microsoft allows me the freedom to be "tasteless". He was responding directly to the 2nd Reply from "jedidiah" that equated the two. Please read the whole thread before in interject nonsense.
Yes it does. http://www.youtube.com/html5
Not only that, you don't have to buy an iPhone if you don't want! HOLY SHIT!
Smart-style Cards loaded with one-time pad data that are recharged from time to time. No reason why a credit card number should ever work twice.
Apple does a lot more R&D than you have stated. They are responsible for FireWire, the Capacitive multitouch displays used in the iPhone, Altivec, etc. etc.
Because parent is wrong. /A physicist.
Delicious? It did not taste like anything to me.