The issue I have is that I don't feel that people are being honest when they say they are sexually a... building. I feel there is a weirdness arms race, and whoever can invent the most ludicrous identity to hang their hat on is declared winner. How dare you question it? What do you know? You're just a (some other identity). You can't possibly know what it's like to sexually be a building, or a mythological creature (yellow dragonkin).
Sorry, but that's utter poppycock. That person needs help, not cheerleaders.
After the toxic culture at Google came to light during the Damore incident, why would anyone want to join a company that boos you when you get hired if you're not a SJW darling? You may get paid well but there are so many non hostile workplaces that you would be much happier in. Do you really want to work at a place where people claim they sexually identify as an expansive ornate building, and your employer gives them a microphone?
This is just an excuse to, when presented with two candidates -- one who is White or East Asian, Male, with great SAT/ACT scores, and a someone who is not and just writes "black lives matter" over and over again on their entrance essay, they can pick the latter and say "well, we don't really look at your test results".
- Chubby, annoying, female sidekicks to give the chubby, annoying, female social justice warriors someone to identify with.
- The systematic elimination of almost every positive white male character.
- The continued featuring of white men as being the bad guys (diversity apparently doesn't extend to antagonists, though credit for Phasma).
- Hell even the only black person in the entire First Order switched sides.
- Female leads to replace the eliminated male characters.
- The producers of Rogue one saying "Please note that the Empire is a white supremacist (human) organization, Opposed by a multi-cultural group led by brave women.", when multi-cultural means "everyone but white dudes".
- They put out the 'Star Wars: Forces of Destiny' cartoon, featuring female leads and girl friendly storylines.
Disney/Lucafilm are systematically trying to turn Star Wars in to something for SJW Women. They must not have done the market research to see that its white dudes who are most willing to shell out money to go see Star Wars in a theatre. The sad part is I don't think Lucas himself would've done any better, given the atrocities of 1 2 & 3. Perhaps there is no hope at all for the Star Wars we all grew up to love, and it's time to let it die.
You're only including the states that support your argument . Here:
States with lots of guns and not much gun murder (state / gun % / murder by gun per 100k):
North Dakota / 47 / 0.9
Idaho / 57% / 0.8
Wyoming / 52.3% / 1.2
Hawaii / 45.1% / 0.5
States with not a lot of guns, and lots of gun murder:
Delaware / 5.2% / 4.2
Jersey / 11.3% / 2.8
California / 20% / 3.5
It's the same false argument that banning guns leads to lower death by gun rates. For every country like Japan and Australia where this is true, there are countries like Jamaica and Venezula and Guatemela where banishment of guns has lead to more gun murder .
Ellen Pao.. bwhaha. Failed at claiming sexism. Failed at reddit. Now that I think about it - the only modern high up women I can think of who have made an impact are the ones who've really screwed everything up. That's not to say men don't screw everything up too - there is no shortage of them, but at least there are superstars like Musk to balance it out.
So the outcome is YMMV if you're employed at Google. Duh. If one out of five employees is told to stop posting about diversity because it starts flame wars, and another one of five is getting paid a cash bonus when they threaten white male employees with violence, firing, and discrimination if they talk against the status quo about diversity, it still means Google is still promoting and engaging in systematic and illegal discriminatory practices as per the class action lawsuit.
I'm still on iOS9 on my 6S+. I'm not an uberbeard that waits for something to be in the wild for 5 years before beginning to adopt it. I had an iPhone 4. It worked well. No slowdowns, no battery problems. Apple released the iPhone 5, and my phone still worked well. I upgraded to the most recent iOS , and my battery which previously lasted for 2 days was barely staying alive for 6 hours, and everything was slow - even browsing the exact same sites I was before the upgrade. Maybe as a result of that, they decided to throttle the speed to spare old batteries as this article says, but the tinfoil hat in me says they made the old phones obsolete with the software update so that there's more reason to drop another $800 on the next phone. Either that or they were willfully ignorant to supporting the old phones.
This is assuming you have kids, multiple TVs, or you actually want 50 channels of sports. Many people don't care about 'the big game' and just want quality movies and TV shows to watch. We pay USD $10 for Netflix, and USD $11.99 for Hulu and we never find ourselves longing for anything else other than Game of Thrones, which my wife is addicted to. She goes to our neighbor's house to watch that. They pay $170 USD/month for their cable/internet package.
Man, Damore was right that the west coast Techies are all about shame. even if its constitutionally protected speech. I for one applaud CloudFlare while simultaneously giving the Nazis the finger.
"Musk was not at the meeting, which was attended by roughly 70-100 people, and featured comments from more than 20 women, according to Vandermeyden and another attendee. "
So no one could independently verify that 20 women actually made comments at this meeting, other than a Woman who is trying to sue Tesla over supposed discrimination, and some random, unnamed person? Those are what pass for sources enough to write an inflammatory article saying "DOZENS OF WOMEN CLAIM HARASSMENT" ?
That was "not possible from a meteorological perspective" so they dismissed that record, and now they are like "We're #1! We're #1! Climate Change yall!". I expect nothing less from the Washington Post.
It's not a manager or executives job to be the smartest person in a room. It's their job to inspire those around them to do their best, and to enable them to be the smartest.
I feel like anything, a balance is best. Working from the office means less gets done overall. I have less opportunities to be heads down. We have an open office, so there are tons of distractions -- from people conversing, to simply walking my field of view and me reflexively looking up to see who it is. It IS nice for quick pow wows in person, getting ahold of people who haven't responded to your Hipchat/Hangouts messages in a timely manner, and socialization at lunch or after hours.
Working from home means you forget your social skills. You devolve in to a wolf man. In persona conflict resolution is never a thing, and it's all done over email or chat, which can muddy up a situation. Deodorant becomes optional. Hell, underpants become optional. For people with kids at home, there's that lack of understanding of why daddy or mommy can't play. There is also a huge risk of fucking off at home, and it takes discipline to keep your keel even, and not try to beat Final Fantasy 10 for the 15th time in a row.
For me I find the best balance at 3 days in, 2 days telecommute. YMMV of course.
Same here. I've worked with probably 1 of the 20 total black male engineers in San Francisco, and we had to import him from Nigeria -- but never a Black woman. He was awesome at his job.
Random side thought and completely unrelated to working with black people: I've also never worked with any known ex-cons in tech, which is another group of people in desperate need of quality jobs , but which you don't near the diversification police shouting to be included, or that they're being paid less. 8% of the adult population of the USA has felony conviction (http://paa2011.princeton.edu/papers/111687) , and are often discriminated against by asking questions like "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" on applications.
It depends. I'm in the suburbs because I have a family -- but technically still Austin, and my commute is 45 mins per way on average on Mopac. For the single young techies who move to South Austin condos, yeah -- I could believe a 10 minute commute to downtown. How old are the people they are surveying?
I went to a GameStop to buy Super Smash Brothers Brawl. I waited in a midnight release line of about 20 people, for an hour. Once I got to the front and said I would like a copy, the guy asked 'Did you preorder?'. I said of course not -- else why would I be waiting in a line for the store to open if I had a guaranteed copy. He said 'Sorry we only give out pre orders for new releases'. I asked him to clarify that they did not order any copies for regular customers, and he said they did not, and I could come by some time in a week when they would have copies to sell. I went home and to bed, woke up at 8am, and bought a copy at BestBuy with no wait or pre order nonsense, and that became the last time I ever went in to a GameStop.
A plot -- from an unnamed country, from unnamed sources, with details in secret, with the end result meaning more security and more importantly, more money being sent to security services that the regulators own are are invested in for this additional screening. Meanwhile you can rent a U-haul truck for $50 and plow through hundreds of people on the street, or buy a $500 rifle and head to a nightclub to do your damage. Human damage of course, not monetary damage, since planes are expensive, and fear of flying due to terrorist attacks keeping people out of airports is much more so.
I just came back from a business trip in Sydney, and the thing I noticed most of all besides the Ibis birds was the amount of people smoking, everywhere. People on the sidewalks, taxi drivers waiting on a fare, people getting out of the train station hanging out in Wynyard Park. I applaud this well meaning attempt to curb smoking, but the reality for me seems to be that its one of those laws that the police only enforce if its convenient for them.
A mixture of both, I think. When techies lower the bar for what 'shelter' means, and live 8 people to one 2 bedroom apartment each paying $2k a month, it makes it that much more difficult for a family of 3 to get a place of their own. We were paying 2300/month for a 1 bedroom, which is really great because of 10 years of rent control but not great when you need the kid to have their own room. After we left they renovated the place, turned the living room in to two bedrooms and split the bedroom in to 2 for a total of 4 bedrooms, and rented it out for $6500/month A 700 sqft 4 bedroom apartment. We can't compete with that willingness to live so tightly packed.
I lived childless in the inner sunset of SF for 10 years, from 2005 until 2015, and I've never seen such a kid unfriendly city in my life. Try pushing a stroller/pram through neighborhood grocery store aisles, or bringing them on the bus, and you'll get the sneer of your live from the people who feel like your impeding their travels. Do you live in a decent neighborhood? Well, chances are your kid won't go to a school near you. They get entered in to a lottery, and they may have to bused 2 hrs round trip across the city to go to a school in bayview, because they are trying to integrate the bad and good schools. Do you like poop? because your 2 or 3 year old will step and play in human poop as they walk down the sidewalk.
My wife and I aren't dot com millionaires, so for us, the threat of being evicted from our rent controlled apartments was too much to bear if we had a kid. We didn't like the prospect of raising a kid in a 600 sqft 'starter' home for 750k either. That money could be spent on the kids education if we moved to a more affordable place, so we did. We bought a 6 bedroom, 3500 sqft place in Austin for 300k, and had our first of hopefully 2 natural 1 adopted kids. We have a backyard with a tree house in it, there are neighborhood kids playing in the streets every night, and he will have at most a 10 minute commute by foot to the best schools in the city. All of that money we would've paid in to the privilege of an SF condo is now in his college fund. We love the bay area so much but it's not a place for kids at all.
Ellen Pao, your 5 minutes are long over. You tried to pull this victimizing, 'think of everyone but the white men' routine before, and it blew up in your face when it came to light that YOU were the problem all along. Please move on with your life. You're not a social justice warrior, you're a gods damned bully, and a predator.
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The issue I have is that I don't feel that people are being honest when they say they are sexually a ... building. I feel there is a weirdness arms race, and whoever can invent the most ludicrous identity to hang their hat on is declared winner. How dare you question it? What do you know? You're just a (some other identity). You can't possibly know what it's like to sexually be a building, or a mythological creature (yellow dragonkin).
Sorry, but that's utter poppycock. That person needs help, not cheerleaders.
After the toxic culture at Google came to light during the Damore incident, why would anyone want to join a company that boos you when you get hired if you're not a SJW darling? You may get paid well but there are so many non hostile workplaces that you would be much happier in. Do you really want to work at a place where people claim they sexually identify as an expansive ornate building, and your employer gives them a microphone?
This is just an excuse to, when presented with two candidates -- one who is White or East Asian, Male, with great SAT/ACT scores, and a someone who is not and just writes "black lives matter" over and over again on their entrance essay, they can pick the latter and say "well, we don't really look at your test results".
Hrm, so we have:
Disney/Lucafilm are systematically trying to turn Star Wars in to something for SJW Women. They must not have done the market research to see that its white dudes who are most willing to shell out money to go see Star Wars in a theatre. The sad part is I don't think Lucas himself would've done any better, given the atrocities of 1 2 & 3. Perhaps there is no hope at all for the Star Wars we all grew up to love, and it's time to let it die.
Can't you just go round and round off the coast of Antarctica and never hit land, making the longest path "how ever long you want it to be?" ?
You're only including the states that support your argument . Here:
States with lots of guns and not much gun murder (state / gun % / murder by gun per 100k):
North Dakota / 47 / 0.9
Idaho / 57% / 0.8
Wyoming / 52.3% / 1.2
Hawaii / 45.1% / 0.5
States with not a lot of guns, and lots of gun murder:
Delaware / 5.2% / 4.2
Jersey / 11.3% / 2.8
California / 20% / 3.5
It's the same false argument that banning guns leads to lower death by gun rates. For every country like Japan and Australia where this is true, there are countries like Jamaica and Venezula and Guatemela where banishment of guns has lead to more gun murder .
Ellen Pao .. bwhaha. Failed at claiming sexism. Failed at reddit. Now that I think about it - the only modern high up women I can think of who have made an impact are the ones who've really screwed everything up. That's not to say men don't screw everything up too - there is no shortage of them, but at least there are superstars like Musk to balance it out.
So the outcome is YMMV if you're employed at Google. Duh. If one out of five employees is told to stop posting about diversity because it starts flame wars, and another one of five is getting paid a cash bonus when they threaten white male employees with violence, firing, and discrimination if they talk against the status quo about diversity, it still means Google is still promoting and engaging in systematic and illegal discriminatory practices as per the class action lawsuit.
I'm still on iOS9 on my 6S+. I'm not an uberbeard that waits for something to be in the wild for 5 years before beginning to adopt it. I had an iPhone 4. It worked well. No slowdowns, no battery problems. Apple released the iPhone 5, and my phone still worked well. I upgraded to the most recent iOS , and my battery which previously lasted for 2 days was barely staying alive for 6 hours, and everything was slow - even browsing the exact same sites I was before the upgrade. Maybe as a result of that, they decided to throttle the speed to spare old batteries as this article says, but the tinfoil hat in me says they made the old phones obsolete with the software update so that there's more reason to drop another $800 on the next phone. Either that or they were willfully ignorant to supporting the old phones.
This is assuming you have kids, multiple TVs, or you actually want 50 channels of sports. Many people don't care about 'the big game' and just want quality movies and TV shows to watch. We pay USD $10 for Netflix, and USD $11.99 for Hulu and we never find ourselves longing for anything else other than Game of Thrones, which my wife is addicted to. She goes to our neighbor's house to watch that. They pay $170 USD/month for their cable/internet package.
Man, Damore was right that the west coast Techies are all about shame. even if its constitutionally protected speech. I for one applaud CloudFlare while simultaneously giving the Nazis the finger.
"Musk was not at the meeting, which was attended by roughly 70-100 people, and featured comments from more than 20 women, according to Vandermeyden and another attendee. "
So no one could independently verify that 20 women actually made comments at this meeting, other than a Woman who is trying to sue Tesla over supposed discrimination, and some random, unnamed person? Those are what pass for sources enough to write an inflammatory article saying "DOZENS OF WOMEN CLAIM HARASSMENT" ?
That was "not possible from a meteorological perspective" so they dismissed that record, and now they are like "We're #1! We're #1! Climate Change yall!". I expect nothing less from the Washington Post.
It's not a manager or executives job to be the smartest person in a room. It's their job to inspire those around them to do their best, and to enable them to be the smartest.
I feel like anything, a balance is best. Working from the office means less gets done overall. I have less opportunities to be heads down. We have an open office, so there are tons of distractions -- from people conversing, to simply walking my field of view and me reflexively looking up to see who it is. It IS nice for quick pow wows in person, getting ahold of people who haven't responded to your Hipchat/Hangouts messages in a timely manner, and socialization at lunch or after hours.
Working from home means you forget your social skills. You devolve in to a wolf man. In persona conflict resolution is never a thing, and it's all done over email or chat, which can muddy up a situation. Deodorant becomes optional. Hell, underpants become optional. For people with kids at home, there's that lack of understanding of why daddy or mommy can't play. There is also a huge risk of fucking off at home, and it takes discipline to keep your keel even, and not try to beat Final Fantasy 10 for the 15th time in a row.
For me I find the best balance at 3 days in, 2 days telecommute. YMMV of course.
Same here. I've worked with probably 1 of the 20 total black male engineers in San Francisco, and we had to import him from Nigeria -- but never a Black woman. He was awesome at his job.
Random side thought and completely unrelated to working with black people: I've also never worked with any known ex-cons in tech, which is another group of people in desperate need of quality jobs , but which you don't near the diversification police shouting to be included, or that they're being paid less. 8% of the adult population of the USA has felony conviction (http://paa2011.princeton.edu/papers/111687) , and are often discriminated against by asking questions like "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" on applications.
It's always anonymous cowards posting the social justice bully material ?
It depends. I'm in the suburbs because I have a family -- but technically still Austin, and my commute is 45 mins per way on average on Mopac. For the single young techies who move to South Austin condos, yeah -- I could believe a 10 minute commute to downtown. How old are the people they are surveying?
I went to a GameStop to buy Super Smash Brothers Brawl. I waited in a midnight release line of about 20 people, for an hour. Once I got to the front and said I would like a copy, the guy asked 'Did you preorder?'. I said of course not -- else why would I be waiting in a line for the store to open if I had a guaranteed copy. He said 'Sorry we only give out pre orders for new releases'. I asked him to clarify that they did not order any copies for regular customers, and he said they did not, and I could come by some time in a week when they would have copies to sell. I went home and to bed, woke up at 8am, and bought a copy at BestBuy with no wait or pre order nonsense, and that became the last time I ever went in to a GameStop.
How is this related to tech in anyway whatsoever?
A plot -- from an unnamed country, from unnamed sources, with details in secret, with the end result meaning more security and more importantly, more money being sent to security services that the regulators own are are invested in for this additional screening. Meanwhile you can rent a U-haul truck for $50 and plow through hundreds of people on the street, or buy a $500 rifle and head to a nightclub to do your damage. Human damage of course, not monetary damage, since planes are expensive, and fear of flying due to terrorist attacks keeping people out of airports is much more so.
I just came back from a business trip in Sydney, and the thing I noticed most of all besides the Ibis birds was the amount of people smoking, everywhere. People on the sidewalks, taxi drivers waiting on a fare, people getting out of the train station hanging out in Wynyard Park. I applaud this well meaning attempt to curb smoking, but the reality for me seems to be that its one of those laws that the police only enforce if its convenient for them.
A mixture of both, I think. When techies lower the bar for what 'shelter' means, and live 8 people to one 2 bedroom apartment each paying $2k a month, it makes it that much more difficult for a family of 3 to get a place of their own. We were paying 2300/month for a 1 bedroom, which is really great because of 10 years of rent control but not great when you need the kid to have their own room. After we left they renovated the place, turned the living room in to two bedrooms and split the bedroom in to 2 for a total of 4 bedrooms, and rented it out for $6500/month A 700 sqft 4 bedroom apartment. We can't compete with that willingness to live so tightly packed.
I lived childless in the inner sunset of SF for 10 years, from 2005 until 2015, and I've never seen such a kid unfriendly city in my life. Try pushing a stroller/pram through neighborhood grocery store aisles, or bringing them on the bus, and you'll get the sneer of your live from the people who feel like your impeding their travels. Do you live in a decent neighborhood? Well, chances are your kid won't go to a school near you. They get entered in to a lottery, and they may have to bused 2 hrs round trip across the city to go to a school in bayview, because they are trying to integrate the bad and good schools. Do you like poop? because your 2 or 3 year old will step and play in human poop as they walk down the sidewalk.
My wife and I aren't dot com millionaires, so for us, the threat of being evicted from our rent controlled apartments was too much to bear if we had a kid. We didn't like the prospect of raising a kid in a 600 sqft 'starter' home for 750k either. That money could be spent on the kids education if we moved to a more affordable place, so we did. We bought a 6 bedroom, 3500 sqft place in Austin for 300k, and had our first of hopefully 2 natural 1 adopted kids. We have a backyard with a tree house in it, there are neighborhood kids playing in the streets every night, and he will have at most a 10 minute commute by foot to the best schools in the city. All of that money we would've paid in to the privilege of an SF condo is now in his college fund. We love the bay area so much but it's not a place for kids at all.
Ellen Pao, your 5 minutes are long over. You tried to pull this victimizing, 'think of everyone but the white men' routine before, and it blew up in your face when it came to light that YOU were the problem all along. Please move on with your life. You're not a social justice warrior, you're a gods damned bully, and a predator.