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H0n3styon Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up in their careers

Do you agree with the recent diversity and inclusion effort at github which noted that (6) some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women?

http://www.businessinsider.com/diversity-guru-discusses-whit...

H0n3styon Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up in their careers

What if the "privilege" you think you see is actually a difference in average ability or preferences between groups of people that are in fact different from each other?

Affirmative action does not help the groups it is directed towards, it simply handicaps them further by preventing them from being properly matched to their level or ability.

Clarence Thomas recently wrote about this in detail... Slaveholders argued that slavery was a ‘positive good’ that civilized blacks and elevated them in every dimension of life. A century later, segregationists similarly asserted that segregation was not only benign, but good for black students. Although cloaked in good intentions, the University’s racial tinkering harms the very people it claims to be helping

If you'd like to learn about the unfortunate real outcomes of affirmative action then I strongly recommend researching Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell.

H0n3styon Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up in their careers

What would people think if the genders were reversed and this institution was discriminating against women and only helping men? Women have a far larger presence in other fields like biology and education, but you don't see new organizations popping up every other month to change that in favor of men.

Discrimination like this should be illegal.

H0n3styon Moving Forward on Basic Income

I'm very curious about how the participants other income will change. Income is the best proxy we have for productivity, so if their other income changes much then we might be able to make some interesting observations about their work/leisure tradeoff.

It would also be very interesting to see how productivity changes with respect to demographic factors.

H0n3styon Senator Seeks Answers from Facebook on Political Censoring Allegations

Thanks. That answers my question.

H0n3styon Senator Seeks Answers from Facebook on Political Censoring Allegations

I wonder if there is any truth to the story about Zuckerberg telling Merkel that Facebook would censor anti-immigration posts in Germany.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-26/merkel-con...

H0n3styon Senator Seeks Answers from Facebook on Political Censoring Allegations

Yes, according to the allegations implied in the letter. If Facebook penalizes topics which don't agree with Facebook's bias - that certainly would be preventing some of their users from expressing what matters to them. I don't follow your second question about amplifying.

H0n3styon Senator Seeks Answers from Facebook on Political Censoring Allegations

Because Facebook presents itself to users as a way to share and express what matters to them. Not as a way to share and express what matters to them so long as it agrees with Facebook's censors.

H0n3styon Senator Seeks Answers from Facebook on Political Censoring Allegations

> Maybe most people on facebook have liberal views and they're showing people what they are more likely to want to read?

Trending happens regardless of political view. If they're manually suppressing views which don't align with FB management then users should be made aware of this.

H0n3styon Being tired isn’t a badge of honor – Signal v. Noise

I've had success taking sleep even further. It seems that humans are polyphasic sleepers, just like most other mammals. I've found that I get tired after lunch, and benefit greatly from a 30-60 minute nap. The trick to getting the most out of polyphasic sleep is having a bedroom conducive to quality sleep - it should be cool, very dark, and very quiet. I use some opaque shades (shift shades) to block the light from the windows, and either a white noise machine or fan to ensure I'm relatively undisturbed by sounds outside my room.

H0n3styon What We’ve Learned About Pluto

There's a really nice visualization of the system's orbits about halfway down the page.

H0n3styon How gentrification really changes a neighborhood

Were they better off in these homes which they choose to move to, or do you think they were better off where they came from? Discrimination is terrible but I don't see how it would have forced them to move next door to someone who oppressed them. I would find it more probable that they moved as an act of defiance than out of fear. In any case, I think we have to assume that the vast majority of people (including these people) who move from one area to another do so because it is in their own self-interest and that they're better off for having done so. When someone moves, it's as if they're voting with their feet in favor of their new location. I don't have any idea how bad their previous locations were, but on the whole this community was preferable.

H0n3styon How gentrification really changes a neighborhood

So you're okay with reducing home values by placing high-density housing anywhere (and the corresponding violent crime risks), but not with reducing home values by placing industrial facilities anywhere (along with their corresponding health risks).

H0n3styon How gentrification really changes a neighborhood

The political platform would not be eliminating Black History Month, it would be fully integrating Black History into our classrooms in every month. Changing the lessons and more adequately representing the history of black achievement in America. My message would not be that Black History Month is racist, but that it's time we integrated our history. Do you think this could resonate with voters? We integrated our schools, communities, military, etc,... why not our history?

H0n3styon How gentrification really changes a neighborhood

Would you also permit hazardous chemical refineries to be built alongside or within residential communities? Are there any freedoms of self-government that you would like to see preserved?

H0n3styon How gentrification really changes a neighborhood

I believe that segregating history for blacks into a single month is also a form of racism. A single month implies that there is ~1/12th as much history.

H0n3styon How gentrification really changes a neighborhood

Implying that one race cannot do what other races can is racist.

H0n3styon How gentrification really changes a neighborhood

Blacks can't get away from the various hells of the world

I believe this is known as the racism of lowered expectations.

H0n3styon How gentrification really changes a neighborhood

Wow!

H0n3styon How gentrification really changes a neighborhood

What rational person would purchase a home in a neighborhood in which they felt fucking terrified?

H0n3styon How gentrification really changes a neighborhood

The real tragedy here is land-use restrictions

Should community residents not have the freedom to enforce restrictions on their own communities? Would these communities be as desirable if they allowed new residents to crowd out the old residents?

H0n3styon How gentrification really changes a neighborhood

Like most gentrification fluff pieces this one is as you note, just a convenient way for the author to signal his virtue. If he had any real concern about improving relations in his community he would have made an effort to do just that.

I never took the initiative to walk next door and chat

There is also no great tragedy in two parties coming to terms on a transaction when both of them agree - by definition, they're both better off because of the transaction. $70K for a the weeded lot next door it not a bad deal.

H0n3styon America’s airlines are introducing a class below economy

When I read the title I thought about Spirit airlines - funny that they mentioned this being done in response to Spirit.

H0n3styon Harvey Mudd College: Increasing women in CS from 10 to 40% in 5 years

TL;DR

1. split intro course into one class for students with no prior programming experience and one for students with prior experience.

2. send about 65, including 25 first year, female students to a conference geared towards women in technology.

3. encourage female students to apply for early research opportunities.

4. match female computer scientist mentors with female students.

Interesting comment in original article: So to summarize you use special treatment to remedy a gender imbalance because you feel better if you have an equal number of male and female students in any given major. What majors have more women than men and what is being done to remedy those?

H0n3styon Austin: No Place to Go but Up

Why downvote this one? I corrected the misquote and pointed out how the speaker in the video chose to ignore asians to misconstrue his issue as being about minorities in a racist way. If the video had featured a white person whispering something disparaging (and false) about minorities would you feel the same way?

H0n3styon San Jose: A Place Where the Poor Once Thrived

The economic forces at work are supply & demand, and a process referred to as voting with your feet. Every time someone or some society gives more to a homeless person they increase demand - in a sad twist of intentions and results they increase the negative effect they're trying to alleviate. Homeless people are also able to move more easily as they have so few possessions and a lower cost of moving. If San Jose provides relatively better conditions for homeless people than Las Vegas, then San Jose ends up with a correspondingly higher homeless population.

H0n3styon Austin: No Place to Go but Up

Actually, he said that "minorities make less money" in the video. That seems like a racist statement, as he chose to ignore an important minority group, asians.

H0n3styon Austin: No Place to Go but Up

I agree that we are segregationists. I think it's in our nature as well as our laws. What's wrong with the term gentrification? It looks like it's a noun with two meanings, neither of which seem bad.

gentrification: 1. the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste. 2. the process of making a person or activity more refined or polite.

H0n3styon Austin: No Place to Go but Up

This won't be a problem once enough remote tech workers replace the caged commuters.

H0n3styon San Jose: A Place Where the Poor Once Thrived

It's far more likely that the homeless population has migrated to the San Jose area because there are so many wealthy/generous residents than having been "pushed" out due to rising home values and cost of living.