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Melchizedek

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Melchizedek··on Coding Interview Cheatsheet
I suspect part of the cause is the prevalence of asperger-like personalities in the IT-field.

No emotionally mature adult would conduct an interview like that, unless forced to. It would be completely unacceptable in any other professional field.

Melchizedek··on Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor?
One important factor could be differences in intelligence. https://infogalactic.com/info/IQ_and_Global_Inequality
Melchizedek··on Nine things you didn't know were invented by women
For me this has the opposite of the intended effect. It makes it really clear that almost everything was invented by men (except the few things mentioned in the story).
Melchizedek··on Tinder Experiments: a quantitative socio-economic study
I'm surprised this didn't get more up votes.

Perhaps with another title like "A man of average attractiveness can only expect to be liked by less than 1% of females on Tinder".

Melchizedek··on White supremacist forum site Stormfront seized by domain hosts
I think it's obvious that we are seeing an organized campaign against white nationalists and the alt-right, and even against some ordinary nationalists and conservatives.

From YouTube, to Paypal, to Patreon, to GoDaddy, to Cloudflare, to Google, to Airbnb, to Discord, to Twitter, etc, etc. It's too much and too quick not to be at least partly organized by some group(s) or entity.

Melchizedek··on The great purge of YouTube has begun: I won't be around much longer
A prominent "alt-light" youtuber with > one million subscribers.
Melchizedek··on Asian woman who quit Google: 'The culture there is really discouraging'
> Men hold 75% of Google's leadership roles

Since men are 69% of the company it looks like they are only slightly overrepresented in leadership roles.

> just 2% of its employees are black, 4% Hispanic, and 35% Asian.

Doesn't this mean that Asians are way overrepresented?

> She told Levin of a white male coworker who suggested she got her job more easily because people would think she was good at math.

The horror! Looking at PISA scores from Asian countries or SAT results, it seems to be absolutely the case that Asians, on average, are "good at math". Honestly, people who work at freaking Google and don't have worse problems than this should count themselves lucky to be part of the 0.1% most privileged individuals in the world and have the decency to keep their spoiled mouths shut.

Melchizedek··on Spotify is now deciding what music is politically acceptable for listening
> material that favors hatred or incites violence against race, religion, sexuality, or the like is not tolerated by us

Wouldn't this make a lot of rap music intolerable to Spotify?

Melchizedek··on Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
http://revcom.us/

There are many, many others.

Melchizedek··on Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
There are tons of leftist sites advocating violent revolution. I haven't heard of a single one being denied domain registration (or being banned in any other way).
Melchizedek··on Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
>that's why all countries that do not have USA style free speech are dictatorships

They partly are. The USA, for all its faults, is the last bastion of free speech in the world. And I say this as a European.

Melchizedek··on Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
It's the sci-fi version of nuking two cities and firebombing every civilian population center in an entire country.
Melchizedek··on Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
Of course, if this was leftist speech we were talking about, the "arguments" would be all about evil capitalists and the need for legislation to protect free speech.
Melchizedek··on The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science
There is money in tech so women have an interest in playing victim to gain advantages. There are also a few males who hope to gain status for themselves and securing their own position by taking the women's side (while keeping other men down).

Men who play (or are) victims on the other hand are generally ridiculed or ignored, so there is no advantage in doing so.

Behind ideas there is usually self interest.

Melchizedek··on Lawsuit: Sexual harassment ‘victim’ was San Francisco business rival in disguise
Why do you assume false rape accusations are rare? They seem to be fairly common:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape#Rum...

Melchizedek··on Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
Student loans?
Melchizedek··on Dev Bootcamp Shutting Down
Diversity usually means diversity of race, sometimes gender and sexual orientation, hardly ever age or wealth, and never diversity of opinion.
Melchizedek··on Ask HN: Victim of an unfounded harrasement accusation. Your thoughts?
And are you in competition with any female for a position? Are there female interns? If so, suspect those individuals.
Melchizedek··on Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe
While I don't think a manager should be allowed to proposition reports for sex, you hint at another problem that is almost never discussed (unlike harassment which is very often talked about):

Women (mostly) who have relationships with superiors in order to advance their careers. Or women who have relationships with superiors because they are attracted to them (often because they are attracted to power/authority/resources) and as a side effect advance their careers.

This is unfair and demoralizing to other employees, gets the wrong people promoted and consequently damages the organization. Yet it seems like this is hardly ever mentioned as a problem.

Perhaps this is more of an issue in Europe where I'm based, while the US tends to be more strict even in this regard?

Melchizedek··on ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
Once social justice warriors converge an organization, the organization is doomed, because their goal of perverted "justice" is much more important to them than the goals of the organization itself, and they are perfectly willing to sacrifice the latter.
Melchizedek··on ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
That's because he repelled all the positive particles with his virtue signaling.
Melchizedek··on Browse Against the Machine
I trusted them until they de facto fired a prominent employee for his political opinions - opinions shared by a large portion of the population.

If they can do that to an employee, what can't they do to you, an anonymous user?

That said, I stick with Firefox for private use. But the trust is gone.

Melchizedek··on The Dark Side of Doctoring
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.

Karl Marx

Melchizedek··on Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (2010)
Perhaps it is also the case that many mathematicians are far to the autism side of the spectrum, and find it difficult to verbalize "soft" aspects such as motivation and intuition, even though those are extremely important in a textbook.

It's almost as if they partly lack theory of mind, and cannot imagine that somebody else does not know what they know, and consequently give explanations that are only suitable for someone who already knows the material.

Melchizedek··on The meaning of life in a world without work
If religion is a "virtual reality game" then it is one with very real world effects. For instance, only religious people reproduce - the rest have sub replacement level birth rates.

Though I suppose one could regard liberalism and its sub-ideologies (feminism, diversity-ism, etc.) as virtual reality games as well, with the real world effect of not having children.

Melchizedek··on Wealth isn’t created at the top, it is merely devoured there
Nor is it created at the bottom, where it is spent or destroyed. It is created in the middle, by the middle class.

The middle class is the class that feeds the unproductive classes at both the top and the bottom. And the unproductive have formed a political alliance where the bottom votes for the top in exchange for handouts, all paid for by the middle.

Melchizedek··on The Case for Shyness
The problem with the extroverts is that they don't produce much useful work, unless their work is really tied to extroversion, such as in sales. Otherwise they mostly just run around being extroverted in my experience.

The problem for the introverts is that their contributions may go unrecognized because they don't "sell" themselves. This is of course is a problem for the company as well since incentives are skewed -- from actually doing real work that benefits the company to selling your own person inside the organization (which provides zero value to customers).

Melchizedek··on How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on a Resume (2016)
Sometimes I think the real purpose of all this talk about gender is to hide the real discrimination, which is mostly about class, and nepotism among the elite.
Melchizedek··on Comparing ancient and modern genomes for cognitive ability variants
How do you explain the IQ difference between, say, American whites and blacks? They should have similar parasite load and nutritional status.
Melchizedek··on Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
People will stop switching to gab.ai? Twitter actually thrives on conflict - stop trying to turn it into a safe space for the easily offended! Or at least don't force it to be a neutered safe space for everyone - leave it up to the users to turn it into that for themselves, not for everyone else.
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