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funkythingssson Most male managers are afraid to have one-on-one meetings with female employees

This is what #meetoo has come to. The genders being afraid of each other. Thanks, social media. Social media just removes any and all possibilities of nuance and makes people angry

funkythingssson Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

I hate jupyter notebooks. Joel Grus puts it perfectly: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh...

past hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856700

funkythingssson How healthy is the internet?

I fundamentally disagree with Mozillas notion of "openness". The internet always was open to LGBTQI+ people. The internet does not discriminate. Get an account named X. Done.

Problems only arise when professional activists try to change existing communities. E.g. the new linux kernel code of conduct and it's, let's say "questionable", author.

funkythingssson Disappointing Findings on Anti-Poverty Cash Transfers in the USA

Why is this surprising? Most anti-poverty measures are ineffective. The "war on poverty" has not worked in a single metric. Affirmative action hasn't changed a thing. The only thing that can get you out of poverty is a good family structure, a culture built on performance (Chinese, Indian culture takes this waaaay to far, but it's a start).