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warloxon American Children Are Drowning in Self-Esteem

> after we managed to escape from the bloody hugs. I don't know who invented hugs, but I hate him.

Yet you're from France, where people kiss each other as a greeting.

warloxon Angela Merkel: internet search engines are 'distorting perception'

The speech that is illegal in Germany is the type that encourages genocide of particular ethnic/religious groups.

I, for one, believe that we should throw all members of your ethnic group into gas chambers and incinerate your bodies. I'm legally allowed to say this because I live in the USA.

warloxon Angela Merkel: internet search engines are 'distorting perception'

Unfortunately for you, reality itself and events that actually occurred have a pro-Clinton bias. Trump did actually shit all over himself during the debates. Google is merely reflecting reality in this case.

warloxon Overview of JavaScript ES6 features

That's the natural result of being unable to remove any features to maintain legacy compatibility.

warloxon Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal [pdf]

It's very easy to find people you can't teach <insert concept here> to. All it requires is a trip to the residential care home.

warloxon Bootcamps vs. College

Isn't not letting C students graduate a good thing?

warloxon Bootcamps vs. College

Simply out of curiosity, how did you get anyone to hire you at 13? Wouldn't child labor laws be a huge disincentive for someone to hire you?

warloxon Bootcamps vs. College

Does this include the CS graduate from BYU-Idaho or Oral Roberts University?

warloxon Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit

I don't think those are reddit's only problems. The blatant racism on display in the comment sections of some of the site's most heavily trafficked areas, such as /r/worldnews and /r/news, does quite a number on its reputation.

warloxon Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit

Their private areas of the internet, namely Stormfront, predate Reddit. Before Reddit allowed racists and moot created /pol/, they didn't have a real platform to spread their propaganda, so you had to look pretty hard for sites like that. If they only had private forums, events like the Charleston shooting wouldn't have happened.

warloxon Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit

So will you allow neo-Nazis, white nationalists, misogynists, and other bigots to spread their bigoted views on your site? Because if you do, it's gonna turn into Voat.

warloxon Three teen sisters who win medals in coding competitions

Communist revolutions threw out the old order entirely, including the part where women were considered inferior to men. There was never such a revolutionary change in the West.

warloxon “I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pinterest engineer on sexism

The t-shirt dude didn't take no for an answer. He did that after he tried to corner her in a dark room.

warloxon “I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pinterest engineer on sexism

Giving a woman a t-shirt with your name on it after she shot you down for trying to corner her in a dark room is sexual harassment because it's a repeated sexual advance targeted towards someone who has made it clear that she is not interested. You can find the definition of sexual harassment on the government website that defines it.

warloxon “I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pinterest engineer on sexism

Sexual harassment is pervasive throughout all industries. I was replying to a comment that was ridiculously dismissive of a clear example of sexual harassment without speaking specifically about tech.

Basically, the law as it stands says that you can express romantic interest to a coworker once for free, but you have to drop it if they're not receptive.

warloxon “I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pinterest engineer on sexism

Would you think about leaving a firm if you were getting hit on aggressively by unattractive people as often as you got recruiter spam? That's an example of what would amount to constructive dismissal (grounds for a lawsuit).

warloxon “I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pinterest engineer on sexism

One offered to give me a massage “because I looked stressed.” Another tried to get me to watch a movie with him in a dark room with the door locked and blinds closed. Later, he gave me a custom-made t-shirt with his name emblazoned across the front.

These repeated unwanted sexual advances are textbook sexual harassment, specifically creating a hostile work environment. If she had gotten them to text those things to her, she would have grounds for a lawsuit.

Here's the definition of sexual harassment:

Harassment can include “sexual harassment” or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature... harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm