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Fuller-Wright, a NASA-funded researcher:
"She didn't want to go," Soviet space scientists told me. "At the last minute, she panicked, and they had to strap her into her seat against her will."
It is not actually possible to take words in a threaded conversation out of context and twist them. The entire thread and your unaltered, original words are right there, for all to see.
Equating Tereshkova to a dog is as disrespectful as it is dishonest.
1. Yes she threw up in space. So do ALL astronauts. So much so that NASA has procedures on how to handle that (http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/29/17970838-vomit-i...).
2. Tereshkova did not have a panic attack in space. She had a panic attack before going and was strapped into the seat against her will. Again, this is not uncommon - NASA considers behavioral and psychiatric conditions a significant risk to the integrity of its missions (http://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/Risks/risk.aspx?i=99).
(An interesting aside: A 1976 Soviet space mission Союз 21 had to return early because of "interpersonal issues" but of course these were male astronauts so no one says the mission was aborted due to crew's cat fighting).
3. Tereshkova was not "unresponsive", she fixed multiple engineering/communication failures, both during flight and landing.
Your fault attribution is mis-informed. From an MIT interview with Valentina Ponomareva (http://web.mit.edu/slava/space/interview/interview-ponomarev...):
Q. What was the fate of the women's group after Tereshkova's flight?
A. It is well known that Korolev's attitude toward the presence of women at work and especially on the launching pad was very negative. He believed that on a launching pad, like on a ship, a woman brings misfortune.
(Korolev was the head of the Soviet space program at the time).
Carnegie Hall, specifically, is known for enabling sub-par performers to rent the space (along with all its prestige and history, of course). Yes you can "get to Carnegie Hall" on talent alone - OR you can just pay your way in. Rentals start at just above $1,000 (for one of the smaller auditoriums on a weekday) and go up to $20k (for the main Stern auditorium on a Saturday night). To put this in perspective, if you get the most expensive rental and sell out its 2,800 seats at just $10 per ticket (the rental fee includes ticket marketing and sales by Carnegie Hall, by the way), you will pocket $8k in profits.
In the music world, this is a well known punchline to the "how do you get to Carnegie Hall" joke. Lots of people get in that way, such as the Tiger Mom's daughter, as one famous example. (And let me tell you... as a classical music lover duped into attending these performances because of the Carnegie Hall brand - they suck).
There is an interesting parallel to another front-page post on HN today, Entrepreneurs don't have a gene for risk – they come from families with money (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10151566). This quote fits especially nicely: "So while yes, there's certainly a lot of hard work that goes into building something, there's also a lot of privilege involved - a factor that is often underestimated."
The fact that you immediately equated "diversity" to "lowering your hiring bar" and "under-performing" is as ignorant as it is insulting.
Women and brown people are not lower quality humans, and it has been shown over and over and over that companies who hire for diversity perform better.
The scenario you bring up is a 2-party scenario between a client (the passenger) and a service provider (the driver) while Uber claims to be in a 3-party scenario where they are a software-based logistics service in-between the passenger and the driver. Their entire legal argument is resting on the claim that they are merely facilitating the scheduling and the payment of the ride.
Incidentally, if it were a 2-party scenario where you required a specific contractor to be available on demand, you would probably be their legal employer. A mandated, regular schedule is indeed one the main tests when distinguishing between an employee and a contractor. I have worked as a software contractor in the US for over almost 15 years and the employers, especially the larger ones with proper HR departments, have been careful to define my work in terms of skills and deliverables, not hours worked.
They [...] keep their own hours, NEVER have to work if they don't want to and 0 consequences for working or not working specific hours.
Not true. I know someone who drives for Uber. Just last month, he was suspended because he did not want to drive during low-demand hours (when he literally loses money). Uber drivers are, in fact, required to (a) work when they don't want to and (b) work specific hours.
As someone in this 62%, I can tell you that the numbers may be correct but the terms are anything but. Men hear "rape fantasies" and think real rape, while women think "intense sex with a hot stranger which requires no effort on my part and furthermore absolves me of any decision making so no one can brand me a hoe".
As always, it helps to remember that women are people and therefore the overwhelming majority do not fantasize about actually being tortured and possibly killed or maimed for life. (Not saying that the parent actually said anything to that effect, just trying to drive home the point that these stats use bad terminology).
Edit: for some reason I cannot reply so I will post an answer here.
Is the survey methodology flawed in what they ask the respondents?
I think so. The linked study said it counted self-reported incidents of fantasies of sexual encounters that fall within "the legal definition of rape", and that's where I have a problem. The central point of the legal definition of rape is the lack of consent. So how could sexual fantasies, which are by their nature something you want in that moment, be counted as non-consensual? You are asking people about a consensual sexual scenario that's only staged as non-consensual but then you are counting it as non-consensual. It's like asking people if they fantasize about the doctor/nurse scenario (or whatever) and when 20% report that they've had that fantasy, you conclude that 20% of the population wish they had a serious illness.
I am quite grossed out by the racist and misogynist media coverage of the "missing avocado" incident. Every single article about the case makes sure to mention that it was a female juror against a male juror and some of the articles also point out that the accuser is asian while the accused is white. How are these factoids relevant to the incident, or the larger case?
The real story: two months into the project, Karma founders Dayne Rathbone and Clyde Rathbone realize that they are not happy with their contractor, Artem Andreenko. DR & CR threaten AA that unless he gives them a full refund, they would publish a name-and-shame article about him. AA disagrees, Karma founders follow through on their threat and publish the piece.
From the article:
We discuss how much money we should ask Artem to refund us. We consider all the time and energy he’s cost us in addition to the cash, and decide to request all our money back.
A search on GoDaddy informs me that www.artemandreenko.com is available. I buy it and begin writing this blog.
The following day Clyde and I had our last chat with Artem. We were interested to see his reaction to a draft of this blog, and to give Artem the opportunity to decide how the story ends.
You say "karma", I say "shake-down".
P.S. Negative review blackmail has been around for a long time: https://www.google.com/search?q=negative+review+blackmail. Your startup is not doing anything new.
P.P.S. Biggest lesson of all? When you use GoDaddy, Bad Things are bound to happen.
If that were true, female engineers would have higher divorce rates.
I jump rope on two yoga mats, one on top of the other. I've done it without a couple times and noticed the very next day. FYI I am just over a 100 lbs but I also jump for 30-40 minutes, depending on the show I am watching.
There are currently 5 linked list tutorials on Lynda.com:
They passed a similar law here in the US (http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/loud-commercials) but unfortunately, it did not help very much because sound engineers use tricks that make the commercials meet the technical requirements while still being loud to the human ear. For example, they mix a loud opening and a quieter closing so the overall decibel level averages out but you still get startled when the commercial starts.
If you were as confused by the "Magic Pitch" requirement as I was, here is an explanation from the startup itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XqYXP1Azsk&t=1m18s
Essentially, they want candidates to pitch to employers using a short video.
The idea of candidate videos has been floated about since before YouTube. I remember discussing it with a large job board owner over 10 years ago, and several times since, and there's always been a consensus that no real company would touch it with a 10 foot pole, mainly because seeing the candidate means you know their age, race and gender, all protected employment categories. It's a complete non-starter, and the founder is being really naive for his failure to look around and realize that if no one is doing something so painfully obvious and easy to implement, the market has spoken.
For what it's worth, attaching a photo to your resume, while taboo in the English speaking world, is acceptable in some European countries (Italy, Germany, France) and even preferred in some Asian countries. Personally, I hope this practice dies out, because of all the discrimination it inevitably leads to. I recall a large study that showed that attractive women (surprise) and unattractive men received significantly fewer callbacks compared to unattractive women/attractive men and/or when their photo was added to their otherwise identical resume.
Torvalds graduated from college with a Master's in Comp Sci.
My husband has medium-severity OSA and he went to a dentist who specializes in oral appliances for OSA. It's a million times better than CPAP, I cannot recommend it highly enough. Truly life-changing for OSA sufferers.
Compare US numbers in RH guide to the wages listed on the Department of Labor website, Wages By Occupation. Across the board, the lowest RH number matches the average DOL number. For example, salaries for non-senior web developers are listed at $65k-$95k per RH and at $67k on average for all web developers per DOL (http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151134.htm).
RH numbers track what I see out in the field much more closely (being a developer myself, hiring other developers, and sharing compensation information within my professional circle). I've always been curious as to how DOL comes by their numbers, they just seem so low.
Many friends of mine have met their significant others through spontaneous interactions like this.
And how is that relevant in a thread about someone who collects women's phone numbers and then does NOT actually call them?
This is rather insulting to so-called "unattractive" girls.
Yes. Which is why I pointed that out. Read the whole exchange please.
I don't understand. I am telling you what my actual experience was, and you are saying it must be a hyperbole because... you personally find it hard to believe? I've re-read your comment several times and all I can see is that you've added up the numbers and then just decided that they cannot possibly be true.
Your Helen of Troy put-down has nothing to do with my comment. If I were to say that I get hundreds of spam emails every day, it would be a statement of fact, not a claim that I am so rich that I make King Midas look destitute. You don't have to look like the most beautiful woman in history to get hit on, you just need to be conventionally attractive and physically present.
Your comment does not compute: SeanDav collects women's phone numbers but does not actually call them.
I appreciate that you are relaying your sisters' experiences and I want to respect that they may be different from mine. I hope you can equally respect that I am speaking from personal experience as well, as opposed to watching those "staged" (huh?) street harassment videos. It is not a hyperbole to me, my twenties were spent getting hit on every 5 minutes while in public. Granted this was in NYC where street harassment is especially egregious.
Practice is great! Girls want to meet guys as much as guys want to meet girls! Here is my take on how to do it respectfully:
1) Do not limit yourself to only the prettiest girls. The whole beautiful girl/rich guy dichotomy is ugly. Do you want to be seen as a full-spectrum human being and not just a walking wallet? Then see girls as full-spectrum human beings and not just tits on legs.
2) For god's sake, do not set up a lose-lose situation for the other person. SeanDev's practice method has two possible outcomes: if the girl does not like him, well then he just added to the endless stream of go-nowhere "sales calls" that she has to answer all day long; but if she does like him, then she feels sad and disappointed that he didn't call for a date. The whole thing is just so... disingenuous and defeatist.
3) Practice in an environment where girls are actually looking to meet guys. Dating sites is one obvious example, bars is another. Ambushing women as they go about their daily business is problematic. Human interactions are complex and there are no scripts but the closer you can get to implied consent the better.
3a) It's hard for anyone to meet sexually/intellectually/temperamentally compatible people on the street. I am a conventionally attractive woman; I've been approached on the street probably over 10,000 times (a totally unscientific but conservative back-of-the-envelope estimate) and I can tell you that it's never led to anything. Bars and parties have better outcomes, and being out and about doing fun stuff has yet better outcomes. For example yoga and volunteering are over-run by women, at least in cities where I've lived.
4) The initial conversation with someone you want to get with is no different than the initial conversation with someone you have no interest in getting with. I think that's the hardest thing for some guys to wrap their head around, hence all the weird "cheat codes for women" floating about. Social anxiety is a real thing but there is no rule that you need to hit on the prettiest girl in the room to get over it. I've practiced my social skills on strangers that I have no interest in, and it's helped me a lot. Granted my social anxiety is not very high to begin with - if yours is debilitating, see a doctor, it's treatable!
Speaking of social anxiety. I don't want to re-open the whole Scott Aaronson debacle either but since you mentioned him I'd like to point out that he actually went to a physician to request castration as a solution to his social anxiety issues so we are talking about an exceptionally disturbed individual who attempted a full-on sexual suicide. The vast majority of people - men and women both - are not looking to "kill" themselves so I think it's superfluous to bring him into this discussion. I don't mean that as a jab, I just mean that it is unhelpful to mentally lump yourself in with someone like SA.
Except women are people, not inanimate objects to bounce balls off of. Those women did not choose to participate in SeanDav's practice, and it was not cost-free to them to be used and discarded that way.
More to brazzy's point, SeanDav doesn't get to decide how he comes across to people. Pretty young women get hit on constantly and it is really exhausting and demoralizing to be rudely interrupted every five minutes while out in public, by people who pretend to be friendly but clearly have ulterior motives. The girl - who was, by definition, interrupted for the umpteenth time that day - likely considered the interruption unpleasant and at least somewhat creepy. Withdrawing "if the situation becomes uncomfortable" is taking it many, many steps too far and is frankly wishful thinking - people in general, and girls especially, are not socialized to tell people to f--ck off right away so by the time the situation is so uncomfortable that the girl actually asks you to leave her alone, it is way past discomfort for her.
Not to mention that if all you really want to do is practice free-throws, you don't need to bust your way into the most elite basketball court to do it. Nothing wrong with practicing within your league. Why couldn't he get phone numbers from unattractive girls, or boys?
The whole sentence reads You're Jet Insider No. 100,000 (or whatever your number is). The number probably loads from a separate service, there is a noticeable delay before it renders.
How do the judges know that you are supporting the EFF and not the other way around? Does it have to be a suit or could you wear a t-shirt to indicate which side you are on?
That professors are human is hardly a revelation.
Did you just equate being human to forcing unwanted sexual interactions on individuals under your power and stewardship? Wow. Just wow.
cutting off students in the middle of study...
It may cut off a few students this one time but the overall effect is to improve study conditions for multiple students for years to come.
There is an option to "Download All Files".
The first thing that greeted me when I signed in (with my existing Prime membership) was an upload window titled "Drag photos and videos here".