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Your post is so problematic I can't even begin to dismantle it without wasting half my day.

Please keep your transphobic layman interpretation of old school medicine to your self.

gross

Zuckerberg quote from article: >I think you need to have all kinds of diversity if you want to make progress together as a society

While I do think there are benifits to idealogical diversity, I think this statement is hamfisted. Do climate deniers aid the progress of climate science? Do flat earthers contribute meaningfully to cosmology, geography or cartography? No. I believe the actual benifits of idealogical diversity stem from scepticism and falsifiability within a community (science). A flat earther physicist would add idealogical deversity to the physics community but they wouldn't contribute to the progress of the field.

In softer, less objective spheres such as social issues and politics, the same idea applies. Does giving racsim a platform in the name of diversity really progress society? Maybe it could by reinforcing the beliefs of anti-racist people and thus diminishing racism. However it could also propagate racsim regressing society, which I think is a more likely outcome.

These problems and questions do not have a simple, computable solutions. The matters of progress are entirely subjective making fair solutions nuanced and difficult to come by. That's why I think statements like the one Zuckerberg made are hamfisted because they offer a one-size-fits-all solution to these nuanced complicated problems.

DISCLAIMER: I am not taking a stance on Peter Theil and Facebook, I am just responding to rhetoric that I have seen frequently since The Election™

I am not trying to make a political stance here. I don't disagree that the media is controlled by be an elite minority.

I was simply pointing out that the rhetoric you just spewed is meaningless in this context and contributed nothing of substance to the conversation.

I suppose I am at fault here as well. I shouldn't have given such a useless comment the dignity and value provided by a response.

"Globalist media monopoly" is a line often repeated by nationalist propaganda chanels and, unfortunately, most consumers of opinion are in a rush to disagree with anything that challenges their world view.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the parent comment about sinking ships. I'm simply pointing out how easy it is to form this type of meaningless rhetoric

Can't you just use AWS or an equivalent cloud service instead of owning a server?

With the electoral college al you have to do is appeal to the mob in the swing states. Then you give that select group of voting Americans the ability to suppress the rest of the population. How is that any better?

Maybe you don't get it because you are privileged and therefore adequately represented in society

It's only ironic if you sexualize female genitalia

They are bennies with cat ears called pussy hats, not "clit hats". They were made in response to the "grab me by the pussy" remark The Donald made.

Also AFAB people have a right to destigmatize their reproductive organs. (Think about how many times a day middle school boys draw penises on things)

Now that being said, I think the pussy hats are problematic because they are trans exclusionary, which is totally unrelated to your imagined feminist hypocrisy.

Can you please elaborate on this?

A major tenant of third wave feminism is intersectionallity, which is pretty much exactly the opposite of what your just said.

it's a cultural issue, not an industry one

Industries have cultures. Cultural issues and issues within an industry's culture are not mutually exclusive by definition.

Fix your culture

That's the point of this blog post and conversation. We aren't going to fix anything by skirting blame onto greater societal forces and continue on business as normal

Notoriety is not direct evidence. People can be notorious without being guilty.

This argument is a fallacy fallacy. Sure I made a unsubstantiated claim but it doesn't contradict or invalidate my general argument.

I don't know weather other fields with a similar proportion of men have similar problems.

How is this relevant? I get the feeling that you read my comment looking for some insignificant hyperbole you could attack in order to derail my general argument to perpetuate your willful ignorance enabled by your male priveldge.

Studies highly welcome

How about listening to the _women_ in tech like the one who wrote the blog post we are commenting on?

Banking, retail, fashion, you will get such comments everywhere. A lot of men are jerks indeed but this is a social problem, not an industry one.

This is a moral equivalence fallacy, a red herring of sorts. You are saying this women's frustration with her industry is irrelevant to her industry because a handful of unrelated indusries have problems that could be similar.

This argument ignores that CS/IT is largely male and notorious are for this disgusting behavior. It's one of the only industries that had a greater percentage of women in the 80s than it does now. There are industries that do not suffer from this problem at all or nearly to the same degree.

In full, this women's expirence is directly related to overt mysogeny in industry culture and labeling it as a "social problem" willfully ignores this problem in tech thus perpetuating it further.

Caitlyn Jenner

Rude.

A trans person other than Chelsea could be reading this right now. If you do not respect her identity then it could be (and should be imo) interpreted as disregard for trans people in general

Why is enforcing the law and following policies so everybody can make a successful transition to become a US citizen a bad thing?

Because the laws are unjust. There is clearly an immigration problem in the United States and I personally don't believe tracking and deporting he people already here will ever contribute to a successful solution.

If your illegal, and most likely your not going to pay your fair share for the entitlements and services you and others use then I have zero respect for you.

Many illegal immigrants still pay taxes and will never receive direct benifits for their contribution [0]

Illegal immigrants also work jobs that you would never think of working. Remember when they deported a bunch of immigrants in the south and food was rotting in the fields because no one was there to pick it a few years ago?

it makes me very concerned when a select few organizations have the ability to discredit information across the entire site

One could look at this conversely and say it is concerning when people and oragnizations are able to use Facebook to successfully disseminate misinformation unchecked.

I personally find both sides concerning and see no clear solution.

Organisms adapt to reproduce, not to foster positive social relationships

I was mainly referring to the civil rights practices of the United States in the past (i.e. Slavery, segregation, lack of suffrage for women, etc).

The United States functioned just fine as a democracy when well over half of it's population was lacking basic rights. Civil rights aren't required in a democracy as long as a portion of the population (classically white males in the US) has the right to vote.

You can have a highly stable democracy without civil rights. Just look at the United States

Kind of ironic that the internet is being used as a tool for censorship now, given what it used to be.

Facebook != The Internet

One does not become a racist or a sexist just because some people scream so at the top of your voice.

Trump has openly normalized xenophobia, sexual assualt, religious discrimination, and more. By voting Trump you are (at the least) indirectly supporting those veiwpoints. I don't understand why people don't understand this.

FULL DISCLAIMER: I donnot support this person getting fired

It seems that you don't understand what safe spaces actually are. Safe spaces are places where marginalized groups such as LGBTQAI, racial and religious minorities, etc can express them selves without fear of violence

This is just another run of the mill update to me. I'm a developer and sys admin in research computing and to me, everything they removed I never used anyways. F-keys? Practically never use them, I much prefer keyboard shortcuts that allow me to stay closer to home row. Lack of ports? I never use them on my MacBook anyways so I don't really care Lack of power? All my heavy computing is done on remote compute clusters

Not to say that my needs are homogenous or anything. I guess my point is, from my perspective, this update isn't some catistrophic failure on apple's part, and it actually fits my needs as a professional quite well. That being said, I will definitely not buy the new MBP. My late 2011 MBP still runs flawlessly and does everything I need on the go. All I'd really want out of a new laptop is for it to be as small and light as possible. For me, the point of a laptop is to be portable, not some do-it-all machine that can hold all of Wikipedia in RAM at once

Using escape in vi is an anti pattern. Use control-[

What about the rise of global mass surveillance, climate change and income inequality?

Poverty, hunger and crime levels aren't the only metrics that gauge 'world goodness'. This article screams "Don't complain, your problems don't matter, the world is better than it ever was!"