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New comment by ps4fanboy in "Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit"

ps4fanboy — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 00:35:20 +0000

I would hardly call pointing out the judges membership in La Raza a latino supremacist group racist?

New comment by ps4fanboy in "MySpace accounts leaked, among the user info leaked with LinkedIn and Tumblr"

ps4fanboy — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 06:51:33 +0000

"The passwords were stored as unsalted SHA-1" criminal negligence

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up in their careers"

ps4fanboy — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:50:15 +0000

Now to find women who want their husbands to stay at home looking after the kids while she works, good luck with that. And to be clear unless 50% of the coupled women out there commit to this you wont see any meaningful change in how society perceives stay at home dads, which currently is "lazy"

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up in their careers"

ps4fanboy — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:48:22 +0000

Because women dont want to marry men who want to be primary stay at home dads, some do, but I have never met a woman who wants that. Most of the women I speak to when asked think its a little bit funny.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Diversity and Inclusion at GitHub"

ps4fanboy — Fri, 27 May 2016 02:46:59 +0000

I dont have time to review all 15 citations, it was the first one I picked based on the claim made in your document. It was also the most closely related claim that you linked to the document in question:

>"An investigation of 500 U.S. businesses found that companies with more race and gender diverse teams had higher sales revenue, more customers, greater market share, and greater profits than did less diverse companies.4"

You are being very uncharitable to suggest I am "grasping at straws" by reviewing the very document you are using as evidence.

Lets review page 3, each paragraph is a claim.

1. executive boards

2. executive boards

3. top management level

4. top management teams

5. greater profit and market share

6. student study make believe

Now you can see why I Chose 5 to investigate as 1-4,6 are pretty much unrelated to what we are talking about which is diversity of the work force, not high level management.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Diversity and Inclusion at GitHub"

ps4fanboy — Fri, 27 May 2016 01:01:44 +0000

After reading the sources I would say there is evidence that employees in the survey they conducted self reported better financial performance from the following options:

"how would you compare your organization’s performance over the past two years in terms of market share? .|.|. Would you say that it was (1) much worse, (2) somewhat worse, (3) about the same, (4) somewhat better, or (5) much better?”

Surely we can be more factual than this?

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Diversity and Inclusion at GitHub"

ps4fanboy — Thu, 26 May 2016 23:41:09 +0000

I dont want to live or work in a society where employees at every company reflect the demographics of that society, where everyone gets equal pay, feels less and less like diversity and more and more about conformity. Its the road to socialism, if all of this diversity was valuable the market will reward companies accordingly.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley"

ps4fanboy — Wed, 25 May 2016 22:54:46 +0000

White men dont have a monopoly on racism.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley"

ps4fanboy — Wed, 25 May 2016 22:00:05 +0000

I see people lying all the time in life, about everything, then I read stories like this and they seem cringe and unreal with no reason to believe they are true. But there is this pressure to believe them because its about sexism or racism and we should take this story as true because skepticism is bad, I find it really difficult to resolve these feelings of distrust, human beings are just overall untrust worthy.

EDIT: I guess I broke the #ListenAndBelieve rule.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley"

ps4fanboy — Wed, 25 May 2016 21:57:37 +0000

Sounds like a great way to get hit with a libel case.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Open-Sourcing Twitter Heron"

ps4fanboy — Wed, 25 May 2016 21:55:01 +0000

If twitter's stock price continues to fall maybe they will open source the entire stack.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Australia’s Offshore Cruelty"

ps4fanboy — Wed, 25 May 2016 06:51:00 +0000

Paid for legal counsel has been refused, you said its a human right to have council not to have someone else pay for it.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Australia’s Offshore Cruelty"

ps4fanboy — Wed, 25 May 2016 00:20:41 +0000

Citation needed, but I agree all those things are bad and have nothing to do with the concept of offshore processing, I agree that things should be more transparent but I do not think that would work in the favor of those who are detractors of the scheme. It should also be noted that Saudi Arabia is on the council for human rights with the UN, so I wouldn't hold their opinion very high.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Australia’s Offshore Cruelty"

ps4fanboy — Tue, 24 May 2016 23:36:21 +0000

Legal representation isnt a human right.

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Additionally I haven't seen anything to suggest that the government is denying them from taking on their own legal council?

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Australia’s Offshore Cruelty"

ps4fanboy — Tue, 24 May 2016 23:18:41 +0000

I am talking about the news/journalism, the avenue I would expect to actually drill into the facts, I feel like if there was a human story of a specific group of people who were legitimate Asylum Seekers it would have been written by now, the fact that it hasnt doesnt fill me with confidence.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Australia’s Offshore Cruelty"

ps4fanboy — Tue, 24 May 2016 23:17:31 +0000

It is an incredibly important distinction, those found not to be valid are asked to return to their country of origin, how many of the people in these centers have been processed and refuse to leave?

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Australia’s Offshore Cruelty"

ps4fanboy — Tue, 24 May 2016 23:01:25 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...

Australia is #23

United States is #40

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Australia’s Offshore Cruelty"

ps4fanboy — Tue, 24 May 2016 22:58:09 +0000

What if that is what is happening and the people in these detention centers just refuse to go home, I have never seen a single article sharing the stories of these refugees showing how they are actually legitimate refugees, just affectionate language aimed at making you feel sorry for them and angry at the government.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Australia’s Offshore Cruelty"

ps4fanboy — Tue, 24 May 2016 22:53:24 +0000

How do you tell the difference when everyone who comes by boat claims to be a refugee? Lets not forget they catch planes to Indonesia and then board boats, why not claim asylum in Indonesia?

Lets all get on the same page as well, this is how the United Nation defines an asylum seeker:

The United Nations 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees guides national legislation concerning political asylum. Under these agreements, a refugee (or for cases where repressing base means has been applied directly or environmentally to the defoulé refugee) is a person who is outside their own country's territory (or place of habitual residence if stateless) owing to fear of persecution on protected grounds. Protected grounds include race, caste, nationality, religion, political opinions and membership and/or participation in any particular social group or social activities.

Fleeing poor living conditions or a civil war, do not fall under this description.

New comment by ps4fanboy in "Australia’s Offshore Cruelty"

ps4fanboy — Tue, 24 May 2016 22:46:58 +0000

Because more liberal refugee policy is working so great for Europe right now. I have never seen any one who is for refugees/illegal immigrants (queue jumpers) explain how a better system would work, just that the current system is unjust and broken?