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No shit. That's the actual part of this worth discussing. The "whodunnit" topic is just a massive deflection. It's insane how many people are delusional enough to explain it away to themselves. "Oh, Hillary would have won anyway, so it doesn't matter." Really? It doesn't matter? So by this...

A lot of us are convinced that election fraud has been happening in the USA for a long while. There are two main genres of it: A). The passive aggressive kind. This is like your 65 year old who has been a registered Democrat for 35 years and works at a voting booth during election season...

Of course I did. And are you disagreeing, or....?

Yup. I'm with you. For whatever bizarre fucked up reason, society is obsessed with cars as a fashion symbol. People wear their cars like it is a piece of jewelry or nice clothing. The real purists will even babble incoherently about the "engineering beauty" of the sports cars, or talk about...

People have enthusiasms for all sorts of events. You could argue successfully that even racing around your "real circuit" is nothing like real world conditions. You could also argue that all car racing is completely arbitrary and fruitless. After all, if you want to get somewhere nearby fast...

A model rocket could easily do this, for a few hundred dollars.

OK first of all I'm on my fourth cup of coffee, so this may come off as abrupt and scattered. Bear with me. One of the major flaws in your reasoning is thinking that the proportions at play here are going to carry over to places like Google (5% black CS majors implies 5% of Google's software...

I'm not really making all that many assumptions, and the ones I am making aren't critical. I think your view here is skewed because you aren't appreciating just how small all these numbers really are. People think of concepts like "the population" and "the workforce" and they're used to...

Is this really that hard to believe? Google is an elite tech company, even when compared to the likes of Microsoft and Apple. Google might be considered the elite, although I have heard it's also nearly impossible to get a job at Facebook. Let's think about this logically. How...

Holy shit, you took his bait, hook line and sinker. Those companies do not show that they have decent representation. They merely show that they have slightly less white people than there exist as the national average. So what? How is that decent? How does that say anything at all about...

The irony. Cool. My specialty is discrete mathematics, the father of both of those fields. edit: Actually, my specialty is not discrete mathematics, but is far more specific than that...Like any specialty...It was a tongue in cheek response to you "specializing" in statistics and OR, when the...

OK. So you're an undergrad. Believe me, if taking a couple analysis classes is your claim to fame, you might find yourself outmoded by a substantial amount here on Ars. As a demographic, we're pretty literate...And if you went to a decent school, analysis is an intro course... But you're...

I assume you also know that there are many "technology people" who are also prodigiously talented in social fields and business. Since you supposedly "studied mathematics," you should know that it only takes one counter-example to disprove the theorem. It's amazing to me that you're talking...

...Do you have any actual evidence that this is happening within the tech industry? I can easily believe that white men are well represented compared to other demographics, of course. I'd have a harder time believing that gay white men are particularly underrepresented compared to their...

Hahaha. Trolling, I assume. Yeah, anybody who is "techno-obsessed" automatically "lacks business sense." Sounds like the kind of bullshit a freshly minted MBA will spew after they glance at their tuition bill.

This doesn't line up with reality. There are people who don't care about your educational background, but it's less and less. It is very common these days for employers to want to see a degree in computer science. It's possible to make a lot of money working for yourself in something like...

He sounds like a typical human resources department nitwit shit-for-brains. The kind of person who glances over the resume and looks for the keywords and the claims of skill. If all the skills are there and they are of the correct ethnic background, then clearly they must be hired! If the...

Happens to poor white families as well. Every heard the expression "white trash?" It's an incredibly racist term and yet our society tolerates it. Louis CK has a pretty hilarious skit where he talks about how tolerant we are as a society of this kind of racism. One of the most disgusting...

This is such a misguided topic. You can't fix this issue by changing hiring practices. This problem is so far removed from the discussion at hand. The problem starts with many minority groups receiving a much lower quality of education beginning as young as age 5. Then throw in a less healthy...

I had Cortana completely disabled. Now, it's enabled and impossible to turn off. This is with a "Professional" license. Just another greedy data grab. They want that data so badly they are going after the < 5% of people who had Cortana turned off, with a sharp aggression. You can't even...