Month: August 2017

I’m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you. For example, we could look to the percentage of women majoring in computer science at highly selective colleges and universities. Women currently make up about 30 percent of the computer science majors at Stanford University, one key source of Google’s elite… Continue reading Debunking more STEM sexism

Why are so women underrepresented in computer science? Why not turn it around and ask, why are men so underrepresented in psychology? Yet there is no outrage by the left over that. Perhaps the left understands, and correctly so, that computer science is a higher status degree and career than physiology, but still, don’t blame… Continue reading Grey Notes: Forget Computer Science…Why are men underrepresented in psychology?

Tensions between North Korea and the US continue to roil the volatility markets, although the overall stock market ended the week only slightly negative. The problem is, unlike past pivotal moments such as Brexit, the 2017 French election, and the 2016 US presidential election, there is no deadline for when North Korea will act. This… Continue reading North Korea : What Happens Next

Here is the best summary I could find of the North Korea situation: North Korea Finalizing Test Missile Launches Aimed Toward Guam North Korea said Thursday it is finalizing a plan to launch a salvo of four ballistic missiles off the shores of the U.S. territory of Guam, the newest provocation in the war of… Continue reading Not Worried about North Korea

2017/08/08: James Damore and Jordan Peterson discuss the memo At about 9-10 minutes in, Damore says a month ago he published the memo to a ‘skeptics’ Google group, and then it went viral from there. I and probably others assumed that he sent the memo via his Google work email account to his work contacts,… Continue reading The Google Memo, Part 2: James Damore and Jordan Peterson discuss the memo

Because Silicon Valley is the news, Apple Is Basically a Small Country Now: No modern tech company has approached the value of trading companies of the 1700s, though, and the Dutch East India Company trumps them all. The shipping juggernaut was the world’s first publicly traded company. At its height, according to several estimates, it… Continue reading Will Silicon Valley’s Tech Fortunes Dissolve like the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Vanderbilt Fortunes? No

Unfortunately but not surprisingly, James Damore got the boot and is exploring legal remedies. He could try to make the case that his memo was a work of satire that was misconstrued, but then that would mean repudiating the memo (and also his principles if he truly believes what he had written, but it could… Continue reading James Damore firing…what happens next

I’m sure by now everyone has heard of the the Google anti-diversity memo (it would be impossible not to). In years of blogging, never have I seen such a firestorm over a culture war story [2]…the amount of attention this memo has gotten is unprecedented. That in itself is noteworthy. Assuming it expresses the actual… Continue reading The Google Anti-Diversity Memo: Why is it such a big deal?

Classic Scott from 2010 Okay, we get it, you don’t like tyranny: (see “Government should fear the people…“, “Power always thinks…“, “Those who give up liberty for security…“, et cetera)   Yes, whoever would give up liberty for security deserves neither. Okay, government should fear the people rather than people the government. Sure, the tree… Continue reading Tyranny advances under the banner of freedom