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Re:Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians? by solipsism on Saturday October 15, 2016 @05:38AM (#12713393)
most of modern science and technology was discovered/invented by white men. Lack of diversity didn't become a handicap for them

I believe there are probably good arguments for diversity being overvalued. That is not one of them. That would flunk you out of Logic 101.

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Re:Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians? by ken47 on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:53AM (#12714393)
I'm not sure why this is down voted. Just because X historically achieved A doesn't imply that achievement(X+Y) <= A, so you can't deduce the absence of a handicap from that.
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