Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by SamReidHughes on Saturday August 05, 2017 @10:51PM
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In the context of there being measurable differences between the sets of males and females, 99% is binary enough.
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Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by Pulcinella on Saturday August 05, 2017 @11:13PM
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"99% server uptime is enough!"
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by LyndsySimon on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:19AM
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Indeed - we design systems to operate under the expectation that services are available. We handle their not being available as an exceptional case.
This seems analogous; we should design social structures (or allow social structures to emerge) that assume that individuals are male or female, but which handle the exceptional case of non-cisgendered individuals. Just like a software system that doesn't handle exceptions gracefully, a social system that lacks provisions for these is fundamentally flawed and can fail unexpectedly and potentially catastrophically.
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by gspetr on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:32PM
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Catastrophically how?
Society also lacks "provisions" for violent criminals[0] but it still handles them and is yet to fail catastrophically.
[0] I'm not equating these two categories of people, merely illustrating that your example of comparing software exceptions to people is deeply flawed.