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Re:Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home by toomuchtodo on Thursday January 11, 2018 @02:37PM (#16127057)
I work at a traditional enterprise. My (non radical) opinions don’t get me fired (versus the greater tech community).

It’s amusing to see these comments fluctuate wrt karma so quickly for the simple thesis that women might have traits that allow them to be better managers. I even come with study citations!

My condolences to those of you who might work somewhere where your livelihood is threatened for freedom of thought. The job market is great right now FYI.

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Re:Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home by alexman on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:18PM (#16127416)
I don't get it: do comments get downvoted on HN whenever there's any mention of or opinion on difference between genders? Disagreement shouldn't lead to downvote.
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Re:Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home by lurr on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:13PM (#16127922)
> Disagreement shouldn't lead to downvote

Actually PG said the opposite. I used to have the comment saved, but lost it in a format.

Anyway, people also downvote because they are sick of talking about this.

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Re:Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home by alexman on Friday January 12, 2018 @12:42AM (#16130658)
I'm surprised if PG did say that. If disagreement should lead to downvote, then unpopular opinions would not see the light of day.

Also, if one's sick of discussing a topic, s/he can simply don't read about or discuss it. Why prevent others from discussing it?

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Re:Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home by dang on Friday January 12, 2018 @03:15AM (#16131314)
Things pg said about downvotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691

It's how HN has always worked, and in my opinion needs to. A site that cares about discussion quality needs those white blood cells.

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Re:Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home by alexman on Friday January 12, 2018 @06:13PM (#16137127)
Thanks for sharing the threads. I always think that downvoting is for discouraging bad arguments from DH0 to DH3 [1] (for discussion quality as you mentioned). Now I realize that even convincing arguments at DH6 can be downvoted as long as one disagrees with it.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

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