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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by yummyfajitas on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @07:41PM (#9337909)
What kind of discrimination (if any) do you believe can be common without triggering the negative consequences you describe?

I ask because you seem to be describing a world in which discrimination basically can't exist due to market self-regulation - i.e., all our industries problems are basically solved, which seems to differ from your usual position.

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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by tptacek on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @09:12PM (#9338237)
With apologies, I do not believe you are discussing this in good faith, and I think the distinction I am drawing is clear enough.
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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by chetanahuja on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @10:51PM (#9338567)
Fwiw I think the parent of your comment asked a very reasonable question and it's not really clear what distinction you are drawing from your GP comment.
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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by pen2l on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @02:36AM (#9339086)
That was a beautiful deflection. Your career is in politics tptacek.
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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by yummyfajitas on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @08:28AM (#9340269)
Your second sentence is more hostile than needed.

One of the reasons I ask Tom these questions that he is one of the more rational folks on HN, particularly on other issues. It's pretty clear that he realizes he made a mistake, hence the deflection. Making a mostly rational person feel attacked is only likely inhibit their logical mind.

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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by hueving on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @10:36PM (#9338515)
Just respond with a clear answer if there is a distinction. Don't resort to ad homs.
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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @12:52AM (#9338838)
The parent seemed to be describing a world in which that specific and blatant form of discrimination can't exist, not all forms of discrimination.
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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by yummyfajitas on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @08:17AM (#9340221)
Hence my question - what kind of discrimination can exist in such a world?
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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @06:19PM (#9344475)
Not the kind where a board of wangbangers sit in their castle surrounded by scantily-clad ice sculptures and give toasts "to female misery," believe it or not.
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