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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:27PM (#13396873)
Seems like bullshit. As someone who's been doing a lot of interviewing recently the ratio of male to female SDE candidates is at least 10:1. If we assume that ability is uniformly distributed there is literally no way to get to a 50:50 split or anywhere close to it without discrimination.
Re:Why Do Islands Induce Dwarfism? on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @02:25PM (#11948106)
I don't know, Polynesians and Samoans seem plenty large to me.
Re:Google's diversity post makes no mention of age on Thursday May 29, 2014 @02:52PM (#7817901)
That's because Indians get lumped under Asians. Not sure about people of middle eastern origin.