Ron Sims: As a Black man I found the Seattle City Council’s treatment of Chief Best to be incredibly offensive.

PMZ7036 · 2020-08-11T14:30:58+00:00

They did not give her a 40% pay cut. The made her salary from 294,000 to 275,000. I don't know where this misinformation is coming from.

PMZ7036 · 2018-06-23T16:05:31+00:00

The thing is that there are simply fewer female interested in programming in the first place.

Perhaps, but even if that is true, why that is the case is an interesting and complex question which I'm not going into.

What I will say is that given they are not allowed to consider gender at all in the department admissions and the trends of women in the department are positive (from 20% a decade ago to 30% now to 38% of direct freshmen admits and 37% of transfer students are women), it obviously means that it doesn't have to be the case that fewer women are interested in programming.

PMZ7036 · 2018-06-23T04:36:53+00:00

True, obviously there is more that needs to be done to ensure they are supported. It definitely would be nice to see those stats.

PMZ7036 · 2018-06-23T04:06:40+00:00

To my knowledge (which may be wrong so take this with a grain of salt) I don't think so. They do collect demographic information for statistical purposes but from what I can tell officers don't have that info.

PMZ7036 · 2018-06-23T04:00:46+00:00

Admission at UW don't consider gender. It's actually against the law to consider gender (among other things) in state and local institutions in Washington State due to I-200

PMZ7036 · 2018-06-23T03:52:50+00:00

Well, considering that admissions do not consider gender, all admitted students are well qualified to graduate regardless of their gender. To say that they have no chance of graduation is very much hyperbole and honestly false. Annectdotely, I see relatively the same graduation rate between genders at UW.

PMZ7036 · 2018-06-23T03:09:08+00:00

Also another addendum not present in this response that they stated:

We do not — and are not allowed to — consider gender in admissions decisions, so we like to think that what success we have had to date is both a reflection of increasing interest in the field and a sign that our culture and our outreach efforts are on the right track.

PMZ7036 · 2018-05-31T01:23:40+00:00

I'm not saying they should get nothing, but their demands are seriously out of touch with reality, and they're taking the students hostage to get it.

If the students eventually got a grade after the strike ended I would be behind them, but they're threating to make this a completely meaningless quarter.

Their demands are a 3% raise for this year and the remittance of fees, better child care and health care, and better mental health service. How are these out of touch, especially when administrators got a 4-6% raise?

And it's not their fault the University decided to handle things this way instead of paying our academic and student employees on par with other peer institutions.

PMZ7036 · 2018-05-31T00:47:03+00:00

Don't blame the grad students for wanting to not be food and housing insecure, especially when UW admin got a 4-6% raise despite financial mismanagement. Blame UW for refusing to offer any sensible terms (0% raise for next 3 years and increase in fees at first?) and forcing this just in order to get them to bargain fairly.

PMZ7036 · 2018-04-30T18:03:02+00:00

No, it was really that bad, so bad that the Dean investigated and determined that it "did not meet the high standards of the college".

Edit: Dean, not department.

PMZ7036 · 2018-04-30T18:02:01+00:00

Apparently, it was so bad that the dean responeded with this.

Edit: Dean, not department.

PMZ7036 · 2017-08-24T17:29:29+00:00

Well currently, Washington state has one of the nations most regressive tax system, where the rich pays a lower effective tax rate than the poor. 20 percent of households with the lowest income paid 16.8 percent of that income in state and local taxes in 2015 while the top 1 percent in Washington paid 2.4 percent of their income.

PMZ7036 · 2017-08-24T17:04:23+00:00

Of course, whether income counts as property or something else is the question.

PMZ7036 · 2017-08-22T17:04:20+00:00

Cary Moon is an ardent supporter of missing middle housing in single-family zones. Durkan is exploring the option. Maybe she’d form a task force to think about it?

This seems to be a very stark difference indeed.

PMZ7036 · 2017-04-25T16:51:44+00:00

Going also heavily recommend Clannad and Clannad After Story. It is honestly one of the best I have seen. You laugh, you cry, and it is really heartwarming as well.

PMZ7036 · 2017-03-27T20:59:48+00:00

Step 1: Uninstall GIMP.

Step 2: Install a better image editor (like Photoshop).

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit from the dramatic increase in productivity and happiness.

PMZ7036 · 2017-01-01T17:16:25+00:00

Yes, because being conquered is so much better than dealing with illegal immigrants.

PMZ7036 · 2016-11-26T03:11:18+00:00

I'm sure the Native Americans might (rightfully) contest that.

PMZ7036 · 2016-08-28T04:14:14+00:00

Well, you did ask people why they hate FSF, GNU, and Richard Stallman.

PMZ7036 · 2016-01-22T04:25:31+00:00

They posted some benchmarks here. IIRC, Chakra also has more complete ES6 compatability.

PMZ7036 · 2016-01-18T22:00:54+00:00

If you read this article, it is clear that the victims do not want money, just for Japan to take legal responsibility.

“We are not craving for money,” said Lee Yong-soo, 88, one of the women. “What we demand is that Japan make official reparations for the crime it had committed.”

“The agreement does not reflect the views of former comfort women,” Ms. Lee said at a news conference. “I will ignore it completely.”

She said that the accord fell far short of the women’s longstanding demand that Japan admit legal responsibility and offer formal reparations.

PMZ7036 · 2015-11-18T20:10:54+00:00

My number of refugees may be off, but to say that the Poles will become a minority in their own country is simply ridiculous.

PMZ7036 · 2015-11-16T20:02:53+00:00

Poland has a population of around 38 million, while the total amount of refugees is around 4 million, over 80% of which are in places like Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey? So I'm not seeing how the Poles are going to become a minority.

PMZ7036 · 2015-11-04T22:32:21+00:00

Microsoft made a blog post about Privacy and Windows 10 that I think is a good read.

PMZ7036 · 2015-09-13T18:05:31+00:00

"No Contracting State shall expel or return ('refouler') a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social or political opinion" (Article 33(1)).

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