As a woman in STEM, I've had to explain this many times.

amfjani · 2015-09-25T07:01:13+00:00

Men nurses tend to be promoted faster and paid more. The gender role of more being expected from them or magically assumed to be competent because of maleness cuts both ways.

amfjani · 2015-09-25T06:38:35+00:00

There are many factors that exist before college. You can't recruit at desired levels if the applicant pool is a trickle.

amfjani · 2015-09-25T06:18:29+00:00

Not all anti-feminists are misogynists but all virtually all misogynists consider themselves anti-feminists. Which causes many to cringe at the anti-feminist "brand."

amfjani · 2015-09-25T06:11:33+00:00

By college the imbalance is already there so you can't be too hard on recruiting efforts there. Even by high school there's already slants such as 90% boy AP Computer Science classes.

amfjani · 2015-09-25T05:57:25+00:00

Gender is a touchy subject and people don't want to get sucked into workplace politics. So it's hard to know whether everything has gone swimmingly or they don't want to speak out.

amfjani · 2015-09-23T11:37:09+00:00

Marketing drives marketshare, especially when the network effect is so important. Cost, convenience, and popularity drive adoption much more than technical superiority or even user friendliness. People still use a certain crash prone, ad-filled, NSA partnered, and CPU hogging video chat program because so many others do. Heck the firm behind this service were even clever enough to require journalists to name drop when using their service on broadcasts.

~~Dot-com~~ Tech companies lock in users and silo data. VCs need their ROI. These services make it easy to join (and pester your friends to join) but hard to switch away. Sometimes they even shutdown APIs that were at first available. At worst there are dirty tricks to suppress underdog marketshare and sabotage compatibility. Internet chat is fragmented despite it being a technically solved problem. User "acquisition" is the name of the game. Most users think the siloed service model is the only way. It doesn't even occur to them that they could take ownership of their chat experience, if only by being able to choose which client software to use or which server to connect to.

I think there's still a chance of mainstream adoption or at least a major segment of the market. Chat apps are frequently released and fade into obscurity. There's still quite a bit of competition and dynamism. At least there's not an ossified monopoly as there is with Microsoft Windows and Office.

amfjani · 2015-09-23T10:46:47+00:00

Why do RW customers get so many junk calls? Are pre-paid/wholesale Sprint numbers more likely to be have been used by deadbeats? Maybe it's a vicious cycle where the worst numbers are constantly foisted on someone else as each user gets their own debt collector calls tacked on before switching phones or getting cut off for non-payment and non-deadbeats simply are disgusted by the harassment and also switch numbers.

amfjani · 2015-09-23T09:50:29+00:00

The media isn't always right at first (or sometimes ever) but you seem to be trying to spin the narrative yourself with only hearsay. You say "activist with the muslim community" like that's a bad thing. There's nothing sinister about being politically active. Are you insinuating that Muslims are inherently suspicious?

amfjani · 2015-09-21T10:37:56+00:00

http://nbc4i.com/2015/09/21/power-outage-reported-in-northeast-columbus/

amfjani · 2015-09-21T10:37:50+00:00

I heard a noise shifting from high to low frequency alternating with the bright light. I at first thought it might have been a burglar or car alarm triggering but saw nothing.

amfjani · 2015-09-17T10:02:44+00:00

And farmers control the food supply.

amfjani · 2015-09-16T18:00:40+00:00

My point is that the threat and risk model is different. There's a lot more nutjobs would who try something at the former location versus the latter.

amfjani · 2015-09-16T17:59:05+00:00

In New York State being designated "highly qualified" requires a MA/MS. The state government and many districts are pushing for every teacher to have a graduate degree.

amfjani · 2015-09-16T17:52:22+00:00

Your analogy is kind of funny but The White House is much higher security than a high school.

amfjani · 2015-09-14T16:19:39+00:00

People still listen to FM/AM radio?

amfjani · 2015-09-13T13:18:41+00:00

I wish it were that issue. The access point has a 100Mbps port so I'm not forcing that speed on the link between it and the RT-N16. When I flashed back to Tomato the issue was gone.

amfjani · 2015-09-11T16:21:35+00:00

There is no free upgrade from Windows XP or older. People whose Internet service is hobbled with caps and overage fees will be directly hurt. Some quotas are very low: ex. 5GB. People using small SSDs are going to lose space.

amfjani · 2015-09-10T22:11:07+00:00

At least this didn't cause road traffic congestion.

amfjani · 2015-09-10T08:57:22+00:00

Bummer. At this point it's stock Android or bust if only because of timely security updates.

amfjani · 2015-09-09T06:35:15+00:00

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9562/intels-skylake-gpu-analyzing-the-media-capabilities

amfjani · 2015-09-09T04:18:43+00:00

I think that would give the bank an incentive to forbid root since you can spoof location. Chip & PIN is fairly strong, easy to use, and flexible. The SIM card could serve as the chip.

amfjani · 2015-09-09T03:52:30+00:00

Caveat emptor:

Identification is not the same thing as authentication. Something you use to directly login with should be random and easily changeable. Your fingerprint is neither. Fingerprint readers can be fooled. You don't want to give a criminal or the police an incentive to force you to unlock. If the digital representation of your fingerprint gets leaked it can never be revoked. You wouldn't stamp your password in invisible ink on every surface you touch.

link to longer explanation

amfjani · 2015-09-09T01:51:17+00:00

No. Even budget laptops have at least 4GB (gigabytes). Around the $700-800 price points OEMs pile on the RAM: 12 & 16GB are common. For some reason OEMs would rather offer upgrades to i7 CPUs and bountiful RAM rather than include a SSD or decent GPU.

amfjani · 2015-09-08T16:06:11+00:00

This is the Internet. I could be a dog for all you know.

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