The same thing a human driver would do?

That’s something you won’t get as a tourist, but the geographical size of LA makes a far far bigger “last mile” problem. While you may see plenty of bus stops in certain central locations like Downtown LA, what you can’t see from that vantage point is that on the other end of the line, most actual residences may be…

Research is expensive (and salaries for researchers are the tiniest, tiniest part) and researchers and scientists are generally not paid well enough to afford the equipment and laboratories to do this research.

Another thought is that people naturally want to make sure they control and can see the money they’re spending put to good use (rather than seeing it go in the black box of another charity).

Basically, a lot more cars as a result of no public transportation and nothing within easy walking distance. Take everyone on New York’s subways + walking in the street and stick them all in their own car. You’ll see why 2 lanes in New York is way better than 5 lanes in LA.

Yep, I find that really the top professors tend to also be very excellent writers. However, especially in sciences, there’s also a lot of PhDs for whom English is a second language and that causes some disparity as well.

Well, unless they were English Linguistics PhDs, there’s no reason they would necessarily be experts in grammar (in fact, that very reason is why you have a job).

Well, unless they were English Linguistics PhDs, there’s no reason they would necessarily be experts in grammar (in fact, that very reason is why you have a job).

Try this on for Size. Apple has 100 employees working on an Ultra Retina Screen, with 70 Men and 30 women. Indeed, they’re trying hard to make sure women are given meaningful important work, so when assigning the truly mission-critical projects, 41 of the men and 29 of the women were in the top positions (and indeed,…

What do you think those guys need to fix and suffer actual consequences for? The terrible terrible atrocity of quoting a line from a popular video that had been seen over 100 million times and broadcasted on national TV?

Meh we’ll use this one. You keep on saying there’s no “innocent explanation” for a 1/30 ratio on one discrete team in an organization. I don’t think you understand how random probabilities work.

oh and I want to bring up too, Volvo got a lot of flak for this - but they said they didn’t want to debut a 90% autonomous situation like Tesla, and wouldn’t until they had a car that could handle 100%. I think that’s right actually, a 90% solution is actually pretty dangerous because you can’t trust customers to…

Yep, and I think MB is supposed to be one of the more advanced systems on the road.

Hmm, good point, and he didn’t put “quotation” marks around “fact”.

Not a coincidence and nothing to do with gender. The one person on the team who saw a comment to a non-rape part of a popular song and took it as a “rape joke” then proceeded to email the CEO about it, is the “office lunatic”

It’s not a failure of recruitment. It’s just the way teams naturally are (and especially in tech) teams get shuffled around, people move in and out, naturally you’re going to have different ratios at different points in time.

That’s not a redflag. Let’s say the history department of a university has 50 male and 50 female professors. However, out of the medieval studies specialists, there are 9 male professors, and 1 female professors. Does that mean there’s a red flag?

Apple as a whole has a 70/30 split. Not great, but not 1/30 and not below the industry average.

Apple as a whole has a 70/30 split (still not perfect) but if you get to a large enough size, just random distribution ensures that if you break it down enough there’s bound to some groups with greater or lesser disparities. Looking at a specific small group (with team members that may constantly be shifting and moved…

The only example we have of a “formal complaint”and what Danielle considered “toxic” is a gross overreaction to sharing a line (not about rape) from a popular music video. And the only example of what Danielle considered “nothing ever changing” is that noone was fired.