rammorris

foregoneconclusion said:

hpe said: Currently, you are discriminating men to reach a political goal. That is at best fighting the symptom and not the disease. At worst it is highly discriminatory towards male engineers.

LOL...the male/female population is roughly equal, which means the discrimination part already occurred in favor of males with your group of 180. You don't need to "figure out" what caused fewer females to be CS majors. It's gender bias in society.

This demonstrates a profound misunderstanding as it completely ignores that the disparity results from individual choices. There are many disparities in life that are not the product of discrimination or gender bias. Tearing down meritocracies and using affirmative action to change such discrepancies perpetuates discrimination. 

Why Klobacher wants to tear down a great American company that is leading in the global economy is beyond me. Apple built and invested in its ecosystem. It was not the product of anticompetitive behavior. As with any large company with strong branding and a loyal customer base, it gets to leverage its customer base. Tiles complaint appears baseless. We are not talking about monopolistic pricing because Apple doesn’t have a monopoly in trackers. Nor can Tile complain that Apple has erected barriers to Tiles entry into the market. Tile is complaining that a new entrant to the market has a large established customer base. But the bottom line is Apple is consistently a late entry in markets. It just consistently builds a better product for consumers- a goal of competition. Is Tiles position that the Congress should prevent large established companies from competing by making better products? Nice to know Apple didn’t whine when it batted Big Blue and Microsoft. 

I join in the praise for Ted Lasso. The cast is outstanding. The rather cynical review missed the mark. Ted Lasso is a funny, clever, feel-good gem of a comedy in a wasteland of crass, boorish comedy offerings.