Gotta admit, with the level of lies going on here, that is starting to sound attractive...

Republicans switched to cater to the racists. I'm honestly not sure what the point here is, you know full well you're lying through your teeth. Do you think so little of liberals that you expect us to fall for "No, see DEMOCRATS are the racist ones!"

He said it's okay that women aren't equal here because that's how they are, we shouldn't bother changing. This was a lie as the article points out. That's an attack on women.

Why is it all evil "liberals" with you people? Google is more left-leaning than, say, Wal-mart, sure, but they're a multinational corporation, not a bastion of liberal arguments.

Liberals are arguing the business model IS broken and that's why there's a gender imbalance. The thing he was objecting to was changing it because the imbalance was natural. Have YOU read the memo?

Like which ones specifically? Do you work someplace where work is interrupted by people protesting? Do people at your work get upset when someone says "Hey, lets stop sexually harassing"? Or are we just making straw man arguments?

Having read it, the only difference I can see is that my summary of it is shorter and more direct.

There is also a lot of whining about liberal bias, and an assumption that the only way to balance men and women is to discriminate against men, but chapter one is still "Women are different" and the end is "so stop trying to recruit women specifically."

Response unchanged: the science he cites is overstated, not "the truth", and his suggestion is flawed.

Why is "You didn't read the memo" the refrain here? The MRA whining all relies on an assumption he was speaking the truth. (Hence the twitter handle Fired4Truth).

He wasn't speaking "truth." Reading the memo will only make you dumber, it's not a "red pill" that will open anyone's eyes to reality. He was misinterpreting a few scientific papers (the author of one of the studies he cites specifically said Damore gets it wrong), and stating his opinion.

His opinion being that google shouldn't recruit women because they might have on average less aptitude than men for some tasks. This is unarguably stupid: google doesn't hire average people. Women working at google have more aptitude than your average dude probably in most areas.

Damore was arguing FOR discriminating against women, and wildly over-interpreting a few science papers to do it.

The company is still run by white dudes like Damore at all levels.

Firing people who shout stupid ideas from the rooftop is not racism or discrimination.

Your boss hates people of your skin color? You can't do anything about it, you get fired. That's discrimination. There are laws against it because there's no way for the victims to get around it, society must protect them.

Your boss hates your ignorant views on gender? Simple solution there: KEEP IT TO YOUR OWN DUMB FUCKING SELF YOU FUCKING MORON. Laws do not need to protect you from that, you just need to either not be stupid or you need to at least take steps to not make it obvious, like blasting it to the whole company in a memo.

Also didn't state why amazon didn't do this before. They can't be making much money off the dots at $35, and if google or apple smart assistant gains more users, they'll have lost a big edge on their store.

This is not idle unproven speculation. Scientists use phrases like "suggests" rather than "proves" only because they recognize their own data can be misleading. This is published in one of the most competitive journals, speculation doesn't cut it.

The article can be found paywalled here The abstract highlights that any uncertainty is in the related details, not whether or not it happened.

I haven't read the paper and don't have a background in it. Reviewers do sometimes make mistakes obviously. But you'd be an idiot to say this is "just an unproven possibility." Leave spewing "meh, scientists, what do they know, just a theory" FUD to the sleazeballs hired by the relevant industry. If you have an actual critique of their methods, by all means, post it here and on pubmed commons or wherever else. Publish a response in nature even. But don't fucking parrot cigarette company lawyers, climate change deniers, and creationists, here on slashdot.

The vast majority of people who get shot by police are black.

"There's something unique about the US that makes us more likely to be violent" is only a mystery if you're unwilling to consider institutional racism is a motivating factor.

Do you have a better example than a teacher's assistant at a small Canadian university who was apologized to already?

They knew about this over a year ago: Intel shipped CPUs that had the problem without telling customers.

That's a bit different IMHO. But TBH IANAL.

Oh, it won't be a bunch of companies, it'll be one that happens to have ties to Trump.

Yes, the right wing does want to do that too.

Couldn't Comcast then sue the government claiming it violates the rule of JOBSJOBSJOBS and then see the ruling get overturned by the conservative judges the GOP is filling the judiciary up with?

The GOP and corporations have been playing a long game to weaken the government, and they're aware they might not hold onto power forever, they're not stupid.