Hopefully, there's a lot of overlap between that group and the group that's fun to hang out with.

Once people can plug in and escape via totally immersive VR, only tax payers and some religious people will still bother with the real world.

Didn't they do a study that showed women would give up IQ for breast size? That sort of advantage, to them, being worth a swelled chest and a sore back?

Gotcha. I have no reason to doubt what you said. I took it at face value. Just drawing a conclusion on an admittedly unrelated point based on relevant information you provided.

Assuming what you say is true, since I believe Obama was probably about as bad as Bush, I'd conclude that the amount of golf played does not strongly correlate with the quality of leadership.

WTF? Troll? I am saying that women were just as imaginative as men, but focused on different problem domains. That's trolling? FU, Slashdot SJWs. I am so sick of this bullshit. Apparently noticing men have greater muscle mass on average than women is now sexist.

It doesn't have to be all male. The kinds of things make spaces support are not necessarily only suited to adult male muscle mass. In fact, I'd wager most of it does not.

Ever notice that the president is limited to two terms, but Congress is not? Isn't it rather convenient that for the consistently bad ratings Congress gets, it always seems to be Obamas or Bushes who get the blame and the ire? I suspect that if not by design, that dynamic is now essentially relied on by the Congress.

The work more physically suited to men was done mostly by men. Women, physically suited to different work, tended to be solving problems the same way. Sewing, cooking, midwifery, teaching, and so on.

What a lot of this comes down to is that the class of people who are cognitively rich and economically middle class went through a weird period where consumer-driven culture lessened the opportunities and needs to show that kind of DIY capability (probably due to the unfixability of some things and the move to two-employed-parent families).

It's nice to think that there's a resurgence of this kind of thing. I think for the capable, it adds to a sense of self-determination in life, and hence happiness.

Don't be so sure. It seems great at first, but one of the things you might not anticipate is the revenge effect of a low noise noise floor. I moved from a horribly noisy situation to a much quieter one. It's great until you adjust. Then, little sounds that you'd never notice before start becoming a real problem. The thud of a closing car door a few hundred feet away, or the sounds of a second hand on an old fashioned clock, or any number of other things really can become distracting, even to the point of causing anxiety. Unless you're basically in the woods, in which case the sounds of your own house can become like a raging cacophony. White noise becomes a refuge. You wait for the rain.

My wife worked with some talented therapists and had no doubts there could be enormously beneficial aspects to working with insightful, skilled professionals.

To expect anything from a special education teacher that would be more than minimal classroom management modifications is probably not realistic in all but the very wealthiest (top 1%) schools, which have multiple secondary educational aids and extremely small class sizes. The special education classrooms in most districts are loaded up with kids with other behavioral problems that are likely to further exacerbate the issues someone on the spectrum with experience.

Some business people, after trying this, find they're better off paying for native talent.

So you're acknowledging that the intended funding is exclusionary, because there's not enough to include boys, too. Nice. And you make an analogy that girls are like a diseased patient. Nicer.

It should be apparent to an experienced software engineer that over time, better engineering teams will reduce the fluff. That doesn't happen in a SOC project. It happens over several years of iterative development, and tightening up of requirements.

Right, but under the Federal Reserve, the dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power. Who gives a shit about the number in the bank account? It's the value.