You're paying the 2% either way unless there is a separate cash price

Sea temperature models are so predictive they didn't even need to know about 100 volcanoes. Also, please don't consider what other major variables we may not fully understand

He was stupid to post the memo. Being fired was a completely foreseeable outcome.

Google is clearly a dysfunctional culture willing to ignore basic facts and logic in pursuit of social justice objectives.

It's okay to believe both things are true.

Sorry, nobody is trying to silence him? The general consensus is that this guy should fired for expressing this opinion. You can agree or disagree with that, but I don't know how you get to suggesting nobody is trying to silence him. Why does anyone want him fired? Especially people who don't work at google?

I understand your point, and it looks to me like he is criticizing a rather unique HR policy focus at the company as misguided and unfair. And in my comment I said this guy's career is over, whether he knows it yet or not. The smart thing to do would be to shut up. But that doesn't mean that he also doesn't have a valid point that there is something wrong with needing to shut up.

Are you suggesting Iranian tech companies and higher ed institutions are discriminating against men?

> The goal is not to force people to become engineers, which he actually
> suggests is happening at one point. The goal is to help people do the
> things they want to do.

Well, that is really the question, isn't it. If everyone could do what they wanted to do, would we see equal representation of gender in fields like software engineering? This movement believes yes. I am skeptical. And I have see studies suggesting that as choice of career increases (e.g. wealthier countries with more freedom and opportunity), certain aggregate gender preferences express themselves more not less.

This just doesn't seem nearly as settled as people like to say it is. Even in this thread I got a reply that pretty much said anyone expressing other opinions are just factually wrong and can be safely ignored. That's valid for people running around saying the earth is flat, but is this really in the same category of certainty? It is quite a claim to suggest there are no gender career preferences. It wasn't that long ago that I was in PSY college classes where we learned quite a bit about differences between genders (in aggregate) that would be pretty reasonably expressed in career choices.

Science moves on and maybe all that as been "debunked" as has been claimed here. But this degree and pace of change in understanding is not what I would expect from a settled matter.

One point where the author is spot on is the overwhelming efforts to silence any other viewpoints. Loom no further than the response to this memo. On twitter, a prominent tech entrepreneur said he thinks the real problem isn't the memo's content but that the author thought it was okay to share it at a place like Google. Isn't that exactly the point the author makes?

I also found interesting his point about how we feel differently about seeking 50-50 gender representation in manual labor occupations and work related deaths.

These topics are worthy of discussion. The "we must get girls to code" push always seemed worthy of skepticism. But there is no real debate in this area, and raising questions gets you labeled unfairly and possibly fired.

One thing is for sure: this guy's career is over. He will be doxxed by some news org who apparently does remember how to do investigative journalism when it comes to random civilians expressing a politically incorrect opinion. And the pitchforks will come out from the SJWs and no company -- certainly google -- wants to get mixed up in that PR nightmare. Game over, bro. Hope it was worth it.

Huh? My eyes roll for the technical challenges.

Regardless of the ethics... This guy is risking his entire livelihood by doing a talk and interview. Amazing what people will risk for a little fame.

I have a system. I designed it. I purchased the components. And you've wasted my time.

That's because anyone can take 4 seconds and google "charge controller" to see they are one of the cheapest components of the system.

You are very confused. Micro-inverter setups are more expensive than central inverter setups. You can't just compare the cost of one micro-inverter with the cost of one central inverter. And I thought we were talking about charge controllers. This is exactly my issue with the vast majority of "green energy advocates" who apparently love green energy so much they have never actually used it themselves. But you're all experts because you read some articles. Well, turns out you learn a lot of details that really matter when you setup a system for yourself.

You keep saying this and I keep telling you you're wrong. You'd think you would have googled it by now

I have 2 of these. Every CC built for hybrid has the disconnect built in. It's a solved problem.