Adam Smith himself wrote about the need to put legal limits on unethical business practices.

Do read up on what happens to girls who are fascinated by CS studies and work hard at them. I've posted links in the past.

A lack of women and minorities in a field means the talent pool isn't as large as it could be. I like working with good people. You're more likely to find good people if you have more candidates to choose among.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/3769823/in-miami-gardens-store-video-catches.html

An arrest is supposed to mean an officer had probable cause. In practice it means nothing whatever.

Requiring judicial review preserves a little privacy for victims of DWB and harassment arrests.

That insurance company's squad of auditors would be no more and no less effective than the PCI/DSS audit system.

>I don't believe that there are any negative influences early on dissuading women from working tech.

There are, documented in the stories of hundreds of women in computer science at CMU. It starts in childhood and continues all through school, only to be followed by people at a job fair saying "we're not looking for anyone in marketing" as a software developer hands over her resume.

See the book "Unlocking the Clubhouse".

The CMU students were really bright and highly motivated. Anything pushing out people like that needs to be fixed!

Exactly. If an insurance company is willing to stand behind the vehicle's operation, then any potential accident victims will be compensated.

Self-driving cars may even be a better bet for the insurance companies than selling policies for human-operated cars.

If he found the situation even more difficult than usual, that's news.

Anyone who cares about getting this right must read "Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences " by Rebecca Jordan-Young.

Bottom line: most of the research sucks rocks.

The more carefully you look, the more it looks like overlapping bell curves and not dimorphism.

Isn't it the ancient dream of artists to build a creation that moves and does things on its own? Isn't that what a program is, a sculpture that acts?

That was the title of a book looking at attrition among CMU CS students. It's a death of a thousand cuts for women, and remember that we're talking CMU so these are bright motivated people.

Getting a programming assignment about football scores is a hint that you don't belong. It's not an assault, more like a paper cut, but what happens to you after a thousand paper cuts?

I guess the machine isn't boring after all.

"Hope", "becomes unstable", and "nuclear weapons" are not concepts that belong in the same place at the same time.

The government turned the electricity on so people could watch him being dragged out of the meeting on TV.

At least in part because of the Supreme Court ruling.

The Medicaid expansion was supposed to be a precondition of the states continuing to receive their federal Medicaid grants. The Supreme Court ruled that putting conditions on federal spending was coercive and couldn't be allowed (ponder that for a while).

You're not offended by a legal code which doesn't forbid rape?