Why on earth do you need "top talent" to run a simple webserver and sell ad space? All they host is text, for heaven's sake.

No, the gender wage gap myth is a myth. Yes, large chunks of the gap can be explained, but not all of it. And the explanations themselves involve structural inequality; turtles all the way down.

As for your competition argument, lol. For many industries the compensation bill is not the largest part of the expense base and cultural friction is sufficient to overcome the competitive advantage of employing women & minorities.

One of these days I'm going to write a plugin that hides all posts online that contain the phrase "social justice warrior". You know nothing about feminism and you are behaving like a spoilt child.

Well, that's a fairly obvious consequence of banning the use of gender as a rating factor. Works the other way round in life insurance.

Wow. Enjoy being clueless, son. Clue: those things exist for a reason.

Depends what the cost of that lift is.

Yeah, this could never happen in an advanced country.

The value of a degree is that it shows to an employer that you could get into a high value institution. That means the institution has no incentive either to expand provision or reduce fees (or indeed control costs at all). So unlikely to drop any time soon.

No. An idiot with a pointy stick, I can deal with. Unless he's particularly versed in the ancient art of stick-poking, I can probably put up a reasonable fight.

And he can't walk into a crowded bar and incinerate everyone with his pointed stick, either. I'm not concerned about pointed sticks. Assholes with flamethrowes: nope nope nope.

Let me guess. Straight white male?

Thanks for telling gay people what to think. I'm sure they had no idea how they felt about this issue until you stepped up to the plate.

No. No, it really is the flamethrower that frightens me. If the asshole didn't have a flamethrower, I wouldn't be frightened.

It also doesn't work on the "continue to argue with an idiot when the conversation has moved on" principle.

I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Delete the project and tell all involved to stop being dicks. Why does this need to generate so much bullshit?

"It is possible to debate this" /= "This is not settled science". Yes, I dare say you will be able to blether for as long as I can. But here's the thing. Science converges on the truth. Yes, it might be wrong. But by definition you cannot know better than the scientific consensus, especially not on something as well scrutinised as AGW. So, in short, you can shove your "scepticism" up your ass, because I don't care and your opinion is of no relevance.