> It can't possibly work if people with unpopular opinions are are cancelled (i.e. blacklisted, fired, castigated, sanctioned)

What would it mean for JK Rowling to be cancelled? Legitimately an honest question: she's a billionaire backed by a media empire. What do you think would have to happen before she could be considered "cancelled"?

Great to tell people to put away their phones and not record because that really is obnoxious, but to actually confiscate phones is fascistic and shouldn’t be tolerated IMO. I mean who does he think he is?

It requires ~3500 hours of study in a law office or judges chambers (spread over 4 years), but California has a non-tuition path to the bar:

http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Admissions/Requirements/Education/L...

Facebook and Google total comp for average programmers ~2 years in is >$400K right now.

$600k isn't that hard to make at these companies.

There was research done in various nordic countries that when men and women are free from severe economic selection pressure, They naturally prefer different roles something like nurse vs construction worker.

Also area's like India,when men and women are under more economic pressure, there is more gender equal distribution in fields.

I've had this explained to me as the "Nordic Paradox".

I have a related technical question. Why couldn't something highly embeddable like SQLite be the default underlying implementation for a data frame in something like Python or R? It seems like Pandas and R data frames have a great deal redundant functionality.

SQLite seems like it has the guts to be the standard libdataframe.c for R, Python, Julia, etc. As a side benefit it already has a super consistent API (a.k.a. SQL).