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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> that if it saves 10 man-hours of work, copyright infringement is right. The posters to SO give copyright to the company as per the TOS. No copyright violation is happening.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
That's interesting. Every company I worked at that instituted DEI policies claimed that achieving a workforce representative of the customer base helped the customer.
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They can cheat non-anonymous interviews too. An alternative is to have candidates go in person to an office to interview, but the grading and hiring panel only sees anonymized recordings of the interview.
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Nothing about this was ambiguous. The company instituted "outcome based goals" specifying 33% women in engineering. We had hires that passed with flying colors, but were told that proceeding with an offer would put out org below 3
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The problem is that when you quantify sexism in tech objectively, the results aren't what most people expect. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1418878112 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3&#x2F
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> Do you think such an event would've occurred without pushback on a team with more than 1 woman? Sure. One of the women I dated detailed a story about how a man at a conference she attended suggested it'd be more fun if she wa
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But the point is, removing all those comments is still work . Not too many people are sad that a terrorist isn't getting attribution for his SO posts. Personally, if it save the moderation team just 10 man-hours of work I'd consi
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> Sounds like society's problem, not SO. When Stack Overflow starts losing advertisers because they don't want their products appearing next to posts calling for CEOs to be murdered, it becomes their problem too.
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If the goal is to prevent people from being biased, why not anonymize candidate packets? Zoom interviews can also be anonymized easily. If it's the case that equally strong, or stronger, candidates are being passed over anonymization s
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The DEI policies were effective, particularly the Diverse Slate Approach. But it's legally risky to continue with it under the current administration since it was a race and gender conscious policy. People can argue as to whether it wa
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> you feel like you've hired all of the labor you can at a given market price (e.g., you're cheap and don't want to pay people more) it might make sense to try and reach out to parts of the labor force that you feel have b
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None of the companies I worked for considered Asian tech workers "diverse". One actually carved out a separate category for Asian males: ND. Negative Diversity. I'm not doubting your companies' policies, but just throwin
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To the degree that I've seen non-URM males get discriminated against? Not even remotely. Here's some discrimination I've witnessed. * I've worked at companies where the first thing we did was mark resumes by the candidat
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Dropbox instituted this policy in 2019. We called it "opportunistic hiring". Not sure if it's still in force, as I've since left.
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The 70% statistic is very prominent, but some of my Iranian friends were incredulous of it. Some speculate that men tend to pick up skills during mandatory military service, so women make up a larger proportion of college graduates. Interes
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The ADA requires accommodation. E.g. a blind software developer should be given an interview that does not require sight. So a text-only description instead of a figure or sketch would be accomodation. It does not require specific levels of
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Not just famous, but causing users to publicly support the murder and voice support for future murders too. Again, the central point is that most murder is condemned by the public while this one is enjoyable a disturbing amount of support.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
But did your co-worker see massive online support for the murder, with loads of people arguing it was justified and good for society? He may have been "all over the news", but was it glowing, positive coverage of the murder? Be
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> armed group with plans to attack the parliament This is a very strong allegation, and one I'd suggest backing up with sources if you want to make it.
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> You mean like what the pro-Palestinian folks did at UofT (not far from where I work) in 2024 and who lost a court case (2024 ONSC 3755)? I was fine it. How many of the UofT protestors were de-banked? There's a vast difference betw
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
You're over an order of magnitude off. Over 200 people were debunked. A donation of just $20 could result in someone being debanked: https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/even-small-donation-t...
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But there'd be a finite number of ways to transcribe a piece. This someone would be able to claim the only ways to faithfully play the original public domain piece.
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> but even if it was, we would still need to have anonymity, including all its drawbacks, in order to make participating in the public sphere possible to all, instead of being restricted to a privileged few. You realize non-privileged p
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Exactly: the fact that people aren't anonymous and their behavior affects their standing in the community is a big part of why anti-social behavior isn't nearly as common as in anonymous spaces.
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And again, I've read your link and found the arguments lacking. It doesn't consider the fact that much of the bad behavior it identifies is enabled by anonymity. I'm not sure how public flogging relates to anonymity. There ar
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I'm sure you can find cherry-picked pages of Facebook people acting out. Likewise, you can browse /r/LinkedInLunatics. But the vast majority of interactions on these platforms are better than on anonymous and pseudonymous pla
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That page doesn't make a very compelling argument. Yes, bullying and harassment without an anonymous identity is potentially more damaging. But nowhere does it seem to consider that many of the bullies and harassers would only dare do
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At this point, they ought to ask if you play War Thunder on the SF-86.
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A stored program computer refers to the computer architecture where program instructions and data are stored in the same memory. This is also referred to as the Von Neumann architecture. In contrast, a lot of early computers were built with
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The analytical engine wasn't a stored program computer. It most closely follows the Harvard architecture, with instructions read from punch card memory. The analytical engine's claim to fame is that it was the first Turing complet

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