manfredo

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by manfredo 7y ago
Do these jets even have radar and other equipment necessary to actually employ weapons? IIRC most aggressor jets have some hardpoints and avionics removed.
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by manfredo 7y ago
No, they issue licenses to broadcast on certain frequencies. And some of these licenses dictate what content can be shown and at white time of day (usually to the effect of restricting mature content to evening and nighttime airing). This i
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by manfredo 7y ago
3d printing is probably less effective than manufacturing at scale, but it has much lower setup time and overhead cost. Not to mention, this escalated demand for masks and face shields is going to be very short - 1 or 2 years at most. Setti
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by manfredo 7y ago
Right, but over air broadcast hasn't been a primary mode of media consumption for decades at this point. The "censorship" on cable broadcasts you refer to are private companies keeping their content advertiser friendly not go
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by manfredo 7y ago
It seems like an easy tweak to nullify this strategy is to invalidate automated arbitration claims. Even without this tweak, if a company saw a huge increase in "cookie cutter" arbitration suits they could probably just not respon
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by manfredo 7y ago
A union may protect your rights, but they do ask for some in return - often the ability to work at non-union jobs. The point is, you're still "signing away your rights". You're agreeing that you won't do certain thi
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by manfredo 7y ago
Saying that arbitration agreements are signing away your rights is analogous to saying that joining a union means signing away your rights, because it often entails agreeing to only work at union jobs (you're "signing away your ri
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by manfredo 7y ago
This strategy does result in increased upfront costs for companies. But this sort pile-on strategy seems like it could be countered with arbitration agreements that aren't subject to any sort of timeline, or arbitration agreements that
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by manfredo 7y ago
The "censored" TV shows are really just the networks not wanting to piss off their advertisers. There is little to no censorship in the sense that the government actually prevents you from publishing something - especially now tha
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by manfredo 7y ago
But isn't that fundamentally s problem with users not setting passwords? A 6 digit meeting key means that if there's 50,000 meetings running at once, each code has a 1/20 chance of hitting an active room.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Is it not possible to route the exhaust through a filter? If a couple millimeters of masks can stop it surely a canister style filter would more than do th job.
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by manfredo 7y ago
> This is a part of it. There is also an unconscious bias against women in hiring. There's plenty of overt sexism, but unconscious biases are significant too. That whole "gut feel"-based hire is remarkably sexist and racis
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Selection bias pushes men towards high-status, high-paying fields and women towards low-paying, pink collar fields. You do realize that if one sector disproportionately hires men, then there are a disproportionately high number of wome
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by manfredo 7y ago
> I strongly recommend looking up the word "bias" in the dictionary. From the fist Google result [1], "prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be u
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by manfredo 7y ago
I'm not sure why pointing out the fact that this forces members of the same race or gender to compete against each other for a limited number of spots is justification. The fact that we're allocating some hiring slots for certain
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Yes, underrepresentation of the population is literally the definition of bias. It's literally not. Men account for 90% of convictions for homicide and other serious forms of violence in the US, and the overwhelming majority of co
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by manfredo 7y ago
I have a similar perspective in that I think most engineers probably could get hired, but there's enough randomness in the interview process that we probably wouldn't. Not just in who gets advanced to the phone screen, but also
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by manfredo 7y ago
This sort of already exists. Many companies take on university students to intern for 3 months over the summer, and offer full-time return offers to seniors. At least in the US Bay Area, this is substantially more common than offering inter
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by manfredo 7y ago
> The tech sector is 80/20 because of hiring bias in the population that defines the workplace demographic. And evidence of that is...? Graduates in the fields of study that feed into the tech workforce are 80/20 - why do we co
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by manfredo 7y ago
> You seem to not understand what the term "representative" means. So the answer is yes? Companies should strive to be 50/50 men and women tech roles even though the ratio in the workforce is 80/20? Representation is
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Overrepresentation of the population. Do I really need to explain how 23% compares to 50%? So tech companies should strive to be 50% women even though the tech industry is only 20% female (or slightly less)? This would mean that women
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Hint: if it were the latter, women and minorities would be over-represented rather than underrepresented in tech. They often are. At Dropbox women made up over 23% of tech roles in 2018 while recruiters estimated that the Bay Area aver
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by manfredo 7y ago
We wrote the stars ourselves - normal 5 point star style. If you wrote the stars yourself recruiters would probably cross them out and write in the stars that correctly reflect your diversity status.
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Every post of yours is just doubling down on insistently glossing over the realities of racial biases in hiring by painting any attempt to hire diverse candidates as the real racism. If this is your takeaway, then I don't think yo
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by manfredo 7y ago
> So, you're saying racial slurs are better than diverse hiring? I answered this question: > Which one is more serious? Someone who gets bullied for their race at their workplace probably has a very different opinion on this than
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by manfredo 7y ago
> And you do realize that you're equating diverse hiring efforts with getting called racial slurs on the job, yes? Those are two very different definitions of "actual" racism. Right, they are different. The latter makes pe
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by manfredo 7y ago
What you call a strawman is exactly the kind of discrimination that exists at my current employer and at my previous employer. This is reality. And the discrimination isn't small or subtle. We're talking about aggregate 2-3x times
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Because that's a breath-takingly racist assertion. And I did not say that. I suggest re-reading your post so that you understand that you wrote those words. Let's reread the sentence in context: > But is the perspective of
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by manfredo 7y ago
> I'm still having trouble believing anyone who isn't a frothing racist can pass off "many" getting called racial slurs on the job as just business as usual. I don't think it's business as usual, and looking
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by manfredo 7y ago
> No, no they really dont! Yes, they really do. I've explained the details my employers' hiring processes to white and asian men trying to get into tech, and the majority feel like it is an overall benefit to diverse candidates

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