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by petilon 4y ago
This story is just as amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPHxlXb64EQ
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At UW they call it "race equity" [1]. Meaning that you can't have more than x% of Asian Americans in the UW if the percentage of Asian Americans in the community is x%. The Supreme Court will soon decide if this practice is l
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A selection process based on academic achievement alone yields a graduate more highly valued by corporate America [1]. Private universities should be able to use whatever criteria they want (as long as there is no illegal discrimination) in
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With the 10s of thousands of applications top universities get, there isn't enough time to evaluate the "complex, multi-dimensional entities" behind each application. At University of Washington, applications are not reviewed
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Absolutely agree. In the US, "holistic" admissions were introduced to deny admission to students suspected of being Jewish [1]. [1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/06/23/a-lawsuit..
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You may not have, but the company that provided you cybernetic augmentation probably did, if they collected info without consent and rented it to you.
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Serious question: Does anyone use SharePoint these days? We use Teams and OneDrive (and SharePoint is underneath both) but no one I know uses SharePoint itself. If you do use SharePoint what do you find valuable about it?
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Depends on the quantity and reason for layoffs. Meta, I would avoid at this time. Microsoft is doing fine, despite this small layoff.
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Converting text to SVG is super hard. Flowing English text is easy enough, but when it comes to Unicode text, with languages such as Arabic and Indian languages, that's when it gets hard. I tried Satori, and it doesn't handle Unic
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A lot of false claims in this thread are being made by people who see these immigrants as a competitive threat.
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Right on! Technology firms in India have a better female to male staff ratio than the tech giants of Silicon Valley [1]. India has a much better male-to-female ratio compared with the U.S. Engineering male-female ratio in India is 1.96 as c
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by petilon 4y ago
> It’s been discussed on HN before... Yes, it has been used on HN as a bludgeon but the reality is a little different! Yes, the ancient caste system still exists in India. But today it is only relevant when it comes to politics and mar
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Did you read the linked article? she was asked by the Bengaluru-headquartered IT company to avoid hiring people of Indian origin This is a claim by a fired former VP.
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I am seeing the same issue
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> But is this typical practice in the US? No Your experience is different from mine. Ordering unnecessary tests is typical practice in my experience. And doctors are quick to reject tests done at another hospital, as if tests done at a
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You can't speak for other countries, but you can for all of the US? Then explain these articles: "Doctors Under Pressure to Meet Quotas and Fill Hospital Beds" [1]. "Once hospitals have made such a huge investment, exper
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My experience is that Doc A sends the thumbnail of the image to Doc B. Doc B is happy that Doc A sent an unusable file because he now gets to charge for a new image. Hospitals track MRIs and other images ordered per doctor, and doctors are
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It is not true that the decision is not driven by engineering; we know that because Musk has been anti-LiDAR and anti-radar from the beginning.
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Absolutely agree. I think all self-driving cars should be required to have LiDARs. I was just reporting what Musk said: "Elon Musk reportedly demanded cameras over radar in self-driving cars because human eyes don't rely on radar&
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> There are multiple tells that this move, just like the removal of radar, is supply-chain and cost-driven and not actually driven by engineering. Not true. Elon Musk has long maintained that cameras/vision is all that is needed [
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They may not be printing money, but they are propping up inflation by giving people free money for compensating for inflation.
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Right, YC does not like solo founders. Not only that, but they also require you to split equally with your co-founders [1]. From an investor's pov that makes sense. Their investment is safer if they can force out a co-founder if he&#x2
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> “I had hoped the economy would have more clearly stabilized by now..” Zuckerberg said. Zuck is blaming the economy, but Meta's real problem is that Apple tightened iOS privacy. Meta had built a business on tracking people, and w
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Companies were, employees were not. That's why this law is necessary. This evens the playing field.
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This law isn't about helping companies by making your salary history available to them. It is about helping job seekers by making the salary range of the job public, so you know how much to expect and ask for.
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It is not possible to prove unless the Chess Federation subjects players to cavity search. I don't think the Chess Federation wants to set such an extreme precedent. So, the alternative is to exclude people who have admitted to cheatin
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If you have a criminal record, you will not be hired into certain jobs. Try getting a job in a cloud vendor such as AWS, Azure or GCP. They do background checks for a reason — you will have access to customer data of banks, the CIA, and oth
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> Niemann has admitted cheating, but only in online chess, not over the board. That's a distinction without a difference.
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> Wonder what the chances are for someone writing about their conservative viewpoint... I'd imagine it is about the same! Why? Because they don't really care about the essays. Applications are not reviewed by "admissio
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> I would never hire for diversity, and would explicitly refuse to do so. Good. But in the end, if you end up with an all-male team then questions will be asked, and rightly so.

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