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teractiveodular

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    Comment #42958480

    They don't. You now subscribe to Copilot 365 or whatever the hell Office is called today for the low, low price of $12.99 per month for the rest of your life.

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    Comment #42958447

    Here's a strawman: White people are more likely to diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). If people with ASD are more likely to opt for CS degrees, by induction we'll have…

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    Comment #42957475

    Such as? If a specific culture puts women off studying CS, than that culture is sexist, no?

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    Comment #42956251

    > In our case, the recruitment team started by only headhunting target candidates. Once we exhausted that pool, they would headhunt any candidate. "Target candidate" = those in min…

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    Comment #42956213

    You're assuming there is no genetic component whatsoever to human skills and interests, and the only reason women are not studying computer science/car repair/welding is sexism.

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    Comment #42956108

    But what if the poor people have the wrong skin color?

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    Comment #42956086

    The referenced Google diversity reports spell out the percentages of "Asian+, Black+, Latinx+, Native American+ and White+" (their terms). https://about.google/belonging/diversity-…

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    Comment #42954972

    Flights are operable by 1 person, and this is in fact the normal state of affairs in general aviation. The second person on commercial aircraft is there mostly for redundancy, alth…

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    Comment #42954900

    It's not performative outrage, it's a statement of fact. You didn't merely widen the net, you spearfished candidates of the right race and ignored those of the wrong ones. Regardle…

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    Comment #42954853

    The one positive "DEI" thing you can do without lowering the bar is to widen the net: look harder for qualified candidates in places where you didn't look before.

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    Comment #42954675

    This article is not talking about COVID, it's talking about the absurd changes to the hiring process that disadvantaged qualified candidates in favor of people who said science was…

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    Comment #42946366

    They wouldn't mind it, but Chinese EV & solar panel production volumes are already completely mind-boggling, they'll keep doing just fine without the US.

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    Comment #42946162

    It's down 7% in after-hours trading as I type this.

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    Comment #42938954

    Results: https://abc.xyz/assets/91/b3/3f9213d14ce3ae27e1038e01a0e0/20... 10-Q: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204424... All the numbers look pretty good at f…

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    Comment #42914509

    A couple of counterexamples from a declining demographic is not much to flatly deny the article's entire case. There are vast teams of marketers and data scientists hard at work ma…

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    Comment #42906955

    The CDC instruction applies only to researchers actually employed by the CDC (read: the government). Again, I don't like this any more than you do, but your employer generally does…

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    Comment #42906944

    Would you like to offer a substantive critique of any of the highlighted cases? And for what it's worth, here's a later highlighted case where FIRE defended a professor who had bee…

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    Comment #42906215

    Start here: https://www.thefire.org/cases?_page=1&keywords=diversity&_li...

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    Comment #42906120

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    Comment #42905227

    (deleted incorrect claim)

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    Comment #42903809

    As you can tell from the price, these are a very expensive luxury item. The legal minimum wage is VND 1.800,000/month, meaning a kilo at even the lowest wholesale price of "only" 6…

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    Comment #42903720

    [flagged]

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