Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)

Post by mixmastamyk » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 10:28 PM UTC

commandlinefan wrote: post #173

whimsicalism wrote: post #97

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I can't imagine a high-quality candidate agreeing to either of those things in the current market. I certainly wouldn't. But software engineering is very bimodal, so I'm sure it works.

He's asking somebody to quit the job they have now in exchange for a chance to get a new job... you might be able to get new college graduates or already unemployed to agree to that, but definitely nobody with any sort of options.

Post by rayiner » Mon, Nov 22, 2021, 4:00 AM UTC

thrashh wrote: post #259

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In a lot of places these days it's really easy to get a $15/hr job (I mean that's like entry-level fast food work, ubering, etc.) So $650 works out to slightly more than a week's work, be super conservative with taxes/expenses/benefits and let's say 2 weeks. So 2 weeks' work is a considerable amount of work, but it's also certainly within the realm of possibility for the vast, vast majority of people. I'd really say…

I could afford private flights on my salary, for my example, and it’s true: “it’s just more hours.” The only thing is… I can’t find more hours in my week. And the real bigger issue is, even through I can afford it, it may be hard to justify it because it amounts to a major opportunity cost. For a working class family, they probably are going to find it difficult to source $650. …Especially if no one has gone to colle…

Post by pjmorris » Mon, Nov 22, 2021, 6:25 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #236

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #220

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> When you are privileged you have no extra weight or leg up over someone else on standardized tests. That is demonstrably not true. Wealthy people can and do spend legions on test prep and tutoring. But that said, I generally agree with some of the underlying sentiment, which is that many wealthy people value education and status that can be attained through scholastic achievement in a way that many poor people do n…

This is an unscientific point. One, test prep doesn’t help that much. Two, it’s not that expensive: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/06/21/... > For them, Jiechu's price – $650 for a seven-week summer course, four hours a day, Monday to Friday – is a doable stretch. That comes to a bit less than $5 an hour, which is not exactly the “thousands of dollars in test prep” that Mr. Carranza cited.

Post by msla » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:31 PM UTC

secondaryacct wrote: post #16

orangepurple wrote: post #4

"Anti" racists are professional victims. Don't engage with them. They will always find a way to twist a disagreement going against their favor into an oppression narrative.

Yeah in France where I was born, which is no perfect by any means of course, we tend to call the american obsession with racial segmentation "racialism" and consider it just as bad as racism. Like racism is to grade races when racialism is to accept humanity can be segmented is such races, which we strongly deny as a nation, or so I was raised to believe (but again no lessons to give, we have issues in France)