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IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

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Re: IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

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Timon3 wrote: post #441
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #382

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The premise of that proposal is that the test scores are inaccurate as a result of the economic disparity, because people with less income have less resources to prepare for the test. That would apply in the case of an economic disparity because having more resources allows you to artificially receive a higher score. It's not about accepting someone with less merit out of charity but rather about adjusting for a meas…

> But the economic disparity is the reason for the racial disparity, because otherwise we expect people of different races are equally intelligent, right? So the economic disparity is the real one and accounting for that inherently accounts for the racial disparity as well, and you don't need both. That's only true if you assume prejudices like racism and sexism don't exist anymore, but they do. Even today, these are…

> That's only true if you assume prejudices like racism and sexism don't exist anymore, but they do.

These are test scores. They're graded by people -- if not machines -- that don't know the race of the person taking the test. Anyone of any race can get a better score in one way: By getting more of the answers right.

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fc417fc802 wrote: post #477
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> Notably, with the possible exception of the complicated taxes, the examples you give all have pretty obvious health and safety reasons why they exist. What health and safety reason requires a 3% processing fee for credit card payments? Why is it unsafe for the proprietor to live in a room in the same structure as a restaurant in some areas, but not in other places that have different zoning? The only thing that com…

The electrical example is particularly interesting because it's generally legal to DIY things on a house that you simultaneously own and live in. Many (not sure if all) US states even have laws preventing insurance from forbidding such (although they can generally deny coverage after the fact if the incident can be shown to stem from your DIY work). There also exist mixed zoning areas where you can run a business tha…

> Presumably the big differences are incentives and scale. Scale wise, more building occupants justifies more regulation.

This is the ex post facto rationalization of the rules, not the actual reason. The actual reason is that businesses are more likely to have contracted it out regardless so are less likely to oppose, and are the more lucrative customers for the license holders lobbying for the rules, whereas homeowners object more and have a larger voting block.

Notice that the rules are based on use and not occupancy. A residential multi-unit condo will have more occupants than a small business that only serves five customers at once.

Meanwhile nobody actually wants an electrical fire. The primary thing leading to shoddy workmanship is artificial supply constraints on professional work, which creates financial pressure for amateurs to covertly perform work they're not qualified to do because there aren't enough professionals and puts the professionals under time pressure because there is too much work for them to complete with that number of workers.

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Post by verall »

leereeves wrote: post #484
verall wrote: post #467

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Women are not close to even 50% of engineering students or industry or academic engineers yet you go after society of women engineers? Let's flip it - nursing, where men are a minority: https://www.aamn.org/ Oh look, a society dedicated to men in nursing. This is completely reasonable. The idea to go from "women are most of college graduates" to "society of women engineers should not exist" is insane. > without compa…

As a man studying that field, I was surprised I'd never heard of that group. Then I saw how tiny it is. There are only four local chapters in all of California, with none on any UC campus. https://www.aamn.org/chapter-directory

I would personally guess that men are conditioned to "man up" and therefore are less likely to discuss, form, and join groups like this. But maybe I think that because I'm ""woke"".

But if you're interested - https://www.aamn.org/starting-a-chapter

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Post by EasyMark »

zanfr wrote: post #464
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Unless you are willing to say there is an ongoing flu pandemic then I can't really agree with you.

Except one doesn't get the flu every 6 months like most people seem to get covid ; at most one gets the REAL flu every 10 years. SOURCE: several studies and my own conclusion observing friends...

I caught covid once since it started.
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