How is BMI racist?
Reading the articles below it appears that BMI should be sub-categorized by race and gender categories - healthy weights for [X-race + Y-gender] person to increase its efficacy as a health tool.
The Aging Programmer [video]
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Re: The Aging Programmer [video]
#92I don't see a problem with my programming skills, but with my ability to play the corporate game. Probably because i have a lot of experience, i kind of know when a manager wants to push a team too much because he wants to play some game of thrones with another manager. I know when they decide to ignore all warnings to get to a deadline, and then when everything explodes they blame someone else. I know when someone h…
In general, in such situations the senior devs pull the ejection cable, and form a new company without the managerial labor cost overhead.
If they still want product support, than get a quote from SAP first. Ghost ships don't need managers by the way...
Almost every sick division I saw had a 15% budget kickback clause in their contract for unspent resources. =3
Re: The Aging Programmer [video]
#93I was enjoying this, but then reached a point where the speaker said
> BMI is just nonsense, and not only that, it’s almost certainly racist nonsense […] it has been shown to be healthier in the group they call overweight than the group they call normal
Which makes me doubt the veracity of other claims made, to say the least
Re: The Aging Programmer [video]
#94I don't see a problem with my programming skills, but with my ability to play the corporate game. Probably because i have a lot of experience, i kind of know when a manager wants to push a team too much because he wants to play some game of thrones with another manager. I know when they decide to ignore all warnings to get to a deadline, and then when everything explodes they blame someone else. I know when someone h…
If you want to be a programmer past the age of forty, you have to accept watching your manager learn things about software development (and management) that you learned years ago. And that's okay. If it drives you crazy, either let it go, or bite the bullet and apply for the job yourself.
Or become an entrepreneur.
Re: The Aging Programmer [video]
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
yes even the poor have grocery stores. and no, that's a terrible article as well. feel free to pick out the strongest point you think the article has and present it. dumping links is not a conversation.
In which parts do you disagree with the history it narrates?
I disagree with the entire premise of the article.
None of the facts they sprinkled in are relevant to their conclusions.
What exactly do you find compelling from it?
Re: The Aging Programmer [video]
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Re: The Aging Programmer [video]
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's in the title, but that article lists no reasons why it's racist. They try to relate it to socioeconomic status, but BMI is applied to poor white people as well. I don't buy that reasoning on face value though, it's perfectly affordable to eat healthy. These days fast food and processed foods are much more expensive than buying fresh groceries. Just a trash article trying to normalize obesity and race-bait.
The scientific literature on this is vast. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10693914/
1. Have talking point.
2. Pay people to write paper about it.
3. Have shills link it everywhere for free.
Re: The Aging Programmer [video]
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm 40 and as far as I can tell, I can concentrate just as well now as I did when I was 20. I'm also pretty deliberate with what I do in life, I don't engage in "mass social media" like FB/Twitter/etc. , I don't use YouTube, Tiktok, etc.. .. I mean, I will view something if someone sends a link, but I don't "browse" stuff (partly because browsing literally anything feels like I'm being manipulated and I'm pretty sens…
This site is a social network. Not as bad as Facebook or Twitter/X, but pretty much the same idea.
Forums are like proto-social networks, but were around a long time before the MySpace/FB-type of bona fide social networks
Re: The Aging Programmer [video]
#99I don't see a problem with my programming skills, but with my ability to play the corporate game. Probably because i have a lot of experience, i kind of know when a manager wants to push a team too much because he wants to play some game of thrones with another manager. I know when they decide to ignore all warnings to get to a deadline, and then when everything explodes they blame someone else. I know when someone h…
IA or AI?
Re: The Aging Programmer [video]
#100How is BMI racist?
Reading the articles below it appears that BMI should be sub-categorized by race and gender categories - healthy weights for [X-race + Y-gender] person to increase its efficacy as a health tool.
And what about mixed races?
Most reasons denote it's racist because of socioeconomic status.
Should we account for income in BMI as well?