omar_a1

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by omar_a1 6y ago
Fair. But as long as I keep coming across racially insensitive comments like in the original post, and commenters who strongly believe these kinds of comments are a legitimate perspective, I'm not going to be able to just leave them as
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by omar_a1 6y ago
>Do you really think that a company can achieve 50% women in tech without biasing their interview process in favor of women? I strongly recommend looking up the word "bias" in the dictionary. Systemic and institutional bias in
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by omar_a1 6y ago
> Anyway, it is a sad read for people like me who don't get preferential treatment. Yup, we marginalized groups get all the breaks. /s
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by omar_a1 6y ago
> So the answer is yes? Companies should strive to be 50/50 men and women tech roles even though the ratio in the workforce is 80/20? The answer is: "No, I do not see the obvious circular logic." The tech sector is 80
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by omar_a1 6y ago
> So tech companies should strive to be 50% women even though the tech industry is only 20% female (or slightly less)? You seem to not understand what the term "representative" means. Or notice the circular logic implicit in y
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by omar_a1 6y ago
Overrepresentation of the population . Do I really need to explain how 23% compares to 50%? And I'm offended because it's wildly offensive . You've repeatedly insisted racial slurs aren't so bad, and diverse hiring pra
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by omar_a1 6y ago
> You correctly highlight that diverse workers are often subject to more bullying and harassment. On the other hand, many tech companies do discriminate in hiring and that results in greater opportunities being extended to diverse candid
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by omar_a1 6y ago
> This kind of rejection of different worldviews is the antithesis of inclusion. Ah yes, the old "You're intolerant of our intolerance" chestnut. Every post of yours is just doubling down on insistently denying the realiti
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by omar_a1 6y ago
And you do realize that you're equating diverse hiring efforts with getting called racial slurs on the job, yes? Those are two very different definitions of "actual" racism. And rather supports the breathtakingly racist claim
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by omar_a1 6y ago
And I've heard hiring managers say racist and sexist comments on prospective employees all throughout my career. And neglect to mentor or promote them. And freeze them out of the team. I suppose the strawman you've set up outweigh
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by omar_a1 6y ago
> Also, the notion that racial slurs are "the price of admission" is something you seem to have brought up - not me > Many see getting called slurs as a small price to pay to get a chance to break into tech. I'm still h
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by omar_a1 6y ago
Varies by industry and sector, but there's typically no "technical". It goes: 1) Resume + cover letter + cumbersome online job app, 2) phone screen, 3) On-site, and 4) Reference check. Typically the interviews are more conv
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by omar_a1 6y ago
Jumping ship for a promotion at the original company is a super common strategy in other sectors too.
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by omar_a1 6y ago
No, it's not an SF Bay Area thing. I've moved to SF from the Midwest a year ago, and have been called racial slurs more times during my year here than in my entire adult life living in a medium-sized Midwestern town. Shall we assu
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by omar_a1 6y ago
If we could quantify the net effects of sexism and racism in hiring and attrition, we could compare whether the incentives mentioned offset the sexism and racism equivalently. But, since we don't have a means of doing so, it's a f
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by omar_a1 6y ago
Diversity hire , not diversity.
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by omar_a1 6y ago
>So for those FAANG engineers that were able to get in early, whether by acquihire, by diversity hire, by luck, by normal hire Can we please stop assuming that being a minority or woman is some kind of hiring free pass? It's often q
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by omar_a1 6y ago
Asked, and answered. We're done here.
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by omar_a1 6y ago
No.
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by omar_a1 6y ago
On the bright side, I learned the term "sealioning" today, so thanks for that! :D
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by omar_a1 6y ago
I've been making liberal use of the flag button for the trolling comments once I picked up on the pattern.
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by omar_a1 6y ago
No.
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by omar_a1 6y ago
Because you're making a point of singling out every single reply in this thread that you disagree with, and making your objection about the user posting the comment rather than the comment yourself. Or broadly asserting that the parent
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by omar_a1 6y ago
No, and I'm not a brain surgeon either, so I suppose I can't claim you aren't qualified to perform brain surgery, using that logic. Better scrub up! But if you're going to claim the contrary, I take it that you have a we
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by omar_a1 6y ago
> Let's first all stay the fuck home This is a good point. Preventative medicine is the best medicine. That's true in general, but is especially true during this type of crisis. We should also be more strict about isolation m
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by omar_a1 6y ago
They asked for evidence. I did as much, explaining a very, very basic concept in medicine, "sterile technique," and how even that can take years to get right. And was told, in response, that I'm just imagining reasons to ob
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by omar_a1 6y ago
Claiming that untrained staff could administer a ventilator from a 30 day bootcamp fits under that definition.
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by omar_a1 6y ago
Because it's common sense that an invasive medical procedure needs to be administered by someone with some semblance of competence in medicine, if you expect the patient to have a shot at not dying. An emergency doesn't change the
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by omar_a1 6y ago
For one, if I were hypothetically responsible for addressing this crisis, I would be talking to the nurses and doctors to figure out what level of training is actually necessary to operate these ventilators. I'd also ask what else they
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by omar_a1 6y ago
Childbirth is a bodily function that the species is biologically predispositioned to perform. It will happen whether a doctor is present or not, to say nothing of the numerous possible complications. Ventilation is not a comparable analogy

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