teractiveodular

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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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 more white people in CS.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Such as? If a specific culture puts women off studying CS, than that culture is sexist, no?
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
> 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 minority groups, yes?
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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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by teractiveodular 2y ago
But what if the poor people have the wrong skin color?
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
The referenced Google diversity reports spell out the percentages of "Asian+, Black+, Latinx+, Native American+ and White+" (their terms). https://about.google/belonging/diversity-annual-report/2023/
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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, although obviously having another pair of hands makes things e
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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. Regardless of your intentions, how is that not raci
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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 their worst subject in high school (15 points). How co
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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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by teractiveodular 2y ago
It's down 7% in after-hours trading as I type this.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Results: https://abc.xyz/assets/91/b3/3f9213d14ce3ae27e1038e01a0e0/20... 10-Q: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204424... All the numbers look pr
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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 making things like food and social media more appealing a
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The Blue Stone (fully AI-generated music video)(youtube.com)
3 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|1 comments
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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 get to dictate what you do and say at work .
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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 been told to stop teaching, and I quote, "woke
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Start here: https://www.thefire.org/cases?_page=1&keywords=diversity&_li...
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
(deleted incorrect claim)
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
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" 680,000 is over a week's income. At retai
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Bat Bomb(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|0 comments
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Early indications are that the airliner and ATC were operating as planned, and the immediate cause of the crash was the military helicopter.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
To put this in perspective, this is the first fatal crash of a US commercial airliner in 16 years (Colgan Air Flight 3407 on February 12, 2009) and the first fatal commercial airliner crash in the United States in 12 years (since Asiana Air
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Nah yeah nah mate
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
DeepSeek is basically a startup, not a "foreign nation-state backed organization". They were forced to pivot to AI when their original business model (quant hedge fund) was stomped on by the Chinese government. Of course this is C
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Some passengers are extremely price sensitive, but full-service airlines make 80% of their profits from the 10% sitting up in the pointy end. It already costs 4x more to fly biz than economy, and 9-11x more to fly first (actual first cla
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
The real money is in business travel, not leisure. For long haul transpac flights in business class, it's not uncommon to pay 2-3x more for direct flights instead of a stopover, which means the market values the savings of a couple of
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
There were enough passengers, and flying the Concorde actually became profitable for the airlines once they figured out they just needed to charge through the nose for it. This was despite prodigious fuel consumption and that fuel becoming
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Air travel is more popular than ever and 2024 broke basically all records. Why would there be less case for faster flights? Supersonic flight will be the preserve of the 0.1%, but the vast majority of private jets can't fly trans-conti

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