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Comment Re:Geopolitics (Score 1) 101

You'd think a major news organisation would notice such a thing happen. Back in 2022 the NYT says NATO says that China is a Systemic Challenge, but I don't see anything about a 'list of hostile nations', certainly nothing from 2025. So, how will this stop China from getting US chips?

Comment Re:The slow death of Twitter (Score 2) 70

When all of the popular social media platforms are following the same trend by reducing all outside link operations, and in TikTok's case even apparently internal linking, it's not just about the death of journalism, it's about social media companies building wall gardens without actually replacing that functionality. Unless you count having an AI 'let me tell you about this thing' button below a post, which I don't.

Comment Re: Diversity Quotas (Score 1) 38

If you remove names and ages from resumes, the number of women and POC making it to the interview stage goes up, where they reliably do well. But people are still often discriminated against at the resume stage because they went to an HBU.
And people doing the interviews still tend to hire people who look and sound like themselves, because it makes them feel comfortable.

If you have a room full of people who went to similar schools/Unis, have similar cultural influences, otherwise similar backgrounds, they tend to think of the same solutions. If you've got a variety of backgrounds, usually most easily achieved by hiring women and POC, you get a wider range of problem-solving approaches, which makes you more money. Sure, you may find a white male who grew up poor on the streets of Puerto Rico and made it to Harvard, but since you've hired him (and there's a vanishingly small number of people like that), how is someone else going to hire someone with a radically different background and through process?

The simplest way is to look for people who are different than us middle-class white guys, which makes us feel worried because it decreases the demand for us.

Comment Re:Incorrect use rampant (Score 1) 501

Feels like someone was feeling unhappy about anyone still talking about masks. For example cayenne8's post seems to imply that only those who are immune impaired or otherwise have medical problems should be wearing them. Of course many people have elderly family members/friends/collegues who could be at risk, some people want to reduce their risk of Long Covid, and others are just sick of getting a nasty virus that knocks them around, even when vaccinated. And some just want to slow the spread of this nasty virus though the community.

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