Hugo would never know if she was the best, or merely the best available woman writer.
You say that like "the best" is measurable when it comes to authors. There are some better than others, for sure. But by the time you get to "the best", you're not going to get agreement.
Also, what's to stop the companies that do comply from making up some spurious board role that has no purpose
There's no real distinction between members of the board. They all have a vote at the table and a lot of power in the company. Any specific roles they pick up tend to be temporary, or a second job (e.g. CEO).
It'll also stifle new companies. A group of male friends won't be able to form a public company if they can't find a female to help
A public company, aka one traded on the stock exchange. So, those group of male friends could run Uber or AirBnB, but would have to find at least one woman before they became Google. Not really a hardship.
If it really does work, then why are blacks still at the bottom of society by just about every metric?
Because you're measuring results wrong. It's not some weird "judge an entire group of people by their averaged race achievement" metric. It's "have black people broken into the upper echelons" metric. And, I don't know if you noticed but black people are now Senators, Presidents, CEOs of Pizza Chains that make awful Pizza.
How about sports teams? Shouldn't they be mixed, too?
Major league sports teams are mixed. Just the women tend to be the cheerleaders.
They only want to cherry pick the 'good' stuff for themselves.
Everyone fights for the good stuff.
although I'm not sure what's so great about working all the hours that a big company CEO works
You work, say 9 hours (cause you got pressured into it by your boss) not counting the 30 minutes for lunch. You have an hour commute each way. So, about half your life is in "work mode". And if you have to travel for work... The CEO locates the headquarters where they want, so their commute is shorter, their lunch meeting is a 2 hour meeting, but with good food, and when they travel it's by private jet.
I'm not saying it's easy, but it's certainly pleasant and very well compensated. (I'll leave Musk out of this, as he is still essentially founding a startup, which is a different beast.)
privacy has been enforced this year with the GDPR law
If you live in Europe, and if you trust tech companies to do what they say with regard to European law. BTW, Has Facebook joined Apple, Google and Microsoft in the "Fuck it, I'll just pay a few billion euro fine instead of changing my behavior" club?
Collaboration between different apps is already a reality (ex Doodle accessing you Gmail calendar)
Connection from many apps to a few common dominant oligopoly backends (e.g. Google) is already a reality.
Zero risk for stolen data is impossible
Also, why I leave my door ajar when I leave the house with a sign in the front yard "security is impossible, and there's no such things as gradations/"
"The districts are among the least geographically compact in the nation."
That's actually not the best measure of gerrymandering. There are real measures, based on how extreme a change is needed to make districts flip. And Maryland looks silly, but could easily have been more gerrymandered. Republicans got 3/8 votes and 1/8 seats. That's... not super horrible. I mean, it's easy to imagine them (and partisans drew maps that did) get 0 seats with that kind of blowout. Meanwhile, Wisconsin has 37.5% democratic seats in spite of the fact that the democrats got more than 50% of the vote.
There are points in Maryland where the district is only one block wide
This is actually pretty common. Maybe it shouldn't be, but it is.
I'm not saying Maryland is gerrymandered. I'm saying it's not gerrymandered compared to Wisconsin. Because in Maryland, it's just the most popular party getting slightly more seats than raw vote totals would suggest, and in Wisconsin it's the losing party getting the most seats by a lot.
It depends on what they're asking for. Is it a phone call every once in a while to help explain why the journalist is spewing nonsense (technically)? Or do they want me to treat it as a job. Because I could see treating it as volunteer work. I already volunteer my time to some causes I care about, and if phrased as "please make tech journalism more journalism and less press release recitation" I could see caring about that.
The state of most tech journalism is really bad. Or, please point out the sources I should be reading. Anyway, on to the next story about Musk's tweet from a few weeks ago.
Thus, even if he loses Musk does not become a felon and (I'm pretty sure) doesn't lose the security clearance that he needs for his SpaceX activities.
I don't know if he needs a clearance for SpaceX, but he could lose his clearance for making fraudulent statements. It's not just for committing crimes. If he was cheating on his wife (not that he's married) he could lose his clearance for that too
I could not use it for commerce after Sony registered their trademark
If you had been using it in business, you could have continued to use it. And if your business was clearly in a different space, you probably could as well. (E.g. Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Sonic the fast-food chain or Apple Music vs. Apple Computer).
That said, IANAL. But I do know that while potentially expensive, trademark law tends to make sense.
It was also the Democrats that turned my home state into the most gerrymandered state in the country:
That's beyond an exaggeration. First, the Republicans only get 37.5% of the vote. It would be trivially to give them zero seats; instead they got one. In Wisconsin, the Republicans got 47.5% of the vote. But they got over 60% of the seats. That's gerrymandered to hell and back.
I'm not saying "Maryland has no gerrymandering", but it's not an extreme case. It's pretty similar to how in Texas, Austin is divided into 5(?) districts that each go out (kinda like pie slices) to include enough good-old-boys to offset the bright blue center.
Not only that, Lucasarts supplied some materials for people producing fan art (e.g. sound files for people building R2 clones), provided [essentially that no one make any money and they could change the rules later.]
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You say that like "the best" is measurable when it comes to authors. There are some better than others, for sure. But by the time you get to "the best", you're not going to get agreement.
There's no real distinction between members of the board. They all have a vote at the table and a lot of power in the company. Any specific roles they pick up tend to be temporary, or a second job (e.g. CEO).
A public company, aka one traded on the stock exchange. So, those group of male friends could run Uber or AirBnB, but would have to find at least one woman before they became Google. Not really a hardship.
How is that insulting? Most groups cannot "negotiate power on their own as individuals". That's why, for example, unions got started.
Hell, are you sure you've negotiated power on your own?
What backwards country do you live in? I've never heard of it being illegal to discuss your salary anywhere.
You could have told her she was being screwed.
Because you're measuring results wrong. It's not some weird "judge an entire group of people by their averaged race achievement" metric. It's "have black people broken into the upper echelons" metric. And, I don't know if you noticed but black people are now Senators, Presidents, CEOs of Pizza Chains that make awful Pizza.
Major league sports teams are mixed. Just the women tend to be the cheerleaders.
Everyone fights for the good stuff.
You work, say 9 hours (cause you got pressured into it by your boss) not counting the 30 minutes for lunch. You have an hour commute each way. So, about half your life is in "work mode". And if you have to travel for work... The CEO locates the headquarters where they want, so their commute is shorter, their lunch meeting is a 2 hour meeting, but with good food, and when they travel it's by private jet.
I'm not saying it's easy, but it's certainly pleasant and very well compensated. (I'll leave Musk out of this, as he is still essentially founding a startup, which is a different beast.)
I was afraid I wasn't getting enough advertisements in my life. Thanks Slashdot!
If you live in Europe, and if you trust tech companies to do what they say with regard to European law. BTW, Has Facebook joined Apple, Google and Microsoft in the "Fuck it, I'll just pay a few billion euro fine instead of changing my behavior" club?
Collaboration between different apps is already a reality (ex Doodle accessing you Gmail calendar)
Connection from many apps to a few common dominant oligopoly backends (e.g. Google) is already a reality.
Also, why I leave my door ajar when I leave the house with a sign in the front yard "security is impossible, and there's no such things as gradations/"
What's popular isn't necessarily good. In fact, they tend to be "one or the other"
the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, the BBC.
CNN isn't biased, but I don't think it's very good.
But go ahead, insist (without evidence) that those are horrible. Just please, if you do, supply backup.
That's actually not the best measure of gerrymandering. There are real measures, based on how extreme a change is needed to make districts flip. And Maryland looks silly, but could easily have been more gerrymandered. Republicans got 3/8 votes and 1/8 seats. That's... not super horrible. I mean, it's easy to imagine them (and partisans drew maps that did) get 0 seats with that kind of blowout. Meanwhile, Wisconsin has 37.5% democratic seats in spite of the fact that the democrats got more than 50% of the vote.
This is actually pretty common. Maybe it shouldn't be, but it is.
I'm not saying Maryland is gerrymandered. I'm saying it's not gerrymandered compared to Wisconsin. Because in Maryland, it's just the most popular party getting slightly more seats than raw vote totals would suggest, and in Wisconsin it's the losing party getting the most seats by a lot.
It depends on what they're asking for. Is it a phone call every once in a while to help explain why the journalist is spewing nonsense (technically)? Or do they want me to treat it as a job. Because I could see treating it as volunteer work. I already volunteer my time to some causes I care about, and if phrased as "please make tech journalism more journalism and less press release recitation" I could see caring about that.
The state of most tech journalism is really bad. Or, please point out the sources I should be reading. Anyway, on to the next story about Musk's tweet from a few weeks ago.
I mean, you can "No True Scotsman" if you like, but there are definitely biased news sources and unbiased ones.
Ford's investors. And Tesla's investors. Or were you investing in Tesla thinking that you were somehow also buying into SpaceX.
Also, I see no reason why we'd want a private individual to lead us to Mars, and doubt SpaceX is really going to get there.
I don't know if he needs a clearance for SpaceX, but he could lose his clearance for making fraudulent statements. It's not just for committing crimes. If he was cheating on his wife (not that he's married) he could lose his clearance for that too
From Amazon's point of view, what's wrong with Cloudflare is that they have a competing product.
If you had been using it in business, you could have continued to use it. And if your business was clearly in a different space, you probably could as well. (E.g. Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Sonic the fast-food chain or Apple Music vs. Apple Computer).
That said, IANAL. But I do know that while potentially expensive, trademark law tends to make sense.
That's beyond an exaggeration. First, the Republicans only get 37.5% of the vote. It would be trivially to give them zero seats; instead they got one. In Wisconsin, the Republicans got 47.5% of the vote. But they got over 60% of the seats. That's gerrymandered to hell and back.
I'm not saying "Maryland has no gerrymandering", but it's not an extreme case. It's pretty similar to how in Texas, Austin is divided into 5(?) districts that each go out (kinda like pie slices) to include enough good-old-boys to offset the bright blue center.
Not only that, Lucasarts supplied some materials for people producing fan art (e.g. sound files for people building R2 clones), provided [essentially that no one make any money and they could change the rules later.]
Meanwhile, blockchain based on-phone voting is now a reality in the US. And yes it's as bad as XKCD says.
Because the profit motive in the US isn't to be leftist thought police.
Amazon's AWS isn't participating in this. Because you should use whatever AWS service there is that competes with Cloudflare.
It's not advertised in America, but what makes you think they're not already doing it in America?
The only password manager to work securely is one run by the OS maker, who use an undocumented API. This sounds very shades of the mid-90's.