I like how you invented a quote them claimed that some anonymous activist said it. I guess the activist had to be anonymous otherwise it's be even more obvious you made it up.
So you're saying that this is the diversity you had in mind?
And yet, the US has Hooters. Hooters gets away with only hiring women as servers because of BFOQ. That's Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications. While they were sued many years ago, they only agreed to put men in other positions but they never agreed to hire men for server roles. How is this different?
Our entertainment business (including, ahem, newsreaders) is heavily based on looks too.
We threw out traditional morality (anything goes! let it all hang out!), and then we keep trying to smuggle bits of it back using SJW-ness. It's kind of a mish mash mess.
What this point demonstrates that it is Liberalism, Freedom of Speech, and strong protections of Personal Rights that allow SJWs to exist.
You seem to imply that this is a bad thing. Those vary same things allow for all manner of other ideologies, advocacy groups, or people with other points of view to exist as well, many of which have little or no overlap with SJWs in terms of belifs. It's those same protections that allow you to post about it on the internet without anyone from the government kicking down your door and dragging you off to one of those reeducation camps. I would think that having to listen to some idiots whinge on the internet (where you're just as free to dispute them) is a tiny price to pay for those freedoms.
Quite agree. You might want to tell the UK though, where you can be arrested for posting a video of your dog.
Both Tencent and Baidu were noted to have posted to their social media accounts interviews with male employees who cited having beautiful women around them as an incentive for working there.
That's crazy talk; no way do men like being surrounded by beautiful women!
It's not that I personally care about it, but I want to live in a world where people can run away and drop out of sight. It's an important safety
valve against authoritarianism.
I would like that too, but good luck with that. You can't legally work without identifying yourself and your employer sending data about you to the federal government. That ship has sailed.
Ironically, i think basic income is as easy as reforming the welfare and taxation system, as in zero (or even 'negative') tax up to a certain threshold that provides minimum living needs.
We actually have that, in the US - a surprisingly large number of people pay no tax at all, when all is said and done, and even get more back than they paid in, due to tax credits. Or even file taxes when they have no income at all, just to get tax credits.
Not saying that some basic income scheme wouldn't be more logical then the crazy quilt tax law we have now (would it be more sustainable/affordable, I don't know). Just saying, we do have what you are saying there already.
Okay let's ask the next guy that a Democrat president nominates whether he believes that intelligence is distributed equally across racial groups. He says yes? Guess he's anti-science.
Or do you want to rethink your criteria?
or is it that Waze will detect when the traffic it's diverted to the "shortcut" is now taking 30 minutes longer, and will stop routing traffic that way until it clears up?
This. At least, it will if it works anything like Google Maps.
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Are they going to have "computer programmer's motivator's?
I like how you invented a quote them claimed that some anonymous activist said it. I guess the activist had to be anonymous otherwise it's be even more obvious you made it up.
So you're saying that this is the diversity you had in mind?
Fascinating! Tell me more about these ... "computers". When did you start using them at YouTube?
And yet, the US has Hooters. Hooters gets away with only hiring women as servers because of BFOQ. That's Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications. While they were sued many years ago, they only agreed to put men in other positions but they never agreed to hire men for server roles. How is this different?
Our entertainment business (including, ahem, newsreaders) is heavily based on looks too.
We threw out traditional morality (anything goes! let it all hang out!), and then we keep trying to smuggle bits of it back using SJW-ness. It's kind of a mish mash mess.
That sheds an even worse light on chinese programmers than on chinese companies....
It's a sad life if the best thing about your job is the gorgeous.... whatever an software developer motivator is.
It's bad for men to want beautiful women around them?
They didn't say it was the best thing about their jobs (though so what if it were?)
interviews with male employees who cited having beautiful women around them as an incentive for working there
What this point demonstrates that it is Liberalism, Freedom of Speech, and strong protections of Personal Rights that allow SJWs to exist.
You seem to imply that this is a bad thing. Those vary same things allow for all manner of other ideologies, advocacy groups, or people with other points of view to exist as well, many of which have little or no overlap with SJWs in terms of belifs. It's those same protections that allow you to post about it on the internet without anyone from the government kicking down your door and dragging you off to one of those reeducation camps. I would think that having to listen to some idiots whinge on the internet (where you're just as free to dispute them) is a tiny price to pay for those freedoms.
Quite agree. You might want to tell the UK though, where you can be arrested for posting a video of your dog.
Capitalist stooges sure are proud of mass censorship.
SJW run tech corps doing SJW powered censorship are "capitalist stooges"?
Both Tencent and Baidu were noted to have posted to their social media accounts interviews with male employees who cited having beautiful women around them as an incentive for working there.
That's crazy talk; no way do men like being surrounded by beautiful women!
Other cultures are actually different, Euro and Euro derived cultures are shocked to discover!
"This isn't the diversity we had in mind", activists quoted as saying ...
Gotta check this out, lol
Used it ...
And I remember that fancy new IBM WebExplorer ... on OS/2
Shazam lets users identify songs by pointing a smartphone at the audio source.
So, like Google's music search.
Ask the artists how much of that streaming revenue went to them. There is more than one kind of pirate.
My sympathy for the artists is becoming more limited as time goes on.
It's not exactly hard to sell digital music. If you think you can do it without a record company, go for it.
If you can't, then I guess the record companies are adding some value.
Well except for all the people pirating the free section of Spotify, showing just how much of a lie, "make it affordable" really is.
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/18/03/23/234234/spotify-says-2-million-users-hacked-apps-to-suppress-ads-on-its-free-service#comments
And? What is your point?
Those are the people who would never pay, and they still haven't. Loss: $0.
Meanwhile, sales booming, because streaming.
not so "top-secret" if I can read about it on slashdot
That makes you an insider! Aren't you excited??
Make it available at a reasonable price, and people will pay. I seem to remember a few of us mentioning this occasionally.
It's not that I personally care about it, but I want to live in a world where people can run away and drop out of sight. It's an important safety valve against authoritarianism.
I would like that too, but good luck with that. You can't legally work without identifying yourself and your employer sending data about you to the federal government. That ship has sailed.
Ironically, i think basic income is as easy as reforming the welfare and taxation system, as in zero (or even 'negative') tax up to a certain threshold that provides minimum living needs.
We actually have that, in the US - a surprisingly large number of people pay no tax at all, when all is said and done, and even get more back than they paid in, due to tax credits. Or even file taxes when they have no income at all, just to get tax credits.
Not saying that some basic income scheme wouldn't be more logical then the crazy quilt tax law we have now (would it be more sustainable/affordable, I don't know). Just saying, we do have what you are saying there already.
Or is it "food stamps expanded so much that employees at X qualify"?
Worth asking, anyway.
AI or human, if a company actually hired by racism, they'd be handing their competitors a huge competitive advantage.
After all, they'd be using a meaningless criterion, while their competitors would be focusing of course on skills and experience alone. Right?
(You'd think an AI might catch this after awhile, but whatever. if it didn't, the market would.)
Okay let's ask the next guy that a Democrat president nominates whether he believes that intelligence is distributed equally across racial groups. He says yes? Guess he's anti-science. Or do you want to rethink your criteria?
If nothing else, Trump finally got Democrats to distrust communists ...
or is it that Waze will detect when the traffic it's diverted to the "shortcut" is now taking 30 minutes longer, and will stop routing traffic that way until it clears up?
This. At least, it will if it works anything like Google Maps.
Why don't you instead try to convince people outside of your various interest and grievance groups that you are actually worth voting for?
Here's a tip: if a clown can beat you, the problem isn't the clown ...
It's the story with everything; "AI" and grossness!