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Comment Re:One drop rule? (Score 1) 250

I wouldn't expect to see perfect diversity across all career paths.

"Perfect diversity" is one thing, but here we're talking about patently lopsided results.

Different races have different genetics as well as different cultures.

So aside from trying to get all "nature versus nurture" regarding qualities for which there is no demonstrable inherent biological difference, you also appear to be assuming that "culture" stops at your door. It's somehow their culture preventing them from pursuing these careers and not yours. This in spite of the fact that it's your culture with all the economic and political power.

Comment Re:One drop rule? (Score 1) 250

The problem is that a resume/CV/whatever doesn't actually tell you the candidate's skills or knowledge. At best it tells you how long a candidate spent in school X or at employer Y, relying on an implied relationship of "school X = skill" and "employer Y = experience." But those implications break down when actually getting your foot in the door at school X and employer Y relies heavily on privilege rather than expertise.

Statistically speaking, the candidate from a privileged class will have a more impressive educational and work history specifically because of their privilege. Members of minority classes will likewise seem less qualified by those same privilege-skewed metrics of "education" and "work experience." The only practical solution is for individual hiring managers to literally give minority class members the benefit of the doubt, if only for a trial period (periods which are typical nowadays of all new employees).

Comment Re:One drop rule? (Score 1) 250

Maybe I'm looking for specialized EE's with a specific field of experience to finish out a project, and your degree and experience just don't fit the position I'm looking for?

You're presuming that said education and work experience was gained on a purely meritocratic basis. The United States is demonstrably not that meritocratic. You're assuming the person who shares their last name with both a building at their alma mater and the CEO of their last employer is the more qualified candidate.

Maybe the graduates moving into my industry are predominantly from a single race

For purely coincidental reasons?

How does that make me a racist?

Maybe you are and maybe you aren't, on an individual basis. But as a culture we most certainly are, and if you ever want our society to be as meritocratic as you claim yourself to be, if you ever want the education and work experience listed on the resumes of candidates to reflect actual merit rather than privilege, you will see the value in acting individually to counter that group trend.

Comment So what? (Score 1) 92

All network operators are subject to the new law, including local providers as well as the likes of Facebook, Google, Microsoft, who have opposed it, saying the new statutes clash with overseas privacy legislation.

They already famously route everything through the United States and its complete lack of privacy laws anyway. What do they care?

Don't tell me the likes of Facebook, Google and Microsoft are worried about their image as protectors of user privacy...

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