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Comment Equality versus Merit? (Score 2) 293

What should an employer do in cases where female employees take significantly more time out of the industry then male ones, to raise kids?

If an employer has a female workforce with average experience of (say) 10 years, and males with average 15 years experience, and if it's a sector such as medicine where experience massively affects capability, how should the pay policy work?

If the employer pays by gender equality, then female employees of lesser experience who took time out for child raising will be getting paid more than male employees of greater experience who stayed, continued their training and built their skills. Employees of greater merit will be suffering pay disadvantage.

But if the employer pays by merit and experience, the average female pay will be significantly lower than average male pay, and the employer will be exposed to legal problems.

What is an employer to do here?

Comment Wanna Promote Coding Among Kids? BAN IT! (Score 1) 281

Ban kids learning coding. Ban unlicensed access to programming tools. Show videos in classes of kids who take up coding then end up addicted to it, spending 18 hours a day in front of their screens. Kids sneaking into dark alleyways, handing over their hard-saved cash and getting a USB drive of IDEs, software frameworks, libraries, utilities. Kids selling their code on the black market, then ultimately getting busted.

Comment Australia versus NZ - major regulatory difference (Score 2) 161

In Australia, burner phones are illegal. You can't even buy a prepaid SIM card without producing and linking it to a government-issued ID. But in New Zealand, you can buy as many burner phones as you want - they're next to the chocolate bars in the supermarket check-outs and cost as little as $10. This makes the Australian rules ridiculous given that actual terrorists and criminals could just visit NZ and post the burners back over to Australia, and use them in roaming mode.

Submission + - Petition to name new Heavy Metal element after Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister

heretic108 writes: Upon the death of legendary Motorhead frontman Lenny Kilmister, a petition has been launched to have one of the four latest discovered heavy metal elements (completing the 7th row of the periodic table) named after him. It seems only appropriate after his vast contribution to popular culture that he be immortalised in the element Lemmium.

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