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App not recommended for Canadians. Unless someone makes a 'touch snow' plugin.


Same for people who live in the Southwest US, unless someone makes a 'touch dirt' or 'touch cactus' plugin.


I don't know about this article. I read a sentence that suggested that immigration might be linked to dysgenic effects on IQ. I refuse therefore to give attention to this document for the simple reason that it might be used by racist people to justify bad things... I am an immigrant. I refuse to consider views that might, even indirectly, question my presence on this country.


Regardless of whether they're true or not? That doesn't factor in?


There's nothing brave in the "This thing wrong, abolish it!" social justice rhetoric. We've been hearing this for the last 20 years and it has become meaningless.

If we've raised a generation that thinks that abolishing something will always do good, then we've done a terrible job for the next generations.


If both get a "1" on the table, then can you please the explain the comparison you made to reach that conclusion (that they're both equal)?

I'm just confused as to how diversity relates to the competence of an individual/team.

I am myself considered a "minority", which I have always felt quite patronizing (let alone the fact that it's incoherent: I'm a North African arab, the US Census considers me white but Canada considers me Arab...). The last thing I want is for my achievements to be seen through the lens of Race than for what they are.


No that the table would be taking into account many factors.

Even deciding to prioritise say a certain quality or skill work out what the bast candidate is from a score of say a total of 30/40 based on their application. Then shortlist to give the top few a chance at interview.

Performance at interview doesn't reflect the choice of who is interviewed. The choice of who gets to interview can be based on many factors and if it was important to choose a certain attribute then you can base your weighting on that. Ironically the exact equivalent I have is an example of something which isn't allowed because it discriminates, it was many as a very rough example.

This wasn't meant to be exact its a very rough example of a concept and not to be taken literally. Frankly three use of metrics like this are needed to explain brain dead comments like are you sure you're not biasing against certain applicants... To which we have to show no they just don't meet certain criterion.

Actually allowing the team to reach correct diversity ratios would probably only be a "good" metric to the bosses, bosses, boss. Again never has impact at interview as the hiring decision is made by a panel. Just shows were aware our field is dominated by older white males...

Betting this will get down voted too...)


I wish I could answer your comment, but I really had trouble reading half your sentences. Please work out your punctuation please.


I am about to post a Flammable comment


Schrödinger's (flammable) comment.


I have been told to disagree with this post. Therefore I disagree with this post.


This is really interesting because I was working recently on a way to have complete spreadsheets using only CSV files. The project is in my Github (https://github.com/yassirnajmaoui/runcsv and https://github.com/yassirnajmaoui/runcsv-gui) The only (major) thing is that the cells are run in top-bottom left-right instead of running a graph like this repo suggests.


You can try to avoid cellphone before going to bed as it really changes how you will wake up. What I will also try in the future is more Article reading and less Youtube for News


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