Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person
by mindslight on Friday March 09, 2018 @08:45PM
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Fighting the tyranny of probability distributions makes sense for orthogonal properties, but it's utterly nonsensical when the straightforward purpose of this forum is to facilitate discussion between technologists.
Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person
by DoreenMichele on Friday March 09, 2018 @09:05PM
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Anyone can join. There is no requirement that you be a particular demographic.
It promotes an echo chamber and is de facto exclusionary.
Minorities frequently complain that most people "bet" you will be one of the majority. If 90 percent of the time, X is true, they assume X is true in all cases rather than hedging their bet that maybe this is that 10 percent case where a woman is the boss or a person of color is the boss or the person you are speaking to is gay or whatever. It helps create an atmosphere hostile to minorities and other disempowered people.