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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by davidguetta on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:07AM (#36390630)
> Diversity is important

For what exactly ? There are countless examples of compagny who innovated or succedded well while everyone being the same race / gender (cf microsoft / apple in the 1990s or literally any china compagny right now).

I do enjoy diversity at work because I don't like when all my peers look / think / speak the same, but it's not exactly "important" beside my personal enjoyment

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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by dralley on Monday June 19, 2023 @10:51AM (#36391723)
And there are countless examples of a company that caused serious damage by not being diverse, see as an example the introduction of seatbelts and airbags that were designed by and tested for men and male-sized dummies, and not women or children.
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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by davidguetta on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @07:10AM (#36402352)
Lets hire children then so they can advise on security issues><.

My point is Its a huge unproven assumption that diversity would have magically solved that problem.

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