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Re:PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant p... by devmor on Monday October 27, 2025 @05:32PM (#45726552)
This is also sounds like mystical thinking or some kind of idealism. What safeguard prevents the interference and subversion by the class(es) that already control hiring and cause the problem that society desires to solve?

A meritocracy would of course, benefit everyone, but in creating systems that decide merit, we demonstrably have always created biases that preserve the control of someone involved in creating those systems.

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Re:PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant p... by philipallstar on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @03:43AM (#45730102)
Yes, we bias towards people we think will do work that benefits the organisation's end users or customers. That's what we want as end users or customers.
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Re:PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant p... by devmor on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:43PM (#45756208)
What? Customers do not do hiring and hiring is not done to benefit customers. That is a nonsense viewpoint.
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