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Are you saying that among those 30 qualified candidates, they're all at exactly the same level of skill/talent/experience, or are otherwise completely interchangeable?

I find that hard to believe, at least for any realistic scenario.

Even if all of those candidates exceed the minimum level of merit required for the job, it's very likely that some will still have more or better skill/talent/experience than the others. There will still be an ordering based purely on merit.

Ignoring this ordering when choosing the 10 successful candidates would be a case of ignoring merit, which would indicate a lowering of standards.

On the contrary, affirmative action is inherently about lowering standards.

If somebody from a disadvantaged group is hired based on having sufficient skill, talent and/or experience for a given job, then affirmative action was not involved. The person was hired based on merit.

But if affirmative action is used to justify the hiring of somebody, it inherently means that they did not have the sufficient skill, talent, and/or experience necessary for the job. The person was hired not based on merit, but based on some other, unrelated factor.

Hiring based on something other than merit automatically means that standards were lowered, or at best they were merely ignored.

Do any of the videos involve prominent systemd contributors interrupting the presenters, like in the notorious "Desktop on the Linux" video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdUmlGxVo0?

Atom is noticeably slow for me on a modern rMBP, too.

I'm using version 1.1.0.

It used to not even let me open anything but the smallest files. I think the limit was a mere 2 MB!

I do not get that denial any longer but it still feels slow especially for larger files.

Sometimes I have to open 500 MB text files. Atom cannot handle them, while they open nearly instantly using MacVim.

So in these modern days I use MacVim more than I use Atom.