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[–] MrShekelstein ago 

bill gates is as dirty as they come, the only reason people dont realize it is because his PR team is pretty good.

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[–] EmJayGee 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Bill is a jerk but he's not dirty. Please substantiate or GTFO. His massive PR effort is attempting to cover up his jerk-ness which is really his Aspergers combined with success-poisoning. He hasn't failed nearly enough and learned any humility. OTOH, it's enabled him to think big, for the most part.

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[–] 18128289? ago 

he's dirty. he lied to IBM about having a working operating system.

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[–] BlackCrimesMatter 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Divershitty explains why Microsoft has been putting out so much crap lately. When they value the ethnicity over the skill that is what happens.

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[–] kbearcat 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

state sponsored racism, as it turns out, counts as racism. Racism really is bad ... but you have to keep in mind, white really is a race too.

Trannies who say "meritocracies aren't" (that's a quote, btw, of someone I muted on mastodon) should be shot. Fortunately they usually take care of that themselves.

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[–] EmJayGee 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The slavish devotion to diversity has been going on for decades and decades. My wife and I were both managers from the 90s and both were in diversity training. I spoke up and questioned the value and was put into my place and learned not to question the narrative in public. She was honest in the anonymous post-it exercises that were done and her responses were ridiculed so she learned her lesson also.

I left for GOOG but got in a car accident and became disabled a year or so before the whole James Damore thing went down, I'm in a way glad because I'm pretty sure I couldn't have kept my mouth shut. I do notice that all my Google "friends" seem to have disappeared from my social media circles.

Microsoft is painfully devoted to metrics and thus the bottom line. The diversity adherence is for PR and hiring. MSFT isn't the #1 tech company any more and can't afford additional negative checkmarks when top candidates are considering where to work after graduation. 90% of the managers who profess undying love of diversity do it because their own diversity metrics are part of their own ratings and thus their ability to move towards the coveted reward of partnership.

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[–] Onlio 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I have a friend who is an engineer for a different company. There was no way he was able to hire anything but women or minorities

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[–] slumbermachine 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

All white male software people need to get together and do a class action lawsuit, include all medium and large size tech companies that have diversity hiring practices. For loss of wages due to the discrimination we've received. We should demand reparations. At minimum, a tax free quarter million each. You would see the biggest economic and technical boom in history.

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[–] budhahead 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

.....And just like that Microsoft was added back into my stock portfolio

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[–] mf1776 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Wait until action is taken. It's more likely a few rogue employees will soon find themselves out of a job

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[–] theysayso 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The author shows his own bias when he refers to the Wired article's take on the Damore memo as "pseudoscience". Its almost like he didn't read it.

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