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>For one, it's a creative endeavor, where different points of view stemming from different backgrounds can only have a positive effect on the end product.

I'd say it's far more engineering than creative. You're writing code to meet the specifications of a client. I don't think the race of the person writing that code makes a difference.

>Does the product benefit more from being reviewed by teammates from the same schools and employment backgrounds, or by ones with different life and professional experiences

It benefits from being reviewed by people who have lots of experience writing different types of software. Which has nothing to do with ethnic diversity.

>Besides, getting to know people from different backgrounds and cultures can only expand your own view points and make you a better developer

Meaningless platitude, unless you can back this up with data

>Your point about companies pushing diversity to prevent unions sounds conspiratorial at best.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61403

What a toxic mindset.

You might be in the top 1%, but 99% of people aren't. Not everyone is able to compete globally against 3 billion other people. Most people are unexceptional and average. And that's okay. Those are the workers keep the world moving forward.

It is perfectly okay to just be the best person at something in your town or local area. Telling people "you should feel pretty terrible about your ability if you aren't one of the best people in the world" is telling 99.99% of the population they should feel forever worthless.

I think diversity has been pushed on the workplace because it massively opens up the labor supply and allows companies to plummet wages. As a native worker of a country it is completely against your self-interest to advocate for such changes.

All of the pro-diversity platitudes like "diversity is a strength" are never justified with data, they're just said as truisms you're supposed to blindly believe and repeat.

Why does nobody ever talk about how homogeneity is a strength? The comradery you used to have in mining villages where all workers had a tightly shared heritage and all grew up together was probably the strongest workforce you could hope for. But workers with those kinds of strong bonds do scary things like forming unions and going on strike, we don't want any of that! And that's why Amazon tracks lack of workplace diversity as a metric for risk of union formation :)

>"shared background" has certainly been the cause of a lot of harm

Do you have an example?

>Remote also greatly enhances the talent pool available for employers. It reduces cost too.

Neither of these things are good for an employee.

A world where none of your coworkers have any shared background with you or where you can lose an interview at a local company to someone 700 miles away sounds like hell.

>it's publicly available information

Irrelevant distinction. Most doxxing is just collecting publicly accessible information. Stalking and intimidation is still stalking and intimidation whether you use public information or not.

Stalking is not free speech

Unless I'm missing something this article just appears to be a tutorial on how to use existing web libraries together, not a framework.

How do we solve this problem? In other industries based on physical products there is a big incentive to buy goods as locally as possible because of reduced shipping costs, shorter shipping time, no import taxes etc.

But with software it costs nothing to spin up new instances, costs nothing to deliver half way across the world, and has no delivery time. How can you convince a manager to use a software solution provided by a local company when a company in a completely different country 600 miles away offers similar software with 5 extra features?

It seems like the internet is now perfectly set up to create, for each software type, a single company that has a global monopoly.

I agree, It's not hard to reach 25km/h and beyond on a normal bike, but to do so you have to elevate your heart rate and enter a state of increased alertness.

I think the key problem with e-bikes isn't the speed, but that you're able to reach dangerous speeds while barely paying attention to your surroundings.

Having to keep charging a bicycle seems like far more friction to me than having to spend 15 seconds putting on a helmet

Personally I think the main difference is that normal bikes are self-regulated by the stamina of the rider. It takes a lot of extra effort to ride a standard bike fast and erratically, you are self-incentivised by your own exhaustion to ride smoothly and at a moderate pace.

Not the case for an e-bike where you have no reason to not just ride around everywhere at 20+ mph while barely paying attention.