I think we all do but we should recognise it as an issue and come up with strategies and processes to ensure objectivity and reduce discrimination.
I was once told in an interview for a statistician role that the questions were designed for male candidates and I shouldn't worry if I struggle with them. And this was a big FTSE 100 company.
I've implemented your last suggestion of scoring words by how much they reduce the pool of potential candidates (12k+). Testing it against the 1,000 most frequent words (targets), the word LORES seems to work best on average.
I fully agree, I don't think many London companies can afford to reject good candidates only because of age. Recently, I had the exact opposite experience, where an older candidate turned down an offer because they didn't want to report to a significantly younger manager.
I'm using the recommended Fastmail setup with my own name server, which doesn't support DMARC out of the box. Is this something I should look into to improve deliverability?
Having worked in the luxury industry before, my experience is that it really comes down to personal connections and branding. The problem is that positioning yourself as a true luxury player takes years (even in local markets) and until then you're still have to pay rent for high-end locations, PR, and equipment. There is a reason why most successful founders have strong industry connections and/or excellent references.
Yes, but researching these alternatives takes time and energy. Personally, I rather spent a £1-2k more on my tech gadgets per year than leaving the Apple ecosystem, which works well for me.
Doesn't blacklisting funds go against the main idea of a decentralised crypto currency? What's the point of replacing the traditional banking and monetary system with something where funds could be devalued by the decisions of a few individuals?
What difference does it make to disable the censorship function compared to fully removing it from the code base?
Considering that phone updates cannot be verified, every phone maker has the ability to secretly add such features at any time. And if the phone is link to a user account they could even do this in a targeted way.
In my experience, it's also common that those big consultancies get those impossible projects because none of the internal teams what to work on them. And when they inevitably fail, they'll convince senior management to pivot to something more feasible.
It's not like corruption and organise crime doesn't exist in Western countries or governments. For example, the Maltese
journalist Daphne Caruana was killed after reporting on government corruption in Malta, an EU member state.
In my opinion, email is the wrong medium for highly confidential communication. Especially, if someone's personal freedom or safety depends on it. Even if E2E works correctly, you still have to worry about meta data. Maybe Matrix over TOR would be a better alternative?
Unfortunately, the second option becomes more and more difficult for most people. With increasing costs of living, saving enough money for investments often times seems impossible.
But Apple only plans to scan photos that are synced with iCloud, don't they? So you could just switch to an E2E encrypted alternative and drop iCloud completely.
> We've [...] helped them grow and become known through positive posts, blog entries and the likes. [...] seen/helped them grow to become one of the largest CDNs.
Sounds to me like they overestimate they own importance to CF a bit.
In that case, you would still need to trust the mostly proprietary drivers and hardware. And if you aggressively remove features, I guess the question becomes why you would even need a phone. Maybe for some use cases it would be better to simply use a laptop.