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Trump's Second Term

Blue Mountain said:
25-Year-Old Elon Musk Crony Has Total Control Over Treasury Payments

If the story at the New Republic is true, as a long time I/T professional I find this terrifying. Allowing one single person to modify code on a payment system without any oversight or code review? Just what is the new code doing? Auditing, I hope, but what's to say it isn't shaving one penny off of every payment and sending it to a secret account?

If this was being done by anyone else other than one of Musk's minions, that person would be instantly arrested and charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse act, for starters. A huge number of additional charges would follow, probably enough to put that person behind bars for twenty years and more.

I note the person in question has resigned because he's been unmasked as a racist who wanted to repeal the Civil Rights Act and had promoted hatred toward people from India.

newrepublic.com

25-Year-Old Elon Musk Crony Has Total Control Over Treasury Payments

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer linked to Elon Musk, is now rewriting the code for key Treasury Department payment systems.
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As you note, this guy was just forced to resign after all his racist tweets came to light. No wonder Herr Musk didn’t want their names published. All the best people…
 
jt512 said:
So, one step in favor of equal rights for women.
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Let's wait and see what the next study which looks at the effect that gender on otherwise identical CVs has on the chances of being invited for interview shows, shall we? Assuming it's still possible to even collect that data, let alone publish the study, in Trump's America.
 
Trausti said:
I am hopeful that Dems will keep this attitude through the next few election cycles.
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johnny karate said:
How many of these women did Trump sexually assault after this photo was taken? How many did he grab by the p*ssy? Did Trump’s Defense Secretary drop by and rape any of them? Were any of them sex trafficked by his first pick for Attorney General?
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To be fair. He did say they let you grab them by the pussy of your you're a star. It was a simple misunderstanding.
 
johnny karate said:
How many of these women did Trump sexually assault after this photo was taken? How many did he grab by the p*ssy? Did Trump’s Defense Secretary drop by and rape any of them? Were any of them sex trafficked by his first pick for Attorney General?
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According to Christian doctrine, which Trump claims to be well-versed in, he was guilty of adultery with all of those women.
 
Pixel42 said:
Let's wait and see what the next study which looks at the effect that gender on otherwise identical CVs has on the chances of being invited for interview shows, shall we? Assuming it's still possible to even collect that data, let alone publish the study, in Trump's America.
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I find your insinuations very strange. I am familiar with the matched-CV studies in one area: hiring for tenure-track positions in STEM. According to a recent systematic review, a total of such studies have been conducted. Of the six, five found that female CVs were strongly favored over male, and the one study that found the opposite (Steinpreiss 1999) was the smallest and statistically weakest of the six. Steve Ceci, lead author of the review, discussed these results at the recently held 3-day conference, "Censorship in the Sciences: Interdisciplinary Conferences," the videos of which have been posted online. His 30-minute talk starts at about 3:09:00 of the Day 2 video. His discussion of the matched-CV studies starts at about 3:17:30.

I have no idea why you think studies on this topic would be difficult to publish under Trump. In fact, it is studies that have contradicted the narrative of pervasive racial or gender bias in STEM have been very difficult to publish and have been harshly criticized (or outright canceled—forced to be retracted) when they have been published. As Ceci discusses, the smallest, weakest matched-CV study (Steinpreiss), which showed bias against women, received little if any methodological criticism when it published, whereas the five larger, stronger studies that showed that women's CVs were preferred over men's were all highly criticized.

I hope you'll watch Ceci's talk.
 
jt512 said:
I find your insinuations very strange. I am familiar with the matched-CV studies in one area: hiring for tenure-track positions in STEM. According to a recent systematic review, a total of such studies have been conducted. Of the six, five found that female CVs were strongly favored over male, and the one study that found the opposite (Steinpreiss 1999) was the smallest and statistically weakest of the six. Steve Ceci, lead author of the review, discussed these results at the recently held 3-day conference, "Censorship in the Sciences: Interdisciplinary Conferences," the videos of which have been posted online. His 30-minute talk starts at about 3:09:00 of the Day 2 video. His discussion of the matched-CV studies starts at about 3:17:30.

I have no idea why you think studies on this topic would be difficult to publish under Trump. In fact, it is studies that have contradicted the narrative of pervasive racial or gender bias in STEM have been very difficult to publish and have been harshly criticized (or outright canceled—forced to be retracted) when they have been published. As Ceci discusses, the smallest, weakest matched-CV study (Steinpreiss), which showed bias against women, received little if any methodological criticism when it published, whereas the five larger, stronger studies that showed that women's CVs were preferred over men's were all highly criticized.

I hope you'll watch Ceci's talk.
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Well, I have to admit, compared to your original, this is a very lucid and well thought out comment, but it's still speculation, and for that reason, I have to agree with Pixel42's wait-and-see strategy, but good try anyway.


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