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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
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magic:

--- Quote from: daqq on July 03, 2020, 06:22:39 am ---On the whole corporate virtue signalling: Corporations do not care about causes, they are in it for the cheap marketing and good will. That's it.

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Depends. Have you not seen the video of Google CFO or something like that crying after the 2016 US election? ;D
Simon:

--- Quote from: magic on July 03, 2020, 06:35:16 am ---
--- Quote from: daqq on July 03, 2020, 06:22:39 am ---On the whole corporate virtue signalling: Corporations do not care about causes, they are in it for the cheap marketing and good will. That's it.

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Depends. Have you not seen the video of Google CFO or something like that crying after the 2016 US election? ;D

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Did they cry for George Floyd? thought not!
paulca:

--- Quote from: xrunner on July 03, 2020, 12:17:34 am ---Just saw this reading news -


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JPMorgan drops terms 'master,' 'slave' from internal tech code and materials

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Great.  That's my door step it's on.  This could get ugly for me.  I refuse.  Point blank.  I refuse on the grounds that this move is RACIST.

So I might end up working elsewhere.
bd139:
I'm glad I work at an organisation that has a shallow enough hierarchy so that there isn't anyone idle enough to fuck around with this shit and burn money on it.
bitwelder:
Has a replacement term already been chosen for the academic degree between bachelor and doctor?
(BTW, degree probably hold by many of those who are proposing this terminology change).
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