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...  an insular, mostly-white, tech industry that has built its own biases into the foundations of the technology we use and depend on.

There's nothing stopping her or anybody else from rewriting the code.  You can do that in software.  

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Tue Oct 17th, 2017 at 04:23:37 PM EST
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Re: WHAA-bulance 2.0 (none / 0)
Man makes the machine, yo.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Tue Oct 17th, 2017 at 06:51:49 PM EST
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Those who take decisions about the code that will go into production are those who wield power in the tech industry. Mostly white; mostly male.

Not a terribly complicated concept.

by Bernard (bernard) on Tue Oct 17th, 2017 at 07:38:33 PM EST
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It is stupid to expect Silicon Valley Techbros to be anything other than Silicon Vally Techbros.

Not a terribly complicated concept.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sat Oct 21st, 2017 at 11:39:39 PM EST
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Did anyone say otherwise?
by Bernard (bernard) on Mon Oct 23rd, 2017 at 06:24:30 PM EST
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