THis assumes that that all groups have been included in your hiring process for equal amounts of time. If there's a lag between all the white guys, say, that have been there much longer and have been in grade longer and the newer people at the company or at that grade who've not been there that long. This kind of result does nothing but raise a million questions about the conclusions being asserted. Also, there's literally no mention of statistical significance. Again, working for equity is a good thing, but data needs to looked at carefully beforehand. It might be that there's something amiss at MS, but I'd not rely on this article as conclusive evidence.

I'm all for equity but is kind of a crap article because it measures only median pay grade across their entire work force. You can't make any intelligent conclusions based on that. Oh, let's not correct for job title, or grade, or years in service or anything. Nope. Just median values.

How about not voluntarily working 80 hours a week? I hear that works too.

Kind of a sucky article if you don't have direct access to data and nothing to go on except speculation and pearl clutching over a short period of time and without historical insight

I was going to say. Have been in the tech world for 25 years and the women are, in general, no worse than the men if not better. Studies have also show that they also make better decisions for the company and focus less on how it affects their own personal outcomes.

Do people from rural communities who went to school and now work in cities share urban values?

Why the assumption that rural communities are seeing an influx of people with 'different values'? Montana is seeing lots of influx from Texas and Utah, probably more so than California, and even the latter has a lot of conservative to it.

I didn't make it up. The locals were telling me this. If they were making it up, that's on them isn't it?

That's a lot of supposition

I didn't see it, I only know what the locals were telling me. Of course, the fact everyone had stories of their bikes being stolen and that everyone habitually left their bikes unlocked at the train stations lends some credence to it. Why would I need an article in that case? Crime statistics are only as good as the number of people who report a crime.

Last time I lived in Sweden you had guys going around in trucks stealing all of the bikes at the train station in one town, going to another and selling the bikes. Lather, rinse, repeat. I'm sure this will go well.

I've never had a problem with LinkedIn because I know all of my contacts. I've also never, ever, had an acquaintance find me a job.

So those shirt folding jobs at the mall aren't going away soon?

Can you use the background noise spectrum for detection? Or are submarine hulls too sound absorbant and the reflection back to your sensors too weak?

Well not unless someone gives us $500M and you're dead.

If you're trying to convince say a legislator to do something and you only have your opinion and personal experience to back you up, what do you think esp if said person has a lot of doubts and resistance? How about getting people to support your efforts?

Another factor playing in to other answers is that even if we cut off additional CO2 production *today* the oceans have so much additional heat stored in them from the last 100+ years of fossil fuel burning that the atmospheric temperatures would continue to rise for several hundred years.

As were a lot of people and countries at the time.