headhuntermdk
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Comment · 1 year ago
If the average target consumer didn't care, Target wouldn't have had 10 weeks of consecutive foot traffic declines. Most things sold in Target can be bought elsewhere, so people have voted with their wallets.
Executives at Target made the calculation that their sales wouldn't decline much (if at all) by publicly canceling their DEI programs.
To the question about Target and Costco's prices: Typically these retailers will have price matching policies in place to keep foot traffic.
Quick google search implies (not sure how accurate this is), that approximately 12% of Target's demographic is black [0]. Seeing close to a 10% drop in foot traffic for a low margin business like Target when a competitor is seeing almost the near opposite gains is a signal someone really screwed up.
Comment · 1 year ago
They wouldn't be a very good dragon if they couldn't account for each gold piece they were hoarding
Comment · 1 year ago
Let's look at a few things that we know about Apple:
1. The first $1 trillion, $3 trillion and (soon to be) $4 trillion company. 2. Cancels or stops production of products that don't make money (VisionPro being the latest). 3. Spent over half a trillion dollars in stock buybacks.
No company gets to the height Apple is currently without knowing every dollar coming in and going out.
I'm reminded of "if it don't make dollars, it don't make sense" chorus from DJ Quik's "Dollaz + Sense".
When I apply that to Apple (let alone any successful company for that matter), the claim that they don't know if the AppStore is profitable or not *defies belief*.
Schiller might not know exactly how much profit is generated, but to suggest that he's clueless whether or not on the WHOLE if the AppStore is profitable... If people believe that, I got a bunch of bridges up for sale.
Comment · 4 years ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. I purchased a Eizo CS monitor and I couldn't be happier
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm guessing you haven't heard of Netflix then
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-epyc-cpus-netflix-band...
Comment · 4 years ago
Because the AG works for the president and can be fired for any reason
Comment · 5 years ago
words do matter.. if they didn't, none of us on the thread would be talking about it. You can't splain away how a person from a different group feels or why. What is nice about other SCM systems like Mercurial, Fossil, CVS, SVN.. or basically anything not Git.. is that the language is clear and not offensive to anyone. It really is that simple
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm talking about job applications here.. not all job applicants have college degrees. And your link is to an Australian gender study. We are talking about similar but different issues
Comment · 5 years ago
Affirmative action is here for a reason. If there wasn't systemic racism in hiring, there would be no need for it.
What affirmative action is supposed to do is to ensure that your race isn't a determining factor in not getting hired for a job that you are qualified for.
The Rooney Rule in the NFL wouldn't need to be a thing if being a black coach in the NFL meant statistically you had a greater chance of getting fired or not being hired at all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule
Comment · 5 years ago
Coming from Mercurial which calls its default branch.. well "default" to Git which calls its default branch "master" was very jarring for me. So yeah, I definitly noticed
Comment · 5 years ago
The left didn't storm the capital
Comment · 5 years ago
How is affirmative action a bad thing?
Comment · 5 years ago
Since we are talking about branches, wouldn't a "root" branch makes more sense?
Comment · 5 years ago
No it doesn't.. It is a room where the master of the house would sleep. Therefore it has to be the largest and more fully featured, etc
Comment · 5 years ago
I generally agree with your statement. I am also an African American but my first reaction to the change was very positive. On a more technical and pedantic level, having a "master" branch really doesn't make any sense without slave branches. So in this context a "main" branch eliminates any negative historical connotations and has a more precise meaning. To me, this another case of "that's how its always been" and some people react very negatively towards sudden change.
Related to this conversation: years ago Nikon removed the terminology of Master and Slave in their flash units in favor of Commander and Remote.
https://petapixel.com/2020/07/08/nikon-says-it-stopped-using...
To the author: We have to start somewhere and it is a sign of progress (no matter how small) that finally there is some awareness around this issue and now something is being done about it