The argument they're making is at one point the drivers were making more money and could afford to buy a new vehicle or whatever. Then because of fare reductions and therefore reductions in pay they're now saddled with debt and can't afford housing.
Sure American companies benefit, sure there's some fraud, sure some of it is a foreign policy decision in the US best interests. But a lot of good is done.
In 2015, the U.S. provided more than $8 billion in assistance to 47 sub-Saharan countries; and USAID maintains 27 regional and bilateral missions in Africa.
> The cons being you are fired (which probably would have happened anyways) or you are outed as a false accuser (very hard to prove in the realm of public opinion).
And probably never getting hired again, at least by any reasonably rational male hiring manager. Too much risk.
> We have had a few cases at Tesla where someone in a less represented group was actually given a job or promoted over more qualified highly represented candidates
A few cases . . . unfortunately this is the world we live in, diversity over all else. Must be demoralizing to be that engineer passed over because they weren't in the right less represented group.
Seems a little arrogant to say most developers don't know how to refactor or do it poorly. Maybe it's true. I really can't say one way or the other because what I see is most devs believe they don't have time to refactor.
> Now the German government is considering legislation that would allow social networks such as Facebook to be fined up to 50 million euros if they don’t remove hate speech and fake news quickly enough.
As an American I can't imagine being arrested for speaking my mind about a race or religion whether it's considered hate speech or not. It's just unfathomable. Thanks to our forefathers for putting free speech on such a pedestal and our government for upholding it for 200+ years.
This can't end well shutting people up like this.
> German police raided 36 homes over social media hate speech