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Tensions surfaced last week on an employee email thread, viewed by Recode, following Amazon’s opposition to a shareholder proposal that would require its board to formally consider women and minority candidates when selecting new board members.

The proposal — from CtW Investment Group — asks Amazon to “implement a ‘Rooney Rule’ requiring that the initial list of candidates from which new management-supported director nominees are chosen should include (but need not be limited to) qualified women and minority candidates.”

The Rooney Rule requires NFL teams to interview at least one minority candidate for head coaching and general manager openings. Currently, all 10 directors of Amazon’s board are white. Seven are men and three are women.

“Shareholders have long believed that embracing diversity will benefit companies by providing greater access to talent, harnessing existing talent more effectively, and improving decision making by reducing groupthink and similar psychological biases,” the CtW proposal read.

“There is now ample evidence in support of this belief,” it continued, pointing to a 2017 McKinsey study.

But in advance of the shareholder vote deadline of May 25, Amazon’s board recommended a vote against the proposal — setting off the internal debate.

Complex Considerations

“Our processes for nominating directors involve complex considerations that are designed to advance the long-term interests of shareholders,” the company said in its proxy statement.

“Given our commitment to equality and the nature of our business,” the company added, “the Board believes that adoption of the policy requested by the proposal would not be an effective and prudent use of the Company’s time and resources.”

Last Chance posted:

it kinda reminds me of pitbull owners in a way

Farecoal posted:

hey I don't own a pitbull but I do work in an animal shelter. go gently caress yourself

Farecoal posted:

hey I don't own a pitbull but I do work in an animal shelter. go gently caress yourself

fishmech posted:

horses aren't legitimate, their owners are even less


lol what are you smoking. the event started as a place for the scions of old money to show off their latest designer outfits with some occasional invited guests who weren't already rich as hell, and then some students and designers who weren't rich allowed in as part of the deal

FMguru posted:

https://twitter.com/georgejoseph94/status/993865928608813058

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

so they’re watching people who have commit multiple crimes in the past more closely than any other people? truly revolutionary thinking there lmao

Jenny Agutter posted:

it's pretty common to run your software in simulations before putting it out in real hardware. I can even see the utility of using a 3d engine for developing basic training sets. the issue would be developing a training set with enough diversity to capture all variations of what a vehicle might encounter on the road

ntsb needs to mandate closed circuit testing where the engineers use themselves as potential road hazards prior to any open-road testing

haveblue posted:

read the thread, they're counting when the cops stop you on the street as suspicious behavior justifying the cops stopping you on the street

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As nonsensical as it may seem, flying cars are on the brink of takeoff.

President Beep posted:

https://www.wired.com/story/uber-unveils-flying-taxi/

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

ate all the Oreos posted:

when they were talking about this specifically it wasn't just "testing it in a simulation before testing it for real," it was in the context of "testing this with cars is expensive so we tested it with grand theft auto instead"

i think when it comes to neural nets it would make a huge difference if it's looking at a 3D render of a car vs. an actual car, probably in subtle ways that only become apparent when it turns out it was looking for some invisible pattern in the grandma hair textures that real life grandma doesn't actually have and therefore isn't seen as an obstacle

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

President Beep posted:

https://www.wired.com/story/uber-unveils-flying-taxi/

Jenny Agutter posted:

I'm very interested in what their development pipeline actually looks like. you raise valid issues that could be mitigated with a proper test strategy. are they running closed loop hardware-in-the-loop tests with real world telemetry? validating their simulation with closed circuit testing? it's no wonder google has a leg up on this stuff with all the data they've collected via street view

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Companies get to decide how to record these so-called disengagements. In 2017, for instance, relative newcomer Nvidia logged every single time a human touched the steering wheel of its test vehicle, even at the planned end of a test. Waymo, on the other hand, ran complex computer simulations after each disengagement, and only reported to the DMV those where it believed the driver was correct to take charge, rather than being overly-cautious. GM chose not to report at least one instance where an autonomous car was about to block an intersection.

President Beep posted:

https://www.wired.com/story/uber-unveils-flying-taxi/

Jenny Agutter posted:

what will win in rich enclaves, their desire to fly over the unwashed masses or their hatred of noisy machines flying over their houses at all hours?

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There’s just one door, on one side, to simplify ground operations. No need for extra steps or worrying about people exiting on the wrong side into an active landing pad.

ate all the Oreos posted:

i love that they've spun "only one door" as a feature

no need to worry about people trying frantically to exit on the side of the plane that's not on fire with Uber™ Single Door Technology™

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

Chris Knight posted:

rekt
https://twitter.com/sarahnemerson/status/993680370842267648

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

ate all the Oreos posted:

that's not right, beetlejuice actually sorta went for something interesting and original in his outfit and not just "a waiter"

rjmccall posted:

it looks like that park is basically a couple of tire tracks through a wide-open meadow