While CollabNet started the project, and still funds a large chunk of the work (it pays the salaries of a few full-time Subversion developers), Subversion is run like most open source projects, governed by a loose, transparent set of rules that encourage meritocracy. In 2009, CollabNet worked...
Subversion is run like most open-source projects, governed by a loose, transparent set of rules that encourage meritocracy. CollabNet's copyright license is fully compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. In other words, anyone
Dr. Adam Back:What confidential transactions provide is a way to protect the values that you are transacting such that they are only visible to the people involved in the transaction. So, now the Bitcoin blockchain is very public and more public even than most online electronic transactions tod...
Surrounded by such driven and accomplished women, it felt natural to think that the ultimate flex is not driving a flashy car but being supported by a working wife. After all, if these remarkable women could excel so brilliantly in their careers, why not reimagine what partnership and support...
By my defintion, avarice is a very strong desire to hold on to what is already yours, even to the point of living in a state resembling poverty when you have plenty of money saved away. Greed refers to the extremely strong desire to acquire more, even to the point of taking it unlawfu...
Using the word “nobody” is rough, but I sayI'm a nobody all the timeand think it's great! I went to public high school, The College of William & Mary, got my MBA from UC Berkeley and worked in finance for 13 years. Who cares. I've operated Financial Samurai since 2009. Ho...
Last year forty-one women occupied CEO seats in the Fortune 500 – the most ever. While headlines proclaimed 2020 a banner year, C-Suites fail to reflect the available female talent pool let alone the workforce composition at large. And why not? A full-fledged meritocracy is the life blood...
successfully. Cannes keeps things simple. Your status is declared instantly by the color of your badge. “It’s a caste system, and your badge is your rank,” says one British PR exec, a 20-year Cannes veteran. “Cannes’ hierarchies makeDownton Abbeylook like a model of meritocracy.” ...
The only other element to consider though is that just as a meritocracy creates and propels winners, it also creates losers. A lot of losers. And the dangerous thing about living in a society based on meritocratic principles is that it creates the illusion that poor outcomes are deserved. It...
They critique the myth of a meritocracy and identify so-called "colorblind" jurisprudence as one of the key mechanisms that maintains white supremacy: "Laws produced racial power not simply through narrowing the scope of, say, of antidis- crimination remedies, nor through racially-biased decision-...