Not the Only One

I always think about how a lot of big open source software projects are surprisingly hostile and unwelcoming to newcomers and how everything in the ecosystem seems made to discourage people from participating. And if they somehow still do, it will likely go nowhere anyway. So when we wonder why so many things only have "just a guy" taking care of them, actually yeah that's part of the issue. How many people want to help but don't know how or are scared of looking stupid on one of those dumb ...

In a recent analysis, economists Robert Breunig, David Hansell and Nu Nu Win studied promotion prospects across the Australian Public Service. Their data source is extraordinarily detailed, comprising essentially every public servant over a 20-year period, from 2001 to 2020. With more than 100,000 public servants each year, the dataset runs into millions of observations. Although the data are de-identified, the researchers know whether each public servant is from an English-speaking backgrou...

Expansions of work-based insurance plans to cover fertility treatments...are often touted by large companies as a boon for their employees. But people with lower incomes, often minorities, are more likely to be covered by Medicaid or skimpier commercial plans with no such coverage. That raises the question of whether medical assistance to create a family is only for the well-to-do or people with generous benefit packages. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/fertility-treatment-equity-obstacles/

The Yoorrook Justice Commission has ramped up its active inquiries, but with just 18 months to complete a historic task, concerned community members are sceptical the job can be done properly within a tight timeframe.

You’ve heard me rant about the NFP system being broken? Being unable to deliver & meet client needs usually to gov restraints etc but also, the government depends on informal orgs like churches & community groups to meet client needs where they fall short. The more we pour 3/4