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by slipjack 4022 days ago
One of the points in the article is that the first often leads to the second: if your idea of a programmer is white and male, and that predisposes you to trust the capabilities of male tech candidates, you're going to end up with underrepresentation of people who are already minorities. It'll be subtle but it will be present.

(ETA: who is being underrepresented.)