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Sure, could you tell me for what purpose first?

Quillette has argued numerous times on behalf of phrenology[0][1]. More receipts[2]

How do you think they’ll react to an African techie?

[0] https://theoutline.com/post/8104/phrenology-hirevue-quillett...

[1] Phrenology is "the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities."

[2] https://www.pinkerite.com/2019/07/yes-kevin-drum-quillette-i...

Anecdotal but this is what I have seen across multiple companies and startups.

This entire story reminded me a lot of the story of the inventor of the gas mask[1] who had to hire a white actor to play as the inventor during presentations

Scary things don’t change and little progress has been made.

[1] https://www.biography.com/.amp/inventor/garrett-morgan

Did they hire independent appraisals? Something tells me they’re not getting the value that warrants this contract

I’m sorry you and your friend dealt with that.

It’s not just geo subs that have this problem. A friend of mine who mods a number of comedy subs (of all things) showed me his mod mail that appeared to indicate systematic brigading from far right discord servers.

They post extremist content in a bid to get the sub banned, and if it fails, they escalate harassment campaigns on the moderators

I agree, this seems an extremely self-serving creed for "Twitter devs"

Other companies offer added benefits to retain their valuable talent.

The push among "social media stars" to declare long tenures as a negative is problematic, to say the least.

There are also a few hardened investment professionals on there who will throw bad picks just to watch the fallout

I think that’s a media talking point to drive down wages. There are definitely jobs, the amount quality and reliability are decreasing.

Sadly there are too many people applying to too few jobs. So they’ll hit the archives for CS questions that largely won’t apply to the actual job

I’d rather they check my tweets than my pee (unless visibly intoxicated at work)

But, it’s still Orwellian and presents a sinister forced blend of personal and professional life

because the fed just pumped $2 trillion into the economy.

I miss when HN throwaways were used to serve as whistleblowers.

Not for spreading "The Bell Curve" 90s research and unsourced white nationalist propaganda.

it’s scary I can no longer tell the difference between paid mercenaries/interns manufacturing consent and reactionaries on reddit

I turned 28 this year and I feel the exact same way.

I’m floating along okay, but I’m deathly afraid of dev jobs and employers locking me out for being too old or not having some TED talk in my field.

Sadly we live in a post-ironic world.

There are two camps of people who either don’t believe in climate change entirely or see climate change as a means to achieve an ecofascist state.

Did the Bankers deserve 29Tn bailout?

How’s that for “coddling and preventing them from making poor decisions”

The yield curve has already inverted so we’re looking down the barrel of “Recession The Sequel.”

But yeah, keep blaming GenX (and presumably GenY and GenZ) for someone else’s problem. Many of them aren’t even earning a wage to save, avocado toast aside.

“love to blame individuals for systemic issues.”

That’s the end result of crony capitalism, baby.

Why don’t they remove cloudflare protection on 4/8chan?

Are you playing dumb or are willfully ignorant? His follows are public information.

Stefan Molynux and L. Southern, for two among others.

Why is this comment being downvoted?

Look at PewDiePie’s twitter followers. Many are white nationalists.

This is a company that recommends you nazi videos just for watching anything political.

I think they’ve given up on ethics and the greater fight for what’s right long ago.

I would say both your comments are true.

Building shadow profiles for people who don’t use your service is inexcusable.

Perhaps their “business” would need to be rescaled if they were honest about serving ads to their users.

2018: Billions in tax breaks to amazon will add thousands of jobs

2021: After hitting 2020 growth targets, Amazon quietly lays off 5000

It’s not like we haven’t seen this before.

Where are you specifically experiencing “a shortage of tech talent”?

Your issues in recruiting interviewing and oboarding are not the fault of tech workers.

> “The problem isn’t the use of a memory unsafe language, but that the programmers who wrote this code are bad.”

This really goes to show how anti-worker the media is even among high-skill jobs.

In my mid 20s I now mentor a bit in coding. I’ve worked with young devs that inherently know many of the obvious security pitfalls that have caused massive security breaches a la Equifax.

Are devs at the front of these breaches bad? I don’t believe so. Many went through grueling multi-part interviews to land the position.

No, the issue a management one. Anti-worker is a meme in America and this is just another manifestation of the disingenuous “lack of tech talent” whining used to recruit more H1B.

It’s also why unreleastic growth targets cause gaming tech workers to face layoffs despite record breaking sales.

If I were to rate my development ability to most HN devs, I would be rather mediocre.

But isn’t this a bit juvenile a workaround for FB? It seem rather easy to workaround this as an ad blocker. Just a little doc tree parsing and regex?

So when a client (read: police department) comes to you to create a predictive model of a “likely suspect”s face, how will you reconcile centuries of biased and discriminatory policing as your training set?

Or do you even reconcile it at all?