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I bet this might be useful with an iPad if there was Apple Pencil support.
I'd love the option for a hiring manager to show the time for each portion of the process as well in that sidebar UI.
That would demystify the process greatly.
I don't mind hearing no's, I just hate feeling in limbo on the candidate side.
They're quite connected though.
From there it's simple to rotate if any of the vowels get picked up into words with common non-vowels like S and T etc.
If no vowel appears out of OUIA, I always go for a word like STREP.
Becomes relatively trivial from there.
Today (01/13/2022) the word was ABBEY.
I'll represent GREEN squares with * and GREY squares with ^
It went as follows:
OUIJA^ B^E^A^ST FA^B*LE^ ABBEY
After FABLE, the first word I could think of that had at least 1 A, at least 1 B, and at least one E was ABBEY.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1447426189660880898?s=20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mortenson#60_Minutes_and_...
I have a family member with a terrible back who has had multiple neuro-spinal surgeries.
There's about ~250 doctors in the entire country trained on that family member's procedure and generally speaking, they're earning well over that arbitrary $600k that you have picked. There's no reason that they shouldn't.
Quite a lot of the neurosurgeons etc. I interact with make well above that and they should. It's 4 years of medical school, plus sometimes over a decade of residency and fellowships to get to their level of expertise.
A more appropriate comparison, good and bad, are like Native American Nations inside the US. But we're not talking about small pockets here like reservations. We're talking entire massive, massive areas.
Part of the Taliban's origin stories over there have to be contextualized into those people's worldview and their culture.
For Westerners reading this, if someone over there declares you as a "friend", which can even happen with an innocuous casual meeting, it quite literally means that that person, their family, and all whom they consider as friends will die trying to save you or defend your honor etc.
That same extreme commitment to hospitality is cynically weaponized by terrorist groups to get volunteers en masse through political and religious means, whether that's framed as fighting Russian/American invaders or enemies of Islam.
It's quite a beautiful thing outside of that, but it only shows up in foreign media as populist support of bad actors.
Political parties tend to be a lot more regionally concentrated as opposed to American Political Parties which are spread out across the country. One of the often repeated lines is how any certain political party (take your pick) such as the one dominating the Sindh province where Karachi is, will give a higher quota of governmental jobs and postings to people from Karachi, specifically opposed to the Punjab region where Lahore is, which is the most populous region.
You have to understand that many of the cynical tactics common in the politics over there like large rallies are intrinsically populist, despite the subject matter of the rally (foreign or domestic), because they rely on the working class and poor masses at large, regardless of party. The politics are quite acrimonious and generally there's quite a bit more ad hominem than even the US. It's just par for the course, but if you lift the veil, you see many members of the same families (by which I mean really, really large extended families) in opposite political parties cavorting together on the regular in things like business and socializing.
It's also worth mentioning that people from Karachi tend to have a particular complex about Karachi with regards to the country as a whole. I say this as someone who is born in Lahore, so naturally I'm biased towards that city. It goes beyond the typical sports fandom type of "rivalry" that exists, IE people who prefer LA to Chicago or to NYC etc. Rivalry is inappropriate here because at one time, Karachi was considered as the National Capital, and those ideas/complexes shape a lot of the city today, because it's a case of what could've been, as opposed to what it is.
Karachi is faced with urban decay and blight beyond what is typically found in cities as a byproduct of income inequality. There's a lot of old money in Karachi, but at the same time, there are many perceptions that are quite deserved like being robbed continuously and constant drug use etc. I have first hand experience with that unfortunately. To further highlight this, the nation's founder's tomb is in Karachi. That's incredibly important there.
I would also say that there is a big divide between Western perception of how politics/democracy works and the reality over there. I do tend to agree with the platonic ideal that a powerful civilian establishment is important. There's no denying that. However, at large, the civilian bureaucrats are all seen as corrupt by and large which is pretty deserved. Kleptocrats ruined the country's trajectory. Civilian police isn't particularly well liked by anybody. The military as an institution, is the most respected institution domestically, even though abroad it's seen as something like a junta, and it's bodies like it's intelligence division seen as operating without oversight. That's quite unfair and quite wrong. Civilian infrastructure there is incapable of running many of the industries that the military can through discipline, hierarchy, and a chain of command.
There's also a pretty big intellectual divide that's existed for many reasons too long to list. Many of the disaffected particularly wealthy youth are called the Burger Class, a portmanteau word combining the Burghers of old with Western Burgers, because they have an intellectual cynicism through privilege. Many of my extended family falls into worldview because they've never faced any hardships.
The state neglect line at the end of the article is something that I would categorize as coming from the framing of Karachi's aforementioned complex. I'd also frame the paramilitary crackdown as a byproduct of the income inequality, blight, and the fact that civilian infrastructure is so crippled by kleptocrats that they can't do their job.
Not a good situation all around but there's some bright lights. I'd encourage everyone to look up the Edhi Foundation and see how modern politics suggest there's a light at the end of the tunnel.