MechEStudent

So what should my next car be in order to be useless to this algorithm. I don't like being categorized and sifted. Once that information is available, it is always abused. Humans never don't abuse the power they get, and I hate it. I hate being on the receiving side. It may be small abuses, but within a civilization those add up, and we are on the edge of dying a death of a thousand cuts.

I don't trust the ACLU. Black lives matter is about the dragon-king of poverty and crime, not police. They don't get that, and so no solution they offer is capable of engaging the root cause. They don't understand because they are unwilling to ask.

Grim my ass. How about humane. They make astronomical revenue, and like playing god. They have no problem discarding a cure in favor of a treatment, or raising the price 10,000x when something is popular.

Their industry can say "buy or die" and get away with it.

It is about f*ing time that someone said to them "the great power to say 'buy or die' comes with great responsibility, and it is time for you to start acting responsibly."

It is how to "cook the books" on the cost in blood of "social network". Teenage girls with gross depression are committing suicide at like 60% higher rate when they are active on social media. Facebook is absolutely a contributor there, and in order to disguise its actual complicity, its being a root-cause, it is now searching for clear signal of likelihood of suicide, with an attempt to ... what. What is their follow-up action? Inform a parent or legal authority? No way. That makes them culpable. They aren't going to "help". They are going to hide. They are going to destroy chains of evidence in on the "wall" or "messages" that point a clear finger at the paradigm as the problem.

Is this written by the Russians? The Chinese? Are you kidding? iPhone or Android? They are both highly porous and highly perforated. Gmail? Chrome?

Here is some on secure browsers: https://www.techworld.com/security/best-8-secure-browsers-32...

Boeing Black? https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/tech-life/5-...

... just a little work would give something actually secure. This is like playing charades with guns.

privacy?

I dislike it intensely. What I had was working for me.

None of the "magic smoke" in those chips is made in China. The "secret sauce" is all done in the US, in Oregon and Arizona. The US turns raw silicon into wafers full of chips. The plants in China, as far as I personally understand, are doing the work of cutting the wafers up, and connecting to mini-PCB boards. They are doing the labor-intensive part of the production, and nothing of the understanding-intensive part of engineering.

China doesn't believe in IP. Tesla should look within 1-2 years of startup of a Chinese plant for there to be other Chinese plants producing the exact same parts, but not for Tesla. If Tesla puts its "magic smoke" into that factory, they have given it away to multiple competitors.

I look at the Joel score. It is simple, and tells me if they are built around making good software or bureaucracy. It they can't make a decent Joel score, or justify why they don't have it, then you are going to spend more of your time attending mandatory meetings than actually writing code.

I have come to believe that, in poor quality companies, HR is peopled by gremlins. If the person writing the post gets something really technically bad, and doesn't know it, then I don't want to work there. It means that I am going to be interviewed (and selected) by trolls, instead of technical folks. It means that if I can tell a funny joke, or look cute, then that is going to overwhelm the weight of any technical ability they can discern. It means that half my coworkers are idiots, so when they figure out I can do what they talk about, I'm going to be gamed, pressured, blackmailed, and pushed to do half of everybody's work. If I wanted to do it ALL myself, and get none of the credit, rewards, remuneration, advancement, or job security, then I would start my own company.

I look for pointy-haired-boss jargon (think Dilbert). I hate those folks. They usually don't know anything but how to exploit others for their own professional gain.

It doesn't take much looking around to see how the company is doing. They like to hire newbies right before a layoff. I look at company performance, and if it looks like they are about to lay a ton of folks off, I don't want to play there. They are laying people off because of previous failures to hire the right people. If the folks getting the axe aren't including the upper levels of HR, then the source of failures to hire, manage, retain, and grow the right people hasn't been resolved.

It doesn't take much looking to see if they have spammed job boards. If there are going to be 100, or 1000 folks applying for the position, I don't want to deal with the crap. They don't know actual quality, so they more aggressively filter on keywords. If I don't have the right keyword I'm not on the menu? I don't need to work there. They like to pat their back, find someone decent who they can exploit by paying 1/3 of market rate. That game is built to take away my livelihood. I'd rather just work and do truly amazing things for their competitors, and let economics 101 and the market wash the dross from the market.

I look for folks who participated in the Techtopus(https://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valle...) (massive screw over engineers company collusion) and if the company was on the list I boycott them. If they are going to try to suppress wages in the field for decades, I can suppress their revenue.

I look at company pictures, and pictures of employees on LinkedIN. If they don't have at least one person who is mostly like me, then statistically I can't succeed there. I go elsewhere.

I review glassdoor. If they have a track-record of treating folks badly, especially folks who have had my position, I go elsewhere.

HIV evolves with amazing (super-villian-ic) speed. Many "cures" attack 99% of cells, or similar. Resistance is evolved during treatment, and is usually uniform within just a few months. It mutates/evolves so fast that given just virus samples, it is possible to determine sequence of infection.

I think it needs to kill more than 6-9's before it has a good chance at being a cure.

You are missing an axis. It is auto-regressive in time. If you include age of the marriage as well as employment, it should split out substantially better.

It isn't folly. Apple bought their politician and received a good payoff for it. It was textbook business. Because this is becoming again a nation where corruption is the norm, this "folly" will be the new norm.

I'm a working engineer in Ohio, and I hope to start this fall. My work covers it, and the content is highly relevant.

Folks say institution-X is the same. I haven't seen one. Princeton or Stanford are, AFAICT, stunningly more expensive, and not purely remote.

This is a "sine qua non" - without this particular option, there is nothing else on the menu for me at this point in my life and career.

Linked IN could nuke this problem with a decent EULA.

yeah, but the 0.1% also own the politicians. There is no legal way to engage it without something approaching a civil war, or more appropriately, a peasant uprising.

It was a numbers game 20 years ago. The first "gatekeeper" is the computer, and if you don't have enough "keyword match" then your papers don't make it through the first gate no matter how many you send. The probability of randomly hitting the right keywords is poor because there are millions of words in English, and they aren't uniformly randomly distributed in the job descriptions. Are you going to pick the right 200 when you make your resume? Your chance is much worse than 1 in a million.

1) when there is a position description it takes ~5 person-hours to make. Spend at least 1 person-hour to make your cover letter and resume for it as a sign of respect to folks who made the position description. Those keywords are important. If you don't have enough then your resume doesn't get past the computer. It is how you can know if you should apply.

2) you need a phone number to go with the submit. Call and confirm that your stuff was received in good order. Ask if there were any questions. This means you have to find real openings with real companies, not just fight the computers. Talk to a human being.

3) you need to put in 20 resume's a week. That makes it a part-time job. You should call-back a week after you submitted to learn about the status of the application. If you were excluded for some reason, find it out. If they didn't like the cologne or paper type then you can buy a different quality of resume paper or wear an unscented cologne. That is a "cheap price of entry" for your next interview going better.

4)you really might go strong on learning how to make a great resume. criteria change over time. What was amazing a decade ago is not very great now. Most colleges have departments that are built around enabling you here.

5) look for jobs via networking, not just monster.com. I strongly recommend stack-overflow careers. They are an excellent resource.

6) make a strong linked-in profile. Make it complete. Get recommendations from professors you worked for, or team-mates you worked with. It is a resume as well. Make sure you hit the "I am looking for a job" switch in your settings that will have recruiters calling you.

7) review your other social media for unprofessional content. Facebook or myspace could be messing you up. What does one find when they google your name? Is there someone with the same name who is ... the professional equivalent of a pile of poo? Then you need to include your middle initial or give yourself a clear differentiator.

quality.

I would expect many things to be prone to fires like both Samsung and Takata. I wouldn't trust them in a Prius, a Tesla, or a Galaxy Note. Gas tanks haven't spontaneously burned down cars for over a century, but they will do it this century. Put money on that. I expect the first examples will be shown in China, where manufacturers (21+ of them) can put carcinogenic insecticidal fire-retardant poison in infant milk and pet food for years with what is effectively impunity until it hits newspapers. This will translate to electric vehicles.

I would worry about quality.

Sounds draconian and unconstitutional.

They should require that who the fund get disbursed from, and to, and the amounts, be part of the public record. The quality of results, and year-after-year funding to the original researches (the ones who selected who the disbursement goes to) should be related to the success of the research. This would massively crowd-source successful grant creation, and make the market into a winners market.

The record would make things like gaming and collusion clearly visible after the fact.

One think to stop collusion and gaming is that who they select their grant to go to should be part of the public record. After-the-fact analysis could quickly show gaming or other nefariousness.