You could imagine if, in addition to obeying the altitude change, every plane began to turn rapidly to the right, it could only help the situation? As long as we all agree to turn right in case of a collision warning?
"For example, Mining Engineering has experienced a decline in enrollment, yet this area is critical to the state and the region, and there is unmet occupational demand. Also experiencing similar challenges is the Petroleum and Natural Gas program"
Very interesting. The politicians of West Virginia want to prop up the oil and mining industries. Young people do not want careers that destroy the planet. So the solution is: eliminate World Languages?
Point is, his dad probably didn't write to the university president (which would be ironic at this point) asking him to admit his deadbeat son as a favor. The student earned his admission the same way anyone does: essays, grades, luck. I'm sure he was helped by the gift from his parents of good writing skills and some doggedness. "Legacy elite" tends to imply there's someone more deserving of his spot.
Reddit has been mired in controversy since day one. It is also regularly touted on HN as THE ONLY trustworthy place on the web to find, for example, honest product reviews; where Google, Amazon, Yelp, Wirecutter etc are hopelessly corrupted. I'm not buying that a brief fit of bad PR will hurt them; and in the meantime Reddit thinks there's 20m of revenue on the table they will recapture when the app goes away.
> common place for employers to record audio and video at the office
Curious for a source on that. My BigCorp has disallowed Zoom recordings, since they don't want legal liability of anything embarrassing leaking out. Or the usual reason of having to produce all those recordings when they get sued.
The most relevant argument is: this is an encyclopedia, its very purpose is to be precise. And words like "comprise" are specifically about defining the meaning and composition of terms. If the encyclopedia is sloppy with words why does it even exist?
Another point: the era of a human doing rote language cleanup is nearly over; surely an LLM can do better?
Well let's flip this on its head. When I pass a car and see something of interest I don't smash the window and grab it. Why not? Sure, it seems wrong, but I also have a fear of being arrested and imprisoned. Is that an irrational fear? I'm confused you have video of someone robbing you and you're asking "what am I supposed to do?". Look, here's a website! https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/get-service/police-report...
Let's conspire as a country to drive all the homeless, addicts, and mentally ill to a few concentrated urban areas. Keep them well away from our white wealthy enclaves (NIMBY!). Now let's preen about how those urban areas are suddenly crime-ridden hellholes, and we told you all along it was the fault of your liberal policies.
Were you objectively more deserving to go to college than a kid with stellar teacher recommendations but lower scores? You might think so, but others would disagree. When I hire, I choose a trusted colleague's referral over the candidate who happened to cram best to do binary trees on a whiteboard.
I wonder what the first non-Indian complaints under this law will look like. Is "blue-collar" a caste that office workers can no longer discriminate against?
I'll contrast this with my TV. I want a TV that works and displays pictures & sound. Instead my TV is an Android hub with dozens of random apps installed. What it doesn't do half the time is work. Sure, I have "control" but I'd rather have "functional devices!"
> if this is how management dictates I spend my time, I’ll take an easy couple weeks and paychecks
I would rather my employees (and contractors!) work on what's actually valuable, and not just take blind instruction. The people closest to the code should be most empowered to improve it. Is that not a common management view?
If you walk into a store and say "I need a cat bed," and the store directs you to the most profitable cat bed ... is that a violation of your proposed law? How do you legislate around that? There are a thousand cat beds! They are all the same! The store that doesn't take bribes to hype certain brands goes out of business! And all we have left is Amazon! I mean, I guess that's already happened, so ... what more do they want? Does Amazon have no shame? What if they used their monopoly to sell stuff honestly? Would their whole business collapse?
There's also something childlike about elders as they experience mental decline. There's a reason we try to protect people from "elder scams." Personally I hope if I'm found in front of the TV absorbing conspiracy theories for hours a day somebody clocks me on the head and drags me to safety.
I started my career 30 years ago at Apple. There was no internet, no option to work from home. We wrote software that would eventually be burned onto disks. Whatever we used for source code control was quite primitive. Seeing your work go "live" would take months. We were working on cutting-edge stuff (speech recognition in my case) in an environment buzzing with energy and optimism about technology.
Compensation was average: there were no companies with inflated pay packages, so all my engineering friends were paid about the same. Friendly (or not) rivalries were everywhere: Apple vs IBM vs Next vs Microsoft. I'd grown up imagining Cupertino as a magical place and I finally got to work in the middle of it. After the internet, the get-rich-quick period launched by Netscape's IPO, the business folks took over and it's never been the same.
There's literally a definition of under-represented groups in that article. What are they hiding? The whole point is that raw intelligence on some absolute scale (however measured) is not the only factor in admissions.
I continue to be amazed at the notion that anyone could walk the grounds of an elite university and conclude they discriminate against Asians. Why not focus on institutions where Asians are actually under-represented? Government, executive suites, Hollywood, sports, music, arts?
I'm also that hiring manager. First of all: HR is throwing out your best hires? Get on the same page with HR already. Next: Isn't FAANG all in a hiring freeze right now? All their staff looking at a 50% drop in their RSUs? Twitter's about to shed thousands of employees? There's no better time for startups to find people and pay them realistic salaries. The "hard to work with job hopper" isn't going to make the cut.