US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I love that all the kvetching about jan 6 and how worse it was than 9/11 has made Trump's victory that much sweeter.

What I find most amusing about it is they continue to literally equate it with a military invasion. This is after everyone saw the CCTV footage, instead of the incredibly dolled-up and forced-perspective photos they initially used. No one cares about January 6th, it wasn't a winning issue during the election at all, but they're still going with this line. It's like watching an addict complain about how the police harass him for no raisin, but there's footage of his last 12 arrests and they all show him throwing a tantrum after doing something blatantly illegal.

 

[Bindo]

I suggest using impossible questions for interviews, or at least questions that aren't possible to answer based on the information provided. I've found that these make for better interview questions (maybe it's different for programming, but I couldn't say) because it lets you see how someone approaches solving a problem and whether they can figure out what additional information they need in order to try to develop a solution. Someone who has a good process for tackling difficult problems is better than someone who might just happen to know a clever solution. I can teach new employees clever techniques they might not be aware of, but it's far more difficult to teach them problem solving skills they don't have.

This is a solid strategy so long as your hiring/interviewing is not being organizationally cock-blocked by HR or finance inserting themselves into the interview/selection process. No MBA or HR catlady (ironically) is going to approve asking questions that don't have a defined "correct" answer, or hiring on the same.

 

[The Ugly One]

This is a solid strategy so long as your hiring/interviewing is not being organizationally cock-blocked by HR or finance inserting themselves into the interview/selection process. No MBA or HR catlady (ironically) is going to approve asking questions that don't have a defined "correct" answer, or hiring on the same.

It's illegal to ask brain teaser questions to test a candidate's general problem-solving ability. You're only allowed to ask skill questions, so any question that doesn't have a real answer is probably against the law.

 

[Bindo]

It's illegal to ask brain teaser questions to test a candidate's general problem-solving ability. You're only allowed to ask skill questions, so any question that doesn't have a real answer is probably against the law.

Grey area. Not going to PL, but this could be couched as a personality/judgement/skill question rather than an intelligence question (illegal). As long as that intent is documented as such somewhere, it would be tough to challenge in most jurisdictions.

 

[The Ugly One]

Is there a reason why we can't raise more "highly skilled people" ourselves? Also, even if we limit it to "highly skilled", they will still be willing to work for cheap compared to their American counterparts because they are getting paid with a visa. We have plenty of people with potential who are disillusioned due to DEI and H1B limiting their career prospects before they even really start. We need to tap into our own talent first before we start poaching from other developed countries.

Super smart people are like rare earth minerals or oil. They're not an infinite resource, so you can either accept this and live within your limits, or try to find a way to import. When politicians insist we need all this immigration "to win," don't accept the premise. Being #1 in GDP is not important. Countries are not in a GDP competition. What's important is that the people who live in your country can live a good life. Switzerland is an extremely wealthy country...it's just #20 in GDP because it's small. Do you think the Swiss envy India, which is #5 in GDP?

 

[Betonhaus]

I got some real bad fuckin' news for you about the underlying systems that handle ~75% of healthcare in the US, including Medicare/Medicaid...

Most of those systems only care about timing in relation to the current registered time. They might have to reboot on the day in question but then they will happily run thinking it's 1978 or whatever the epoch is.

The Y2K bug mostly affected systems where they had complex timers or did calculations days in advance

Grey area. Not going to PL, but this could be couched as a personality/judgement/skill question rather than an intelligence question (illegal). As long as that intent is documented as such somewhere, it would be tough to challenge in most jurisdictions.

Though sometimes they make it a bit too obvious, like "what prime number over 100 would you be?"

 

[George Lucas]

I got some real bad fuckin' news for you about the underlying systems that handle ~75% of healthcare in the US, including Medicare/Medicaid...

This already happened to 8-bit, 12-bit, and 16-bit systems and nothing happened.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Grey area. Not going to PL, but this could be couched as a personality/judgement/skill question rather than an intelligence question (illegal). As long as that intent is documented as such somewhere, it would be tough to challenge in most jurisdictions.

Since it's legal where I am, I generally tell my boss not to hire super liberal people because they're hard to manage. We can't have people crying at their desk for days because of an election. This happened in 2016. People cried at their desks.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Yeah, unfortunately I think there's not a lot you can do past when the brain has largely stopped developing. Your brain never fully stops changing but those spurts of development during the first years, and especially puberty, matter a lot. Neglect during the first year can permanently fuck up a babies brain for example. Similar thing with malnutrition.
There's a window to certain periods of brain development and it will close eventually.

The good news is that there have been studies showing even a single egg a day increases cognitive capacity in malnutritioned children. Which really shows you how bad off they really are, in terms of baseline nutrition.
Make sure your kids eat well and get a good amount of animal foods, kiwis. B12, complete protein, choline, and healthy fats are important for a healthy brain.

And eggs are more expensive than ever.

 

[TJT]

I suggest using impossible questions for interviews, or at least questions that aren't possible to answer based on the information provided. I've found that these make for better interview questions (maybe it's different for programming, but I couldn't say) because it lets you see how someone approaches solving a problem and whether they can figure out what additional information they need in order to try to develop a solution. Someone who has a good process for tackling difficult problems is better than someone who might just happen to know a clever solution. I can teach new employees clever techniques they might not be aware of, but it's far more difficult to teach them problem solving skills they don't have.

As a software engineer who has been interviewing new hires for years now I follow this approach somewhat.

I always ask how they would approach a problem I am currently trying to solve. I don't ask to whiteboard it or anything like that but this is what I am trying to solve right now. Given the landscape of stuff we use like say Java, AWS, whatever. How would you start working on this problem? What would you do?

If they ask clarifying questions about the exact functionality and what is currently in place or not then get into the weeds about existing application structures that may or may not be present this usually means they will be a decent hire.

If they ramble on about needing requirements, stakeholder buy in, outlines, then they are usually full of shit.

This is a solid strategy so long as your hiring/interviewing is not being organizationally cock-blocked by HR or finance inserting themselves into the interview/selection process. No MBA or HR catlady (ironically) is going to approve asking questions that don't have a defined "correct" answer, or hiring on the same.

I think this kind of idea is just heavily tainted by media perceptions. HR and Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) are almost never the same department. HR has "quotas" of diversity or did throughout the 10s but it was never something they actually wrote down. The hiring manager and hiring team have to ultimately yay or nay the hire. Not HR.

The most power HR has in the hiring process is between HR and Finance. As HR and Finance in parallel make it obscenely difficult to promote from within. On top of HR having an outsized ability to dictate salary bands. This is due to a multitude of factors but it can be distilled into this singular concept:

If I want to promote my rockstar HR and Finance will say we can only do X% raise or promotion for this rockstar. But if you the hiring manager succeed when you argue to Finance about needing another headcount you are now free to pay far closer to market rates than to your loyal rockstar who worked there for years starting from the bottom and knows everything inside and out.

This is exactly how you get day 1 hires getting say $90k while your loyal rockstar can't get past $75k.

It also causes your rockstars to eventually leave when they inevitably realize this.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Lmao! I remember one of you said this as a joke, but they actually did it!
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Harris, like Mike Pence, is not brave:
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Can't tell if this is more funny or pathetic:
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According to CNN, Trump already prevented 300 guilty pleas in the Jan 6th cases:
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Also a final kicker:
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At no point will these people ever pause for a moment to think that maybe if a movement can "storm" the fucking capital then win an election with the popular vote four years later, that maybe maybe maybe just maybe they are the out of touch ones?

Grey area. Not going to PL, but this could be couched as a personality/judgement/skill question rather than an intelligence question (illegal). As long as that intent is documented as such somewhere, it would be tough to challenge in most jurisdictions.

Yeah minor PL, but they can get away with these questions in the natural/life sciences.

I've had interviewers ask how we'd go about trying to detect or manage for literal mythic cryptids like skunk ape and mothman which don't actually exist, just to see how we'd try and work out a solution.

 

[WelperHelper99]

It does seem to me that troonism is higher in the older zoomers. I wonder how many were broken by watching the world end just as they were getting ready to fully participate in it, and how many decided the end of the world would be easier as the opposite sex gender in some sort of bizarre dissociative coping mechanism

I say it's more pronounced because that's when the indoctrination began. And when social media really took off. You're seeing a very focused view on a minority.

 

[Terrifik]

so i guess we have 2 weeks left till the thred offically dies.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

so i guess we have 2 weeks left till the thred offically dies.

Then it will be a designated Donald J. Trump thread.

Do we have any talented artists to make a thread banner? The GIF of Biden is excellent.

 

[Terrifik]

same day happenings

Then it will be a designated Donald J. Trump thread.

i think they will be seperate threds & original in limbo up to god & null.

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

With headlines like "Only 6% of new hires were White" and "Why boys are falling behind in education", and the well known stereotype of many modern males being incels in their mom's basement, it is obvious the top 1% of IQ (geniuses) in America is being squandered.

The type of White men, who in the 1950s advanced technology while wearing a pocket protector and a flat top haircut, are now living like Asmongold; min/maxing their "success" at predatory videogame Skinner boxes. They deal with constant propaganda calling them losers by the culture of their nation. They have no representatives within society that are not subversive.

There is an untapped abundance of geniuses who are deliberately being denied positions. There is a force actively working against them. The suppressed geniuses have obviously noticed this.

 

[Escaped Abortion]

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i think they will be seperate threds & original in limbo up to god & null.

Maybe he will just reenter in that blackface persona? The leafs would probably vote for Player 2 colors of Trudeau.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

 

[Mr. Cow]

Jan 6 2: Return of the President is in less than an hour, has there been any major protest announcements?

 

[WelperHelper99]

Since it's legal where I am, I generally tell my boss not to hire super liberal people because they're hard to manage. We can't have people crying at their desk for days because of an election. This happened in 2016. People cried at their desks.

Days like today makes me grateful for being a grunt. I don't get paid enough to cry about politics on the clock.