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A few years ago I decided to leave my job, I was secure but unhappy with the company, so I took some time to try to find a good fit. Looking for a new job wasn't a full-time affair, but I'd say I spent about 10 hours a week on it.

I didn't collect metrics like this, but it took about a year and something north of 170 applications/reachouts. I received zero direct rejections. Probably actually talked to about 15 different companies. Phone interviewed with 3 or 4 and interviewed directly with 2.

I ended up not getting any of those positions.

But I don't feel bad about it, the positions where I made it to the interview rounds weren't even the ones I applied to within those companies. Both of the interviews were friendly, but almost entirely pointless and were non-representative of what I would have likely been doing there anyway.

Finally, after really wanting to leave, I just did the time honored thing of asking a few friends who worked at places I was interested in if they'd refer me. Two places said they'd like to talk, and I work at one of them now. This process took about 3 weeks and I ended up in as near a perfect fit as you can get.

Side-effect, after working at this new place for a couple years, those friends I asked, keep popping up every once in a while to see if I'd be interested in something where they currently work...so they've kept in mind that I both:

- switch jobs

- thought of them when I was looking to do it

I'm not a developer, I'm much more into Technical Project/Program Management, so YMMV, but I also noticed that the hiring processes for people like me have almost no steam behind them. Most companies tried real hard to fit me into developer or engineer pipelines, they had almost no ability to entertain anybody outside of that kind of hiring experience. Of the few that I phone interviewed with, at some point the subject of doing a coding assignment came up and I simply told them that we'd all be sad at events around that idea:

I'm a passable coder, but years out of date. I haven't coded professionally for probably getting onto 15 years now. The job I wanted didn't involve any software development, so the exercise wasn't very useful. If I passed it, it both said something about their engineering maturity (and I wouldn't want to work there) and again wouldn't be representative of my work.

The actual hiring machine at most companies seems impossibly broken. I ran into a few good recruiters, but most were just trying to make quota or show effort.
Your question was reasonable. I wondered the same thing. Perhaps it was misinterpreted as signalling some sort of defense of conspicuous consumption / flaunting of wealth. To be clear, that would be an irrational and unfounded interpretation, but such are the hazards of wading into emotionally charged issues (even if you aren't really wading in, just asking an honest question).
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> I think the creation of such a system will be then of us. Not our savior.

Absolutely. The intent to create rational transfer of information will result in creating a new type of life that is us, yet is not us. This will likely result in the "end" of us, but that's the nature of things anyway.

Nothing is forever, but it sure as hell seems it could have been put off so I didn't have to deal with it.
anyone have a transcribed version of this?
Solar works okay on Mars. I don't think the power requirements for keeping your liquid helium liquid is not so great.
We shall fight them on the Xbox: a short history of Nazi-shooting video games
There is also magnification on the investment with leverage, and it can be a good hedge against inflation.

Condsider a property that costs $1,000,000 which you may be able to finance 75% of. You have $250k invested, but it is the whole value that appreciates. So in a competitive market like Paris, perhaps that $1M house is worth $1.75M in 10 years. Now you have earned $750,000 for your $250,000 investment in 10 years. All the while having something relatively safe, and fun to use.

If it was inflation that caused the increase in home value, then you are covered for that too, much better than keeping cash in a CD or savings account.
This phone has embedded diamonds and a 360-degree camera
Gathered/trapped (female contributed) foods provided approximately 50% of average caloric intake in most forager societies outside of the Arctic. And there are a lot of interesting social rules about the sharing of hunted meat (highly desirable but less reliable). Men do have to be willing to put skin in the game and contribute in some significant (sometimes risky) way to be considered an acceptable mate, though.
If waveform can cause the meter to read high usage... One could make something to correct it, and with that capability one could push power back to the grid with a distorted waveform at a higher rate ;-)
Assuming you mean the Outer Sunset of San Francisco:

Noriega Produce Mart (gus's, but I love that it's NPM) has almost everything I need, except the meat / fish selection is pretty low. Noriega and 43rd(ish).

Other Avenues (judah and 41st-ish) is a worker-owned cooperative. They don't carry meat at all, but they have a great bulk food selection.

Both have excellent produce selections and a surprising amount of useful dry goods - with the exception of meat / fish, the only real pull to Andronico's was the parking lot.

I went to Guerra Quality Meats for the first time last weekend, and it was pretty great as a butcher, and had some fish selection. They're at taraval and 15th. I'm considering going back to marin sun farms for their CSA meat boxes. There's also a fish seller going in at irving and 42nd (or so) where the old cajun restaurant was. That's a long-term thing, though, since it's been "coming soon" for a while.

There's a couple great Asian markets up on irving - sunset super at 25th and irving is really great, although a tad overwhelming at times. They've got a lot of meat and fish.

No grocery store in the area is as cheap as going to safeway and shopping frugally (or quite as satisfying as Berkeley Bowl, but since I don't go to the east bay often anymore, it's hard to justify a really long drive to the grocery store), but these places sell high-quality organic food and other good brands of dry goods (I can get both king arthur and antimo caputo flours for my breads and pizzas, respectively, at NPM) and are local stores rather than chains, so I'm willing to pay the premium to support them.
I think you might have misread GP's post a bit; I didn't understand him to be saying "Without a job, there are fewer opportunities to meet eligible women." Rather, I think he was saying "Without a job, fewer women will consider you eligible. (Contrasting with last generation where employed men were fine with dating unemployed women, this generation of employed women are not as fine with dating unemployed men.)"
Didn't take long to notice that Azuma Drive In and Airbnb share the same logo. Old news. Probably impossible to determine if this is plagiarism or merely coincidence.
Do you expect a restaurant to give you the ingredient cost and labour cost of your meal on your bill, so you can tell how much the privilege of having somebody cook for you was?
Also for nostalgic value, I'd love to see the schematics.
Some sciences are not robust because they are hard to make robust. In contrast, forensic science, the example given in this article as perceived by the public as robust, seems to be set up by the government's criminal justice apparatus to ensure that the state imprisons and executes as many people as possible. Examples of impossible and absurd forensic science include the results of James Grigson, Pamela Fish, Annie Dookhan, Michael West, Steven Hayne, John Preston, and FBI hair analysis.

For example, Steven Hayne claimed that he could tell from a bullet wound that more than one person was holding the gun. John Preston claimed his dog could track a human scent on a street after a hurricane. Annie Dookhan and Pamela Fish falsified drug and DNA tests.
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This article strikes out at the end. The answer for the folks who have given up looking for a job isn't easier access to college as suggested.

When someone drops out of high school it's not because they had too few choices to go to college, it's because they didn't see any value in the education they were already getting.

We need more vocational education and it needs to start earlier in life.

They should also teach a class in high school called "life" in which kids have to construct a virtual life for themselves, finds a place to live on Craigslist, price furniture, calculate food expenses, gas, electric, internet, mobile, insurance, etc, etc, so they have a good concept of what they're up against. Then talk about serious alternatives to pay for that life, a vocation, the military, college professional.

My HVAC guy didn't need college; it would be a huge waste of money and it would have postponed his career by 4 years. People like him can make six figures if they're good and easily support a family of 4.
I suppose Super Tucano and related aircraft are in a bit different class?
His point is that people love to confirm their biases on subjects like this with "facts" about evolution, without much critical evaluation.

Arguements like this have long be used to support why women shouldnt work or vote because thats the "natural state".
Breaking news: business charges margin above cost of goods to support employees and make profit.

We don't ask Walmart to disclose the prices it pays to its suppliers. Why care about Instacart's suppliers?
Why are all the nice places getting so insanely expensive? Why not make more nice places? It's no coincidence that the nicest places were built before cars became dominant. If you want your place to be valuable, build for people and not for cars.
Not relevant to the area, but I've heard peacock calls that sounded a lot like a scream for help before.
There's a real problem that's being tackled by those trials for basic income. We don't live in post war time of plenty. What scares me is thus seeming runaway information inflation and landgrabbing by people who don't rent out or up rent prices top high. People have job.. It's just that we are getting pushed to a corner.

It's not the absence of a job that'll Choke us, it's the pricing of things with ill adapted wages. I'm in IT, but still,I can see trouble down the road thst I'm trying to tackle now.

We do live in interesting times.
Is there anything really wrong with sharing a PIN for all your cards? What sort of attack does this make easier? Maybe if someone sees you entering a PIN for one of your cards and then steals your wallet?
Or what about, examining the sense of bitterness in yourself, so that you can hold yourself in esteem at dinner parties regardless of your work, or what you happen to be drinking, and enjoy the personal connections that develops, even if they don't result in getting laid
It'd be a multi-hundred AU wide screen visible only from very far away with sensitive polarimeters.

ISTR the Swordholder did something similar in Death's End. The purpose wasn't "light", however.
A priori just means assumed to be true which goes to the very heart of the problems with this discussion.
They made it look like Facebook recently and it's painful to browse on a desktop. They use only a few pixels width instead of the whole screen. So, I'd fire one or two UX people. The rest is ok... also get rid of a bunch of useless notifications because no one cares about your birthday on linkedin.
> Is that really such an unreasonable demand?

Yes. That's how price controls and messed up economies start out.

Sometimes profit margins are highly misleading. For instance, the profit margins for software development are extremely high if you calculate them a certain way. ("You're only paying how much for capital and electricity and you're charging me how much?")

The main thing is what value the business brings you. They can charge whatever they want. As long as you value their service/goods more than what they're charging you, who cares how much it costs them?
Not an expert, but I've heard a lot of property purchases are a way for rich people in China to evade capital controls.
They don't have a status page, though.
The article does a pretty piss poor job of explaining why this has happened. A few points:

1. Nobody wants to say it, but let's be clear: these men are redundant. Even without all these "prime-age men" the Dow breaks 21,000. The market doesn't need them and they have no value to contribute.

2. The market is doing so well not just in spite of but because it has abandoned this excess labor. This is the creative destruction of capitalism that makes the whole system work. It is not a bug or even a symptom -- it is essential logic. Nobody said anything when this systemic unemployment was concentrated among minorities in inner cities ghettos but now that's its become so prevalent and the wrong type of people... to quote: "If tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panic, because it's all "part of the plan.""

3. It's interesting that the focus is on men. In reality of course it's not "men" who are being affected but whole regions. This is clearly a regional phenomenon because the market is deliberately killing off inefficient industries which happen to be concentrated in certain regions. To quote:

"""
Of much greater concern is the large number of metropolitan regions with very low rates of work among prime-age men. These include many small former industrial centers in states like Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio; areas of West Virginia and Louisiana that rely on declining-employment industries like mining; and long-struggling agricultural economies in Arkansas, Texas, and inland California.
""" [1]

4. The biggest losers in all this aren't men but women. American white women are experiencing an unprecedented mortality spike. And guess where these women live? [2] The dynamics are a bit fascinating but you could perhaps eyeball it and say the market doubles for each additional 10/100,000 deaths added.

It's not obvious that eliminating this excess labor is such a bad thing or why it's suddenly a crisis. Despite the bias at work in the article it's not clear why the U.S. should abandon the system of capitalism that it made the republic so great when the system is working exactly as intended.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/06/21/where-a...

[2] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/more-american-wh...
One big issue with this problem is that these men are not all in the same location. Many of them are distributed through the so called rust belt areas -- I've seen maps of this previously. So simply creating a few factories here and there will only address a small part of the problem. They mentioned infrastructure improvement as a way to put some of these people to work -- I think that sounds reasonable because you can apply those jobs and money in the areas hardest hit, but if it only lasts 3 years then it doesn't solve the problem. It would make more sense to incentivize these people to move to areas where there are just more jobs available -- for example, work doing construction for somebody in Indiana for a while then transfer to someplace else. There are tons of jobs across skill levels in areas where there is a growing city. But if you live someplace where the population is declining and have less than high school education then both companies and government are not super excited about investing heavily there. Better to invest in the suburbs of Chicago or Minneapolis rather than small towns that barely have enough jobs anyway. But I think we need to help people move to places it's easier to support long term. So my point is the location of these people is a big factor.
Perhaps a few decades from now, saner people will arrive at the realization that a woman's first career should be motherhood. A woman's best years should be for her children, not her employer.
I thought that the Hangul characters were always written in a group of three, but they're actually grouped by syllables. Neat!
It's also fascinating how similar sounds are represented by similar characters.
> This is one of the reasons that those two fellows did not discuss for the current problem we face: American men are declining in quality.

Or the quality bar is raising f fast and lost connection with reality. Internet bubble effect? Fake news?
I had a place in the UK where the meter was connected incorrectly.

It had "Economy 7" tariff, which was supposed to mean 7 hours of cheaper electricity at night. In fact, we had the cheap rate in the day, and the expensive rate at night.

The online system never accepted my readings, and a guy would come round. One of them showed me how the meter was wrong, but didn't want to report it -- I don't think he was paid enough to care.
Plus Jupiter has a pretty intense magnetosphere that Titan transits. Jovian space has a lot of self generated radiation that makes it less than hospitable.

Edit: Titan is a moon of Saturn. Oops.
How is this robbery exactly? They're not holding a gun to your head and making you use the service, and the price is disclosed up front.
Muslim woman in southern India 'divorced' over WhatsApp
And us?
Could you elaborate?

For example, What would motivate a student to put towards any effort in their non-main courses if it doesn't affect their grade?

Edit: clarity and accuracy
As a general rule, the minimum wage does not apply to "tipped" jobs.

"The American federal government requires a wage of at least $2.13 per hour be paid to employees that receive at least $30 per month in tips. If wages and tips do not equal the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour during any pay period, the employer is required to increase cash wages to compensate. As of May 2012, the average hourly wage – including tips – for a restaurant employee in the United States that received tip income was $11.82."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_St...
You can't fight biology.

Women are hardwired to look for men with resources or the ability to get them. It comes down to whether a man can provide the woman with a safe and clean place to have her babies. In the past, this signal has taken the form of physical strength, number of slaves, land, goats, whatever. Today, it's jobs and/or money.

Then add a layer of the instinctive hunger for status within any social species.

For a given batch of economically successful women, most would rather share a successful man or stay single rather than compromise and mate with a low-status man with no resources.

Can't blame women for looking for these things the same way men can't be blamed for looking for youth and fertility in a woman.
Eugenics is always happening. Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted as much in her defence of abortion.
Taking the sting out of medical expenses
This comment reads like an intro for a very interesting book.
And ( to my ear ) the always reliable Dean Baker addresses "the money thing" in "Rigged". Scott Sumner has also written at length on the subject.

There are two mandates to the Fed - price stability and ( Humphrey-Hawkins ) employment. With the exception of the Greenspan era pre-2000, Fed policy has set employment in the back seat.

Because "Inflation BAAAAD!" ( in the manner of Phil Hartman's Frankenstein's monster ).

So we have 2% growth targets that we undershoot and low growth. The population has adapted in ways described in Tyler Cowen's "The Complacent Class".
Calling them shit heads for 'giving up' when they feel the deck is stacked against them is an oversimplification that avoids the issue. I think we're seeing in western culture what has been happening in Japan for the last 20 years. Herbivore men who simply evaluate the marketplace and decide giving up on working, women and a family and sticking to a life of video games is their best risk/reward option.
In Lisbon, I'm told, the issue is that people can't afford rents that would pay for renovations. Also in 2009 or so the locals told me the regulations on how the old buildings were to be renovated were quite strict, adding to the cost.
It is true though, recording an album on tape is nothing like using a laptop and it shows in the final product. Not only is the path the sound takes different, but the recording, editing, mixing and mastering techniques required are different. You can do all the production on your laptop and then attempt to recreate an analog sound with effects but your end result is still very different.
Besides, education has never been more accessible. One can sit down at their home computer – or one freely provided by a local library – and gain skills, across a variety of professions, that can make them highly marketable.

These people aren't sitting at home watching TV because they lack education. They lack education for the same reason they are sitting at home, which is a much more complex topic, and not solved by simply making education even more accessible.
This. If people didn't lie (or stretch the truth) or cheat, we would only need resumes to know whether someone can do the technical aspects of any job.
Can we get a title change? About half of the people seem to be commenting on the HN title instead of the article content.
> just to come up with the most simplistic model

Yeap. Bioinformatician here. Not only are most published models overly simplistic -- which everyone acknowledges -- but I think our bigger problem is we don't even have a reasonable "meta-model" of biology.

What I mean by that is, imagine experiments were instantaneous and free. How would we then incorporate the results into a mathematical/computational/predictive framework that describes biological reality in a way analogous to physics? AFAIK, we haven't the foggiest clue.

Biology is pretty theory-light and empiricism-heavy, probably because we have good results with things like "I dunno what this mold is secreting, but it seems to be killing the bacteria!"

So our experimental results are pretty precise (although arguably not "robust" between strains/conditions/etc), when people bother to use n>3, but the models and theory are anything but.
They're missing a bit of context here. It's normal for some units to be empty at any time for various reasons: remodelling, attempting to find a tenant, attempting to sell, waiting to be demolished/replaced, etc. So there's a baseline "normal" vacancy rate.

If a unit is vacant for one month per year that would be an 8.3% vacancy rate. Certainly not all units turn over every year, particularly owner-occupied, but it's something to calibrate from. Another data point: the US nationwide average vacancy rate is 6.8%. I realize these are crowded cities and thus not entirely average, but that still gives us some baseline.

The cities in the article have anywhere from 1.71% to 9% vacancy rates. 1.71% is actually a very tight market by most standards I've heard of - equivalent to 6 days of vacancy per year per unit. 9% is rather high vacancy, particularly in an expensive market, but not completely out of line.

It seems like they may be overstating their case here.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_rental_vacancy_rate
Even better are the terminals set up to use the chip for credit transactions but require a swipe for debit (after inserting the card and selecting debit). Truly a WTF moment when that happens.
As does the United States. It's not about overall unemployment, it's about the ratio of shitty jobs : non-shitty jobs.
"Winning" and "getting to the front of the pack" would definitely still be relevant in a post-scarcity society. Material wealth would just stop being a proxy for those (although some forms of material wealth would always be scarce and usable as status signals, eg. unique works of art).
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