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[edited: I didn't like pretty much my entire text; updated to be more clear about the same ideas]

Team Red lies about what principles they hold; there are exceptions, like abortion, but on the whole they say they're for one thing when in fact they are largely about another.

Team Blue is pretty up-front about their principles. For Team Blue rules much more by the ends justifying means. So they'll tell you what they're after generally, but will lie about/hide the details of what it takes to achieve the ends or the broader consequences of their goals that might not be readily apparent.

Both of them want you to have an emotional response to their proposals or opposition than to try to have you respond rationally to facts. Lying or not, an emotional response is stronger, harder to dislodge, and avoids pesky details that complicate an otherwise perfectly painted, if not fully real, picture.
Too bad that everything centered around NVIDIA in that industry. It is one of the worst companies for the open source. Not only staying aside of open source, but actively resisting any attempts of supporting their hardware in open drivers.
I'm not even sure there's a good answer. It's not just federal and state elections. There is a lot of complexity that isn't considered. Localized districts (water, fire, school, parks, etc) have weird and overlapping boundaries compared to other districts. Add in some gerrymandering and it gets horrific to write software against.

While I'm genuinely concerned over security considerations, not to mention equipment. It's hard to coordinate even the paper/scantron style ballots. What bugs me more about the visual/touch computers is the time that those stations take relative to cost... a few cardboard privacy booths and scantron is much better, but we're spending billions on systems that are demonstrably worse.

And anything over the internet is a non-starter now. In the end, I really hope that more states/districts realize how bad the cost/benefit of the computer voting stations are. Not even considering the coordination, lack of paper trail, before considering the relative consolidation and closed-source nature of the system.

Disclosure: I work for a company that does ballot printing and other election services, but not voting machines specifically.
Wages can certainly track lower than marginal productivity. That's the expectation under monopsonistic labour markets (few or one buyers of labour, many substitutable potential employees). The observed employment effects in response to the minimum wage increase here is pretty well standard theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony#Static_monopsony_in_...
Wouldn't a perfect absorber facing the sun directly get half the light pressure of a perfect reflector? I'm assuming after it heats up to equilibrium it emits in all directions (no net momentum from emission, so you're left with absorption only).
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Literally every tech interview I’ve ever had treats lunch as part of the interview. Every candidate I’ve talked to at lunch was aware that it was part of the interview.
I think you're spot on, the only case where I see this is true is for families or those who wish to be homeowners
Wouldn’t walking or cycling be healthier?
Sweet, let's engage in Learned Quote Battle!

"How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this?"

--William Shakespeare

a very real assault on demographics like the straight white male

Oh! Never mind, I'll see myself out.
That sounds like amazon is wasting employees time then. That runs counter to my experience with other large tech companies.
Sorry to hear that OP had such a bad experience. I guess as so often, it really depends on which team / division you are interacting with.

I was interviewing for Amazon a while back and my experience was mostly positive.

I had applied myself and they got in touch via email a few weeks later. After a brief email exchange, I got invited for a phone interview. All very straight forward - the interviewer was really friendly and professional. At the end of the interview, he also gave me some pointers about what he thinks is important in interviews.

A week later or so, I got an invitation for on-site interviews. I think it was 5 interviews in total. The hiring manager and his team were all really nice. (Interesting site note: I did mention some interesting and for the interview relevant HN article at some point and the interviewer told me that I should not believe everything that is said on HN haha.)
I think the "bad cop" role was given to the two off-site interviewers. They asked some tough questions, one of which was something along the line of "Tell me about a time when you were right about something but could not convince others/management." Of course, I had experienced such situations in the past, but I struggled to give a clear narrative. I didn't want to look like someone who doesn't care; nor like someone who doesn't get their point across, nor like a push-over. In the end, I left it at something like "I still think I was right, but for other, non-content-related reasons, management went for a different decision." They didn't seem happy about my answer.
The last interview was a bit weird and I probably asked a stupid question that put the interviewer off.

I think that was my inner obstructionist. I was living in Belgium at the time and I really love BE (but didn't like my job there). The Amazon job looked better, but I didn't really feel like moving to the UK, where the job was located. Also, the team indicated that they are doing more than 9-5. Here, too, my inner obstructionist was telling me 'meh'.

You can see where this is going: I didn't get the offer. Still, I thought the process was pretty decent and fair in my case. Of course, this is also just a personal experience, but I thought I'd share a nicer one.
> It's not like we don't know how to design reasonably secure electronic voting mechanisms[1]

It’s exactly like that. No one knows how to solve this problem. The link you added are merely class notes and assume away fundamental technical problems, without even getting into practical issues.
Requires citation.

I mean, that's SUCH a generalization.
Do any developers use an iPad pro? There's just so many OS features that I would miss going to an iPad; multiple windows on the screen, multiple monitors...

Although there would be less distractions, it seems like a huge step down in capabilities.
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I really like that UCLA graph. Does somebody know where to read up more on it?
Has the study taken into account the indirect costs over the long term? If labor is costly, the country isn't as competitive compared to others, so jobs are outsourced.

This is a diffuse impact, rather than localised — if waiters are required to be paid more, some factory workers may lose their jobs.
Hah, I thought it would be funny to add that "left as an exercise to the reader" bit, a habit from my Math days.

Two things.

First, reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer college level skills. That combined with computers means that the bar for government clerical work is much, much lower. The result is that in the 1920s a Philosophy grad would be extremely useful to a county government because of their general liberal arts education, nowadays a high school diploma does the trick. Doubly so now that everyone can use a computer to some degree or another. Without the critical function of providing clerks, Universities have lost a large amount of their value proposition to the government.

Second, since the 1970s both political parties have shifted away from the government as all of us striving together, to a necessary evil at best. The right has been extremely effective at villifying government action and government spending in particular. With that context in mind, it is not surprising that the right would aim to not only cut government spending on higher education (something that their religious wing also likes) to save on the tax money, but also to "starve the beast" in general.

Also, the 1970s were kinda crazy, and academia came out of that looking kinda extreme.
1. It's a control state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_sta...

2. The politics are still overtly racist: https://twitter.com/haroldpollack/status/1051657219899617280

3. The HB2 saga demonstrates how strong the Christian right is in the state. As does a candidate in a race too close to call insisting there will never be peace in Jerusalem until Jews acknowledge the divinity of Christ: https://forward.com/fast-forward/413488/gop-candidate-no-pea...

4. gun laws are relatively permissive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_North_Carolina

5. MJ legalization is behind west coast states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_North_Carolina
Another Amazon employee here. It's just lunch. We're there to give candidates a moment to relax after their morning interviews. Lunch buddies are never asked for feedback.
This doesn't seem relevant, as the article is about minimum wage.
I'm not sure what country you're referring to, but in the US salaries employees explicitly do not have hours written into their employment agreements. If there are hours written in, they are legally classified as hourly employees and legally eligible for things like overtime. Lots of companies have run afoul of this but the courts have been very clear on the matter. If you treat your employees as hourly employees they are hourly employees, and you better track and award overtime according to hourly regulations.
Why would I have reason to be abrasive? Am I expecting people in the company to act like that on a daily basis?

Honestly, I just need to know that they can code to the level expected, work together, and aren’t completely looney.
While lobbying can be bad, it can also be good. It comes down to the judgement of those holding office.

For example, if I were running for a relatively high office that took a lot of funds to compete, I'd openly take funds from any legal source. And that might make me more inclined to meet with those organizations over given issues. However, it would be up to me to decide what is best for my constituents in my votes/actions over specific things.

We talk all day about corruption of the money/companies, but way too little voting out all the congress-critters that should not return. More people need to start voting against incumbents regardless of party to stir the pot and get some new blood into things.
Seems like this should be titled "Humanities Academia is a cult". Which is a conclusion with which I don't necessarily disagree. Frankly, the job numbers are out there. If you choose to get a PhD in history even after seeing them, you're probably delusional in some form.

I'm not so certain about STEM however. While cults can pop up anywhere there is a leader with a non trivial power dynamic, I'd say that a fair portion of professors in STEM will happily explain to you the harsh reality of academia and discourage you from getting a PhD. Furthermore, there are jobs outside of academia for PhDs, so there's a lot less lock in.
Very unlikely it will be Crystal City. Based on parameters that news lifted on qualifiers for HQ2.

1. There isn't sufficient space for a large campus.
2. DCA is a small airport.

Loudoun county has a higher chance than Crystal City based on the above parameters. Of course, the parameters could have been wrong. And I would much prefer Crystal City over Loudoun, too.
In my experience there are multiple cutls within academia and they operate at different levels. In finance, for example, there is a cult of "efficient market hypothesis" and another cult of "behavioral finance". The two groups don't appreciate each other much although publicly they love to say how much they respect their colleagues from the other group.
If it happens once, sure. If the entire process is people forgetting, rescheduling and changing things, it isn’t really isolated any more.
nope:

http://colah.github.io/
Most homes are bought with fixed interest rates. If you are buying with a variable rate, 99% chance your credit is shit, and you shouldn't be buying a home, because the bank will own it soon.
> Maybe they take that extra time and use it making money elsewhere, outside of the scope of what the study could measure.

A study measuring hours worked that didn't account for hours worked in other jobs would be pretty useless.

> Do you know what those people did with that now-free time?

Something valued at no more than their original wage, as demonstrated by the fact that they had been willing to not do it in exchange for that amount of money. Meanwhile the thing they were previously doing at work was valued at least in that amount, as demonstrated by the fact that the employer had been willing to pay that much for it.
You’re gonna get downvoted because this is HN but really this article is clickbait designed to exploit a growing epistemological crisis in the west. The author is just describing a group with a history and traditions. While cults are also groups with tradition and sometimes history it’s well disingenuous to say THAT is their defining feature.

EDIT: I’d just like to be clear that Academia has definitely got serious issues. But a person who establishes PhD level credentials in Marxist social analysis at the top of the article sure does spew a ton of words about material conditions without ever naming capitalism as the issue and instead blames “academia.” Oh, professors and grad students are terribly overworked but also they are administering a cult?
The only buyers for voting machines are governments, and they can use whatever purchase criteria they want. Thus, the market is effectively completely regulated in every aspect.

The difficulty is that building a secure voting machine is a problem similar to building secure, spam-free email. No matter what trade off you make, you will trigger violently angry responses from some group.
At Google the lunch is not scored. It's a chance for the candidate to decompress a bit (the rest of the day is back-to-back) and also to sell Google culture a bit, but it's not about getting feedback.
scan-tron ballots are generally the best option imho. You can scale quite a bit at a polling station as well as not tying up one costly machine per person in queue. Coordination of ballots for localized districts is still one of the more difficult issues for both print and electronic voting though.
I lived in Atlanta for the better part of a decade as a brown guy right after 9/11. Was great.
You can't blame the publishers for schools which are training people to be professors and little else at a rate 10x actually needed.
I don't agree with this. A cult requires two things: your money and your loyalty. Neither gets your that far in academia. Look at all the people trying to get into Harvard. Many applicants would willingly pay way more than the tuition if to be guaranteed a slot (if Harvard slots were put to auction, I imagine bids would be very high), but so so few are accepted despite being able to pay. Scientology will accept anyone that can pay. Rather academia is more like professional sports in that it is very competitive and many try-out and few make it to the pros.
Diaspora is what you're thinking of. Mastodon is a federated twitter clone.
That's not accurate. The lunch buddy is there to give the candidate some relaxing time off of interviewing, allow them to get a good lunch, and to ask questions "off the record" to a potential colleague. Informally it is the job of the lunch buddy to make a pitch for why the candidate should consider working for the company, and if relocation is on the table, what's neat about the area and why the candidate should consider moving.

The lunch buddy doesn't get the option to enter feedback for a candidate and often doesn't even get invited to the interview debrief. They really are there just for lunch.

Source: have been a lunch buddy several times.
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A bicycle is difficult to bring on many forms of public transportation, and can require a change of clothes. Scooters can fit on a luggage rack.

Walking is much slower, of course.
Seems aligned with recent experiments with publishing garbage papers in, allegedly reputable, soft sciences journals: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/10/10/gri....

The concept of "idea laundering" is fascinating. It seems that, as of today, the incentives of the academics are simply misaligned with the those of the public.
Great points on lobbying. I believe there’s an economics paper on the effects of lobbying out there, so it might be of interest to you. Sadly I don’t know it’s name :/.

By the way, If the issue is with my tone or perceived attitude, please note that this is my question- what precisely is the path to success?

I don’t get the issue with the term rational, I mean it in the same way you define it.

Locally solutions may not result in a global solution to the climate problem (because of externalities). What the issue with rational in this case ?
I love how you're treating customers and employees petitioning a company, and then the company taking their concerns seriously, like it's some kind of bullying conspiracy. Never mind when a platform manager like Matt Prince [1] goes out of his way to make it clear he is autocratically representing his own judgement, after grappling with the very real moral tradeoffs involved in excluding someone.

PayPal publicly condemned certain points of view long before Gab: prohibiting "the promotion of hate, violence, racial intolerance or the financial exploitation of a crime" was part of the TOS when Gab signed up, as was the fact that the definition of those things was up to PayPal. They don't seem to share you're opinion that non-fraudulent monetary transactions are the only aspect of their business.

And as far as anyone having to ban clients who transgress, when did that happen? As we've tossed around in other threads, you can loudly and proudly make not-banning the core of your business. But you're expressing a personal priority for diverse expression (or at least the type of expression you make welcome, c.f. Gab's Pepe) that other people might not share, or might not prioritize the same way you do. Freedom of association means you make your choice and other people make theirs.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
But there is no “I’m going” but rather “I’m forced to”. So if I don’t have something worth 15/h in my shop should I shut out?
So for locations that have say 50+ positions, with multiple party candidates up for election, you want to print off 100+ ballots and have the voters select and mail out 50 of them separately?

Right now to reduce fraud, many mail in juristicions will have an envelope with a voter and specific ballot type (local districts include different water, power, school, fire, police, etc which may be different from someone on the other side of your street). And the ballot only has the ballot type/combination... the outside is scanned to match the inside, and the inside ballot is then separated/randomized to prevent tracking coordination.

Do you understand how much crap would have to be coordinated between envelopes and ballots to support such a system? We aren't just voting for a single office, in some places it's over 50 offices, with hundreds of candidates.
Sounds like most big company interviews. They have tons of candidates so they can just do stuff like that.
Always a strong possibility. Although since I've always received high evaluations in the past, I'm not sure that's a good hypothesis.
That's a pretty piss-poor reason for Denver to be considered geographically favorable.

The main advantage you get from geographical proximity is the fact that you can build closer networking opportunities to other businesses and entities in the area. (A secondary advantage is timezone alignment). Denver's not exactly close to any other major cities; by contrast, it's only a half day of travel between Chicago and the Northeast, and it's even possible to commute between NYC and Boston or DC for a day.

For siting a second major HQ, Denver is just too close to Seattle. You don't get the benefits of having people 3 hours ahead (and more aligned with Europe, for example). The marginal costs of extra travel time to Asia from the east coast versus the west coast just aren't going to be a major factor in determining whether or not travel can happen--your employees have already lost a day or two of travel. Move the site to the east coast, and now you can open up more travel opportunities because it's only a half-day (or less!) of travel.
Just for future reference for me or anyone else on HN:

I found the George III inlaid mahogany bureau referenced in the story on the Gorringes (Lewes, UK) website [0] and saved to archive.org/is [1][2].

The sale price was £70, and the pre-sale estimate was £100-150. The story referenced a sale price of £85 including fees, so I guess the fees must have been £15.

[0] Lot 794, A George III inlaid mahogany bureau W.97cm https://auction.gorringes.co.uk/auction-lot-detail/170918/79...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181104033127/https://auction.g...

[2] http://archive.is/mkxdn
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I'm about to finish my masters in CS, where I focused in machine learning. While I don't research at my school, my current job is a software/ML engineer in a machine learning focused team; I consider my role between a software engineer and data scientist.

While I don't do academic research, I spend a non-trivial amount of time reading papers and keeping abreast of new research that is relevant to my job. If the research seems relevant enough, I'll dig deeper and implement the research into a workable model. The software engineering portion really kicks in when I productionize this model and make it a usable product.

So in regards to your question, if you want to do fundamental, academic research then go for your PhD. For the kind of work I do currently, then it's more about the group you work with in industry.
True, thank you, that's a good point.
A generalization of the people or a generalization of southern capitols? The OP specifically mentioned Raleigh, where the decision to keep the confederate monuments on the capitol was re-ratified as recently as a few weeks ago. It is by any objective measure a place that celebrates its history of violent white supremacy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/us/confederate-statues-no...
Many polling places accept a dropped off early voter or mail-in ballot. Some locations are allowing early, print on demand voting options.
It benefits neither the company nor the candidate to have the candidate be overly stressed out all day. Lunch also gives the candidate the chance to chat informally to a potential colleague and for that potential colleague to make a pitch for why it's cool to work at the company and live in the area. If the lunch buddy does their job well the candidate should leave excited to work for the company and in good spirits for the last half of the interview. On top of that both people get a free lunch. Definitely not a waste of time.
> government workers are underpaid

When people are talking about this, they're usually talking about local government positions like teachers, librarians, and social workers. Or the post office. Very rarely are people talking about contractors or white collar bureaucrats.