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jgil commented on Ground stop at JFK due to staffing fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_other... · Posted by u/akersten

thephyber · 5 months ago

It’s hard to foresee how close to accurate your forecast is.

But we are in a de facto junta if the military refuses to take orders from a president, at least for the duration of the presidency. It’s pretty hard to run a free and fair election under those conditions (we dealt with that in The South in the early Reconstruction years).

jgil · 5 months ago

The First Reconstruction was a very different civ-mil scenario. The military protected freedmen from the various insurgent and paramilitary groups that sought to deprive freedmen of rights.

jgil commented on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta dropsitenews.com/p/leaked... · Posted by u/jbegley

mmooss · a year ago

Just rumors and conspiracy theories.

Where can we see evidence of what you claim?

What do you claim Kahn has done? Do you have evidence? The NY Times regulary publishes news critical of Israel.

Children and parents, siblings, etc. disagree, sometimes extremely, regularly. Children and parents disagreeing is one of the most common stories in humanity. Should Joe resign because of dad's activities?

jgil · a year ago

Not OP but -- there is reporting by The Intercept on a leak of guidance that explicitly contains double standards. [1]

Before the leak there was already data-driven analysis about coverage that, in aggregate, shows imbalance. [2]

1 - https://archive.ph/eEwi0

2 - https://archive.ph/fp4vQ

jgil commented on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta dropsitenews.com/p/leaked... · Posted by u/jbegley

liorsbg · a year ago

I just re-read the article, and there’s no evidence of wrong doing. There’s a bunch of circumstantial stuff that people are choosing to feed into their narrative.

Facebook has some rules and community guidelines, the Israeli government recognized some posts that violate those and asked for them to be taken down, and Facebook complied in accordance to their own rules.

jgil · a year ago

Having a system of rules does not mean that the system is inherently well-designed or well-intentioned.

jgil commented on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker congestion-pricing-tracke... · Posted by u/gotmedium

jgil · a year ago

It would be interesting to see the effect on average noise levels. Anecdotally, I have heard fewer honks from single unit trucks today.

jgil commented on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals ft.com/content/1201f834-6... · Posted by u/kvee

bpt3 · a year ago

You realize what you said contradicts the data that has been posted repeatedly in this topic?

Real wage growth surged post-pandemic, especially for lower-income workers.

Most economists have explained the vibes as: People blame inflation for increased prices but credit their own industriousness for wage gains, and are angry they don't get to basically double dip.

jgil · a year ago

"Real" is a misnomer. Interest expenses aren't included in the CPI adjustment for real wage growth. Decreases in used/new vehicle prices wouldn't necessarily offset increases in food prices for someone taking public transit.

For a worker with credit card debt, or one who already struggles to afford public transit, the real wage growth is illusory.

jgil commented on Fast self-hostable open-source workflow engine windmill.dev/blog/launch-... · Posted by u/rubenfiszel

jgil · 2 years ago

What are the units for the x-axis? I'm assuming milliseconds from context, but not having the axis labeled obfuscates the interpretation.

jgil commented on How (not) to apply for a software job benhoyt.com/writings/how-... · Posted by u/nalgeon

steinuil · 2 years ago

I actually just looked at their application form for a systems software developer position. They really want to know how good you were at maths and native language in high school for some reason, and not only do they ask what top percentage you were in (whatever that means, high schools in my country don't do that), but they also ask you to directly point to evidence for these scores.

Right before the application form they say "We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination." Not everybody had the luck to be able to perform at their best in high school, so that looks like a pretty big discriminant right away! And for most people applying to that kind of job that was more than 10 years ago, so I fail to see how it is relevant to a job application.

jgil · 2 years ago

High school related questions can be a way for companies to infer your socioeconomic status, religion, ethnicity, etc.

Some companies even ask for the specific high school.

jgil commented on How (not) to apply for a software job benhoyt.com/writings/how-... · Posted by u/nalgeon

jgil · 2 years ago

The author contradicts their own advice to avoid flowery prose, “show don’t tell”, and to use “nothing but words” — they frequently use italics and punctuation for added emphasis.

The criticisms seem pedantic, given that many job postings might fail the writing bar suggested by the post. How would applicants know that the writing style in a posting is unacceptable in their submission?

Re:business jargon — the example of “actionable insights” that was derided as meaningless merely lacks specificity. It provides more information about a candidate’s prior role. Are they building dashboards with summary stats, or expected to propose strategy based on research? Not knowing business jargon doesn't prove that the jargon itself has no meaning.

What do people think of the language in the job below, evaluated using the criteria in the post?

https://canonical.com/careers/4348076

jgil commented on No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work wsj.com/articles/diversit... · Posted by u/agomez314

xyzelement · 3 years ago

Something I've recognized as I grew up and had kids especially, is that your real outcomes in life are often the product of the expectations placed on you.

Eg - I grew up in a poor, 50% immigrant area in Brooklyn. The Russian and Asian immigrant kids had better outcomes than their American peers despite fewer resources because their parents kicked their ass and failure / slacking wasn't an option.

Whether perfect meritocracy exists or not isn't the point, the point is to maximize your own input to increase your own chances.

In contrast I see a lot of modern approach to problem solving is to lower expectations to make things more equal for some. But I expect that this lowering (eg: no need for SATs, no more selective magnet schools, easier admissions by race, etc) will have a negative effect, the opposite of the immigrant mentality described above.

I see a similar trend with lowering enforcement of some laws because the enforcement appears racist based on who's doing the crime. By making it "okay" you are perversely worsening those people's lives in the long run.

It's a little sad because I am sure all of this comes from a good place but it doesn't truly elevate people.

jgil · 3 years ago

> real outcomes in life are often the product of the expectations placed on you

Quote from the following article:

“But the gap between optimism and reality is far greater for white teachers and white students than for other teachers and black students, meaning white teachers' high expectations of white students could be giving them an edge.

Finally, the study looked at whether teacher expectations matter. And the study found that they do. White or black, students with similar preparation are more likely to graduate from college if their high school teachers believe that they will. This is why teacher expectations, and any racial bias, matter so much, the authors say.”

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/24/study-finds-h...

jgil commented on Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Kcohq... · Posted by u/reaperman

elaus · 3 years ago

I haven't watched the video and was very happy to have a summary. What makes you question it was written by an AI?

jgil · 3 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285162