rewritteninrust (u/rewritteninrust)

rewritteninrust commented on Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms abcnews.go.com/US/santa-c... · Posted by u/lelf

krohling · 6 years ago

Super excited to see this. If you live in California please head on over to http://www.decrimca.org/ We're working to get state wide decriminalization on the ballot in November and we need signatures! If you buy a button ($5) they'll send you a petition sheet. There are also signature locations and volunteers in every county in the state.

rewritteninrust · 6 years ago

I'm 100% in support of legalization, but as someone who has never lived in a country with decriminalized psychedelics, I'm very interested to see how this is regulated. The potential for chaos seems much higher with mushrooms than cannabis.

rewritteninrust commented on Ask HN: What is your ML stack like? · Posted by u/imagiko

rewritteninrust · 6 years ago

I'm also curious—and maybe someone here can chime in—about how you get organizational buy in for introducing ML. There are a couple of problem areas at my company that I think would be great for ML, but I don't know how to get others onboard.

rewritteninrust commented on A few hundred of the thousands of rejection slips I've got over the years knottpoetry.blogspot.com/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

rewritteninrust · 6 years ago

Had a professor who used to wallpaper his closet with his rejection letters. Was very reassuring to hear that from a successful writer when I was an insecure 17 year old.

rewritteninrust commented on Show HN: Layoffs.at – helping people laid off find work layoffs.at/... · Posted by u/mrburton

chank · 6 years ago

I'm confused. Is there some aspect about a person being laid off that makes them more/less desirable that they need a specific service to help them find a new job? I know some people who have been laid off might be dusty with job hunting skills and there are services to help anyone that specific area.

Also seeing a trend of niche job websites popping up... Fragmentation in this industry seems counterproductive.

rewritteninrust · 6 years ago

The value-add from this service, I'm assuming, is less on the candidate side and more on the company side.

For context, it is really hard for companies to build a pipeline of candidates for technical roles. If your hiring for a technical role, 99% of the ideal candidates you'd like to hire are already employed.

Big layoffs at tech companies release a ton of qualified, immediately-employable technical candidates into the market all at once. For recruiters, and 3rd party recruiting platforms like this one, these candidates represent a massive opportunity. Any engineer who has been laid off in a big round has had to deal with marketing/outreach from recruiters and recruiting platforms (Hired, AngelList, Vettery, etc.)

From what I see, this platform won't give you, as a candidate, any advantage another platform won't.