No. I'm sure there are many factors that all contribute. Some of the bias you allude to could be legitimate signalling - someone who has gone through 20 interviews and not gotten a job is a less attractive potential employee than someone who's only gone through 1 interview.
Anyways, the original point (perhaps not expertly made), is that this interview style excludes a sizable chunk of potential applicants who, I think it is safe to say, are more likely to be good candidates. To argue that an unemployed person is just as likely to be a good candidate as an employed person is to argue that hiring and firing decisions are essentially random.
If you turn a map upside down, that doesn't magically make the north south, and vice versa. It just means north is in a different direction then normally expected. Likewise, re-centering the map doesn't make the far east not in the east. It's just not in the east on that map.
This comment led me to an interesting thought. Where does the concept (and names) of East and West come from? The idea of North and South are based on the physical properties of magnetism and the Earth's ferrous core. Did someone just decide that we need new names for Left and Right to describe other directions orthogonal to the magnetic field?
I usually like your comments Hatta, but this one is just wrong, as h4rr4r pointed out. There is a reason that your chance of getting a job decreases as your length of unemployment increases.
Now I get a 10x1Mb connection . . . and even I think going any faster would be pointless.
No one will ever need more than 640K.
If you build it, they will come.
Look, you may not need 100 or 1000 Mbps now. But what about when you want to stream 3D content? Or what if we start streaming lossless J2K videos, instead of the super compressed HD video you get now? The point of the Google "experiment" is to see what is possible when this type of bandwidth is available. They are trying to bypass the chicken/egg problem. On the other hand, it's not likely that such a small scale deployment will spur any of the large scale investment that will really take advantage of that bandwidth, as such an investment would need a whole country (or at least state) of consumers to make it worthwhile.
You have a fair point. They can't do *really* strict experimental science given their mandate (i.e. produce ratings). However, they do better than most television shows that purport to investigate questions such as this. And in this particular case, their desire to test in an environment that more closely resembled the real world was stymied by the FAA/FCC regulations.
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No. I'm sure there are many factors that all contribute. Some of the bias you allude to could be legitimate signalling - someone who has gone through 20 interviews and not gotten a job is a less attractive potential employee than someone who's only gone through 1 interview.
Anyways, the original point (perhaps not expertly made), is that this interview style excludes a sizable chunk of potential applicants who, I think it is safe to say, are more likely to be good candidates. To argue that an unemployed person is just as likely to be a good candidate as an employed person is to argue that hiring and firing decisions are essentially random.
Value of 7 nights in a beach front condo is how much?
If you turn a map upside down, that doesn't magically make the north south, and vice versa. It just means north is in a different direction then normally expected. Likewise, re-centering the map doesn't make the far east not in the east. It's just not in the east on that map.
This comment led me to an interesting thought. Where does the concept (and names) of East and West come from? The idea of North and South are based on the physical properties of magnetism and the Earth's ferrous core. Did someone just decide that we need new names for Left and Right to describe other directions orthogonal to the magnetic field?
I usually like your comments Hatta, but this one is just wrong, as h4rr4r pointed out. There is a reason that your chance of getting a job decreases as your length of unemployment increases.
I'm surprised this is even legal actually.
Consensual contracts entered into by adults?
Go pramming.
4 comments and no one has yet claimed that Blue Toad is an obvious FBI front?
I think you're aiming way too low if your standard of quality is a /. summary.
Now I get a 10x1Mb connection . . . and even I think going any faster would be pointless.
No one will ever need more than 640K.
If you build it, they will come.
Look, you may not need 100 or 1000 Mbps now. But what about when you want to stream 3D content? Or what if we start streaming lossless J2K videos, instead of the super compressed HD video you get now? The point of the Google "experiment" is to see what is possible when this type of bandwidth is available. They are trying to bypass the chicken/egg problem. On the other hand, it's not likely that such a small scale deployment will spur any of the large scale investment that will really take advantage of that bandwidth, as such an investment would need a whole country (or at least state) of consumers to make it worthwhile.
Parent and GP should report back here in sixth months with how much this has affected property values.
Well, we got 3 out of 5 taken care of so far.
The laptop could contain either a functional OS or a non-functional OS, but you won't know which one until you boot it.
GPP didn't say it was exclusive...
Kinda doubt that Romney wants a theocracy.
Whoosh!
Obama wants the Caliphate. Romney loves the Patriot Act.
Except for republican and democratic campaign coordinators... that's real fucking scary...
I've been fielding spam calls from my university, veteran's groups, the police, all asking for a handout. I think I can handle the D/RNC.
Hand waving is not a valid argument.
If it's good enough for Obi Wan, it's good enough for me.
Not exactly. An automatic transmission is a *requirement* for some drivers, so there is no upgrade/downgrade about it.
Yeah. Think about it this way. An automatic is like a GUI and an automatic is like a CLI.
Oh shit, I'm doing this backwards, aren't I.
I think a preschooler who watches Mythbusters probably has a leg-up on the average American adult.
I wouldn't call them idiots for investing,
Really? 7% interest per week? From someone named Pirateat40? You're right. Seems legit.
Can't it be both?
(It's not; I totally glossed over the spelling mistake.)
casting stones
I see what you did there. Fundamentalists stone adulterers and bad spellers, amirite?
Creationism is just a symptom of a much more fundemental problem.
I see what you did there.
OMG, you're right. Mythbusters is exactly like an animated show with a target demo of preschool aged kids.
You have a fair point. They can't do *really* strict experimental science given their mandate (i.e. produce ratings). However, they do better than most television shows that purport to investigate questions such as this. And in this particular case, their desire to test in an environment that more closely resembled the real world was stymied by the FAA/FCC regulations.
Didn't Mythbusters cover this?
Yes.
Well, not a "crime," but it certainly should be grounds for contract nullification in favor of the injured party.