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> "Which city are you from?"

Many big tech companies have inclusion training calling this question out as inappropriate on the grounds it provides an opportunity to introduce bias.


Sure, that's advised in interviews, where you're about to make a decision on someone's livelihood, hence the importance of reducing bias. That's a completely different context than in casual conversation at a social event.

This is nonsense as there is no such thing as unbiased personal interaction.

It's a networking event, not an interview loop.

In the same lines, don't ask anything. Everything is a bias. ie, What do they do? - Also a bias as they are engineer, or product, or sales, or whatever.


In most parts of the world this is not true.

Even in the US it's ridiculous advice, driven by fear rather than a rational assessment of policy. Asking people where they are from is just fine.

> Pop tarts and soda provide zero nutritional value

But they have a very high calorie:dollar ratio.


The signage claims the _image_, i.e. the pixels, is deleted but makes no claims about embeddings, biometric measurements, etc that are generated from the image.


You may also be interested in the Work Number product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753


When whole orgs/product lines are cut, you’re laid off regardless of performance.


If you like this model you may also enjoy “paint drip people”

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/paint-drip-people


I like this better.


> ziplock bag filled with water

You’ll often see this done with brine instead of water so if the bag develops a leak the salt concentration of the ferment stays the same.


> eventually people who have worked at google are going to have more trouble getting jobs elsewhere when all the tools they've worked with are things that nobody outside of google has heard of

This has already happened. Many companies offer dictionaries to translate the names of Google tools to their tools. Open source ones exist as well: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg

An issue I’ve ran into is startups being very hesitant of hiring Googlers because of a perception that they can’t engineer without other teams of developers supporting all of their tooling. One startup specifically asked how to create a dashboard without using Plx - a wild question given the vast OSS dashboarding ecosystem - but it was still a concern to them.


Referrals are vetted by global teams who are just checking boxes - it's very common to have to reach out to the recruiter for the role directly to resurrect a rejected referral.


Also useful, cloud forecasts with the eclipse path: https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/?m=srefens&p=clou...


Looking at 'Cloud Thickness' it would seem there are very few places in N. America where the eclipse will be unobstructed. Am I reading that right?


I think blue is more-obstructed. Which is a really confusing choice.


Thank you, I was so confused. Why in the world would they use “blue = more cloud coverage, white/gray = less”?


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