I cut the cable a while back and really the only thing I've missed is sports. I subscribed to MLB TV and League Pass because I was either out of market traveling or living out of market, and I use those a lot. Fucking Sunday ticket has always been so overpriced that I do not understand how or why people buy it.

When I was living in Germany in 2003, there were tens of thousands of people dying from heat stroke in France alone because they didn't have AC, which is probably the single largest consumer of power in the states. Plenty of power outages and cuts. Huge one took out basically of all Italy and a significant chunk of Switzerland.

They definitely happen, even if the US infrastructure is not nearly up to snuff.

Yeah half the country 2.5 years ago! Here's my shocked face

https://www.bundesnetzagentur....

Granted it's been about two years since I was last in Germany but I had 5G up and down the Rhein and from Frankfurt down to Munich. But hey it's not like people track this:
https://www.nperf.com/en/map/D...

Cue the population density XKCD comic

IBM (IBM) stock surged Thursday to its highest level in more than a decade, boosted by the tech giant's better-than-expected fourth quarter results and the progress of its artificial intelligence initiatives.

Sure makes sense to fire people for what is working and potentially eke out that extra .2% earning. But hey what do I or the workforce know about productivity and remote work? Will never cease to amaze me how f*cking dumb companies can be for no real reason. They don't need to but golly they sure will plow right ahead:

For 2024, Krishna said the company expects revenue to grow in the mid-single digits while generating $12 billion in free cash flow.

This is from their earnings call last week too: https://www.investors.com/news....

Feel free to read about it with citations!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They're immune to the short-term decision-making distortions caused by the publicy held corporations' shareholders, their lawyers, and the Fortune 500 Executive class raiding the companies they're supposed to be managing,

What fucking world are you living in where a family business is immune to external pressure? You (almost) cleverly tried to limit the scope of the interference but that's not gonna fly here. The family companies are not in the business of taking losses, especially when it comes to something expensive like owned property

If you're dubious of this lawsuit working it's because you don't know very much about liability and privacy violations of minors. Big bucks here

Now let me help you out here. There are some people who would be considered shareholders in those privately held businesses. I can help you along further if you need it.

i have the same first.last@gmail.com as yourself and a one with first two initials with last name. I've never gotten a single email in the 18 years or so I've had them meant for another person with my name. And I know there are 3-4 people with my exact name, including one with the same middle initial, working in the same industry or field. Never seen it happen to a family member or friend, either.

HR or the recruiter cares. They generally do the first line of vetting after AI. Do they know what certifications matter? Do they know how to properly assess a non traditional career path for "equivalent experience"? They generally don't and opt to weed out on degrees unless there's a lot of pushback.

That's why it's difficult to get an interview with a live, knowledgeable human without having a degree. It's not that the dev team (or whomever) cares. It's that the people who don't know *do* care.

You don't care that they have a resume, which is normal and expected. HR and the taleo "AI" use their critical thinking skills to weed out candidates who don't have a degree (easy to understand) or the equivalent practical experience (hard to understand). They are gatekeeping for any number of possible reasons.

What percentage of candidates do you interview without a degree?

For me, it's probably zero or extremely close unless they're personally referred by someone. That experience has been the same across my current job, multiple large consulting companies, and 12+ years in finance / fintech.

Why was this modded insightful?

How did this get modded as insightful?

Something the size of a van being crushed in the middle of the north atlantic wouldn't even merit a blip on navy sensors.