petegrif

How can we be confident that some of us on this forum are not trolls working to discredit the story?

We can't be.

You are absolutely correct. People make mistakes. Even very well trained professionals make mistakes. Incredibly experienced skydivers die. Industrial safety is tough despite well designed processes and constant training. Tradecraft slipups happen. etc etc The weak link is the human being.

Skipping over what others have pointed out - you don't interview a co-founder.

a) ensure this is someone you are going to get along with b) get someone else to assess their technical competence - you can't assess it and the guidelines you provide won't work reliably.

My sense of the available evidence of the behavior of social groups with blatantly mistaken beliefs is that many don't 'see the error of their ways.'

Kenneth Williams used it when a popular comic and nobody straight had the first idea of the gay subtext.

This sort of application is wildly out of bounds of the true scope of the theory. The relationship between physics (unified or otherwise) can't be resolved with reference to Godel's theorems.

Very true. London is an incredibly diverse international city. San Francisco is, by comparison, a village.

Generalizations are not equal to stereotypes.

There is a difference between generalizations, which may have value if shrewdly observed, and shallow stereotypical characterizations. This post was shallow. Pointing that out is every bit as value as snide remarks about Reddit and an equally snide uninformed reading of the piece. Perhaps more so.

I have lived in both for years. IMHO this is a shallow comparison indeed. Not to be relied upon.

This is a well understood phenomenon in the history of science. Nothing new here.

Introduce channels to reduce noise and focus content.

The health system in the US is a total mess. Single payer is the only sane way to go. That too will be imperfect and ragged but it is provenly absurdly cheaper - practically all advanced industrial countries are single payer and all spend far less as a percentage of their GNP - as in half to a third - whilst covering everybody. The admin savings are staggering, the drug costs are lower etc etc.

IMHO they have a process problem. To my certain knowledge they haven't followed up and asked why when very very talented people have gotten so sick of the recruitment process that they have opted out. But if you don't take the trouble to figure out what is putting off such candidates your HR is messed up. It's a huge fail.

What BS. This guy can't talk to a plumber and it's the fault of elite colleges? Pleeese!

Sounds vulgar.

IMHO it's an issue.

The paper makes no mention of subjects in ketosis. Would have been interesting.

If true, this boss is a staggering douchebag who deserves the toxic work environment he/she has been supporting.

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Feels to me like you handled it extremely well on both occasions. Thanks (really) for sharing.

I like the tone of this article. I do, however, believe that there is rather more science backing up low carb eating than the piece would have you believe.

I was a big fan of 'Meaning and the Moral Sciences.'

A was a big fan of 'Meaning and the Moral Sciences.'

Holy crap. It's a total beatdown.

Better described as Bulletbroof buttery strange drink that bears little resemblance to coffee.

It can scarcely be described as coffee. To my taste it is an unspeakably vile tasting concoction.

Why were you expecting to lose muscle mass?

Being facetious doesn't advance your argument. You are of course right that appalling working conditions are not new. The labor movement was a response that such conditions. But the key point being made is not that conditions today are in all regards worse than all conditions in the past but rather that despite all our much vaunted progress and productivity gains many people don't experience the benefits and are in fact working in toxic work conditions that are profoundly stressful. And that point is, I believe, not especially difficult to substantiate.

I have a solution to telemarketers that I have found to be extremely effective. No matter what they say you reply "That's very interesting, please tell me more." Ideally you should do this in a flat monotone. They rarely make it past 3 or 4 opening gambits.