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Agree, the system of industrial manufacturing depends on push-marketing to increase or maintain profitability since it requires large startup costs, and only really becomes viable when done at large scale.

I think Industry 4.0 is a more likely factor for change than 3d printing, though.

>There are so many nuances that make a great cup of coffee that it's hard to pin it down.

Sounds like "placebo."

Interest rates are set by central banks in order to cause and increase inflation.

Indeed, the US (and the EU) economy is being kept on life support through Quantitative Easing and artificially low interest rates. But the patient is already brain dead.

You specifically named Sweden, and that's the remark I replied to.

>At least US is not in complete denial and that is quite laudable. Hopefully, more progress is made to that end.

You are clearly in denial to the point where you need to look at other nations 500 years ago and conjure things that never happened, to make yourself feel better about the U.S., a country that has never been democratic nor free.

As for Ingria in Sweden, still exist, have their own language and the state/county is still named after them, Ångermanland.

I mean having a community of open source contributors around your product that you already know and have in some ways worked with, and can hire without the adversarial interview process. That way, you wouldn't need to use useless markers like degree, age, location, university, past employment etc.

Another case of an Employ-unable company.

Though I'm on Hacker News, I'm not a software developer. I would have thought it obvious that everyone would shift their hiring practices to be community-based, by looking at GitHub.

I suppose most companies, even in the so "progressive" tech industry, are closed systems with little connection to anything in the outside world. In reality, Silicon Valley startups are just small corporations in the digital era. There is no disruptive about them at all.

For the intelligent business person, the lesson to learn here is that design, development and production processes need to be integrated with community. Either like with Automattic and Wordpress, or by going open source on GitHub.

All but a few closed companies will die over the next decade because they are unable to hire well.

>What they're doing mostly makes sense - let somebody else pre-qualify you and then we'll have a look. If they can do that, why wouldn't they?

Because recruiting knowns, that are often already employed, means paying higher wages, as well as losing the competition for skilled labor.

Right now, there is an enormous opportunity for businesses to higher well and treat employees well, in order to recruit the most competent employees, create continuity, a strong brand, higher efficiency and quality in work performed, and thereby higher profitability.

Employers are simply incompetent--Employ-unable.

I would suggest a new term: Employ-unable.

Many if not most firms are unable to identify intelligent, motivated people, outside of the typical CV pedigree of Ivy Leagues and corporate brands.

As a result, they have created a cargo cult recruiting process that promises, in a few easy steps, to tell them the essence of the applicant's very being, and to accurately predict their future performance within the organization.

A child knows that this is impossible, but the need for control and risk minimization means firms force themselves to believe in it.

That is why the entire job seeking and interview process has degenerated into a tragedy and a farce.

In Europe and North America, there are tens if not hundreds of millions of people unemployed because businesses are not able to employ them; they lack the competence to recruit well.

How is the remote driver going to immediately know what to do, and immediately know what the surrounding environment is like? Exactly, they won't.

Self-driving cars will never happen.

Indeed, all the "scientific" hiring processes are hinged on the idea that it is possible to accurately predict an individuals future performance.

A child knows that predicting the future is impossible.

American culture is not individualistic. It's conformist to the extreme.

IIRC student loan debt was made non-dischargeable by bankruptcy when the government started guaranteeing all student loans. This is the reason why tuition has been increasing so dramatically, because for the banks, making a loan is free of risk. Because supply of money is basically unlimited, schools can increase tuition each year.

It's not the metrics, it's advertising as a business model.

Your opinion isn't dissent, it's the generally accepted view.

Interesting. You were the first to mention feminism, and created a straw man which you used to express your disdain for men's rights in general.

Tragic, really.

Of course they're desperate for views. Their whole business model is based on views. Which is why the media is of such awful quality today.

I read about this earlier today on /r/contentstrategist and they were saying that videos posted directly to Facebook get far, far more "plays" than if they are posted as links to YouTube. This is thanks to Facebook's AutoPlay for native videos, and whether people actually watch the videos more... Is not really interesting because plays/impressions is the metric by which a boss measures the marketing teams work, or how clients are billed.

So, this works because Facebook makes native content more prominent than linked content, which is filtered out.

So, in your experience, it doesn't happen a lot, right? I mean, since you've never, ever heard of it happening.

And Budweiser is sold as premium in Europe, Asia.

Have you seen it happen? Heard about it happen? Read about it happening?

It would not be a problem for a male executive to marry a woman working part-time at a café.

Would a female executive marry a male who works part-time at a café?

Downvoters, look up Dunning-Kruger.

It goes both ways.

Swedes really liked Ericsson phones. They also really liked Nokia phones.

Finns really liked Nokia phones. They also really like iPhones.

Americans really like iPhones. They also really like Samsung Galaxies.

Etc.

Same as any nationality, ever.

There is no such thing as "reverse sexism." There is only sexism. Making decisions based on gender is always sexist.

Have you ever managed an organization? Then you would understand why it is a fundamental need for those in control to have the maximum amount of information possible. It's impossible to govern an organization of you know nothing about it.

That you call it a conspiracy betrays your ignorance of this matter.

Intelligence collection is not about security but about * control*, though security is a small subset of control.

The problem is that, as Gall's Law states, systems and organization eventually become counter productive: the NSA and the security industry generally are threats to individual and national security.