This seems an extreme solution to media investigation of a small number of people losing their jobs
Perhaps instead, in these situations, employers could provide, at the discretion of the dismissed, information gathered while performing due diligence leading up to the dismissal
This seems much less about being casual or being a polymath and more about those who overestimate the value of their own input
I’m leaving this comment only because I most often do not overestimate the value of my input and therefor don’t leave comments, but this seems the perfect place to deviate
These people were exploited which is terrible. That the nation that exploited them was still more desirable to them than their former home is also terrible. That all they got in return for being exploited was what they were initially promised but decades later is terrible
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Whereas sites like SSC and LessWrong are rationalist, both of these suggestions are predominately post-rationalist, but perhaps you’re like I was – reading the rationalist sites because I didn’t know there were post-rationalist sites
I don’t know what your work-sample looks like, but unless it’s time actually working with your team on a real project, it gave you no indication of whether or not someone was “capable of delivering”
You may think you filtered out people who failed your test, but you have no indication that that’s the case – you could just as easily have filtered out people who don’t like tests or people who don’t test well
I trust you’ve found some decent hires, but I’d suspect you passed on many as well
And, I don’t know about your work environment, but I’d prefer someone who can have a friendly conversation and do good work... I’m surprised you bothered giving your work-sample test to people who didn’t pass the earlier test
I was thinking the same thing in regard to interfacing with the Health app. Wouldn't a simple Siri for Health opt-in fix this?
I've got a bad case of Apple lock in – Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, MacBooks. Saying, to my phone, "Play The Walking Dead on the TV" brings up TWD in the TV app (iOS 10.2, I haven't been paying attention, this is possibly beta track) which prompts me to start watching it... but it then plays on the phone. I can cast it to the TV, but I can't hand it off to the TV.
Maybe that's precisely how most people would expect and want it to work, but it seems unintuitive to me.
I would like to be able to tell any digital assistant enabled device in my home to "play latest episode of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on the living room TV" and have it work. I feel like that's a very simple, minimal viable product, sort of request.
Siri responds with "Hmm, I'm not finding anything for that."
I'd also like to be able to ask "How many steps have I taken today?"
Siri responds with "I can't answer that on your iPhone but you can find it in the Health app: Open the Health app"
This may feel like a big ask considering the majority of the basics aren't covered on the platform I'm using, but compound questions would be wonderful – "show me the thirty largest US cities" "remove any that do not have a moderate climate" "which one has the lowest cost of living?"
If platforms already provide these services and I'm simply using the wrong one – oops.