Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Joel_Mckay 255 days ago
It is not mutually exclusive, as people can be both pernicious and stupid if they choose to be...

https://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidi...

Engagement is mostly derived from upset people, and thus algorithms or clowns behave in unsustainable ways to make millions of pennies.

Academic bias arises from the ivory tower phenomena in a walled garden, and if some naive kid is often told they are the best-of-the-best special... they tend to truly believe the rhetoric as they slowly indenture themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

Most HR folks quickly tire of entitled peoples petulance, as no matter how conventionally "smart" a applicant may be... no office wants to deal with drama everyday. =3

1 comments

This said, most HR folks are head deep in their own ass with their own drama, so there's that.
External staffing agencies are a set of problems unto themselves.

One usually exchanges Faustian contractual consistency with creative talent that drove initial success.

Politics is rarely about the technology itself, and there are always skeletons next to pirate treasure boxes. lol =3