Me found hammer/react/shiny web framework … must use to make everything. No care about users.

“Buying shares primarily benefits you as an investor.”

Maybe during a never-ending bull market … but all bull markets end … look at the “lost decade”

That's a different discussion.

Argument here is that buying shares (other than during specific events like an IPO) affects the shareholder, not the company's products.

So whether or not you buy shares has no relation to supporting the company's products. The latter happens when you buy or not buy their product.

So you gave up on the best programmer you ever interviewed, because they weren’t able to perform a single secondary task satisfactorily?

First, the average quality of candidates we were getting was pretty good. She stood out, and definitely gave a memorable performance on the technical level, but it wasn't some colossal blow to our org that we didn't make the hire.

Second, she wasn't interviewing for a "money goes in, code comes out" code monkey-type role. Whoever took that role was expected to communicate with a bunch of people.

Third, the ask was "explain this to a layperson", her performance was "a senior technical person can barely keep up". It wasn't a matter of not performing satisfactorily, it was a matter of completely failing. I really liked her as a candidate, I wanted to make the hire happen, and I'm cautious about interview nerves messing with people, so I really tried to steer the conversation in a direction she could succeed, but she just wouldn't follow.

Being able to explain a thing to someone non-technical is an important social requirement. If you have to explain a problem or project to a C-level and you go off the rails with technical stuff, or get deep in the weeds of some part of it, without being asked, youre going to get deer stares and no one in the room is going to understand you. Similarly, if you as an engineer, go too technical when explaining things to an admin or jr, then you are also going to get deer stares and no one is going to understand you, or they will get frustrated.

You can be a """"rockstar"""" engineer and still not be a good fit because you cant sanely explain something to someone not at your technical level.

Has AI advanced that far? How do managers use AI in their daily work? To generate emails? Most managers spend all day in meetings. How do they utilize AI for that? Inaccurately Compile the minutes of the meeting and summarize them?

Ironically, these centers will use AI to interview.

Ageism

Id hardly call this ageism. The person went from being part of engineering on a major space faring project to managing a callcenter. Thats like going back to zero on the career ladder, as far as engineering is concerned. I would have also been questioning whether or not their skills have collected dust, were still relevant, and most specifically why they went from engineering in aerospace to managing a callcenter, and why they want back into engineering again (probably hates callcenter).

We have interviewed and hired plenty of people even older (age is not something ever known/discussed and illegal to factor in - but it isn't hard to make a good guess anyway)

senior engineer could be a project manager who never wrote code.

i remember this because it is one of the faw 'no' I have had where it wasn't proved the person would be bad at the job. Normally the no hire signal is because the person would obviously be bad.

Why, after interviewing them, were you unable to figure out if this person can still code?

Because we didn't ask the right questions. We changed the process to require some questions. Which isn't perfect either, but we don't get months to interview someone so.

The person was 23.

So, the side that is more open about their corruption is the one that deserves to be voted out? That leaves the more secretive and professionally corrupt in power, right?

I mean, that’s what happened, whether we like it or not.

But doing that would spook investors and possibly pop the bubble, so they look for ways to mitigate risk and fuel the bubble at the same time.

That might be the case if nvidia commonly invested in its customers - if they suddenly stopped doing that - but I don't think that was the case. On the contrary, these investments surprised because they were NOT the usual.

God wants our faces covered?

Some religions say their God wants some people covered, like women.

How is calling for equal and humane treatment of prisoners high and righteous? You are recommending targeted abuse for certain prisoners that goes beyond the sentence imposed by a court. Maybe a better way of stating it is that you are low and unjust.

OP's point is that French prisons are famously derelict. They are overcrowded, dirty, dangerous. Regular prisoners do not enjoy the luxury of a VIP cell.

Sarkozy played no small part in making this happen.

We should absolutely wish for all prisoners to be treated decently, and it is a terrible thing that the matter is only brought up when someone like Sarkozy has to ensure a portion of what regular prisoners endure.

And worst of all, his political followers are all lamenting about the conditions he is in while remaining hardliners for the rest of the prisoners. You are right that OP should not wish ill on Sarkozy, whose distress is real and painful to see. But OP's frustration is understandable to anyone who cares even a little for the welfare of regular prisoners in France.

I think the OP is in fact calling for an equal treatment of prisoners. Sarkozy isn't getting the average prison treatment here.