Interesting Links for 17-12-2020

[andrewducker]

World religious leaders unite to demand ban on gay conversion therapy

(tags:LGBT religion bigotry )

Scottish government sets out plans to hit net-zero emissions

(tags:Scotland co2 globalwarming thefuture )

How Scientists Tracked Down a Mass Killer (of Salmon)

(tags:fish poison USA )

All job interviews should give the questions out in advance

(tags:Jobs interviews )

For the first time in its history UNICEF will help feed children in the UK

(tags:UK poverty OhForFucksSake )

Republicans are furious with Trump for pocketing the money they need for the Georgia runoffs

(tags:republicans usa politics money )

What a 3d picture of a snowflake really looks like

(tags:snow photo )

Ultra High Resolution Photos of Snowflakes

(tags:photos snow )

COVID-19 vaccine rollout may be delayed - with IT system 'failing constantly'

(tags:pandemic vaccine computers OhForFucksSake )

Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems

(tags:technology WiFi hacking security genius )

Tax cuts for rich don't 'trickle down,' study of 18 countries finds

(tags:tax inequality )

Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain's Pandemic Spending

(tags:corruption UK pandemic )

Facebook are terribly angry about Apple giving its users control over privacy. They can fuck off.

(tags:privacy Apple Facebook )

What works enter the Public Domain in 2021?

(tags:publicdomain )

Poll shows Scottish independence support surging to joint record levels as SNP set for majority

(tags:Scotland polls independence )

Long Covid alarm as 21% report symptoms after five weeks

(tags:pandemic Doom )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

A note worthy thing in the small print of the Scottish independence poll is that, even with Don't Knows left in independence is polling 52%.

[dewline]

1. Good news indeed on that front. I expect it'll move the Overton window further in humane and helpful directions.

2. When I look at the opening image of the protest signs, I am reminded that there's one slogan that the movement has to ditch right now: "There is no Planet B". Because we all know that (a) exoplanets are real now and (b) various people are trying to figure out something akin to warp drive, also for real. The environmental movement has to shift the "Planet B" slogan to saving those other worlds from our worst-behaving people before we figure out ways to get to and from them safely.

That aside...it's progress in nailing down where Scotland wants to be and how they want to get there. I like that, so far as it goes.

6. Grifters are gonna grift, right? The Republicans knew what they were signing on with when they took the Trump on.

[danieldwilliam]

I am amazed that the Republican Party are amazed that it has happened to them, but I think one of the guiding principles of the Republican Party is that it should happen to other people, so perhaps they have developed a blind spot.

[andrewducker]

A few people are trying to work out if we can make a warp drive. I will believe it when we see something working. I'm not even concinced we can have a self-sustaining colony on Mars.

Give people the interview questions in advance

[skington]

It's worth reading the comments, because a surprising number of people have said "as a deaf / neurodiverse person, this would really help me".

And while some people have (reasonably) said that this requires the interviewee to spend time ahead of the interview researching answers to the questions, I think most interviewees who aren't 100% in the "wing it, see what happens" camp will have spent time researching potential interview questions. (I interviewed for jobs in the last few months, and I know that I did stuff like that.)

Re: Give people the interview questions in advance

[andrewducker]

Yeah, most people will do _some_ work in advance. And, frankly, most interviews will reuse a common bunch of questions, so any work you do will be reusable for the next interview!

[anna_wing]

It would also be useful to track the incidence of "long COVID" against the kind of medical care that the sufferers did or did not receive, to see if there is any correlation. It would be useful information for future pandemic planning.


The 3-D snowflake looks like something out of 'Star Wars'!