JOBSEARCH: Never share the hard-file, rather an access controlled version of the document

Sunday, November 24, 2024

https://www.boredpanda.com/home-assignment-recruiter-disabled-access/

Work & Money
Nov 14, 2024
Recruitment Scam Doesn’t Go As Planned After Guy Protects His Files
Jonas Grinevičius and Mindaugas Balčiauskas

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Job interviews are stressful enough as they are. Not only is your entire professional life being judged, but you also have to make sure to leave a positive impression, all the while you go through the many (many, many!) application stages. It’s exhausting.

And even though rejection is hardly ever a nice thing, there are better and worse ways to go about it. The least you can do is tell applicants that they didn’t pass, instead of ghosting them after multiple rounds of interviews. Redditor u/thegr8_alexander recently went viral on the Recruiter Hell subreddit after sharing how they pushed back at a company they were applying to after getting “radio silence.†All it took was disabling access to their take-home assignment.

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The good thing that I did was not to share the hard-file, rather an access controlled version of the document that also disabled people from printing/downloading it.

And guess what? The recruiter called next day on the pretext of having another round of discussion because they want to go ahead with me. S/he let it slip in the conversation that evaluators are having difficulty in accessing my document and if I can share it as a file rather than sharing a link ;)

Well well, the moment I have been looking for. I told her about the malpractices that a lot of recruiters do and that’s why, in principle, I do not share any hard-files. I assured her that I’ll myself walk-through the panel on everything once again, when we connected. S/he wasn’t satisfied, but disconnected the call.

Got a ping that evening to talk something in person. We connected. S/he mentioned that I have landed him/her in a soup by disabling the access. S/he was expected to collate all the projects and share internally and there were only 3 presentations which they had shortlisted. Me not allowing access to my files will put the HR in trouble. S/he also mentioned that hiring is always professional but I’m taking it to a personal level by putting him.her in soup.

I gently replied, “Hiring is not personal. I would have accepted a rejection. But by giving me false hopes when you never intended to hire was personal. It wasn’t me who started it!”

There was a silence of a few seconds. I then proceeded to cut the call. 

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I don’t think that ever happened to me.  Been a long time since I ever did any job search.  But I like this person’s approach.  Trust no one.  I’ve been “ghosted” more times than I could count.  Even went so far as to keep a “Dead To Me List” (DTML)  of recruiters and companies.  Had occasions to use it and folks were flabbergasted that (1) I would not submit “blind” (i.e., not able to id the company); (2) refused to even take calls from some recruiters or talk about certain companies; and (3) share my DTML with anyone who asked.  

I kept good records and even was able to “explain” why I didn’t want to talk to them or consider a company.  That was fun!  I didn’t care if Sam or Samantha was no longer there.  Like I’d believe anything a salesperson would say without proof. 

Argh!  Just tapping this out has raised my BP and my ire.

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MONEY: What about “where’s george” and political messages in the margins or stamped

Friday, November 22, 2024

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/dollar-bill-wont-be-accepted/8835/

This dollar bill won’t be accepted as of November: This will happen if you try to pay with it
by Sarah I.
11/20/2024

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Dollar bills have consistently gone through updates to increase security. As of October this year, new parameters were introduced stipulating what cash will be accepted at major retailors, banks, and ATMS. As we head into the final month of November and families begin preparing for the upcoming festive season, you may need to ensure that your cash is up to scratch with new standards set by the U.S. government.

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As we enter into the final few weeks of 2024, certain dollar bills will no longer be accepted. These new regulations are tightening stricter measures with regards to damaged bills. Walmart, Target, and Dollar Tree have already begun implementing these new measures. The following damage to cash will not be accepted or exchanged at major retailers, banks, and ATMS:

  •     Mutilated banks notes with tears or missing corners
  •     Bills which have become significantly distorted or damaged where it become difficult to determine their authenticity. This could be from through water damage or from being burnt as an example.

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If you find yourself with a mutilated bill which will not be accepted or exchanged, you will need to contact the Bureau of Engraving and Printing directly. From there, you will need to file a mutilated currency claim. “The BEP will evaluate the note. They have special tools to examine the authenticity and assess the full value of the note. After they do that, they can issue a check back to the consumer,” a Fed currency representative explains.

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Well, what happens to those bills with political messages stamped on them or written along the edge?

Will those be declared “mutilated”?

That’ll be “yet another way” “they” take away or First Amendment rights.

What happened to only gold and silver would be money?

 

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ECONOMICS: Lesson from Argentina — Cut Gooferment 60% and inflation goes from 70+% to 2.7%

Friday, November 22, 2024

https://www.dailywire.com/news/javier-milei-staunch-economist-brings-argentinas-inflation-to-less-than-3

Javier Milei, Staunch Economist, Brings Argentina’s Inflation To Less Than 3%
‘We are emerging from the desert, the country is starting to grow again’
By Hank Berrien
Nov 13, 2024 DailyWire.com

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Staunchly libertarian Argentinian President Javier Milei’s economic plans are proving enormously successful, as the country’s inflation plunged to 2.7% in October, the lowest level in three years.

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n 2022, the Argentinian inflation rate was 72.43%. Barrons reported that when Milei took office last December, “monthly inflation leapt by 25.5 percent after he devalued the peso by more than 50 percent. It has since been on a downward trajectory, coming in at under five percent each month since May. … Milei, who wielded a chainsaw on the campaign trail last year as a symbol of his plan to slash public spending, has cut energy and transport subsidies and thousands of public sector jobs.”

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Hopefully DJT4547 is watching this success.

We can only hope.

There are so many great ideas floating about.  Someone once said, Regan I think, that a President can only try to accomplish three things.  I hope world peace, immigration, the Federal deficit / debt / inflation, and making elections like Florida are DJT4547’s three.  Yeah I know that’s four, but what’s one more when you have a mandate.

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ConspiracyTheories: Was the fight was staged

Thursday, November 21, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-14109079/Mike-Tyson-vs-Jake-Paul-conspiracy-theories-Netflix.html

  • Fans think they’ve spotted the moment which proves Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul was FIXED – as conspiracy theories over Netflix bout continue
  •  Paul beat Mike Tyson via unanimous decision following eight two-minute rounds 
  • However, fans think they’ve spotted the moment which proved it was all staged

By JAMES COHEN

Published: 04:30 EST, 21 November 2024 | Updated: 05:30 EST, 21 November 2024 

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However, conspiracy theorists on social media have claimed that the fight was staged and pinpointed a specific moment which they believe supports this.

One fan on X shared a clip from the fight which appeared to show Tyson about to land a hard right to Paul’s unprotected face. 

Yet the 58-year-old, instead pulls his fist back. The caption to the video read: ‘Just in case anyone had any doubts’.

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Yeah, that’s why I have a rule  —  NEVER bet on anything that talks.

“4. Plausible”, imho!!!

COMMERCIAL CT that defrauded a lot of watchers and bettors.

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ENCOURAGING: A problem and a prescription to solve it (mostly)

Thursday, November 21, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/11/13/opinion/question-for-trump-to-solve-just-how-many-million-migrants-did-joe-let-in-8-million-12-15/

Question for Trump to solve: Just how many million migrants did Joe let in? 8 million? 12? 15?
By Andrew Arthur 
Published Nov. 13, 2024, 7:35 p.m. ET

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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to crack down on the southern border and deport those here illegally.

But the million-dollar question left by the Biden administration: Just how many people is that?

A recent House Judiciary report says that “For almost four years, Americans have watched as President Joe Biden and border czar Vice President Kamala Harris have abandoned the southwest border and welcomed nearly 8 million illegal aliens into the United States.”

But that 8 million is likely an undercount — and perhaps by a lot.

The House Committee on Homeland Security estimated in the spring that there would have been 10 million encounters during Biden’s four-year term. And that doesn’t include “got-aways” — people who crossed illegally without ever talking to a Border Patrol agent.

There are, meanwhile, all kind of “parole” and other programs the Biden administration used without Congressional approval to fly immigrants in directly from South America and other parts of the world.

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OK, so the answer is “a lot”.  Some proportion are criminals or neer’do’wells,  While the rest are a mix of those seeking a better life or some who want to collect on the dole.

How do we differentiate who is a “Priority One Removal” and who don’t we really care about?

Fortunately some really smart people have some great ideas.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/expediting_deportation_using_carrots_and_sticks.html

americanthinker.com
Expediting Deportation, Using Carrots and Sticks
By Ned Barnett

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-11-13>>

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How do you deport the roughly twenty million individuals living illegally in the United States? For a lot of reasons, this will be a huge challenge, and likely a costly one – when was the last time the government did anything even remotely correct without it busting the budget?

Well, for one thing, you could try offering incentives for people to make their deportation easier than it might otherwise have been.  

First, offer them an option. Go home on your own, and you will be eligible to apply for legal residency, along with anyone else who wants to come to America and who hadn’t broken our laws to get here.

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What about the stick? Tell this same population that if the government has to take actions to deport them, they will have to wait for more than the current ten years before even getting to the end of the line for legal immigration, lengthening the time before they can return to America, but this time as legal immigrants. 

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And, the details outlined seem very reasonable.

Then DJT4547 and his team can focus on the criminals, welfare cheats, and sanctuary cities and NGOs.

I like this approach.  We’ll see how they tackle it.

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TECHNOLOGY: Free dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) from the internet and public ibraries

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/11/apple-shares-the-most-popular-podcasts-of-2024/?utm_placement=newsletter

# – # – # – # – # 

While I don’t miss the traffic on Route 287 when I was working, I do miss having two or three or more hours listening to my self-improvement cassettes.  (Imagine how less “wonderful” I’d be if I hadn’t “improved” with all those great suggestions.  Laugh!).

If podcasts were available then, I could have saved a lot of money on cassettes.

I remember often griping about having to buy the same content to “upgrade” from cassette to cd. Especially if the tape broke or tangled.  Why did I have to pay to replace it? Argh!

And, today, audio content is available free from the local library via Libby or other open sources.

Anyway, here’s an “interesting” list of things that might be worth listening to.  Now, if I just had a long commute, treks from Fairfax VA to the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee, or drives to and from Keene NH and NJ, I could “improve” even more  — if such was possible.

(Not too much ego?  Right!)

As always YMMV and FWIW,
Crazy Old Ferd

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ECONOMICS: Both tariffs and income taxes get paid out of the same pocket — yours

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/12/trump-tariffs-companies-scramble-lobbyist-loopholes.html

‘Everyone is calling’: Trump’s tariff threats send U.S. companies scrambling for lobbyists and loopholes
Published Tue, Nov 12 20244:08 PM EST
Updated Tue, Nov 12 20244:46 PM EST
Rebecca Picciotto
Lora Kolodny

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Trump made universal tariffs a core tenet of his economic campaign pitch, floating a 20% tax on all imports from all countries with a specifically harsh 60% rate for Chinese goods.

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It seems really simple  — tariffs or the IRS!

Both get the money from the same pocket  — we, the Taxpayers.

Without the income tax and the IRS, there’s no need for lobbyists and loopholes.  Pay when “stuff” comes in, no exceptions, and there is no need for an IRS,

We’ll still be paying.  Of course, there will be a period of adjustment.  Some prices will go up and some won’t.  We’d be changing the entire “incentive” structure back to one the Dead Old White Guys intended.

Of course, we should be very afraid on winding up with both!  That’s one of the arguments for any tax reform (i.e., flat tax; fair tax; national sales tax; etc. etc. Etc.).  

I’m not sure that One Fell Swoop (i.e., shut down the IRS and impose tariffs on the same day like February First) is the “best” implementation strategy but we drive on roads with potholes all the time.  So what.

I’d say: “Just Do It”.

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VOCABULARY: Here’s dunkelflaute or why we can’t depend on wind or solar power

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

https://www.schiffsovereign.com/trends/if-you-think-bitcoin-is-on-fire-just-wait-for-the-natural-gas-boom-151726/

If you think Bitcoin is on fire, just wait for the natural gas boom
by James Hickman
on November 12, 2024

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So, wind and solar are somewhat price competitive. But they carry a security risk: do you really want China manufacturing your entire power grid? Is it possible they built a kill switch in their software?

More importantly, they’re not terribly reliable. There are times (like night!) when the sun doesn’t shine. Germany (which generates nearly 60% of its power from renewable energy) recently experienced yet another dunkelflaute, i.e. a foggy, doldrum period in which there is neither sunshine nor wind.

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Thanks Schiff Gold we know have another “loaned-word” from German.  Akin to a portmanteau, English is not afraid to borrow good words for a unique description.

In this case, what is wrong with wind and solar power  —  dunkelflaute!

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TECHNOLOGY: An idea for a competive App store?

Monday, November 18, 2024

FROM: TLDR Information Security 2024-11-18

North Korean-Linked Hackers Were Caught Experimenting With New macOS Malware (2 minute read)

Three variants of a new macOS malware have been detected. One variant was written in Python, one in Golang, and one using Flutter, which heavily obfuscates code by default. The malware was embedded in a clone of Minesweeper. No evidence of exploitation has been found – the callback domain returns a 404. The malware appeared to target cryptocurrency developers. It had several of the hallmarks of a Lazarus group attack. 

# – # – # – # – # 

If someone would make an App Store that certified apps as “malware free”, then I bet they could make a lot of money.  I’d just surcharge the app’s price by a dollar or two.  Maybe even just charge a fraction of a bitcoin.

If I was younger and richer, then I’d try to exploit that niche.  Alternative App Stores to Google Play and Apple Apps Stores.  The EU and the US Gooferment are going to force Google and Apple to support alternatives.  So you have to make that alternative App Store have a significant value proposition.

IMHO

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NOTRECOMMENDED: Putting a child on an andriod phone

Monday, November 18, 2024

Tried to put him on two different android phones.

Apparently, “FAMILY LINK” doesn’t work.

I wind up with a device that constantly reboots.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Rita Mae Brown

I now have two devices that just reboot over and over again.

Maybe I’ll just buy him an obsolete iPhone.

Argh!

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