Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
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Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
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Re: Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
#2A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15424117
2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10923934
2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4759642
2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096793
The title is a provocation of course but also the historical term, so it's legit. If you're going to comment, please make sure you've fully metabolized the provocation before posting. That way we can have curious reactions rather than reflexive ones, which make discussion tedious. HN can do better than those two earliest threads. 2012 was particularly a shitshow.
Re: Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
#3This is also how the "white australia" policy was manipulated to exclude "undesirables" -A famous instance was the use of gaelic as a language test on somebody: and what do you know, it was a Jewish political activist!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_exclusion_of_Egon_Ki...
Re: Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
#4Does anyone think this happens nowadays in interviews? I am not in favor of any kind of “standardized test” for software engineer interviews, but it seems like the practice of picking just 1 or 2 problems could easily be used to reject an undesirable candidate, under the veneer of meritocracy.
Re: Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
#5How many digits does the number 125^100 have?
Im breaking my head here :(
Re: Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
#6How many digits does the number 125^100 have? Im breaking my head here :(
100*log10(125) ~ 210?
Re: Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
#7The reason I submitted this was, incidentally, that I discovered I am Jewish. My father was the first to marry outside of the faith, so it’s apparently a long lineage.
I’m not sure how to feel. Reactions range from “So what?” to “I have a culture?”
I’ve been at least trying to study some history.
It’s still kind of amazing it never came up once. It was almost accidental that I found out at all. (Random census question my wife didn’t know the answer to, which led to my father’s brother mentioning it.)
Re: Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
#8The reason I submitted this was, incidentally, that I discovered I am Jewish. My father was the first to marry outside of the faith, so it’s apparently a long lineage. I’m not sure how to feel. Reactions range from “So what?” to “I have a culture?” I’ve been at least trying to study some history. It’s still kind of amazing it never came up once. It was almost accidental that I found out at all. (Random census questio…
Did you not have a culture before?
Re: Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
#9Of course similar things happened in the US (well things with a similar goal):
Re: Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
#10Does anyone think this happens nowadays in interviews? I am not in favor of any kind of “standardized test” for software engineer interviews, but it seems like the practice of picking just 1 or 2 problems could easily be used to reject an undesirable candidate, under the veneer of meritocracy.
I don't think the intent is the same. It may be that current interviews have outcomes that aren't egalitarian, but I haven't personally seen any evidence that would suggest that interview questions are specifically chosen to discriminate against a particular minority.
To be clear, I'm not saying the interview process is good or perfect or shouldn't be interrogated.