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It would be the same, in real life I have a social circle that includes quite a few woo-woo people (crystals, manifestation, etc.), and I challenge them the same way I did with you. I came from a country with many superstitions which heavily impact daily life, I don't care when people keep their beliefs and superstitions for themselves, as their own means to cope with life. I actually feel if it's helpful it's a net-positive.

I don't tolerate people who approach this as a truism and try to use their personal experiences with their spiritual practices to bring others into the fold.

> Also, your arguments are hardly original. They are 2,300 years old, originating with Epicurus, older than both Christianity and Islam. Regurgitation of them with such certainty is Reddit 2013-era levels of uninspired; as though both religions did not address these arguments from their foundation. I also find it astoundingly arrogant, because it implies that religious people have never witnessed or endured intense suffering, lest it be self-evident.

I didn't say they are original, and I don't present them as such at all. They still hold the same value, the addressing of these arguments is a thought-terminating cliche, they don't allow any logical system to challenge them because they are unfalsifiable truisms. That's the absolute cheap part of them, and in my opinion don't address at all the failures (because I reject the truism which they are based upon). If you believe them, it's yours to take but don't impose it for the non-believers because it requires exactly that: for you to be a believer. No logic in that, no way to be challenged.

You can keep your spiritual practices to the point it doesn't affect my reality, the moment you state that your God/entity is responsible for changing the world then it affects my reality, and you are arrogant in not considering that. If your God is real you can't know, by definition, since you are human, imperfect, incomplete, and by your own theisms incapable of knowing, so I don't understand why the need to impose unto others. Keep it to yourself, superstition has its place in your personal life.

Technology never matters, but marketing does. Traditionally you had to use 'esoteric' technologies to attract top talent, which has long been held as an important factor in startup success. Rails had that moment in the sun, but that was decades ago.

Granted, it remains to be seen if the talent differential still matters in the AI era, but hiring norms haven't caught up either way.

The company I work for is a medium sized business, in residential and commercial construction. For example, a recent react native mobile dev position my company posted had about 300 applications in the first hour, with about 500 total in the first week on indeed. Of those applications, 90% didn’t have most of any of the requirements for the position. The job description says that we don’t sponsor H1B visa’s (because it’s stupidly expensive now). Of the 10% that somewhat met the minimum qualifications, all but 1 required sponsorship. This was listed as a hybrid role, only 20 people applied from the region where the office is.

We already know from previous roles that a huge percentage of people with resume’s that say they have the required skills, actually won’t come close to making it through the interview process.

While as a company we like AI/ML tools, and encourage our staff to learn them, and use them where appropriate, we want to invest in everyone’s skills with new tools. We try not to use AI where a human connection is important (hiring, sales, etc). We’ve had to resort to AI for dealing with the massive influx of low quality job applications and it sucks.

Basically anyone who goes above and beyond at this point automatically get’s at least an interview.

I do understand why so many people are just applying to every job that shows up, it makes sense. But it really does make the prospect of finding those few great people very difficult.

We aren’t a ruby/rails shop otherwise I’d reach out to OP.