Alan Baird

@FPL_GoldenBoot @tyler14164 @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius Sometimes these are tests of common sense to weed out the idiots, sometimes they are tests of lateral thinking to weed out the unimaginative. Most of the time you'll find that being able to defend/explain your answer is more important than being 'correct'

@AlanTbaird1 @tyler14164 @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius But do you not think you would be marked down for not using common sense in the interview? The question makes it incredibly obvious that the flashlight is needed, even if it doesn't state it outright... Bosses don't want to work with "ackchually..." people

How would you answer this common Goldman Sachs interview question?

@FPL_GoldenBoot @tyler14164 @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius You're correct, in real world sitiuations you use common sense and real world knowledge to make decisions. In interview hypotheticals it makes more sense to optimise based on the information given, not unfounded assumptions.

@tyler14164 @AlanTbaird1 @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius If you're unable to intuit the obvious, you're probably not a good candidate. "But you never said the flashlight was required" is like a client asking you to invest their money, you make a loss and say "but you never said you wanted to make money". No, but it should be obvious.

@MyAlteredEgo @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius Ah, well that certainly explains your behaviour. I'm not sure what you get out of this 'performative ignorance' but you're certainly good at it. I hope you have a lovely day, but you'll do it without any more of my attention.

@AlanTbaird1 @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius I love performative ignorance.

@MyAlteredEgo @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. I answered a question. Correctly as far as I can tell. There's no need to get salty about it.

@AlanTbaird1 @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius Well you are, but I can see why you would try to claim you're not.

@FPL_GoldenBoot @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius If the question allows us to make assumptions that aren't supported by the question then I'll just assume that the fastest banker can carry each of the other bankers one at a time without losing any speed.

@AlanTbaird1 @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius The flashlight is very obviously required, otherwise the entire question is redundant and there's no point in mentioning the flashlight at all. I'd guess that being unable to intuit that would be an immediate failure of the interview

@MyAlteredEgo @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius I'm not. @yott_michael asked "How did analyst make it over the bridge the first time with no light?" and I simply pointed out that there is no requirement for a banker to carry a flashlight in order to be able to cross a bridge. Not in common sense reality and not in the question

@AlanTbaird1 @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius Then why are you supporting a response which you yourself are now saying is illogical

@MyAlteredEgo @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius No good reason to. The only possible use for the flashlight is if the bankers don't know there own crossing times in advance. In that situation they could use it to signal when it was safe for a new banker to begin crossing.

@AlanTbaird1 @yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius Then why bother sending the analyst to get the flashlight, as Josh did in his response?

@yott_michael @ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius It's a bridge, practically by definition it's an unobstructed straight line. Even a banker could manage that without a flashlight. This is why the question doesn't specify that the bankers need to have a flashlight in order to be able to cross.

@ManufortiCanada @MercuriusFilius How did analyst make it over the bridge the first time with no light?

@RealismHelps @AngusMacTout @ostschlampe @FHawksworth I think this waas already covered x.com/AngusMacTout/s…

@AngusMacTout @ostschlampe @FHawksworth Fine -which service(s) or other peoples' jobs do we eliminate and at what cost?

And herein lies the problem. You can lead the horse (employers) to water, but you can't make them drink. 21 year old disabled man did 9 months as a bin man for free but was not employed by the same council when he applied for the same job. No doubt the independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

@IanAr47 @BurnsideWasTosh To be fair, if it was a vape battery that went up then spraying water on it would't have been a terrific idea.

@BurnsideWasTosh Questions have to be asked as to why they stopped the person with the extinguisher. The amount of smoke can’t have come from an accidental fire.

@JustScrollingBr @ItsSkyWasTaken @nataba64 @reddit_lies And we're back tp the start, God created the whole system. If it's impossible for us to have free will without allowing a man to choose to rape a 7 year old that's because that's the way God made the universe. A universe without child rape still gives a huge amount of scope...

@AlanTbaird1 @ItsSkyWasTaken @nataba64 @reddit_lies In other words: God is loving, therefore He gave us the choice to reject Him. Whereas allowing us to breathe underwater doesn't have anything to do with our personal relationship with God. Also if the Bible is to be believed anything is possible with Faith, including this.

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@JustScrollingBr @ItsSkyWasTaken @nataba64 @reddit_lies I think you might have fundamentally misunderstood how the many worlds theory might apply to this particular problem. Regardless, that is an interesting argument, but may I propose a question in return? Why do you think limiting us to remove the ability to do evil would...

@AlanTbaird1 @ItsSkyWasTaken @nataba64 @reddit_lies That's free will in a nutshell, which has openly been discussed as a hypothetical possibility when discussing free will for centuries.

@NickBertrand96 @HaughtyImperia2 @HalfFrozen @TheManlet_King It's, too me at least, one of the greatest mysteries of religions that have creator Gods. The general solution (the one that most Christians subscribe too at least) is that God is all powerful and can therefore do whatever He wants, and if he wants to be all knowing...

The scariest thing an atheist can imagine is Christ not having power over demons.

@BluenosedCOOP @brizaldo65 @mtthw_smth @SaorAlba59 Honestly, seeing how badly the UK government negotiated during Brexit is the only thing that's ever given me any indication that Scexit would be anything other than an total and unmitigated disaster for Scotland.

@brizaldo65 @mtthw_smth @SaorAlba59 So what you're saying is you want independence with no facts or plans. Just a straight out hold your breath and hope that everything works out. Sounds mightily like how Brexit worked and see how well that turned out.

@DanielH_LUFC @JuliaJay8 @TruthPoliticsUK @PolitlcsUK @JackElsom Buttercup, I don't know what argument you think you're having, but I think you're getting a little confused. You asked for examples, I gave you examples, now you are whining that those examples aren't big enough or places you live? Not everything is about you.

@AlanTbaird1 @JuliaJay8 @TruthPoliticsUK @PolitlcsUK @JackElsom Good for them, we aren’t other countries though. And for 99% of us we aren’t glasgow either!

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is set to ban smoking outside of pub gardens, nightclubs and football stadiums according to leaked government plans [@JackElsom]

@DanielH_LUFC @JuliaJay8 @TruthPoliticsUK @PolitlcsUK @JackElsom You asked. You can't be whinging because I only gave you a single cities worth of examples. Just google it if you need more, there are literally whole countries worth of examples.

@AlanTbaird1 @JuliaJay8 @TruthPoliticsUK @PolitlcsUK @JackElsom So one city 😂

@DanielH_LUFC @JuliaJay8 @TruthPoliticsUK @PolitlcsUK @JackElsom Glasgow. No drinking on the streets. Doesn't matter if you're standing outside a pub, nightclub or football stadium.

@AlanTbaird1 @JuliaJay8 @TruthPoliticsUK @PolitlcsUK @JackElsom I’d love to see which pubs, nightclubs and football stadiums have banned drinking outside

@JuliaJay8 @TruthPoliticsUK @PolitlcsUK @JackElsom Respectfully, we already ban drinking in public in places where it proves to be a problem, I don't think it's unreasonable to apply the same rules to smoking.

@TruthPoliticsUK @PolitlcsUK @JackElsom Ah, but smokers don't tend to go around bashing people and being totally obnoxious. Yeah, ban alcohol and see how all you sanctimonious p****s like it.