I don't understand this sentiment. Once something is automated by one person, that same work can apply to everyone. There is no reason everyone needs the skills to do that. It's the same with any other skill.

"statistical analysis is the new reading. the sooner we get everyone on board with that the faster we can start new scientific experiments and change the world."

Reading is special because it's required to take in new knowledge and communicate quickly.

Automated processes can be customized.

>Obvious qualification is obvious.

Don't form arguments this way. Dumping tautologies into an argument sounds childish.

The quoted bit that you object to wasn't part of an argument in the first place.

They threw an open-source contributor under the bus for rejecting a pull request that changed a code comment. Knee-jerk responses are definitely part of their modus operandi.

Agreed. They seem to be good at threatening to fire employees of other companies, but not their own. I suppose that's a net positive. Still.

Probably not. It's usually difficult to get an engineer to waste an entire day or two visiting a university for recruiting.

Hey, next Friday is Google's "make the world a better place" day... would you be interested in coming with me and (name) to give mini-talks at a few schools?

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I guess you'd have a tougher time if you actually call it "wasting an entire day" when you pitch the idea.

You'd be surprised.