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by Frost1x 2y ago
Some states (CA, NY, IL, WA, OR come to mind) and many municipalities have additional explicit employment discrimination laws that cover much of these. Obviously it’s not at a federal level and will vary (much like the nonsense that shiftin
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by Frost1x 2y ago
That’s sort of the ironic bit. IMHO it’s been this way for awhile, but because it was pretty much as you described (“the elite”) with the reigns we pushed the argument that voters were individual agents. The genius in strategies enemies are
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by Frost1x 2y ago
It’s amazingly effective. They also hide a lot in complexity in wage laws. By the time you step through explaining everything, most people who might be interested have lost interest so the easier to deliver narrative wins. The divide your e
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by Frost1x 2y ago
No, that’s the law. Employers in many service industries enjoy relaxed rates below minimum wage. The law is that if during their standard pay period, their net wage (paying below minimum for hour worked) + their total tips don’t equate to w
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by Frost1x 2y ago
At many locations you’re just subsidizing business costs. The employees aren’t netting enough tips to break above actual minimum wage, so you’re literally donating to the business not the person you think you’re tipping.
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by Frost1x 2y ago
I haven’t tried Wine lately but I will say many applications I’ve used over the years in business environments businesses to some degree depended on for some function did not run in Wine very well and almost always required a Windows machin
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by Frost1x 2y ago
You don’t need to blame “AI” (or LLMs specifically) for the rejection mess that, good old fashioned ATS (applicant tracking systems) already automated rejection either outright or due to selection priority, filtering for keywords or phrases
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by Frost1x 2y ago
Yea, I couldn't tell if the original comment was satire but the number of phishing ads that existed in the past for bogus positions, to pool candidates for later hiring, to farm market rate data, and who knows what else… makes me have
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by Frost1x 2y ago
I haven’t kept up with Windows over the recent years but it looks like Cairo Desktop exists that allows some degree of shell customization in that world. Many years ago lots of shell options like LiteStep existed (they weren’t the most stab
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by Frost1x 2y ago
Depending on your role and environment, certain days are also have more value in my eyes than others. For example, people tend not to push heavy stressful and potentially disaster risk processes on Fridays. They either do these on weird off
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by Frost1x 2y ago
To play the devils advocate there are some justifiable reasons to try and hire international employees. Maybe some component requires some physical proximity or has some large benefit. Maybe someone is exceptional at a global level and does
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by Frost1x 2y ago
There’s a current trend of obsession with “data driven” or “evidence based” assessments. While measured data from reality is useful, it’s not without its own sets of flaws. Much data may not be representative or usefully representative of r
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by Frost1x 2y ago
I’ve helped build significant portions (nearly all, technically speaking) of a few small US government services through contracts, so I’ll share my opinion although I realize US government agencies may be a bit different than those in the U
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by Frost1x 2y ago
Part of the issue in the complexity battle is competition and levels of expectations from features. Non technical decision makers (and there are lots of them, I’d say most of them) see services from Facebook, Google, etc. and have the same
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by Frost1x 2y ago
Independent verification is always good however not always possible and practical. At complex levels of life we have to just trust underlying processes work, usually until something fails. I don’t go double checking civil engineers work (no
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by Frost1x 2y ago
I think the key thing here is equating trust and truth. I trust my dog, a lot, more than most humans frankly. She has some of my highest levels of trust attainable, yet I don’t exactly equate her actions with truth. She often barks when the
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by Frost1x 2y ago
Interestingly to me, there’s still many who believe tech is some sort of utopia of meritocracy where everything is logical and sound, because (relatively) high labor rates. It’s always been a factor of ROI for the roles vs competitive labor
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by Frost1x 2y ago
Utilitarianism definitely has a lot of well established shortcomings, like quantifying utility and doing so objectively which sort of, IMO, makes most of it nonsensical as quantified utility is ultimately subjective unless you want utility
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by Frost1x 2y ago
If it’s simply an engineering feat I agree. Very, very, very often people tend to mix up science being done in technology spaces with engineering. Just because it’s being done in software and perhaps even without rigor doesn’t mean you’re n
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by Frost1x 2y ago
That’s not just cyber security, that’s part of the reason many service/support contracts tend to exist, the whole CYA finger pointing by externalizing the responsibility. Ultimately you end up having to clean up the mess after either
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by Frost1x 2y ago
One issue we have is that economic pressures underly everything, including ethics. Ethics are often malleable depending on what someone needs to survive and given different situations with resource constraints, people are ultimately more wi
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by Frost1x 2y ago
I assume you’re referring to things like the flu vaccine. Many vaccines can last 10, 20 years or more which this doesn’t come close to. That’s not to say it’s not a great improvement, I happily await the day we can nearly eliminate some of
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by Frost1x 2y ago
This just in, business bends morals and ethics that have limited to no negative financial or legal implications and mainly positive implications to their revenue stream. News at 11.
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by Frost1x 2y ago
Lowering the barrier to entry on finding, summarizing, and ultimately internalizing information for actual practical uses has largely put into question many free speech principles. It’s not new, we’ve had restrictions on a variety of inform
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by Frost1x 2y ago
It’s more of a testament to a potential beneficial side effect of an already widely used drug for something entirely different. I (in America) actually exercise 5-6 days a week with regular sauna use afterwards averaging about 2-2.5 hours p
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by Frost1x 2y ago
That’s not how it works at all. As someone with recent onset of ED taking viagra regularly, it’s been fantastic but it just makes me function like I should. It takes about an hour to take effect (usually less for me) and lasts a little over
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by Frost1x 2y ago
“Simple problems” often aren’t as “simple” as the retrospectively sound if you consider everything like stress level, mixed mindset of the interviewee (they’re not just thinking about a programming problem, they’re also thinking about socia
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by Frost1x 2y ago
When you have highly granular controls, you need to create intermediary common sets or “profiles” of those sets at decreasing levels of granularity for the more common use cases, at least some of the most common sets where I can simply choo
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by Frost1x 2y ago
Oh boy talk about inviting yourself to IP lawsuits galore. While it’s nice thought and in many cases probably impractical (returning source information that far down the rabbit hole), even if it were possible and practical it would be again
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by Frost1x 2y ago
We’re talking about “thought crime” and punishing crimes that haven’t been committed here and as usual, we’re using “think of the kids” arguments to justify it. I’m not a fan.

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