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by _moof 5y ago
Have you been reading my diary? :) I had an identical experience recently. In fact I half-wonder if maybe you and I worked at the same place!
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by _moof 5y ago
Companies don't "fail" to perform background checks prior to making offers. In some jurisdictions (e.g. California), it's illegal to perform a background check prior to making an offer. https://www.dfeh.ca.g
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by _moof 5y ago
Depends on the jurisdiction. In New Jersey, for example, "even when a job is terminable at will, a promissory estoppel claim can arise from rescission or revocation of a job offer 'where there is denial of a good faith opportunity
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by _moof 5y ago
Indeed. There's also the question of whether it's worth the effort. Most of what I've read here about companies I've worked for has been, shall we say, imaginative. Occasionally it's been downright conspiracy theory
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by _moof 5y ago
They're not slaves, they're prisoners with jobs. /s Basically when it became no longer tenable to deny the fundamental humanity of an enslaved person, we found a way to deprive them of their humanity by criminalizing them.
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by _moof 5y ago
Meet the new Microsoft, same as the old Microsoft.
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by _moof 5y ago
I see what you're saying but I disagree because I think your analogy inverts the risk analysis. In your second home analogy, a house burning down is an asteroid. But the chances of an asteroid hitting Earth in any reasonable timeframe
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by _moof 5y ago
Over 800,000 people in Europe have lost a lot more than two years. I understand that it's been a long time and you're frustrated, but this simply isn't over yet, and the consequences are real.
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by _moof 5y ago
To complete the analogy, your boat would also have to sink.
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by _moof 5y ago
I've spent many, many hours talking to ATC and other aircraft. I don't know if the original story is true, but it's more or less believable. First off: I absolutely, 100% believe that pilots would do this. These are precisely
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by _moof 5y ago
As someone who lived through the previous browser monopoly (MSIE), let me assure you that giving control over the entire web to one company is bad for everyone. Google didn't make Chrome out of the goodness of their hearts.
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by _moof 5y ago
Of course it can. If it hadn't already done so at least once, we wouldn't even be here.
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by _moof 5y ago
> Earth is currently a… "single point of failure" The problem with Earth isn't Earth, it's us. Going to Mars isn't going to change everything about humans that has made us hellbent on destroying ourselves. It
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by _moof 5y ago
I thought it might be some other (non-engine) cover too, but the more I thought about it, the less likely that seemed. I seriously doubt a pilot would eject just because of a lack of airspeed indication, for example. The airplane is still f
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by _moof 5y ago
> I thought aviation is THE industry that runs on procedures and checklists It is, but people sometimes get complacent and/or cocky and "dog" a checklist (run through each item without actually doing it). Incredibly dang
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by _moof 5y ago
Indeed. I'm perfectly fine with VOR/DME/ILS in the air and a sextant at sea. It's an irresponsible captain that can't navigate without GPS.
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by _moof 5y ago
The message is "we're so nuts we don't even care if we have to kill our own cosmonauts just to fuck with you."
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by _moof 5y ago
Not necessary. There is no spacecraft currently in operation that is capable of retrieving a satellite and returning it to Earth, and atmospheric drag would've destroyed it eventually anyway. At best this was negligence while testing a
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by _moof 5y ago
In the early days of widespread WiFi there were quite a few blog posts documenting the construction of directional antennas using Pringles cans.
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by _moof 5y ago
Hard to say. Jobs oversaw all sorts of whiffs. The circular mouse comes to mind. And his ability to turn these kinds of errors into "it's good, actually" was so legendary that it had its own name. https://en.wikipe
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by _moof 5y ago
Not if FB has a halfway decent engineering culture. People make mistakes. They're practically fundamental to being a person. You can minimize mistakes, but any system that requires perfect human performance will fail.
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by _moof 5y ago
Then you were 1-FT, which is still worlds better than 0-FT. "Don't put two engines on the plane because both of them might fail" is not how fault tolerance works.
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by _moof 5y ago
I second this. It can be tedious but for some parts you won't have a choice.
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by _moof 5y ago
Once you're done googling for WAS gates, head over to the shop and grab me a couple grid squares. ;)
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by _moof 5y ago
Never, ever, EVER ask questions about family life in an interview in the United States, unless the candidate brings it up first. Asking them isn't illegal per se, but if you do ask them and the candidate isn't hired, you've o
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by _moof 5y ago
I was told it's unusual to include more than ten years of work history on your resume in most fields. So I stop at ten years now and don't include dates on my degrees, and I haven't had any trouble. It helps that I've so
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by _moof 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. A jury weighed the evidence—evidence which no one on this forum has seen—and awarded this amount.
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by _moof 5y ago
I support meaningful punishment of companies that have willfully, egregiously hostile work environments.
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by _moof 5y ago
This is a signal that the jury believes Tesla's people are remorseless and/or the violation was especially severe.
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by _moof 5y ago
Not taking a position one way or the other here, but I'll point out that he has published three papers as primary author and coauthored five others. And from the article: "Barnes said he already had published papers in renowned jo

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