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alphaBeta1234
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alphaBeta1234
16y ago
I'd guess that there isn't one single person at google who knows all of it. They do base a lot of their stuff on LSA (I think probably more generally just NLP), but they have so many filters and minor adjustments that the whole thing is li
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alphaBeta1234
16y ago
You present a false choice. You're trying to compare "If I caught someone high on the job," with someone skydiving on their own time. Nobody is suggesting that you can't fire someone who shows up high. But you'd also fire someone who show
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alphaBeta1234
16y ago
The two examples I'd bring forth to suggest that nullification (I'm assuming nullification = legalization) would work are America's Prohibition (banning alcohol only worsened the problem, http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/wh
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alphaBeta1234
16y ago
That was always my problem with the DEA (and the war on drugs, etc.): it completely ignores the fact that the basic building block of government is supposed to be the states, not the fed. It's as if their backers never heard of the tenth a
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alphaBeta1234
16y ago
So you also don't hire people that drink alcohol, correct? (Throwaway account for obvious reasons).