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by bb611 4y ago
That was the policy several years ago but was changed in 2019 to include at least all salaried roles in the engineering org, and I believe across TMP.
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by bb611 4y ago
I'm staring out my window at planes landing at Reid-Hillview right now, it is not closed. RHV is under a federal funding agreement and cannot be closed without FAA agreement for most of the next decade.
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by bb611 5y ago
One piece of context that's important is Pornhub only submitted to those changes due to mass public demands for credit card processors to cut them off, largely due to reporting on this exact problem by Nicholas Kristoff[1] in the opini
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by bb611 5y ago
Authorities aren't restricted from using a lie detector in the US, just from using the results in court. They're frequently used to pressure suspects in criminal cases during questioning, knowing the results are inadmissable.
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by bb611 5y ago
> I am personally anti-populism, and think that civil cases with large financial stakes should be decided by an (appointed not elected) judge- not a random group of folks who can afford to skip work for two to four weeks. US Federal judg
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by bb611 5y ago
They can: https://freemanlaw.com/immunity/ If you invoke your Fifth Amendment right not to self-incriminate you can be served with Statutory Immunity and then forced to testify, with contempt charges if you fail to tes
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by bb611 5y ago
The downside to being a principled legal defense organization is that effective defense of common rights generally requires intervening on the side of people who are real criminals. A significant amount of 1st Amendment case law comes from
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by bb611 5y ago
These are different cases. Purdue and the Sacklers faced federal suits from DOJ and its offices, which were tentatively resolved by the settlements you linked. Separately, Purdue is now in bankruptcy proceedings, to which the federal, state
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by bb611 5y ago
Social Security eligibility contributes to retirement age, but real average retirement age is ~64: https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/average-retirement-age/ Many people who are retired can't financially
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by bb611 5y ago
80% of those deaths are of people retirement age and older[1], only ~130,000 working age Americans have died of COVID. That's significant, but definitely doesn't explain the extent of worker shortages we're seeing. There are
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by bb611 5y ago
The neighborhood in question was built in the late 1960s, underground has been the default for a few decades now but this neighborhood (along with many others through SJ) is just all old construction. There's no real justification for
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by bb611 5y ago
(Power put on lines - expected transmission losses) * billed cost of power - customer payments. I hope for the sake of their billing department they're using a database and some customized software for the data, but could just as likel
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by bb611 5y ago
Even if you believe that there's little difference between Snowden and Protasevich, the scenarios are clearly different. Rescinding permission to transit is a far cry from falsely reporting a bomb threat, backing it up with military fo
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by bb611 5y ago
Valuing people as primarily their economic output is anti-social to the point of being dystopian, and we have much better economic indicators than arbitrary heuristics when we do want to understand the economic damage of the pandemic.
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by bb611 5y ago
90% of US taxpayers used the standard deduction in 2018, up from 70% in previous years. This has been a major topic of discussion in tax circles for decades, the vast majority of Americans do not benefit from deductions and the federal gove
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by bb611 5y ago
It's about 50% above average for the country, but HN tends to have a very coastal crowd, in particular a lot of SV talent where average pay is much higher. Experienced people easily break $200k, at my (non-FAANG) company the entry leve
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by bb611 6y ago
Presumably paying salaries, hosting/hardware, and he specifically calls out marketing costs.
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by bb611 6y ago
This crew does have a US military veteran, so even that distinction isn't accurate.
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by bb611 6y ago
Since this article, PA has adopted a way to pay more money to jump the line - join their patreon (Club PA). For $5/month you will get a couple days early access to buy up to 4 sets of tickets. Also, Robert Khoo left PA the year after t
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by bb611 6y ago
In the US, there's a significant gender gap in administration, especially above the school leader level. Also, larger schools (middle, high) are more likely to be run by men than woman.
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by bb611 6y ago
Genuinely one of my favorite trivia questions about curiosity: https://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery/curiosity-rover-m...
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by bb611 6y ago
This has been common in the US for decades now, I was prescribed them as a minor for my wisdom tooth removal. I was also fine with ibuprofen. I'm assuming there were significant kickbacks to oral surgeons from the opioid sales people.
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by bb611 6y ago
I spend a lot of time giving advice to people changing careers into tech. I agree with a lot of the criticism here, but I think the author's choices are reflective of the new grad hiring climate. Hiring for any competitive tech job rel
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by bb611 6y ago
The difference is that Clear is a paid, private service, not a government requirement.
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by bb611 6y ago
The collaborative process begun by the Obama administration appeared to be much more successful than sanctions or war.
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by bb611 6y ago
> In 2020 a top consumer or business printer will not jam on you. That's just not accurate. I've personally dealt with truly unreasonable numbers of service calls for high end business models over the last 8 years, jams aren&#x
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by bb611 6y ago
Hilariously enough, my class' Valedictorian is now an ML Engineer on Amazon Echo. I wasn't answering the question of "what will their parents think", I was just pointing out the reaction of our peers because I grew up in
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by bb611 6y ago
> I'd imagine for most of his peers from high school he's considered a disappointment for working at "only" AWS I went to school at about the same time at the other high school in town (technically 2 towns, 1 combined
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by bb611 6y ago
> I can walk to multiple supermarkets, pharmacies, everything pretty much. This is an essentially nonexistent characteristic of the kinds of places people are moving in the Midwest. The walkability of most of suburban America is ~0.
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by bb611 6y ago
I'll leave GP to answer the outrage comments, but I think the rest reasonably calls out for perspective. Merrick Garland wasn't just not confirmed, his nomination was ignored for 9.5 months. As you point out, it's not uncommo

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