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by bugsy 16y ago
Ah it's a single anecdotal story and comes with no specifics about who it is or in what way things supposedly improved, just some broad calls for firing QA.
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by bugsy 16y ago
So the articles are interesting and have huge ratings so they are of interest to hackers and they are about technology, but one person with power decides he doesn't want to see the topic discussed, so he squashes all discussion with the thu
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by bugsy 16y ago
Now THAT'S politics.
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by bugsy 16y ago
I am aware of the flag link myself and where it is located but I have no idea what it really does so I never touch it. (Not that I would touch it if I knew, I am averse to punishment as a form of socialization as I think it's less effective
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by bugsy 16y ago
I like the current guidelines which I'll summarize as "interesting things of interest to hackers." I agree that "7 degrees of reddit" or whatever is bending the rules too much. Something like a hard ban on politics might lose things that ar
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by bugsy 16y ago
I did not say there was not a S/N problem and that was not the focus of my comment. The comment "if you're saying" when I wasn't feels a lot like an attempt to discredit a comment by reframing the debate by assigning statements of intent to
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by bugsy 16y ago
It's not clear to me how any of these would improve things. Not saying they wouldn't, just saying I don't see it right off. What does flagging do? Remove a post? What would more of it accomplish? What are some sample posts on which it would
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by bugsy 16y ago
Hm, getting down to page 2500 of results, we see that civil engineer salaries are going down each year.
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by bugsy 16y ago
The catch is that if you are successful, maybe you stay in Chile and hire local workers and pay taxes. Smart plan if you ask me. State governments in the US do this all the time but focus on attracting big industry and factories to bring jo
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by bugsy 16y ago
And there is a fantastic answer to such a question: "As a responsible worker, I take my contractual obligations seriously. The Facebook terms of service which I agreed to legally prohibit me from giving that information to anyone. I [have t
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by bugsy 16y ago
What risks? I said clearly that they should ask, people should refuse, and then walk away. Let them find anyone competent. This is within the people's ability to control. Just say no. You can do this as a person. Say no. Explain why. Mock t
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by bugsy 16y ago
The question before us is not are they doing it or are they allowed, it is should they be allowed. This is going to be a matter of opinion. I say "they" should be allowed to ask anything at all. Marriage, religion, sexual preferences, polit
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by bugsy 16y ago
Ah, but you just shifted from asking to just doing it. No, they should not be allowed to just do it. But should they be allowed to ask if they can search your house and private things (which is indeed comparable to requesting to be friend
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by bugsy 16y ago
Great points. Rather than the interviewer, the interviewer and the board of directors and the CEO. I've done that a few times when I get requests for salary history, I ask to see theirs first. When they say that it's not relevant then I re
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by bugsy 16y ago
"Should Employers Be Allowed to Ask for Your Facebook Login?" I say yes, they should be allowed, and you should be allowed to refuse, and they should be allowed to not hire, and you should be allowed to find a better place to work and breat
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by bugsy 16y ago
The reason is that the colleges are subsidized by state property, income and sales taxes which are paid by residents over many decades, but not by out of state students.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Do you consider it a good thing to have people getting 4 or 5 degrees and/or majors before they figure out what they really want to do in life? If yes, do you believe the cost of getting these degrees and/or attending college for more than
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by bugsy 16y ago
Sure a real liberal arts education where you study the classics has intrinsic value. Job tech training not so much.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Schenck is an abomination of a case and clearly was decided on the side of fascism and repression of utterly harmless free speech. The problem is that no one shouts fire in a crowded theatre, and anyone who did would rightly be indicted on
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by bugsy 16y ago
So basically you are for free speech except when you don't like it. That's not free speech though.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Westboro is obnoxious and vile, but they work within the law. Anonymous has declared war on free speech.
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by bugsy 16y ago
In the US routine medical care costs less than the cost of insurance. When you get a serious illness like cancer, the insurance company rescinds your policy and then you become uninsurable and die. Insurance does cover the odd accident thou
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by bugsy 16y ago
He is making a point by being sarcastic. He is not saying what he believes, but what the logic seems to be that society is using to guide decisions.
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by bugsy 16y ago
No one is required to have ID in the US. In general, we have considered "papers please" to be a form of fascism. However, that does not mean the police won't put you in jail for not having ID, though they have to let you out eventually. Thi
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by bugsy 16y ago
That is a question many ask. The idea with these programs is that it's for the chronic long term homeless. So to qualify for a free apartment to work on your startup, you'd need to first spend 10 years on the streets, get diabetes or aids,
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by bugsy 16y ago
I've worked with the homeless off and on over the years. Social workers are nice people and well intentioned do-gooders, and they tend to want to infantilize and control homeless people "for their own good". They develop a symbiotic relatio
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by bugsy 16y ago
That is a pretty & !@( &ing awesome link you pulled out there with an actual Air Force project that does just this thing. Wow. Saved to disk in case that page vanishes without a trace.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Well the article does talk about that. And there are plenty of bot posters out there as well, they were quite notorious in manipulating stock prices. Terminology note - sockpuppet is a Persona that is created to back up the opinions of seco
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by bugsy 16y ago
> The hallmark of a sockpuppet is not responding with anything but a canned ad-hominem response, and posting the same set of talking points in enormous volume. That's a good list for that style of Persona. Here's an example: http://www
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by bugsy 16y ago
Thinking about this some more. Anonymity is required for democracy to work properly. Citizens of a society need to be able to speak candidly without fear of reprisal. That's just the way it is because power attracts the corrupt and the corr

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