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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
Airline pilots are also woefully underpaid, particularly in the regional lines. After spending a lot of time and money on an ATP license and probably a degree (the cookie cutter "career airline pilot" programs run $50-70k), pilots
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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
Until you make $30-$40k more or less than a colleague who is supposedly on the same level of you. That shit's awkward. You and I know it's negotiating skill, expertise, tenure...and yet it's still awkward when it happens (as
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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
To be more clear, ad hominem is attacking the person making an argument as an illogical response to said argument. It's attacking the argument by attacking the person making it. Merely attacking someone does not an ad hominem make; sin
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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
"Ad hominem" is not a synonym for "personal." Just say "personal." Seriously, "ad hominem" is my new favorite HN drinking game. Ad hominem: "Higher taxes are bad because you're the one sug
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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
You are replying to Chris DiBona, who oversees open source policy at Google. He is referring to Google Moderator.
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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
> You made me curious and while googling I came across some information that seems to indicate that companies in California cannot go back further than seven years on a background check and cannot ask about convictions more than seven ye
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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
Actually, the background check company specifically cannot pass along convictions wherein the end of the sentence was more than seven years ago. If you read a HireRight report, it specifically mentions this. Any background check provider th
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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
> I would probably therefore assume something worse than a marijuana conviction, which is what OP has. ...sigh. That just makes it worse for those of us that try to move on past our mistakes.
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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
You didn't look very carefully at an attachment, then, which includes my name and e-mail address. I only created a throwaway because my (very) old HN account is set to be usable again in 2055.
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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
> Companies that require PCI compliance and companies with secured data centers like Rackspace will often not hire felons as a policy. That is their choice and not required by either. I walked into secured data centers as a felon at PCI-
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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
The day I was sentenced and began probation was the same day Mike Tyson began his probation for the cocaine charges in 2007. I sat across from him in the probation office. While his lawyers talked to the probation people, I made eye contact
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by jsmthrowaway 13y ago
I have direct experience with the companies you have listed, which I don't see elsewhere in this thread; I'll give you a timeline of my career so you can get a feel for what you're up against. In 2007, I was convicted of Inte