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by nickff 2y ago
Maybe for a big company, with an HR department and lots of resources, but not for a small company when >>90% of applications are from ineligible individuals.
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by nickff 2y ago
Governments are one of the worst offenders when it comes to posting jobs which have already been basically handed to internal candidates. They do it for the same reason as everyone else: compliance with external regulations or internal rule
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by nickff 2y ago
I don't agree with the attitude of the grandparent poster either, but work at a small company where I've been on the receiving end of many extremely low-effort applications from ineligible individuals, so it definitely goes both w
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by nickff 2y ago
There are also different types of creep, some that you can easily stop, and others that are more difficult. Specifically, everything that involves a medium to long-term obligation (such as a mortgage or vehicle loan) can cause problems if y
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by nickff 2y ago
While I’d agree that accurate weather forecasts provide tremendous value, it’s not “free value”, as tax dollars are paying for it. That money could go to any number of ‘under-funded’ other causes, or be returned to the tax-payers.
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by nickff 2y ago
That feature is fairly recent, and I believe it is now enabled by default.
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by nickff 2y ago
This is definitely a potential motive, but there are many of those, and we have no reason to believe this is actually what led to Bezos’ decision.
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by nickff 2y ago
You seem to be implying that he made a decision based on other business interests, against those of the Post, but there is no support for that in the article. Do you have a source which describes this motive? It seems like not endorsing can
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by nickff 2y ago
How many fence-sitters and lukewarm voters are following WaPo? It’s the third-most popular newspaper (in the US), but seems to attract people who are either very politically aware, or partisan.
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by nickff 2y ago
I am not the parent, but agree with them that SBF seems high-intelligence, low-wisdom (, and low street-smarts). Why do you think him unintelligent?
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by nickff 2y ago
Governments seem very focused on protecting people from easy-to-address, low-harm activities like website tracking and spam, but wholly unconcerned with scams and theft (which I consider much more harmful).
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by nickff 2y ago
How was this a “conservative fever dream”? The majority of advocacy for assisted suicide seems to originate from the left-wing, as does the majority of advocacy for restrictive zoning.
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by nickff 2y ago
The VIN requirement may be due to part (version) differences between vintages. Most automakers make few changes during production of (one year’s) model, whereas Tesla seems to make changes all the time.
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by nickff 2y ago
If you want to be precise… There are different types of “rapid COVID test”, the most popular of which detect antigens, not ‘viral genetic material’. PCR tests detect genetic material. Both tests seem to have differing levels of sensitivity
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by nickff 2y ago
Seems like an application of "do things that don't scale". https://paulgraham.com/ds.html
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by nickff 2y ago
There are lots of people inland and away from sea ports. Many hubs of industry (such as Wisconsin which makes many mechanics' tools) could take advantage of this if it were available.
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by nickff 2y ago
I am not the parent, but they did not say bonded warehouses were identical to government customs facilities at airports. > "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's
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by nickff 2y ago
I am not sure what US law on the matter is, but many countries have what are known as "bonded warehouses", which store uncleared goods within the destination country. Are you a customs expert? If so, please comment on whether the
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by nickff 2y ago
ST Micro, Microchip, Texas Instruments, NXP, etc.
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by nickff 2y ago
You're ignoring all the non-desktop/laptop processors.
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by nickff 2y ago
There are lots of counter-examples to this, such as the market for microprocessors. Huge market, few regulations, excellent quality, remarkably low switching costs.
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by nickff 2y ago
Was your original comment talking about ‘religious people’, or ‘American Christians who believe in demonic possession’? You seem to be shifting the subject to a favored target, rather than discussing the comment you originally replied to.
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by nickff 2y ago
“Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.“ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by nickff 2y ago
That seems clear and consistent to me; they’re not saying you can’t use “WP”, just asking that people avoid confusing users.
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by nickff 2y ago
Wordpress has consistently said that “WP” is fair game, but that leaning on “Wordpress” is not.
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by nickff 2y ago
I actually own the 20th anniversary Dilbert collection, but it didn't come to mind. I probably have acronym-blindness from encountering too many.
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by nickff 2y ago
What is a PHB? I searched online, and found that it could mean bachelor's in philosophy (PhB) or polyhydroxybutyrate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhydroxybutyrate ), but neither makes much sense in this contex
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by nickff 2y ago
I don't know how you could prove or disprove why Kay worked somewhere fifty years ago, short of a written affidavit produced at the time. Additionally, most professionals don't admit that they took a job because of the pay, even i
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by nickff 2y ago
AT&T had also been granted a long-term monopoly on long-distance telephony by the federal government; Google has never had such protection.
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by nickff 2y ago
Not a participant in your back-and-forth, but the top level comment seems to be much more nuanced than your posts. Perhaps you could: > ”Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that

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