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by phd514 9y ago
It makes for really poor PR, but the substance of the situation is that they want to hire off-duty police officers for security with greater regularity than is possible given the availability of off-duty officers in the Birmingham area. Thi
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by phd514 9y ago
Hiring off-duty police officers to provide security for events is very common. Without their own police departments, universities would be doing this constantly and would likely not be able to find sufficient numbers of off-duty officers fo
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by phd514 10y ago
There are plenty of legitimate complaints to be made about our current situation, but this line of argumentation isn't one of them. The whole idea that the number of deaths from a particular cause determines precisely the degree of thr
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by phd514 10y ago
Flint's not a great example of alternate ways for how F-35 monies could be spent. Political and administrative ineptitude led to unsafe water conditions in Flint and now federal taxpayers are bailing them out to the tune of $170M. That
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by phd514 10y ago
Since when does remote mean a lower salary? I work remotely in the US and I expect (and receive) a market rate salary that's not based on my location. Offering me a lower salary because I've chosen to live in a lower cost-of-livin
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by phd514 10y ago
She was jailed for registering as a voter and voting in several elections despite not being a US citizen. Your characterization of it as "crossing a wrong box on her voting form" downplays the severity of what she did.
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by phd514 10y ago
As long as it's the poor people that you get off the roads which is what the effect of tolls will be.
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by phd514 10y ago
I don't see any job postings that look like "Backend / big data" at the jobs URL you posted. Did I miss something?
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by phd514 10y ago
Including "not remote" instead of or in addition to "onsite" will get you downvotes, too. Scrapers and automated search tools are looking for keywords such as those to facilitate searching the list and that breaks those.
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by phd514 10y ago
The correct way to indicate that is "onsite". "No remote" makes it show up in the various scrapers for remote jobs.
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by phd514 10y ago
>>"Religious liberty," especially in the context of the American founders, is the freedom to practice your faith privately in whatever manner you wish<< That's a common viewpoint today, but there's nothing in
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by phd514 10y ago
Loved the bit about Building 20 at MIT. It really did embody the hacker ethos with its freedom even to rebuild the physical space to suit your project. Oddly enough, some of my German classes were in that building and I remember walking thr
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by phd514 10y ago
The difference isn't that big. It had been US policy for decades to grant residency to Cuban refugees. Obama could have made the change effective as of a date a couple months in the future to avoid stranding those in transit but he cho
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by phd514 10y ago
A similar thing happened to 91 Cuban refugees that were in transit to the US when Obama ended the policy of granting residency to any who reached the US.
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by phd514 10y ago
That's not at all the case. I live in very "red" state in the US where firearm ownership and concealed carry rates are among the highest in the nation. Law enforcement officials are more polite and friendly here than they hav
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by phd514 10y ago
Stubbornly insisting that your party of choice holds the moral high ground and the other side is morally reprehensible is only going to get you President Trump. You'd do much better to assume that your political opponents voted the way
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by phd514 10y ago
That has been my experience, too. I remember deriving the optimal solution for an interview question that was a variant of a radix sort and impressing the interviewer for one of the hot startups at the time. That was partly the result of my
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by phd514 10y ago
The problem with that conclusion is that some of the highest-funded public schools in the country such as DC are among the worst performers. Funding is not the sole (or even most important) determinant of quality in education.
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by phd514 10y ago
You're treading a dangerous path when you call out the values and intents of individual parents as factors in deciding when homeschooling is or is not beneficial. Of course that is true, but whom do you propose to empower to decide wha
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by phd514 10y ago
It was from this article on the upper middle class: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/06/21/not-just-the-1-the... . The HuffPo article conveniently omits "upper".
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by phd514 10y ago
The US healthcare system has lots of problems, but the quality of its infant care isn't really one of them. Infant mortality rates are calculated very differently in different countries which accounts for much of the US's "po
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by phd514 10y ago
That's not at all what faith is. There are some definitions of faith that include "belief not based on proof", but that is still far removed from "belief despite evidence to the contrary".
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by phd514 10y ago
Which of these positions allow remote work? The listings on your careers page say nothing about remote.
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by phd514 10y ago
My theory is that the no-cost HN posting allows some of these companies to keep posting perpetual openings in hopes of finding that elusive 100x developer that's willing to work for less than market rate. I can't say that bothers
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by phd514 10y ago
Did you mention your HN handle in your application? I don't do that but I still get a pretty high response rate.
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by phd514 10y ago
I've gotten a pretty high response rate to my applications to HN Who's Hiring posts, but about half those companies end up ghosting me. I had good experiences (prompt, courteous, professional, etc.) with DigitalOcean and CrowdStri
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by phd514 10y ago
Possibly, but pardons don't apply to impeachment, so she could still be removed as President.
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by phd514 10y ago
Obama pardoning Hillary would be very different than Ford's pardon of Nixon. The latter allowed a disgraced politician who had resigned to leave Washington without facing criminal prosecution. The former would allow a politician to avo
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by phd514 10y ago
It's too easy to generalize this as a lack of money problem. Certainly lack of money is a factor, but so is attitude and character. There are plenty of examples of people from lower income backgrounds rising above their backgrounds eve
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by phd514 10y ago
While it's true that a prestigious degree is not strictly necessary for obtaining a good job, in my experience, it helps a lot in getting your resume nearer the top of the stack for those job openings.

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