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by proofbygazing 5y ago
Damn that's messed up. Sorry about your sister.
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by proofbygazing 5y ago
This is literally not buying a job, otherwise there wouldn't be a 2x payout after two months. It's betting that you would be good at a job.
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by proofbygazing 5y ago
imo this should exist alongside interviewing and a variety of other methods for proving your potential to an employer. Also, if you make it two months, you double your money. It's not just a fee.
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by proofbygazing 5y ago
Agreed, the reaction to this idea blew me away. The problem of hiring is accurately signaling fitness for a job. Job hunters should have a variety of ways to do this - interviewing, credible vouches (like this company), and hopefully more i
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by proofbygazing 5y ago
This comment feels like cope.
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by proofbygazing 5y ago
Cracking up at the response to this thread. The comments here show how desperately tech workers need the validation of being in the Gifted Class and if you insinuate there's a culture of stupidity in FAANG they fall to pieces. No comme
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by proofbygazing 8y ago
> A huge unaccounted-for externality. Not even close to the definition of an externality. Everybody involved in the transaction is there voluntarily.
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by proofbygazing 8y ago
> Using Firefox makes you the product, because Mozilla monetizes you with selling you to Google. That is not a browser that "puts you first" or promotes the "open culture of the internet". Why not? The idea of being t
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by proofbygazing 8y ago
That's the same as fining people for practicing their religion and then saying that their freedom of religion is unchanged, they just have to pay more to do it. Of course this affects employee choices, to think otherwise is obtuse.
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by proofbygazing 8y ago
> committing reimbursement fraud lol, nobody takes reimbursements this seriously
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by proofbygazing 8y ago
Definitely weirder. There is well-established precedent for expensing food, which matters. Also, food is a bare-necessity for staying alive while traveling on your company's behalf, so manipulating people's options there is bound
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by proofbygazing 8y ago
Well then it seems like starting an alternative to PETA would be a better use of management's time and efforts than running a real estate REIT that just has a vegetarian-friendly per diem policy. Of course, they won't do that, bec
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by proofbygazing 8y ago
You're right to consider the marginal effect that this might have on the purchasing habits of meat eaters, but you're wrong to ignore the marginal effect that the fall in prices will have on meat producers. A fall in price will al
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by proofbygazing 8y ago
Probably a net-negative business move. This creates goodwill among vegetarians within the company, who will appreciate being part of this uniquely progressive organization. However, their lives will not actually change very much - they won&
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by proofbygazing 9y ago
Well there is a problem when it's now incredibly easy for say, a government to profile and find dissidents, etc. Most people don't fall into this bucket and thus don't care, but the overall effect is to highlight deviations f
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by proofbygazing 9y ago
> The only security most people need is herd security. As long as your data can blend into a mass of other people's data to the point where you're just an anonymous face in the crowd, there's no harm. Sure, if you're
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by proofbygazing 9y ago
It's kind of hard for me to believe that some people's analysis of their own behavior is this tragically dependent on what other people think.
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by proofbygazing 9y ago
I think it's awkward how obvious this is, and how comfortable the media is with that being the case. From Wired's article a week ago: > The crisis was familiar in a way: Facebook has burned its fingers on issues of data privacy
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by proofbygazing 9y ago
This seems like a matter of the legislature reining in law-enforcement whose interpretations have become overly broad, something legislatures (and Congress) also sometimes does to the judicial system. I agree that it can be cast in an awkwa
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by proofbygazing 9y ago
Wow you're really great