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5mo ago
That must be it. I can see if they are normally published or announced publicly somewhere, then it makes sense but if it's not done for other permits then it's sounds like they are implying nefariousness.
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5mo ago
> Quality, the state environmental regulator known as TCEQ, had quietly issued Tesla a wastewater discharge permit on January 15, 2025. Are permits issued loudly usually?
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5mo ago
> “If you’d let me make this point, please —” Schmidt said amid boos. “The point I’d like to make is choose a diversity of perspectives, including the perspective of the immigrant who has so often been the person who came to this country
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5mo ago
That’s also a possibility. I was mainly thinking where it’s so embedded it’s not even perceived as corruption anymore. But yeah, what you’re saying is also done. Usually something like an anti-corruption ministry is created. Their job is to
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5mo ago
> It ranks 107th out of 180 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, which is middling, but not especially bad, roughly comparable to Indonesia and Brazil. I would still guess corruption is a major reason. Sometimes
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5mo ago
> Google can offer Gemini for free because its TPUs are orders of magnitude more efficient than Nvidia stuff. Even free tier Gemini is really good considering it can integrate with a bunch of your stuff like google docs, and the lower la
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5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law I was just joking about it a few days ago (I swear I didn't know Amazon was doing this) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079533 > That’s my la
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That’s my latest joke — that we’ll have to pretend like we used the tools so they can feel validated they’ve spent all this money on hyped up technology. So, yes, it’s em-dashes and “it’s not just this, it’s that …” so they can hopefully le
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5mo ago
> This doesn't sound like a result of "zero tolerance" policies, unless the one faking being attacked was also punished, but you didn't mention it. The implication is that the system overreacts one way only, taking th
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5mo ago
It works too well. Especially with the "first to call" or "first to complain" gets automatically a 500 point boost in credibility. "Clearly if they called the police first, the to other party must be at fault".
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5mo ago
> Zero tolerance can lead to a new type of bullying: state sponsored. Absolutely. The more of a victim you're perceived the more attention and the more punishment the bully gets. If the system overreacts, bullies would be stupid not
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5mo ago
I think we're saying the same thing? Just asking about team size won't reveal the answer. So a different set of probing questions might have to be asked.
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5mo ago
You would need some class action lawsuit I’d think? Need a good number of laid off people to join it and you need solid statistics that would convince a jury more than the corporate lawyers would with whatever HR covered their assess on pap
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5mo ago
> How has the team's headcount changed over the last 18-24 months?" “It didn’t change” and it would not be telling much. They are just hiring and firing X amount of people every year.
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> When was the last time you saw any job seeker seriously enquire about such practices in interviews or at the application stage? - “Are you hiring people just to fire them a year later to protect yourselves?” - “Yes we do” It’s a bit na
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5mo ago
They lie to get out of paying for unemployment I think. I mean, look at them it’s a poor struggling company barely making ends meet /s
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5mo ago
The Soviet detector mentioned is probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baksan_Neutrino_Observatory There is a tour of it on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5jhp74Uw54 if you happen to speak s
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5mo ago
Wonder if they'll do it like they did for Brittany Pietsch. She recorded her firing video some years ago. I think it's on tiktok but there are youtube videos discussing it as well. Anyway, new employee at Cloudflare, just finished
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5mo ago
> Ok, so... why do people take it seriously as a concept? Occam's razor would point towards some general misunderstanding on which we have no evidence to reasonably speculate a cause. One scientist says "We don't know, rea
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> I would wager that the people running RightsCon are more familiar with Zambia One would hope, but their actions don't seem to point to that? So you might have lost that wager, unless you wagered also that this part of an exposure
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> We are disappointed that our international participants won’t get to experience the Zambia we have come to know through our planning for RightsCon This strikes as a bit naive. Like a bunch of kids who saw a Disney movie about Zambia an
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(From one of the toots) > That said, I do not believe humiliation is the ultimate goal of the contributor here, nor venting a frustration. The ideal outcome is probably to acknowledge the risk, reduce the interpersonal heat I think that’
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5mo ago
The fact that they have no idea RHEL 14, probably the most well known enterprise distro, is not a thing, and yet they "directly verified on it" casts some doubt on seriousness.
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5mo ago
From 5 9s to 9 5s
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I think what someone needs to do is before looking up these names or professions, first define a the category of "sensitive US research" well enough (specific institutions, areas, level of access, seniority, etc) and only after th
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6mo ago
Going by age, wouldn't that be breaking the law? Can't imagine they'd get more than a slap on wrist for it though, so kind of surprised they even bothered with the offer.
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> In the US, ageism is allowed as long it doesn't discriminate against older people(45 years old or older I think?). You're allowed to discriminate against youth all you want. I think it's 40 https://www.eeoc.g
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I can see if it would be exact years working at the place not years left.
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> years of work at Microsoft plus their age totals 70 Is that ageism? How is that different than saying if their gender is Y, their race is X or their religious belief is Z?
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> It is true but the reverse is also true. Yup. Almost every single time NVD came up with some ridiculously inflated numbers without any rhyme or reason. Every time I saw their evaluation it lowered my impression of them.
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