thehardsphere

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by thehardsphere 10y ago
"Very few" can still be hundreds of devices that people still have to use.
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Even at the highest level, they put their pants on one leg at a time.
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That would make more sense.
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GP's thesis is that Europe has no right-to-work laws, but America does, so America has higher wages than Europe.
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by thehardsphere 10y ago
California, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington do not have right-to-work laws, yet software salaries in SF, Boston, New York, and Seattle are among the highest in the world. If that were the cause, Austin, TX should become the high-pay
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by thehardsphere 10y ago
A possibly flawed analogy follows: Hollywood is the biggest city in the world for acting, followed by New York, and maybe Vancouver is in third place. I'm pretty sure people working as actors in any of those three cities are going to b
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by thehardsphere 10y ago
>The US has a higher cost of living than most other countries. Those who are comparable pay somewhat more competitively with US jobs. This becomes really clear with remote work. Outside of the major tech hubs, the pay for IT drops off to
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by thehardsphere 10y ago
How? The same people are still running the FBI who were running it before the election.
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I can think of many cases where it could be your employers business that you were arrested: 1. You're going to miss work because you're in jail. 2. You were arrested for a crime that's related to your work. Like, money launde
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"To keep the supply of cheap labor low" meant that they would increase labor costs higher than they otherwise would be, yes.
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The list is of people who underwent a pre-employment biometric background check. So, roughly, anybody who works for a bank, is a public school teacher, acquires a security clearance, or is in the military. The level of "real patriotism
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The implications with the Trump administration are no different than those under the Obama administration, when all of this expanding actually began accelerating as the NGI system was implemented.
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They don't "give the system" to employers. The system is part of the FBI's main biometric database. Basically, a small set of employers who have been using this database (which is the same database that all fingerprinted
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What would that accomplish, besides creating a new group to be fingerprinted? This rap back thing is being motivated by the desires of financial trade unions to "self-regulate" to prevent fraud. You don't think techie trade u
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Here's one off of the top of my head; it may be very imprecise: 1. Every Bank in the United States of America 2. Every NMLS licensed mortgage lender in USA 3. Every FINRA licensed investment advisor, broker, or trader 4. Eventually, ev
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by thehardsphere 10y ago
Maybe it's because I work in biometrics, but I don't understand what is newsworthy about this. The Rap Back program has been around for years now. The article gratuitously mentions the name "Trump" as an extra scare fact