unseenbastiat

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by unseenbastiat 7y ago
That story is nice and it’s plausible. It’s also subtlety different from the story told by the article. For instance, nobody admitted they didn’t read the fine print or objected at the time, or anything like that. In light of that, my story
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by unseenbastiat 7y ago
If you take what people say at face value, then sure, the issue is simple. I think that’s an unwise presumption to always make, but YMMV. But even assuming your explanation is correct, it is incomplete. Why now? This guy has been with the c
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by unseenbastiat 7y ago
Sure. There’s still some missing pieces of the motivation puzzle missing here, such as why this issue, why this point in time, why don’t employees exercise this option more often if this is a legit negotiating tactic, etc. At the risk of be
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by unseenbastiat 7y ago
Appreciate the reply, but we may be talking past each other here. Note I didn’t take the position of “you signed the contract, suck it up”. Renegotiations can and do happen. Like you point out, people could get potentially be fired for walk
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by unseenbastiat 7y ago
Let me get this straight: Potential hires were offered an employment contract with terms that included the settling certain disputes through arbitration. They accepted the offer and signed the contract. Now these people are not only are try
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by unseenbastiat 7y ago
Why do you go through this amount of work for preserving your privacy? Honest question out of curiosity.
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by unseenbastiat 8y ago
Unfortunately, one study cannot “debunk” anything. Between the state of conflicting information in epidemiology, the replication crisis in science in general, self reporting methodology, publication bias, etc . . . there are plenty of reaso
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by unseenbastiat 8y ago
The urge to use the same flag for both B and A is probably motivated by a desire either to clean up the code by not using redundant flags. Or perhaps it was implicitly part of a forward-thinking (in theory, well intentioned) design to avoid