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by volak 6y ago
A month without humans, bears are moving through survey zones more frequently. The problem highlighted here is our methods for setting up survey zones is terrible and is severely UNDERCOUNTING the population. Even more troubling is systems
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by volak 7y ago
Presumably because a lot of attractive young people do That's explicitly the point. Yes its evil and manipulative - but everyone should understand CPC is not above such tactics. And neither are pop magazines, holywood.. other people I
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by volak 7y ago
I think its interesting that Twitter has the capability to automatically and instantly tag tweets or accounts as being written by third party apps Yet they choose not to
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by volak 7y ago
“We determined it was prudent to draw on our credit line during the week of Feb. 24 in light of market volatility. That capital was returned in full last week.” Headline should read "Robinhood used credit that was available to them and
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by volak 7y ago
Its bipartisan. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-pelosi-warns-nat...
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by volak 7y ago
People downvote but I assure you many dads agree. IMO dads don't achieve the same level of bonding as women do to their babies and therefore we are able to tolerate less of the crap babies get into during the day. Its not sexism, its j
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by volak 7y ago
This is cool good job! Had a bug: > create loyal subjects You made many loyal followers. You taught them the ways of necrom the dark arts. You trained them in the art of war and magic. You even created a new race of undead sol
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by volak 7y ago
Real headline: Corn price futures fell heavily on unexpected planting area and yield pegging Edit: Actually the new report causing the 20% drop in price is controversial. And given all the news has reported weather issues disrupting plant
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by volak 7y ago
No companies listed in article - anyone have a list of companies developing new battery technology? Been something I've tried researching in the past with little luck
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by volak 8y ago
Citizens apply to SSN and a corporation is created for them - they are not forced to apply for one. Even to this day you can have a baby and not apply to SSN (increasing a good idea given the state of the program)
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by volak 8y ago
The summary is slightly inadequate. There wasn't a corporation that usurped the government - the government made corporations of everyone Basically it goes like this - * SSN Act (created after the market crash) was created not only to
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by volak 8y ago
There are left wing Breitbarts just like there's MSNBC for TV. The issue then becomes why these are far less popular. Its not because of a FB algorithm - that's for certain. I can ask everyone in my family if they've heard o
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by volak 8y ago
Fox News dominates ratings on TV so its not surprising they'd be #1 - there's also the fact this is "engagements" and not click-throughs. I'd wager good 15% of these are probably people clicking "Angry" n
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by volak 8y ago
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426824-schumer-blocks-bi... Bill to just pay the coast guard no strings - objection from Schumer
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by volak 8y ago
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/425858-house-rejects-gop-...
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by volak 8y ago
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/425858-house-rejects-gop-...
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by volak 8y ago
Collecting data subsidizes the cost of the service. Would facebook have 1 billion users if it cost $5.99 a month? Data collection is not going anywhere, so long as people are willing (even unknowingly) to give up info for a perceived discou
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by volak 8y ago
Yes a lot of companies do. Especially minimum wage jobs. Because there are vastly more people without a record willing to work. But now imagine you have a previous conviction but you are willing to work for less than minimum wage? If I v
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by volak 8y ago
True - 100% true. If I had a checkered past with no references I would expect to get denied for every job I applied to. To combat this prejudice I would fully expect to have to lower my expectations in the form of lower wage or other restr
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by volak 8y ago
You are still arguing against human nature. Give yourself a scenario - you have two equal candidates: a) background check clean, no google results b) background check lists sealed conviction, no google results you'll choose? now anothe
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by volak 8y ago
Because in many places employees can't be terminated without cause. You as a business want employees to be worth than what you pay them. If you hire someone for 50k who sits around and needs direction from a manager to do anything yo
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by volak 8y ago
This is a weird question - I think you are trying to point out that the employer/employee relationship is not equal. This is true. The employer always takes a much greater risk to hire you than you take to work there.
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by volak 8y ago
I don't like to break up arguments into tiny pieces and remark on each one - so I'll just wrap this up in 1 thought like a normal person. You are essentially complaining about human nature. Here in reality people want to know if
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by volak 8y ago
Not true - if mark has a resume listing a successful employment post-cookie incident I would call them for a reference. A good reference isn't completely trustworthy but 2 or 3 of them with good companies and I'd be convinced.
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by volak 8y ago
Not true - if mark has a resume listing a successful employment post-cookie incident I would call them for a reference. A good reference isn't completely trustworthy but 2 or 3 of them with good companies and I'd be convinced.
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by volak 8y ago
If I was HR and I had a choice between a Javascript developer for 50k with a clean record and a Javascript developer with a 5 year old conviction for 40k - I'd actually pick the later. But only if I could fire him immediately if he tu
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by volak 8y ago
Think you missed the part where I said these restrictions were temporary until trust is rebuilt. I have more of a reason to trust a stranger with a clean record than I do to trust a convicted criminal. Once the later demonstrates hes trustw
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by volak 8y ago
The problem is future employers don't know if mark made a one time mistake or is a serial cookie monster. Why would they hire mark over a similar employee with a clean record? Mark needs to be given the opportunity to demonstrate to a
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by volak 8y ago
Entering into a deeper relationship with someone (employer/employee, landlord/tenant, etc) you want to know everything about the other person. This is not because you are some nosy person - its because breaking that relationship
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by volak 9y ago
True - 100%

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