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by wfo 10y ago
Of course that's the response. In the article he states this response to an interview will end it without an offer. But he's saying it's okay to walk away from what you know from the hiring process is likely to be a bad job.
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by wfo 10y ago
That's not really the issue that concerns me. If the state can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he is capable of complying with the warrant (but is choosing not to) then contempt and jail is wholly appropriate. Similarly, if the st
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by wfo 10y ago
Exactly, consider the case in the article, lunch breaks. The employer has ALL of the power in the employer/employee relationship without unions. If the employer hints or suggests that you work through lunch for no pay and you don'
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by wfo 10y ago
Well, sure, but in general this is never 'knowingly' -- technicians and people working in the lab are trained on methods, told the methods are sound, and then execute the methods and present them in court as trained. It is the met
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by wfo 10y ago
Yes -- the FBI has no mission to protect the public good. Their job is not to defend ordinary Americans against cyber attacks. That's a different governmental agency, if such an agency even exists (I know there is a defensive part of N
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by wfo 10y ago
Because ultimately voting with your dollar doesn't matter. It's ineffective and it does nothing. It's a myth that if people don't like [x], then they won't buy from companies that support/enact [x] -- the marke
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by wfo 10y ago
You can quote news stories (you will always be able to find an exaggerated sensationalist piece about how terrible things are, no matter the conditions, in any country. I've read plenty of articles on HN for example that describe the U
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by wfo 10y ago
I don't think I deserve it either but I am not surprised or particularly offended. Pop scientists like Dawkins and NDT are rightly mocked when they say things like this because we can safely feel superior to them, but a tech golden boy
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by wfo 10y ago
Yes, very well put. I really enjoyed his technical answers, but when he dives into the philosophy I was disappointed to see the same very naive and narcissistic attitudes so many scientists have (that are even alluded to at the beginning of
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by wfo 10y ago
You're right of course disagreement should be explained better. But he is responding to a one-line meme whose only purpose is to establish learned helplessness and end discussion that massively oversimplifies a very complex issue and i
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by wfo 11y ago
Okay, I'd buy that the targets of the survey may very well be pre-selected to align politically with a particular set of positions. What do you mean by aggregated data? I'm fairly well trained in mathematics and statistics but I&#
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by wfo 11y ago
Of course it is true. What you've said is the case about literally every study that has ever been done in a huge number scientific fields. The fact that you have used statistics to lie does not mean that these people have. They publish
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by wfo 11y ago
Their methodology is stated very explicitly. They do a questionnaire in all of the relevant countries and have a formula to derive the scores. You cannot begin with an intuitive notion of the countries that you want to have a high "pre
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by wfo 11y ago
It's okay for words to have wide and general meaning. Assault can mean flicking someone with your middle finger. It can mean saying something threatening. Sexual assault is a kind of assault. Barfights and brutally beating someone all
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by wfo 11y ago
Actually, fortunately you are incorrect here. While certain kinds of sexual harassment are not criminal, groping is certainly a crime. I'm pretty sure threatening to destroy someone's career to force sex is a crime. If you succeed
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by wfo 11y ago
As would Science, in fact. You learn this if you study philosophy.
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by wfo 11y ago
Biology is one of the most female-friendly STEM fields out there. I've met female biologists, plenty of them. The article describes astrophysics as 90%, 95% male at many of these universities. I think it's likely that the issues a
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by wfo 11y ago
It's the sort of thinking that gets abusive people who commit crimes public criminal records (or at least records of a series of accusations) instead of slaps on the wrist which forever remain private so they can continue their abuse.
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by wfo 11y ago
The obvious solution to gun violence is to give everyone nuclear weapons. The lack of military instinct is costly for our society.
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by wfo 11y ago
Alternately, similar actions are taken by many on the right as part of a concerted effort to slash and destroy social programs. They support widely popular resolutions (tax cuts? Nobody is against tax cuts. The only debate is which section
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by wfo 11y ago
I don't agree with you but the downvotes for disagreement are very inappropriate, this is a contrarian position to the party line around here but fairly well put and helps to further the discussion beyond some sort of echo chamber. Rem
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by wfo 11y ago
He is not a consequentialist (nor should anyone be); he is not doing a calculation to try and take actions to minimize the total violence in the world (presumably because he understands this view is a misguided fool's errand, though I
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by wfo 11y ago
Every human being has opinions, a world view, attitudes about what it means to be fair, civil, respectful, what makes a good program, grounding in a particular culture, socioeconomic class, etc. Anytime you get your news from a human being
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by wfo 11y ago
Yes we would. We would say "just don't buy from that particular meat seller, it's a free market, buyer beware, the market will take care of it and adjust, competition, I'm very smart I would never get tricked and buy bad
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by wfo 11y ago
Yes, exactly. Rather, you should ask someone if they close the curtains before they have sex with their spouse. Or, more's to the point, ask them whether they should be required, when having any house built, to include a government iss
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by wfo 11y ago
Yes, one time an indie flash game was pirated a lot (for the record I actually bought that game at the time). That's exactly what I meant when I said minimal. It sucks for him, but compare that to the people whose machines were bricked
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by wfo 11y ago
I think the conclusion to draw here is that there is no line between LE investigating terrorism and law enforcement investigating everything else. It is not possible to give LE/IC powers that they may use against terrorism and espionag
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by wfo 11y ago
Have you ever listened to the radio, gone to a theater, been to a nightclub or music venue, watched a movie on television? Of course there is a business use case for movies and music. A theater or TV station could pirate movies and show the
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by wfo 11y ago
To be honest, I'm not sure that most software developers care much if a student, for example, downloads software and tinkers with it for personal use 'breaking copyright'. In fact many large software companies encourage pirac
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by wfo 11y ago
>Can we wait until they actually do or talk about doing something bad before making a stink about them doing bad things? This is kind of jumping at phantoms, and doing that too much will mean losing the ability to do it for real. I tend

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