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> actual understanding of the pros and cons of union membership Many of us have worked in $MEGACORPS with substantial union representation among the employees, have seen what it do…

> open competitive programs based on project quality This will never, ever happen. There will always be bonus points available, even if they're awarded to "conservative"-leaning fe…

Your consent is given when you choose to pay for a ticket and attend an event there. For publicly-funded venues, you may have a point. But if Bimbo's or the Warfield in San Francis…

> AI in its current form has limited usefulness for most people. That's not what I'm seeing. My mom always wanted Google to just answer questions, and now ChatGPT can. She uses it …

I find it bizarre you imagine a world where immoral or amoral persons are somehow not at fault for their own behavior. When some turd goes into a Walgreen's on Market St. in SF and…

That's laughably false propaganda. Maybe one person one time stole something for jail health care, but the hundreds of thousands of other shoplifters do it for other reasons, rangi…

Not when cops are wearing them. Cops with these that have the day's BOLO and warrant hotlist loaded on them will be the new hot ALPR.

Donald Trump.

That wasn't a leak, it was a breach (perpetrated by Chinese state security).

Passing a mandatory class != believing in its message and acting on it. Unfortunately, rather important courses like engineering ethics have become lumped in with mandatory DEI obj…

SSNs have been used as student IDs by particularly stupid educational institutions. The 'nice' thing about getting SSNs from students is the likelihood they'll live for a long time…

> Navy's reputation has been squandered in the last year I don't understand how anything that has occurred in the last year would make a Somali pirate think it's less likely they w…

Until the cost of local production (union labor, environmental regulations, etc.) meets the increasing costs of imports during said shortfall. Then we'll just make it here. The sho…

The Big Three have many non-credit-report products, and no they will not share them with the reports' subjects (you and I).

That was the point of Horizon Worlds. They were trying a (very expensive) social play for VR. The problem is that the intersection/suitability of VR and social media is rather low,…

I work on products that feature live monitoring capabilities. There's no connection to the monitoring side's microphone (or camera) — why would there be? I'm not sure why there wou…

Repossessing cars isn't societally harmful, quite the opposite in fact.

https://www.iarpa.gov/research-programs

Some are installed by private entities. Home Depot installs Flock cameras in their parking lots. I assume their primary use case is combating organized retail theft rings, as compa…

Billionaires For Bush did it first, and better.

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That's not true. They have millions of digitized 4473s. They are banned by law from creating a searchable registry of gun owners but they digitize paperwork on a daily basis. https…

I lived it when I lived in West Oakland. Tagging, violence, hell a neighbor was shot in the face in front of her family over a gang beef. I'm still exposed to it now working with p…

Not all harm is physical.