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Yes, you can illegally discriminate in hiring if you choose to. Most major companies are very careful not to do this. In every case I have had a background check done on me I have …

In the US, most states ban the use of an arrest that did not lead to a conviction for the purpose of excluding you for employment. Many states limit how far you can go back in cons…

I trust that they would be willing to cede control of several aspects to Facebook for the sake of being involved and having some cut of the profit for fear of missing out. Unless a…

Unless you can provide actual legal documents as opposed to whitepapers, your argument is unconvincing. Nobody trusts anything Facebook says, which given their past actions is comp…

I interviewed at Asymetrix at one point. They had the very strange idea they were going to take on Microsoft and Borland with their own C++ development system, which seemed to make…

I pay for NYT and WaPo, so I have no issues with these. It is frustrating though that despite many alternative sources available there seems (from my perspective) to be a really la…

My observation is that a lot of the MIT News and MIT Technology Review titles read like this. It seems to work to get exposure for work being done there.

I would like to see exactly zero regression from the current design. I think there is a very tiny but vocal minority, particularly in the tech community, who have issues with it. M…

They’ve been fixed for a while now. I have used each generation of the new keyboard, and since the 3rd gen (released in 2018) have had exactly zero issues with keys that repeat or …

Any news on Swift for Tensorflow? I’m skeptical of how much practical benefit it will provide but still willing to take a look at it. There doesn’t seem to be any mention of it her…

Over the past several months I keep seeing people trying to equate data science with machine learning, and it made me wonder if the people doing this are trying to salvage (or perh…

I got two (real) checks from him from the newly re-typeset first volume in the late 90s. Someone else did a bunch of the typesetting work and it was relatively sloppy so I managed …

If someone is not a threat to themselves or others, but has strange beliefs and behaviors, should we really take their freedom away just because we don’t think they are taking care…

> (2) The claim that a 93 year old lacked the dexterity to operate the smart lock is spurious. A physical key requires more dexterity than pushing numbers on a keypad. In this case…