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Given that police routinely assault peaceful demonstrators, journalists and random bystanders, wearing body armor if you might be anywhere near a protest (whether as a protestor or…

As soon as FAANG starts hiring people in Utah, Arkansas and Minnesota for the same roles at the same wages as they hire in the Bay, then people will move. As soon as VCs start fund…

What you are misleadingly calling "evidence" here is constitutionally protected free speech political materials. It's only "evidence" that he disagreed with the president on immigr…

> when the effects of climate change are undeniable I understand your meaning, but kind of a tragically funny statement given that really that's just... now. So, it'll just be a co…

> A CC-BY license permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work, including for commercial purposes, so long as appropriate attribution is given This is a good…

I'm a hiring manager. We post jobs on our website, along with LinkedIn and probably some others. We review applications from that, and interview and hire those people. We get a lot…

I never voted for any of the copyright laws, and hope those archaic tools of oppression get tossed out entirely. If given the option to vote for this, yes I would absolutely vote f…

Maybe it's time to do away with license plates. Police could switch to using VIN for tracking of warrants and such, which can be obtained after a car is pulled over. Modern technol…

Peter Attia is a graduate of Stanford medical school and spent 5 years in surgical residency at Johns Hopkins, and his podcast is largely using his expertise to give context to rec…

Often, there's a recruiter or HR person (or piece of software) that's doing an initial screening against those "requirements" though, often with zero understanding or context. Recr…

As a non-aphantasia person, this just seems like a really, really bad "test". Famously, there's a psychology experiment where a person in a gorilla costume walks through the middle…

> just send the cops after you > > that's clearly a good thing You might want to read up on how interactions between police and various groups in the US tend to go. Sending the cop…

> Am I wrong? As a naturally curious person, who reads a lot and looks up a lot of things, I've learned to be cautious when talking to regular people. While considering buying a ho…

I'd imagine for most of us, our professional lives are less interesting to the general public than other things. If I were writing about my life, there'd be roughly a single line s…

> they are free to do anything and everything they like with their lawns In this case, what they're doing is clearly going beyond their lawn and negatively impacting you. It's weir…

> Sometimes, communities are angry landowners hosting infrastructure will be paid, but neighbours and those further afield may not Hilarious. When a fossil fuel company started fra…

> it’s generally accepted that requiring some level of skin in the game from those that benefit does a decent job of doing this "Generally accepted" by who? Based on what? Sometime…

> then the effective definition of the word "oppressive" being able to be "interpreted" by executive agencies I don't get how this could ever be resolved though. You can complain a…

Serious question, where do they post to? As far as I can tell, Mastodon was briefly hyped on HN but nobody actually uses it. Bluesky seems to have a few people within a fairly narr…

The kids being hurt didn't vote for this. A bunch of kids are going to die before reaching voting age because of this.

Perhaps it would help if you considered concepts like "more and less". Without DEI measures (as implemented by many American institutions in recent years) such decisions would be m…

> I’ve never seen a proposal win or lose, or even change positions in a tie break, based on that content This is an absolutely wild statement, because my experience has been the co…

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but both your comments in this thread really, really scream that you need to step away from the internet and go interact with real humans in…

I've been using the plain free ChatGPT for all sorts of things of value. It's like having the world's greatest tutor available on all subjects at all times. Ask it to recap the key…