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Typically overtime pay requires approval from management

> In other words, the relationship with hundreds of countries has been very one-sided for a long time. US industry needs to export to thrive, but if countries like Turkey impose 14…

Context matters. In a vacuum, the 85% rule is fine. In reality, it excludes a single company whose CEO not only holds a position in the administration making the rules, but who cle…

They give you a unique URL associated with your account that you can use without manually logging in. It does somewhat defeat the purpose of private browsing mode depending on what…

The myth of the rags-to-riches, by-their-bootstraps entrepreneur is foundational to so much political philosophy in the US. It informs popular opinion on a wide range of public pol…

That's the whole point. Permabanning on the first offense ignores the reality that these large-scale moderation systems (automated or human) tend to lack nuance and context-awarene…

There’s a difference between production and rent-seeking.

> People got up, admitted they were Progressives and that they were wrong about the ideals of rehabilitation instead of punishment. People asked for rehabilitation instead of punis…

Perhaps Castle Bravo would be a closer comparison? I think the point stands.

That's not what GP is saying. The (potentially) copyright infringing part is the reproduction of copyrighted material, not the encoding itself. In the same way that learning the ly…

When you press the BT button in control center it shows a message saying "Disconnecting Bluetooth Devices Until Tomorrow"

The fun thing about markets is that there's one for labor too, and apparently the labor market has decided otherwise.

> The concept of "bullshit jobs" is so hilarious. Honestly it like someone watched "Office Space" and thought it was straight up revolutionary philosophy. > Then decided to stake a…

There are decades of well defined laws (and case law) regulating discrimination in hiring, housing, commerce, etc. Why should software be treated any differently?

The data itself is plaintext, but it's stored in a sqlite db rather than directories of markdown files on disk.

> because the name is constructed to make it look like being male is what's bad I'm open to this argument because it's clear that many people take it this way, but how else would y…

> Who's to say that men are incapable of dealing with their emotions through sombre silence? The argument generally being made isn't that teaching boys stoicism is wrong. The argum…

The term "toxic masculinity" doesn't imply that masculinity is inherently toxic any more than the term "burnt toast" implies that toast is inherently burnt. Toxic masculinity refer…

More like saying that an oil worker is different from some guy quoting There Will Be Blood. The problem is that the difference in credibility between the two isn't easily accounted…

Advising against blind trust in non-experts' statements doesn't imply a recommendation to blindly trust experts' statements.

> Soooo, which is it? You can't have it both ways, either trial and error or "educated guess". Sure you can -- trial and error doesn't mean the things you're trying have to be pick…

This has been my experience working on a distributed team as well. I think my ideal setup involves getting the team together in person once or twice annually for a few days where t…

> Well, I'm glad someone is because everyone else seems to be worse off as a result Fortunately mass incarceration and just doing nothing aren't the only two options.