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The ability of the government to do this, legally, should be factored in as part of that risk taking.

Investments have risk. Real estate is an investment. It turns out a global pandemic is a risk, and these people may lose their investments.

>if they want to prevent evictions they need to pay the landlords what they’re owed My landlord told me to get a second job after I got laid off. Maybe the landlords should get sec…

In software, there is incredible demand and engineers have a lot of negotiating power. So, we have the power to actually get new jobs easily! And fine, but then when that horrible …

If you take offense over a variation of "as you know [your company] made the news for being caught doing [horrible thing]. On your resume you worked on [horrible thing]. How do you…

Posts that were doing well have been getting downvoted pretty heavily in the last hour. I'm curious to know why that is, but they don't seem to comment. Ah well, that's the nature …

In my opinion, that's an unreasonable interpretation of: "asking a candidate how they feel about working on a product that made international news (in a bad way)"

Well, frankly, there's a need on HN for "correctness" only. And I'm not sure what's correct. And I haven't faced some of the "hypothetical" scenarios posed here. And if a resume ca…

I think you're reading into it too much and injecting politics. I don't know how else to describe it without de-anonymizing other than "it was actually bad and the PM who came up w…

Yes, it's absolutely contextual. At the very least, asking a softball question will help filter out someone I might not want to personally work with. I actually think interviewing …

Yeah, I addressed this later on. It's very contextual. You're assuming/inferring there's some strict moral framework, and then I walk into that room and say "fuck you for working a…

Frankly, because I just shit on Facebook in a public place around the hiring topic. These are all sensitive subjects. And it would REALLY be shitty if some hack blogger posted the …

>While you have a point about 18yo, it is very difficult to overlook the main job of the military: kill people. Yes. And I have never been faced with someone with a long military c…

I'm not looking for an apology, or remorse, or a sudden revelation. But an understanding of the work they do and WHY it might receive that perception is a "passing" answer, IMO.

I hope so. I wish I could give more information but maybe it's best to keep names out considering the context ;)

I work in the security org now, and so I deal with a lot of exmilitary and exfederal employees. Considering that the military is a institution in this country that helps a lot of w…

I'd like to emphasize the nature of the answer which was a defensive "I was just following orders". At that point, I was conducting dozens of interviews a year, and I think that so…

>I'm sure that your employer loves your personal feelings interfering with hiring talent. When I brought up my thoughts around the Uber candidate, I was supported by the people on …

We handle large amounts of sensitive personal information, and developers are tightly integrated into the product development process. We have successfully lobbied against products…

>I'm not sure where your particular cutoff bar stands I'm not sure either! I'm not an ethics expert. I think the Uber example and the Facebook example are real outliers. They're pa…

I've taken a hard line with people who work at Facebook. If you're still there and unwilling to represent the failings your company has done to society, then I need to hear a justi…

>It's worth noting that Pennington had already been cautioned (and fined) by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police earlier in the trip but had continued to flout the law. He fucked aro…

i bought a ton of them and then hooked some zigbee light switches up. My own fault.