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Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students

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Re: Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students

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Yes the Feds are really hamstrung by weed being a schedule 1 substance. It’s asinine Especially, if as the article claims, they want to clear college students. When I went through this, the guidance was that pot usage was ok as long as it was in the past and not chronic usage. Just say you haven’t been near it in years, but yes you did it. They’re going to interview everyone you’ve ever known that they can find, so j…

The overwhelming public support for marijuana is the main marker to consider when psychoanalyzing why someone is willing to break one law but maybe/maybe-not others. The dominant perception among tech talent is the law hasn’t kept up with the times. Drawing conclusions about one’s choice to use or try marijuana is perceived as unacceptable cultural behavior that is not currently within the modern scope of what we cou…

I’m a little odd. I reply to my own messages occasionally and that could suggest I’m unhinged.

However, like many others here, I’m authentic in disclosing this awareness of perception and not deterred from doing it simply because it is not normal.

In a world where outliers are red flags, everyone is dripping in sweat to be perceived as not only normal but qualified. That’s enough to send electro-dermal activity through the roof imo.

A truly authentic person should be able to sit in that chair and comfortably tell the hard truth.

That should be the real test.

Re: Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students

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For myself it's somewhat ethical, and somewhat practical: there's no way I'd get cleared anyway, due to my history of hard drug addiction in my teens and early 20s. Despite being sober for... gosh, over a decade now, it's a moot point in that process.

They don't really care about the drug use, as much as they care whether you're honest about it. If you tell them one thing but they hear something else when they interview your family and friends, that's a major issue. What they want to see, above all else, is someone who can't be easily blackmailed. (Which is one reason why homosexuality was a dealbreaker as late as the 1970s.)

> They don't really care about the drug use

Unfortunately, that's not what I was directly told when I inquired, at least for the jobs here in Aus. Perhaps they were just being conservative about it

Re: Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students

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I work in this industry and I thought the practice described here was common. I'm aware of multiple companies, including my own, that put in for security clearances for interns so they can have a clearance on the first day of their full time employment.

Yeah. Pretty sure everyone does it. I've seen it every place I've worked.

Re: Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students

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I think this submission title should be modified to: > Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students This addresses several issues with the headline as presented: - It’s capitalized appropriately for HN. - It clearly states that this is about students only , reducing the scope of the effort from the unstated framing: “all workers”. - It reflects the single-company focus of Palantir in the article, impro…

The original title’s capitalization was correct. In fact, AP, Chicago and Wikipedia styles all suggest exactly the capitalization the author used.

AP capitalization style is not HN capitalization style. For example, HN mods will turn NASA into Nasa, which is anathema to AP style (and to me). You could email them if you have questions about it, as I’m not a mod, just a user.

Re: Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The original title’s capitalization was correct. In fact, AP, Chicago and Wikipedia styles all suggest exactly the capitalization the author used.

AP capitalization style is not HN capitalization style. For example, HN mods will turn NASA into Nasa, which is anathema to AP style (and to me). You could email them if you have questions about it, as I’m not a mod, just a user.

I suspect that would be a waste of time for me to email them, but thanks for sharing.
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