Iefthandrule

A background check is run in addition to a credit check.

Having an arrest on your record is enough to bar your from job and housing, even if charges were dropped or you were found not guilty. That alone is enough of a chilling effect to affect behavior: for example, staying away from protests or not questioning a police officer.

Again, we are already there.

Your credit score is run before you can buy a house or rent an apartment.

We are already there.

I have found that for the most part, even if we aren't working for our employer, we are still "working" at building the economy in other ways: working on the house to increase the value of land, brushing up on skills to make us better workers, (sports) gambling, monitoring crypto or other assets. The analogy that comes to mind is that even when we technically aren't at our employer, we are still acting as worker bees for the queen of our hive/economy. I wonder if others have felt similarly.

The meals and sleep parts seem more or less like ways to keep us effective at the aforementioned work.

Who gets the profit vs who pays for the costs?

They are just working two jobs.

If you have customers or stakeholders then you are not your own boss.

If all of your exes are still significant parts of your life, how do you determine who will look after the kids when you are busy with work or aren't feeling well? Are they all willing to engage in major parental roles, and to take those roles seriously?

It's more about Americans not wanting to hold their elected officials accountable.

> The only people who can do something about it don’t care about outcomes enough to fix the problem.

In other words, malicious intent the whole way down. Though I'm sure it feels good to blame the faceless "bureaucracy" and leave it at that...that way no one has to take responsibility.

You make it sound like no one is responsible for setting the budget and determining that a decently paid IT staff is not worth it.

It is malicious intent the whole way down.

Who better to profit off of nerds? It's not like there is any kind of solidarity or union among techies.

Can't teach everyone to have a backbone. Heck, nerds are infamous for being easy to manipulate.

Lack of internet connectivity should be a basic scenario any browser should have a plan for.

Sounds like the setup of a joke whose punchline is "So they can dodge paying taxes better."

House flippers are notorious for cosmetic upgrades that maximize their profit, not upgrades that maximize quality.

Don't companies lobby legislators to prevent this?

Did someone say ponzi scheme?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27585207

Does sweat not affect the Oculus Quest?

> That’s such a poor excuse.

More specifically, it is misinformation.

Oh right, how could I forget the string-only command line version of Instagram?

You are right, but Instagram is on there twice.

That's why you pay off the guards, etc.

There are plenty of ways to cheat at chess. Here's one: program chess pieces to make the optimal move for you. If you are not allowed to provide the pieces, find out the pieces being used ahead of time and create programmable replicas. Then swap each piece out with your programmed pieces under your sleeve.

Sure. But the assumption is that his options are eating either funnel cakes or burgers, which is just not true.

The food options at Six Flags Magic Mountain are actually more diverse than one would expect: https://www.sixflags.com/magicmountain/things-to-do/restaura...