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One of the classic locations: Church.

And then when you get to the representative, he proceeds to ask you the exact same questions.

I don't know about that. Whenever I've seen "Drumpf" used it seems to be trying to associate Trump with Nazis (because it's German) which is very similar to purposely using "Hussein" (which is Arabic) to associate Obama with Muslim extremists.

It's interesting that Russian immigration to the U.S. drastically drops around 1920 which is half way through the Russian Civil War.

Interesting, I didn't know the origins of the words Koran or Dharma.

I don't know much about biblical hermeneutics, but wasn't the New Testament written in Greek? Also, based upon Church tradition and history, even if the word didn't explicitly mean virgin, it is certainly understood to mean it with relation to Mary.

Sure, naming a cryptocurrency protocol "Bible" would be confusing at first. But if it was meant to be the Bible of protocols or the one protocol to use, I would understand the gist of its name.

In general, no, we don't find it offensive. The word "bible" is simply from the Greek word for book or books.

You'd want to be very careful with that. Shooting a gun in the air isn't the most wise choice. Not to mention that you should expect a law suit. My understanding is the results have been mixed.

Have you considered taking up the hobby of falconry?

We need an excuse to maintain our massive defense budget.

I could swear there was an HN post recently to do exactly that.

Pardon me if this is a naïve question. Isn't the point of references that they can be checked and verified? Why would you need to obtain explicit consent to contact the contacts when they've been provided? Isn't the consent implicit by virtue of them being supplied?

Not PowerPoint but the ease of near total surveillance that's available now.

I get them in short binges. About once a month I'll get a few over a couple day span.

That's a fair point. I've always heard it in the context of "STEM", but I think it was more referring to the technology area (primarily programmers, etc.). And even then I want to say it was about companies wanting cheap developers or specialists. So there's only a shortage if you're unwilling to pay the common rates.

So like the supposed STEM shortage? Is there really a lack of qualified candidates? Or is there simply a lack of applicants because the pay is too low or the requirements are too stringent?

See the movie Gattaca. It doesn't deal with different species, but is has "valid" (genetically improved humans) and "invalid" (normal humans).

So even those with socialist political views can't have their jokes anymore? This is getting interesting. Look, I'm pro-life and anti-abortion but let the man keep his joke. It's not that big of deal.

I take issue with some of these points.

> Property tax > Schools suck > Roads suck

I have no argument there.

> Sales tax

Have these been rising recently?

> Gas tax > Gas peices [prices] are out of control

Gas prices and whatever embedded taxes they have aren't that bad. They're much better than their peak around 2008 at over $4/gal.

> The recycling fund was looted

I'm not familiar with this.

> Social security was looted

Do you have a citation for that?

> Trump just announced today to the NRA that he just gave a shit-ton of military weaponry to the police “you cant buy this stuff” he said.

President Trump says a lot of things. Is there proof this actually happened?

> Corporations pay no taxes

You can argue whether they pay enough taxes, but I'd like a citation that they pay no taxes.

> Flint has no water

That's the city's own damn fault due to corruption.

> Legal marijuana is a scam from a tax perspective.

Personally, I'd rather we tax it heavily like cigarettes than to waste money incarcerating those drug users.

> Have you timed how many minutes a commercial break is on CNN?

They could use some more breaks.

If you're a consumer of niche subscriptions, I don't think a dentist appointment every 6 months is going to be a financial burden.

> A person who has 10+ years of experience (be it programming, business or anything else that this person has done before) under their belt is likely to have their own opinions about how things are done. They will either suggest their own ideas (which may be incompatible with the rest of the team’s view and engage in arguments that distract the management’s attention from other issues)

I sure hope so. Unless you're hiring for ditch digging or some other menial position, experience is essential because that person will likely have a better understanding of how to approach problems across various domains. Granted, different positions do have different requirements for expertise.

> or, on the contrary, if they had a bad experience suggesting their own ideas, be apathetic and do their job mechanically adding little to the group’s discussion.

This could be a legitimate complaint, but I don't see how a novice know-it-all would behave any better.

> Also, if a person has been doing their job for many years, the employer can have a more or less definite idea of what kind of output they can expect from him or her.

I don't see a downside to that.

> Sure, a person with a 10-year experience has a lower chance of being a non-performer, but you also have a much lower chance of discovering a rising star.

Ah, the chance of missing out on that low cost programming ninja. No matter how good the rising star could be, if you need someone with experience, you're better off hiring someone with experience. If you're hiring for a junior position, sure, take a chance.

True, but Trump got the votes where they mattered. Since we're categorizing votes, a majority of people didn't vote for president at all (44.37%) when compared to Clinton (28.43%) or Trump (27.20%) [1].

[1]: https://brilliantmaps.com/did-not-vote/

That doesn't help. I'm on it, and I regularly get spam calls that are all conveniently from my area code and a similar exchange code.

Technically, a flat tax by definition is neither regressive nor progressive, it is proportional. Federal income taxes and I presume corporate taxes are currently progressive (with a million and one deductions). Moving to a flat tax for either of those would be a move in the regressive direction, but it's still not technically regressive.

Personally, I'm fine with taxes having progressive rates but not the countless deductions.

In standard American English, masculine is the default gender when the subject is unknown. So using "him" is proper. Using "them" as a singular pronoun is jarring to the ears.

Do you happen to know if that is the mean or median, or how it skews? I've heard this statistic before and I'm curious about the details.

If a program deliberately excludes one sex, is it not sexist?

That is a deliberate mischaracterization of the OP's comment. It in no way implies that the software is poor because of women.

The outreach program is political, and is rather discriminatory and sexist.

> They don't need people to read it to them.

I'm not following. Why would someone read the resume to someone else?

To avoid bias? As in to be completely unprepared? Wouldn't reading the résumé give you a better idea of the interviewee's background, and allow you to better assess him?