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>But at no point will the phone company cancel my telephone service

This isn't correct. I work for a tier 2 telco and both CLECs and ILECs regularly cancel accounts known for fraudulent traffic. At first they'll block the originating traffic from routing across their switch, but after review and positive confirmation they will terminate the subscribers account.

There is a constant arms race to detect and prevent fraudulent traffic. The idea the LECs would knowingly continue to provide service to these accounts is nonsense.

Congrats on the launch. I love the rotary dial. I love the typographic choices. I love everything about this except the printed logo.

Signed up for the waitlist. I'm interested in the pricing.

>Beginning in April 2016, James Cook University took a number of disciplinary measures over two years against Ridd, which culminated in Ridd being fired, for refusing to take down confidential information which he had placed publicly online. The university denied that the dismissal was over Ridd's views on climate change.

Looks like it went back in forth in court for a few years, with the university ultimately winning on appeal that he was fired for cause (posting confidential info).

https://sterlinglawqld.com/peter-ridd-loses-high-court-appea...

http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA//...

In some cases, but a product must fulfill its core purpose. If a SSD intentionally dumped data and self destructed at a set time, that would be disastrous for the brand. Same way a car doesn't adopt planned obsolescence by blowing up after 200k miles.

>Your time is better spent working on side projects

This seems like a shaky assumption. Keep in mind that many companies, like mine, sponsor or even mandate the certification process. Meaning the justification, time, and costs didn't come from the candidate you're dismissing.

I'm sure every person that signed that letter knew they were putting their jobs on the line.

Musk has publicly claimed that he is a free speech absolutist.

It was for shooting an unarmed man in the back.

"The bodycam footage shows [Officer] Samayoa drawing his pistol while the cruiser was still moving. The video then shows him open the side door and fire a single shot through the window as O’Neil runs by in the opposite direction. O’Neil was not armed."

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/forme...

I agree it'll end up being a fight for the lawyers, but Musk cannot credibly claim to be surprised by the bot problem when so much of his and Tesla's twitter presence is propped up by bots (25% of activity due to a recent study - https://today.umd.edu/researcher-studies-teslas-twitter-bot-...)

Musk waived due diligence in making his offer, and Twitter clearly relied on that waiver when accepting it.

Relative to the enterprise vendor, that is very much on the cheap. I wasn't placing any value on your work, I was referring to the ubiquitous "I know a guy" cost cutting solutions that end up somehow being very, very expensive in the end.

Distractions can be overwhelming in an office.

(Most) managers hate meetings just as much as you, and they're not wasting money for the fun of it. Every technical manager has inherited problems because someone at some point tried to save money by hiring a random dude on the cheap who just half assed it.

You go with companies that can demonstrate scalability because they provide project governance, proper change management, and layers of redundancy and support in the event of an emergency.

Maybe for previous generations. Today there are unprecedented public and private campaigns and grants to bring STEM opportunities to low-income schools.

I read the posted paper. Please point out where the authors factor in improvements to how we elicit, diagnose, and catalog mental health problems today. I was specifically looking for it and couldn't find it. The paper mentions the historical increase in 1.2 and 1.3 but offers no context or mitigation for long-term improvements in mental health reporting. Their NYTimes source in that section only goes back one decade and starts right off with an exploding upward trend. That could absolutely be attributed to improved reporting standards when the problem got attention, but the authors don't acknowledge any impact of reporting improvements.

My parent comment was based on my experience as a teenager, compared to the very different way my teenage children are monitored and evaluated for mental health. It's night and day.

This sounds like how a bunch of old dudes on HN see the "teenager world," with very adult interpretations. I also have teenagers and have worked in schools. I think there are two truths that this comment overlooks; 1) today's youth, generally speaking, are pretty impressive and resourceful, and 2) being a teenager has always sucked. Just because their experience is different doesn't mean it's worse. Every generation of teenagers has known awkwardness, stress, and confusion. All of these studies about how x is a million times worse these days often can be attributed to more accurate data and measurements.

A 'Pro' device shouldn't be sold with crippled specs.

I agree there's a gradient for this stuff. This is all the way at the end, beyond the point of uselessness.

I just took the test from their provided link (eclecticenergies.com) and it is 100% woo. Spiritual chakra energy lifeforce crystals woo.

That site should not be used, at least not directly, by anybody in a professional managerial setting.

Citizen is going to get someone killed.

Nearly all of classical music was sponsored by and produced for wealthy patrons. Is that cultural pollution too?

I'm not aware of that term being propogandist. Maybe I heard it somewhere, definitely possible. Do you object to the image? It seems perfectly fitting which is why I used the word.

Does free speech require a company to give me a megaphone to their private platform and users? Does twitter not have a right to exercise their speech?

I don't think it's an exclusively bad practice, especially at larger organizations where cliques and silos are deeply entrenched. It can be hard to retain good people when every opportunity is spoken for by the director's buddy and there's no path to move up.

I'm not arguing an absolute, there should be a way for leaders to hand pick the clear favorite when they're qualified, but I don't know if that should be the default policy.

It is a degradation of their service. They absolutely should care.

You can disable notifications just for Shared Items.

drive>menu>settings>notification settings>notification categories>shared items

Different uses for different audiences. That article addresses engineering use cases. But diagramming is also useful when discussing (and constantly revising) concepts and workflows with business users before any code is written. Drag and drop fits the bill just fine there.

I'm not affiliated but if anyone is looking for BPMN diagramming I've found cawemo.com to be the best option out there. Lightweight, simple, online, free, and can be used for downstream automation.

Nobody is getting cancelled for having a different opinion on tax rates or foreign policy.

There are very specific and narrow types of speech that lead to 'cancellation,' and it's almost always speech that attacks people's identity, race, and sexuality. Historically that type of speech has been equated with harm.

Doesn't your linked article counter that argument? Both the head of Samsung and a former president of SK received prison time for bribery. That seems big. I'm not knowledgeable about the full scope of the corruption, but based on that article it sounds like "effective measures" are entirely possible.