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I think you're looking for the Who wants to be Hired thread

Exactly. Mostly nonsense, and anything true in it was already obvious.

The Children of Time series is fantastic! I'm glad that Adrian Tchaikovsky is getting more well deserved recognition.

I wouldn't necessarily say that. The cardboard/wax tears quite easily, and the wax tears with the cardboard. I don't think a plastic film would do that.

Just goes to show how effective unionizing is. Power to those workers! They're a key part in making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world. They deserve a fair share.

Perhaps some compliance to a too-broad security policy. Like, across the board, all NFC enabled electronics with read/write capabilities must have a password mechanism.

They probably knew it was dumb but implementing it was easier than getting around all the organizational permissions to make an exception.

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As this is a UK based article, I'm assuming you mean the Cambridge in England. I happen to live in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the while cyclists can be reckless, the drivers pose a 1000x greater threat to safety than cyclists.

As a tip for dealing with cyclists: continue your movement as a pedestrian: they'll go around you. Most pedestrians have headphones in/little awareness of their surroundings, and as a cyclist I always assume I'm invisible to them and to cars.

Amazing news! More cyclists (and fewer motorists) on the streets creates a safer, less polluted city environment for everyone.

What I find remarkable about LEGO is what it's taught me about sculpture: the ability to give the impression of something, letting the mind fill in the details. LEGO bricks are actually quite simple, yet they can create some very intricate designs. Take a look at the lattice work in Rivendell. If you study it closely, it's actually some very basic parts, yet the effect is this intricate pattern that provides a great amount of depth to the scene.

At will employment always always benefits the employers more than employees. Your job is tied to your health insurance as well. So there is a much much bigger incentive for an employee to stay at a company than for a company to keep an employee.

Other than the pizza and beer, I challenge you to find a ski resort in Colorado/Utah much cheaper than the prices you listed. It's crazy here in the US.

I'll be spending a week skiing in Austria next week and altogether it's cheaper than a week of skiing in Colorado.

You might be thinking of the Sopranos:

SPOILER

When Tony and Carmine are getting divorced, Tony consults with every lawyer in town, creating a conflict of interest and not allowing Carmine to use them.

It's the kind of lawyer who will get you the best outcome when you know you'll be convicted of some very bad things.

I love this concept. Where is the apparel manufactured? How much transparency / accountability is there re the supply chain?

Pretty much every major tech company is either inherently or in practice worth shitting on.

They're also defining, in the public's imagination, the primary use case of VR to be corporate meeting space. That's bad for VR and bad for society.

Sickening. If FB were to selectively refuse to comply with some state subpoenas, what would be the consequences? Banning of FB in Indiana? I think that would be more of a punishment for the Boomers of Indiana than for FB.

It's to stop web scraping spam bots. It's not worth it for a web scraping scammer to take the time to individually decode his email address.

That's a very sad way to view the world and people.

Games have been 60 since around 2005. People were paying $90 in 2022 USD for the original Halo, which makes $70 easier to stomach

As it should be. A missing stop sign can get someone killed.

Let's say these properties were seized/repatriated/otherwise off limits to Russian oligarchs. Would that move the value on them at all? If so, would it have any effect on more day to day real estate values?

Nice, I'm interested in what your non-monetary benefits are? I now get paid better than average, but that's essentially my only compensation.

It doesn't have to be that granular. If one engineer is getting (deservedly) paid 50% more than another in the same role, the company owes it to that engineer to give them a title/role that reflects their merit/contributions, at the very least for their career progression.

Totally agree. My first job out of college, there was a range for the position of $75 - $105k. I got the offer, and the salary offer was for 75. I asked for $90 and we settled on 85, as the 105 range was for 2+ years of experience, and I was a new grad. I thought it was very fair.