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- Comment on Regulations restricting pay disclosure? 1 hour ago:
Some states have required that job postings must include a pay range for the job in question, so since the company won’t post the range, they refuse to hire in those states.
Not a lawyer, but this sounds shady as hell. Also probably not illegal, since they are specifically avoiding the places where it IS illegal.
There are all sorts of (backwards, ignorant) reasons why they may not want to disclose the pay rate, but it immediately puts me into the worst assumption that it’s some sort of bait and switch scam. They can “unofficially” tell you what some people make, or what the mean earnings are (inflated due to a few high earners), to get you in the door, but most people won’t touch that. Like MLM job where you’re responsible for getting your own business. Or where you get a minimum wage base salary and a few people get huge commissions, but most barely scrape by.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’ll admit, I only made it through part B. This is where you think that because you are the only one to have this thought, it must be a simulation. It doesn’t actually mean that, but that’s irrelevant anyway because you aren’t: The Anthropic Principle (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle) is a well-known part of cosmology and philosophy.
Living at only one point in time doesn’t have any greater meaning. Flip this the other way: imagine you have a minimal amount of hand-eye coordination, and you can hit a dart board, but not enough to hit a specific number. So you throw a dart and hit a 3. The chances of that are 1/20, and the chances you hit the very specific spot on that 3 is astronomically smaller. That doesn’t mean it’s special, it’s just where you hit.
Your observations and experiences aren’t meaningful because they’re planned, they’re meaningful because they’re yours, and you couldn’t have them at any other time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My wife will scrub the dishes, then put them in the dishwasher, and not start it because it’s not completely full.
They’re already so clean, the next person in the kitchen has a very difficult time telling if it has been run or not. JUST too dirty to eat from again, but also too clean to see at a glance. So annoying. I even got one of those clean/dirty magnets so we can signal to everyone, but then people forget to switch it.
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 2 weeks ago:
And if childhood cartoons determined our actions, whole generations of kids would have wiped out the roadrunner population by dropping anvils on them.
- Comment on Emergent introspective awareness in large language models 3 weeks ago:
Check their account history. They may as well be on an AI company marketing team.
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- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 4 weeks ago:
There are different answers depending on the end goal.
Mere survival: Isolated human populations have been bottlenecked to as few as a few hundred individuals and survived, IIRC.
A quick search says biologists like to see 25+ breeding pairs to maintain an animal species (if I’m reading that correctly). So 50-100 seems like pretty close to the minimum.
Long-term colony building with full genetic diversity needs a lot more: At least one estimate is as high as 40,000 people. The high number is for Earth-like diversity in the population, and with no need for any overarching breeding program, so it’s really kind of an outlier scenario. That 40k figure can be pared down significantly if you have strict protocols, or accept some loss of diversity.
So anywhere from 50 people to 40,000 people, but the end result will look wildly different at the extremes.
- Comment on Do xenomorphs, if prepared correctly, taste like shrimp? 4 weeks ago:
They take on a number of characteristics of the host species where they gestate. Probably depends heavily on that?
Definitely acidic, though.
- Comment on xkcd #3157: Emperor Palpatine 4 weeks ago:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Palpatine
- Comment on Would spiderman hurt a fly? 4 weeks ago:
The Boys.
- Comment on Would spiderman hurt a fly? 4 weeks ago:
Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is strictly catch and release.
- Comment on Someone should digitally remake the Bourne movies and make everyone in the films Jason Bourne 4 weeks ago:
While they’re at it, let’s include image stabilization. Shaky cam was the worst film fad of the era.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had games purchased for me, but I’m not really into first person shooters, especially competitive ones, and especially especially on a console where I’m stuck using a controller.
So Black Ops III and the Master Chief Collection may be awesome for lots of people, but that’s not my jam.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Seize all electronic devices and scan for logged-in accounts, cookies, browsing history, etc.
Depending on the severity of the crime (if NSA gets involved, for instance) there are ways to defeat Tor, anyway. They have historically maintained backdoors (technical and human) into most telecom networks, and can always “ask” ISPs for a ton of information on a suspect.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 1 month ago:
I haven’t used revanced in a while, but Fennic + ubo + sponsor block should get you to basically the same place unless they’ve added new features since I used it last.
No separate app required.
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 1 month ago:
- Windows 7 was used to browse web pages on a subset of sites that use the Statcounter plugin, and mostly in one area of the world.
But that doesn’t make a good headline.
- Comment on Should 21-23-year-olds be allowed to date older people? 1 month ago:
Who are you delegating to “disallow” such a thing? Like a law?
- Comment on On Jeopardy, does getting the Who/What/Where/When/Why part of the response necessary? 1 month ago:
I can’t speak for the official rules, but I swear I’ve heard “What is…” in times when that’s not the most appropriate response.
It sure feels like “in the form of a question” is more important than if the question itself makes grammatical sense.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 months ago:
I graduated in 2001 in a tech-adjacent field, and my first job was as a security guard making barely over minimum wage. Things get bad. Things get better.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 2 months ago:
Someone had to protect Wesley from Picard.
- Comment on snek go beep beep 2 months ago:
If it looks like a cobra, it’s a cobra, and if it looks like a viper, it’s a viper.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 2 months ago:
These types of machines certainly have their place, and if it meets your needs, go for it.
The big downside is going to be a lack of upgradability. Most of the core components will be soldered to the motherboard, so no CPU or GPU upgrades, and no replacements if something breaks. I know the one you linked was just an example, and not necessarily “the one,” but its on-board graphics are similar in power to a GTX 1650. Lots and lots of games available at that level, but you’ll be locked out of anything newer with no clear upgrade path later.
For reference, I own something similar, but even older, as a secondary machine. It’s fine for what it does. Just be aware of the limitations. There are ways to build a similar-powered full desktop for about the same price. At that point it’s a tradeoff: would you rather be able to upgrade later, or do you want the simplicity and small form factor (portability, aesthetics, etc)?
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 2 months ago:
The security of their bank balance.
- Comment on What goes here? 2 months ago:
Turtle with a runny nose.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 months ago:
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
Well they say all new tech is driven by the porn industry, so, um…
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 2 months ago:
ftc.gov/…/consumer-review-fairness-act-what-busin…
The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews. For example, in an online transaction, it would be illegal for a company to include a provision in its terms and conditions that prohibits or punishes negative reviews by customers.
- Comment on here there be lions 2 months ago:
“I’m a lone wolf.”
OK, so you’re too useless and/or immature to pull your own weight among your group and they kicked you out?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Odyssey counts, right?
- Comment on CUSTAAAAAAAARD 2 months ago:
Is that a research grant I hear calling?
