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  1. Re: It's mostly from recycling on E-Waste Mining Could Be Big Business (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    We stopped building in places no one wants to live in the 70s. The construction cranes littering the skyline in other areas clearly demonstrate building is still happening at a decent clip.

  2. It's rude to talk in an open office on Open Offices Make You Less Open (calnewport.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't this obvious? Anyone talking to someone face-to-face in an open office is being rude to everyone in the room. So no longer do you pop into someone's office and chat, but are instead formed to setup a meeting or distract a dozen other people.

  3. Re: What about it? on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Water is really just a power constraint. We have plenty of water. It just needs to be desalinated. That should become easier as time goes on - at least in the developed world.

  4. Re: Seems odd on Study Suggests There's No Limit On Longevity (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    There isn't any other reasonable source to rely on. But that shouldn't stop you from pausing to recognize that the one area showing statistical variance coincides with a time period when records start to become sketchy.

  5. Re: Brexit, baby on How the EU Copyright Proposal Will Hurt the Web and Wikipedia (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1

    I reject any system that promotes labor. We are a technologically advanced society on the cusp of a post-labor capability. Any attempt to focus on laborers is missing the point.

  6. Re: Post-liberty world is coming on How the EU Copyright Proposal Will Hurt the Web and Wikipedia (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1

    In addition, the individual states in the US are not their own nations. The individual nations that make up the US are not nation-states, they are religious or foreign.

    The argument has been made that if fascism came to America it would be through the one thing that binds us as a nation: liberalism (one example might be antifa thugs).

  7. Re: Post-liberty world is coming on How the EU Copyright Proposal Will Hurt the Web and Wikipedia (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1

    The EU is not a nation. The United States is. The comparison is not between the US and the EU, but between the US and various ethno-states in Europe such as Germany, Albania, or France.

    The EU has a long way to go before it can be compared to the federal system of the US. The fact that it just lost one of its member states isn't helping it either.

  8. Re: EU hurt free speech? on How the EU Copyright Proposal Will Hurt the Web and Wikipedia (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1

    So, you don't know what the word "American" means so I didn't bother to read the rest of your ignorant drivel.

  9. Re: EU hurt free speech? on How the EU Copyright Proposal Will Hurt the Web and Wikipedia (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1

    I would like to add that any definition of American that includes both Alberta and Chile is not a particularly useful one.

    Should we start talking about EU member states as Eurasian?

  10. Re: Rejections on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    Recruiters and employers fawn over me dude. I can find a job with six figure salary in a week. I leave a joke resume up on LinkedIn just to keep the job offers at bay.

    On the other hand, it sounds like you failed at every step of due diligence. If you keep having problems, maybe the problem is you.

  11. Re: Why not? on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've been involved in hiring at every company I've worked at for the last decade.

  12. Re: Fuck em on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    Frankly, if it's not ASCII, it's not really a standard written character in the modern world.

    Try using curly quotes the next time you have to create a password.

  13. Re: Fuck em on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    "At Slashdot, we also avoid curly quotes -- and when we miss, you see them as weird characters on the site"

    https://m.slashdot.org/story/3...

  14. Re: Well, people are stupid. on Data From Open-Source Ancestry Site Leads to More Arrests (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The OJ trial was not an exercise in finding truth, it was an exercise in finding racial justice.

  15. Re: Sorry, but... on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Building infrastructure properly will already tick all the regulatory boxes. But building infrastructure properly is expensive.

  16. Re: Sorry, but... on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because your spell checker doesn't have a word, doesn't mean it's not a valid word.

  17. Re: Sorry, but... on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop projecting.

  18. Re: Exactly!! Ding, Ding, Ding! on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Here's the thing about hosting on AWS. When your shit goes down, everyone's shit goes down. Github is down, Slack is down, Pinterest, Reddit, etc.

    In the end, none of our customers blame us because we can simply point to all the other well known sites that are down at the same time.

    It is what it is.

  19. Re: The transactions are high risk on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Probably by having tight relationships with a small set of sympathetic payment providers, keeping very detailed records, eating the excessive chargeback fees, and building their entire pricing structure based on the reality in which they operate.

  20. Re: Well, people are stupid. on Data From Open-Source Ancestry Site Leads to More Arrests (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The reality is jurors see DNA evidence as God's Own Truth. Even though it's clear someone's DNA can end up in a place they've never been.

  21. Snitches get stitches on Data From Open-Source Ancestry Site Leads to More Arrests (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You want me to submit my DNA to a public database in order to put my relatives in prison for indeterminate, supposed crimes?

    No thanks...

  22. Re: Ghosted by potential employer on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't help but feel that men - through the social norms of dating - have much more experience in disassociating their self esteem from how they are treated. Perhaps there's an equal rights argument to be made for HR departments not being such irrepressible dicks.

  23. Re: Bad behavior of employers.. on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    Never a good idea to give notice unless you are prepared to leave immediately. Employers don't give notice when they're firing you; there is no obligation to give notice when quitting.

  24. Re: Employment contract on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, in the U.S., no one signs anything until their first day.

  25. Re: Employment contract on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know of any law in the U.S. that could restrict your right to not show up for work or to compel communication with your employer in such a manner. You can't sign a contract that makes you an indentured servent or restricts your freedom of association. Any contract that attempted to do so would be unenforceable.