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US Navy began testing Bitmanagement’s 3D virtual reality application ‘BS Contact Geo’. The Navy subsequently installed the software across its network, assuming that it had permission to do so.

This turned out to be a crucial misunderstanding. Bitmanagement said it never authorized this type of use and when it discovered that the Navy had installed the software on hundreds of thousands of computers, the company took legal action.

This part of the article made me think it was an error on Navy part during the testing phase. The posted article does link to a 2016 article alleging that the Navy disabled tracking of the software deployment as well.

Navy allegedly disabled the software that is supposed to track on how many computers the software is being used. This violation of the terms of service prevents the software vendor from stopping the unauthorized copying.

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-sued-for-software-pi...

This would only work for so long. As a company scales up there are going to be legal complexities in justifying and analyzing why a person was hired.

I can definitely see a tiered service where if a person got an offer they would be more sought after by companies.

It's a time trade off. Candidates can also get interview fatigue so skipping the initial interview save around 45-60min per company interviewing at.

Candidates that have obvious signals (example, worked at a fang) won't really need this service. But there are likely plenty of good candidates that get rejected at the resume review stage because their experience doesn't look that they can do the job even if the candidate is perfectly able.

I think this is a smart way to scale up an applicant pool with minimal resources. My opinion is based on being in recruiting and doing analytics from startups to big tech.

It might be worse than former TripleByte interviews in figuring out signals, but it is much less people and cost intensive to scale. I think it's a smart trade off for a start up.

Most first interviews cover the same set of questions. For engineers, it's usually can this person actually code / leet code knowledge.

On-site interviews have a lot of variables, ranging from types of questions, interviewers, and hiring committee for an offer to be extended. I can see why being rejected at 2nd/on-site stage doesn't matter much.

Had the same reaction when I read that line. It's the same as saying scoring in the top 1% percentile is within your control. And how are kids even suppose to know about these schools at a young age? I would assume it's the parents that needs to be knowledgeable and push their children to those admission exams.

The author certainly seems to have a tormented school career. It's to be reminded that when in that situation, survival and escapism often takes priority than figuring out the best high school to go to.

That would be great, but reality is that product development at many places depends on a few people to be aware of accessibility in the design process.

And there are situations outside of product usability it will be helpful to know what is commonly seen. For example, when someone asks you to pick up X item at a store that is a color that you have a hard time identifying.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted.

This was my first thought. The posts above mention using an app to read RGB. An overlay using AR would bring immediate value, I would think.

My colorblindness is mild. Can tell most colors but fail the petri dish color test around round 3-4, nothing pops out at me.

You pulled those numbers out of your ass...

They're using the percentage in the original comment/study and transferring it to the recent example.

That doesn't mean that 41% would not be convinced it could be replicated though since it's likely example related.

I did the endurance race track with a car that I knew could win, set it on auto with the computer to do the 100-200 laps. These days I think you can speed up the auto play by 5-10x.

Not a fun way to play when all there is is grind.

It's a known interviewing service. The implication by many would be that you took the test because you were interested in interviewing.

Is there another big use case that I'm missing from their product? Interested in hearing your interpretation of a person that has a profile on an interviewing service. My assumption would be the main objective of a user signing up for a service would be using the main product the service provides.

The type of relationship is different, but the example still holds. Having a profile at all can and likely will be viewed as an indicator of intention to leave the current relationship for a new relationship. This was how it was viewed having a resume profile on sites like Monster and CareerBuilder before LinkedIn made it the norm to have a public resume.

Time frame is also very important. Example, a user has been with the company for over a decade, but the product has only been around for a few years. Or if one of the "achievements" was a test that was added recently.

If I remember correctly, that was for low level weed dealers, not scamming financial systems. A successful identify theft of a middle or upper income family will reap a payout much greater than a fast food worker.

"All of what follows has been said before. If you are interested enough in writing to be a purchaser of this magazine, you will have either heard or read all (or almost all) of it before. Thousands of writing courses are taught across the United States each year; seminars are convened; guest lecturers talk, then answer questions, then drink as many gin and tonics as their expense-fees will allow, and it all boils down to what follows.

I am going to tell you these things again because often people will only listen – really listen – to someone who makes a lot of money doing the thing he’s talking about. This is sad but true." - Stephen King

https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2015/02/24/stephen-king-eve...

I put zero reliance on external forces making the change I want to see and make decisions without this being a factor. It cuts out false hope.

If I'm not willing to pay the price, I should not expect change.

Disclaimer that I use similar remarks to the quote you disagree with. This is with the understanding that the price that needs to be paid will literally take lives at times, and that there is little to no fairness at who bears that cost.

That being said, you seem to be quite active politically and doing more than most in this arena. At what point do you give up and move to where you think you'll be represented? This is assuming you have the means to go elsewhere. Some people operate on moving to where they are treated best, that includes the option of a different country.

That's harsh criticism, maybe well deserved, but doesn't provide a solution. The GP provided a solution with money that's reasonable. This is a short term need that requires a fast turn around. Training brand new programmers doesn't sound efficient at all.

There's also the context of more money in a time when the fed prints trillions of dollars every week. This will be a drop in the bucket, and in an environment where governments have decided to spend their way out of the problem.

Had to recruit for COBOL engineers 8 years ago. Almost impossible finding someone with less than 10 years of experience. Most were 15-20+ years of experience and about to retire. Many with COBOL experience moved to cloud tech that would never move back to COBOL that would cause them to be outdated. New people in the field seemingly only got trained because they were willing to learn it at a bank.

It's a struggle to hire these people cause there are so few people and many companies only want to hire local talent (within 20-50 miles, and don't want to do VISAs).

There's money to be made on supporting tech this old, likely more on the consulting side than becoming an internal employee.

Becareful with high nic. Dad started getting high blood pressure from vaping 24mg for 2-4 years. He's lowered it to 6-12mg solutions and have gotten better. His previous habit was about 2 packs a week, and in high stress situations a pack a day.

I watch Aswath Damodaran's videos, Professor of Valuation at NYU. He recently had a video on the data he uses [0]. Might be worth it to email him to see if the data sources he buys matches your needs.

[0] https://youtu.be/M9pFTApeo_8

Additional link to his data site: http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/data.html

Having dealt with chargebacks as a merchant and user, my experience is that credit card companies will either issue the money back immediately unless disputed by the merchant, and upon dispute it's up to the user to provide proof of why the chargeback is warranted. And it looks like proof is easily gotten with all the promises cited in the article.

As a user, issuing a chargeback was a last resort if merchant was giving me the run around. Haven't issued a chargeback on a purchase years old, but have done so on one from a travel/airline site about 3-6 months old.

If users still have the credit card used to pay for the service, I would see about issuing a charge back. Looks to be enough evidence of false advertisement, specifically the emails that free lifetime users received.

Nice to see quick response.

Page loading on mobile for me. Using Brave browser.

There needs to be more education around this. I found out through Reddit that medical tents should have free ear plugs if needed.

Many younger people don't know the damage they're doing to their ears. Example, at festival this year overheard couple of girls wondering why bother going if wearing ear plugs when they saw mine. I told them I rather keep my hearing, and they were genuinely shocked at the concept, never crossed their mind being near front stage can cause damage.

I just got the new eargasm, yea that's the name of the company, that can switch between -15db and -22db. Pretty good and better deal and sound quality than using regular foam earplugs. They are pricey around $45-$50, but if I don't lose them, worth the price for protecting my ears and better experience. There are ones cheaper, search high fidelity, HiFi, earplugs. Lots around the $20-$30 range.

Been running it on mobile for years. Built in adblock was all that I was looking for. Without the adblock all the video ads were draining my battery 1% per minute. Decent UI, good for people with basic needs.

Above comment isn't putting blame on Airbus, it's objecting to the statement that competition would have prevented the 737Max, and challenges that competition was the reason the 737Max was made.

Thanks! Never saw an email about this. Just another reason to have everything in your own wallet.

Did they not automatically transfer those accounts to this one? Thought they had a .us domain for over a year now.

Simple solve is to remove those keywords from your profile, and only keep keywords for jobs you want. Even changing Java Developer title to something generic as Software Engineer.

Many Recruiters/Sourcers spam everyone that come up in their keyword search and don't read the profile.

Isn't this similar to rent control in the states already, or other incentives that disincentive moving (ex, locking in property tax amount at time of buying)?