throwawaypolicy

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by throwawaypolicy 5y ago
And on the flip side, compensation plans that encourage people to stay to arbitrary dates are probably a mistake. That's where I'm at today. There's a lot of money resting on my staying at a company for a year. I don't f
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by throwawaypolicy 6y ago
It was certainly not my intent to mislead with that, I apologize if it was less than clear.
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by throwawaypolicy 6y ago
I get the impression you're taking what you know of attacks against consumers, and just assuming that attacks against large organizations work the same way. They (generally) don't. With a consumer attack it's get execution on
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by throwawaypolicy 6y ago
Why hospitals? They have lots of money (same as any big organization) and a very good reason to pay up. It would be far from the first time a hospital was attacked. It wouldn't even by the first time it directly resulted in a death [0]
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
> But you can't make foreign intelligence assets "stay in the US" as it were You can though, it's called defecting. There's a long history of it. E.g. see this list of defectors from the soviet union: https:&#x2
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
Moreover, even if they were legitimate, was the press a legitimate place to raise them? Generally, if you want to whistleblow you should blow the whistle to the regulators. Probably the EPA or a similar agency for any supposed environmental
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
China has very publicly ran DDOS attacks against GitHub when GitHub did some things they didn't like. Specifically they used infrastructure co-located with the GFW to run a MITM on connections to Baidu and serve malicious javascript. T
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
Changing your country of residence when you get a new job is perfectly normal. Changing your nationality is not.
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
More likely, "Sorry, we either need you to relocate or move to a new role within the company". Companies forcing employees to relocate isn't exactly new...
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
There were basically two "scandals" recently. - GitLab announced that they were going to start including third party telemetry. This predictably annoyed developers. They made it substantially worse by originally announcing that it
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
Anti boycott laws are a real thing, you can read about them here https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac I don't pretend to know whether restricting country of residence counts as discriminating on
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
You will have employees from foreign countries, but not employees living in foreign countries. This not only changes the degree to which the foreign country can influence them, but it changes the degree to which other countries can retaliat
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
> The fact that someone lives in China or Russia does not, by itself, make them an untrustworthy person, any more than someone living in the United States, Germany, Japan, or the UK. It has nothing to do with "untrustworthy" an
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
Consider the exact same scenario at any non-remote company. If Bob wants to move to China, where the company doesn't have an office, he's going to have to resign or take a leave of absence. This decision on Gitlab's part woul
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
I've been told (at a different company based in a different country) "don't bring your work laptop to China, don't bring materials to China without authorization, we'll provide what is effectively a burner device fo
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
I think that more effective than voting with your wallet is voting in your elections and communicating with your politicians. Even voting with your wallet by donating to support political action. Collective action is more effective when it&
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
It more than "looks like" Blizzard is taking China's side. They have outright said that they are in their chinese language statement > We strongly condemn the player and the casters on what happened in the game last weeken
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
I interpreted "non believers" to be "not believing in the party" not "not believing in religion". "the Chinese government doesn't interfere in personal religious beliefs" is quite the claim thoug
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by throwawaypolicy 7y ago
> First of all, we hurt members of our LGBTQ+ community when they felt they couldn’t participate authentically and we didn’t respond quickly or strongly enough in supporting them. Worse, through our handling of this situation, we made th