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So...Panasonic - which probably wants to be an electronics company, not an investment fund - booked a huge profit by selling off something which started out as a little demonstration of financial &…

Another example of why this sort of testing is important - without pressing the "because nuclear" emotional button: In WWII, Germany's new "pride of the Third Reich" battlesh…

IANAL (and certainly have not read the text of the law), but "reasonable" sounds fairly easy to game in many situations. "Your honor, our job listing made things quite clear. If quali…

Given the massive data breaches in recent years - especially First American Financial, Experian, and other troves of in-depth personal financial data - how easily could the pay ranges be deduced &…

My grandfather did this with my father - though with specific marching orders. Regularly, maybe starting when dad was 7. It was the 1920's (s/bus/train/g). So far as I can tell …

I'm currently in Michigan (U.S.) - where liquor distribution is a state monopoly, retail sale requires a state license, the state takes as large a cut of the revenue as it pleases, etc. And - Ap…

Put another way - the incentives to hire less-than-legal workers (perhaps after helping them enter the U.S) are currently extremely high. Interesting how Reason has the resources to do field research…

Yes, in the big picture. IANAS ("...not a Sociologist"), but there seems to be an unspoken social rule that "the usual" sexual misbehaviors of an alpha male are pretty much ignore…

I think you are quite obviously correct. But this is Hacker News. Not (hypothetical handwave) Marketer News. On that (\1) site, your comment would be brutally downvoted for obviousness. ;)

If the market going up again (Step 4) is a sure thing, then Step 3 is obviously sub-optimal. If that is not a sure thing, then they've still got a potential ~$1B net loss. I am not asserting tha…

A little company I worked for ~20 years ago (Michigan, U.S.A.) had a female UPS driver. Her route was ~99% residential - so extremely few bathrooms. (Vs. it was easy, then, for UPS drivers deliverin…

My impression (over a few decades) is that news stories about a unionization vote (won, lost, or upcoming) near-always proclaim the employer's "vote no" campaign to be exceptionally agg…