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Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by CraigJPerry on Sunday May 29, 2016 @05:49AM (#11795742)
Surely any measure of ability is a better filter than just blindly trusting age as a selector?

Even an utterly unfit for purpose metric like "how fast can you type?" would be a better filter than just age for a software engineer job?

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Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by ivanca on Sunday May 29, 2016 @06:20AM (#11795815)
Those kind of measures requested testing each candidate, which costs money and time.
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Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by kryptiskt on Sunday May 29, 2016 @06:49AM (#11795885)
Breaking the law and losing a lot of lawsuits costs way more money and time.
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Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by ivanca on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:37AM (#11812681)
I really want to see a 85 year old trying to sue for being "discriminated" for a stripper role. The amusing part would be the tumblr rage over "supporting" the stripper.
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Re:Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's pla... by icebraining on Sunday May 29, 2016 @06:48AM (#11795880)
Yes, they might. So what?
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