Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing

Re:Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing by FabHK on Friday October 05, 2018 @05:39AM (#18146829)

There's a big difference between

* criminal justice (where you mete out punishment, and want to act only against confirmed bad people (and in case of doubt, you don't act), and therefore you require very strong evidence against someone), and

* examining candidates for one of the most elevated positions in government (where you hand out power, and want to appoint only confirmed good people (and in case of doubt, you don't appoint), so fairly weak evidence against someone is enough.)

That's not really a particularly hard distinction to grasp.

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Re:Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing by ck425 on Sunday October 07, 2018 @05:23AM (#18159656)

This. In our industry we reject good candidates all the time, as we'd rather many false negatives than one false positives. This is the same. Hell in ways it's even more important. It's a job for life, with a stupid amount of influence.

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