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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by WalterBright on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:42AM (#20713273)
> you can’t really count this “requirement” and lawsuit risk as separate costs, since this is simply a policy companies adopt to mitigate lawsuit risk.

Mitigating lawsuit risks is costly.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by dragonwriter on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:25PM (#20716787)
> Mitigating lawsuit risks is costly.

It certainly has a cost, but it's part of the cost of lawsuit risk, not a separate, additional cost.

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