Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work

Re:Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work by MattGaiser on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:57PM (#23251704)

I rarely see lying, but you can get pretty much the same result with selective word choice and hand waving.

Going from 500 words to 30 means a loss of resolution. Just make more of the words positive and you can greatly mislead.

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Re:Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work by amznthrowaway5 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:02PM (#23251775)

Greatly misleading or lying by omission isn’t much better than lying directly.

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Re:Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @07:51PM (#23253404)

Exactly. This kind of lying is like return-oriented programming attack. Technically you didn't lie to them, didn't inject them with malicious payload straight up - you just crafted your input to guarantee their mental process generates the malicious payload (the lie) for them.

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Re:Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work by MattGaiser on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:46PM (#23253728)

Yeah, but the harm is done to the uncurious and lazy so I have a lot less sympathy.

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