DrHuman

Thank you for the advice. This is exactly one of the reasons I just moved to Washington to look for work. The state supposedly just implemented strong ban the box laws in June.

As a person with some criminal convictions in my past due to substance abuse, but now ready to reenter the workforce, this mentality terrifies me. What is going to happen if I am not deemed "rehabilitated"? It reminds me of a quote that has stuck with me from an unrelated article:

>Capitalism doesn’t just determine our source of income but how we relate to each other, our surroundings, and ourselves. To be rendered superfluous by the system is damning to social wellbeing as well as economic livelihood.

https://qz.com/1269525/capitalism-is-unfolding-exactly-as-ka...

Doctors in the US were getting kickbacks for prescribing opioids. This incentivized prescribing opioids for all types of cases that wouldn't normally need it, and led to "pill mills" flooding neighborhoods with drugs. Big pharma is behind the crisis in the US.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/15/17355722/op...

What's the drug of choice out there?

I would like to flesh it out at some point. Not sure how to go about doing the back end though. I'm currently taking a Node course so maybe after that I'll give it a shot.

Yea, it's not even a good strategy really. Just the only thing that I felt like I could code that would be a step up from just making a random legal move.

Agreed. The only thing I could think to do would be look for pieces to capture in any given turn, but that would never get it to an end game condition. It's beyond my current capabilities to make a proper computer opponent, but it would be a good exercise.

I actually wrote a toy app recently following the Fetlar rules as a React exercise:

https://htafl.herokuapp.com/

Not sure how it renders across machines but it looks ok on my Mac.

Well that is unsettling. In the article you linked it sounds like Ancestry.com was responsible for working with the police. 23andMe seems to have a better track record on privacy and claims to have resisted requests from law enforcement so far. But I agree that it's not ideal that law enforcement can even make these requests. People should be able to check their genetic health and not have to worry about being wrongfully placed at a crime scene.

https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-and-you/23andprivacy-your-d...

What "authorities" have been handed this information? And what would they do with this information that makes it so bad?