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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020) on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @06:30PM (#24994155)
Is there any reason your company doesn't hire permanent residents?
Re:Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:59PM (#24923454)
Allowing unsigned drivers to be installed by the general user base seems more anti-user, no?

My naive understanding is that drivers are low-level and thus malicious drivers would have more net negative impact on an unsuspecting non-technical user (relative to a piece of malicious non-driver code).

Lake Jackson, Texas btw (for anyone checking the comments first)
Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers on Thursday April 09, 2020 @03:34AM (#22820544)
I thought so as well, but apparently it's called Google Hangouts Meet. https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/

(disclaimer - I work at Google, but not on teams that build video chat software)