minkiebun

was it speeding plus reckless or evading an officer? If not, what state will press felony charges for straight up speeding?

I go with “prefer not to say” and had no problem getting offers as a straight white cis male.

I’ve been a fairly high level hiring manager at multiple firms and those answers never mattered or were even visible to me; even at the VP level.

Many companies handle background checks in exactly this manner; it’s common for seven years to be a cutoff where they stop caring.

Keeping the lights on is typically around 10% of effort at Amazon. But there’s value in the ongoing development, which is why it’s done.

I worked at Amazon.

Keep The Lights On effort was typically around 10% of total capacity. The rest of the effort was because the goal is not to maintain, it’s to drive improvements to the business.

It’s even easier to get the bits of shell using a larger piece of shell.

FRED does a nice job of cataloguing prices of the most basic ingredients. The history on them makes clear that a lot of these stories round off to noise; people noticing things going up and not noticing when they stay flat or decline.

Take for example eggs: they’re up about 20% over the last two years… but they’re down from 15 years ago, because eggs have (mostly) stayed really cheap for a long time.

And that’s not down in inflation adjusted dollars, it’s just down.