But it is also generally more secure, outside of its obscurity
This is a fantasy not substantiated by evidence. Heartbleed--a Linux vulnerability in an open source library--was lying in plain sight for years before some hacker discovered it, and it was exploited in the wild for years before anybody discovered the attack.
My point was, employers can forbid all they want, but that doesn't stop employees for talking.
Your experience is not an indication of a good practice. Linux is somewhat sheltered because of its low adoption as a desktop operating system. If Linux had a 60% market share like Windows, you can bet hackers would be all over it, finding all kinds of ways to attack.
Your company is a unicorn. Most do not do such things.
It's a lot easier to decide what you're "willing to accept" than it is to actually get that amount of money. To get it, you have to find and get hired by a company that will pay you that amount. This process can be tremendously disruptive to one's life, especially if it means relocating. Sometimes, the benefits of that desired salary are outweighed by the risks or disruption. But that doesn't make it somehow "childish" to be unhappy that companies use tactics like this to keep your salary low.
Good luck "forbidding" employees from discussing their pay.
Even if they don't talk about salaries with each other, they do go to sites like GlassDoor and post their salaries there. It's not hard to find out what your job is worth.
If they did, they wouldn't be losing people right and left, who are leaving because the company refuses to pay them enough to stay.
Not having a LinkedIn profile, really limits your job prospects these days. I've landed at least three jobs specifically because recruiters found my profile there. And by the way, I *want* my profile to be completely public, so people can find it!
These days, it's literally not even *safe* to fail to upgrade to the latest version of whatever software. Software developers must continue to update to the latest version of libraries they use, in order to keep their software from being vulnerable to previously-discovered, and patched, defects. Even Microsoft, with all its billions, can't afford to maintain every old version of their software, protecting them all against security defects.
The days of upgrading when you want to, are a relic of the 1990s.
Especially, stupidity.
Checking sources is something that AI is especially good at: finding a specific referenced case, and summarizing it to see if it relates to the citation. If lawyers aren't doing that basic kind of check, my question is, why the heck not?
A study by the University of New Mexico does not find higher microplastics accumulation in older people vs. younger people, suggesting that the body is able to clear the unwanted plastics.
Precisely!
No, what I'm actually saying is that perspective is important. Contaminants range from good (like minerals in mineral water) to extremely dangerous (lead) and a whole spectrum of toxicity in between. If you drink enough ocean salt water, you will die. Yet we don't exclude salt from our diets, we just try not to overdo it. Unlike salt, microplastics have no known health benefit, but there is also little to indicate that it is highly toxic. Our efforts to minimize microplastics should be in keeping with the level of danger that it poses.
In order to pass regulations, they'll need to establish a level of toxicity, as they do with other contaminants.
There's not much research on that level that I could find, but there is some research into how lethal microplastics are.
There are a few animal studies available that measured lethal doses of microplastics: https://oceanconservancy.org/n...
- Sea birds - 12 grams of plastic will kill a bird weighing 320 grams, about 1:26
- Sea turtles - 280 grams of plastic will kill a turtle weighing 180 kg, about 1:642
- Porpoises - 1200 grams of plastic will kill a porpoise weighing 77 kg, about 1:64
Let's compare salt.
- Humans - 50 grams of salt can kill a 100-kg person, about 1:2000
So salt seems to be about 3x more lethal than the worst case (sea turtles) cited by the Ocean Conservancy above.
This type of comparison will no doubt influence the level of regulation, whichever party ultimately controls Congress.
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