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		throwaway45074 on March 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job And yet all I see on HN is talk about how hiring a single false positive is supposedly so calamitous that it's better to reject (and waste the time of, and insult) tens, hundreds, or even thousands of false negatives.

emiliobumachar on March 24, 2018 [–]

There's a lot of "natural" toxicity of bad hires, and it does inspire a lot of fear. Additional state-imposed toxicity makes it even worse.

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