This is the important aspect that most people don't think about when discussing this issue. A quick google search reveals 80% of Walmart employees are on government assistance.

Verizon is not a free service. Where's our privacy?

I'm in the US, and had the same exact problem.

I keep trying to share this on facebook and facebook makes me enter CAPCHA and then breaks my link. Conspiracy Y/N?

Same. A lot of people are sharing the link, maybe FB's spam protection is kicking in?

I had a job in college where I was supposed to sell worthless "protection plans" on every goddamned product in the store. Second-to-worst job I ever had.

I wish the retail business model was more focused on making me leave their establish happy and satisfied than having made a purchase. Try to understand what I actually want, not how you can extract money out of me.

Here is a much better article on the application of probability to the Amanda Knox case: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1j7/the_amanda_knox_test_how_an_hour...

If you end up in TX, I'd really like to pick your brain sometime.

Sure. If you have questions, please email me at michael.o.church at gmail.

I have a general policy of not disclosing employers or personal clients to the Internet but one of my front-runners is in TX. I'd be working in NYC 75+ percent of the time, but probably visiting.

I'd prefer to stay in NYC because my wife's job is here, and I have yet to visit Austin but I've heard it's great. I spent a year in Madison, which is probably like a smaller Austin with opposite weather (mild summers, harsh winters).

A general policy that doesn't apply to the employer that everyone has heard of, thus automatically giving you some kind of platform to speak from? :)

I did not choose to release that information. Someone else did.

Just ban "reckless driving" and be done with it.

Oh wait.

I think the idea is to prevent the reckless behavior before it becomes reckless driving, the same way that drunk driving is illegal even if you're not driving recklessly. For example, if you get pulled over for a busted tail light and the officer smells alcohol, you're going to jail.

Not saying I agree with it, just trying to expound on their logic.

Plus, it's something that the state can theoretically prove even if no one was there to witness the reckless driving. And even if there was a witness, witness testimony is almost comically unreliable.

I can drive perfectly "non-recklessly" whilst operating a phone, etc.

However, put a dangerous situation in front of me, and I'm going to be in trouble if I was not paying full attention.

It's much better to provide a disincentive for bad behaviour, than attempt to prove that this bad behaviour was a contributing factor in an accident.

Much like speeding.

Good for you. I'm in the middle of a similar career shift. I studied food science in college with bright-eyed dreams of entering food product development. Instead, I ended up a front-line supervisor at a factory and it was the most miserable experience. I knew I was good at programming and I was obsessed with it as a young kid, but it was never something that I felt was "cool" to study and none of my friends did anything like that. (Girls don't like computers, that stuff's for nerds! And I still felt like that in college, even at a heavily engineering school.)

It makes me really happy to see other women become programmers after other careers. We aren't alone!