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New comment by bencorman in "U.S. science is in chaos"

bencorman — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:04:45 +0000

Race science is just about the apex of pseudoscience. Academics haven't rejected it because it doesn't mesh with their liberal politics, they've rejected it because it's junk.

New comment by bencorman in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

bencorman — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:42:35 +0000

I wish someone could have seen the eye roll I just performed reading this comment.

Silencing absolutely works! How do you think disinformation metastasized!?

New comment by bencorman in "BrewDog's James Watt Launches 'Shadow DOGE' to Take on UK Government"

bencorman — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:37:24 +0000

Did he just wake up from a 15 year coma

New comment by bencorman in "I am done. I give up"

bencorman — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:00:34 +0000

Watching an unwell person publicly spiral into paranoia and conspiracy-obsession and then calling that a "different political opinion" is a pretty bizarre take.

New comment by bencorman in "Technical Writing Courses from Google"

bencorman — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:05:39 +0000

Flutter's documentation is fantastic. A lot of effort went into it, and it shows.

New comment by bencorman in "Ask HN: Ok for a man to depend on his wife’s stable income to pursue indie dev?"

bencorman — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 22:19:18 +0000

Don't ask the internet. Ask your wife.

New comment by bencorman in "Google rescinds offers to thousands of contract workers"

bencorman — Fri, 29 May 2020 17:18:09 +0000

We're misusing the term contractor in this thread. There are about 130,000 TVCs at Google (Temps, Vendors, and Contractors) according to the article.

The overwhelming majority of those are vendors, who provide security, staff cafeterias, call centers, etc. A few thousand are temps, who do the same work as an FTE but on a fixed-term basis with a cap at 2 years. Temps are employees of a staffing agency like Adecco which rents them out to Google for a rate about 2-3x the hourly pay of the temp.

The number of actual contractors, who are self-employed and have contracts directly with Google, is just a few hundred. They likely do make more than many FTEs, at least lower-level ones.