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themafia | 3 days ago

> they're not demanding that people proactively implement a system to prevent it from happening, are they?

What do you think a "background check" is?

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bicx|3 days ago

Definitely not murder prevention

themafia|3 days ago

That's absolutely what they are. That and other crimes. That's why they're mandatory, by law, in certain industries. That's _precisely_ why we started using them: to prevent the easily preventable.

I suppose this logic stands in the way of a corporation getting what it wants and so it's automatically offensive to the HN "job seeking" crowd; however, even a basic reading of the history shows it's completely true.