[vaxman]

Fact: Tech careers attract many sketchy people and many young people. Alcohol is one of the few legal ways to quickly identify and filter out the union of those two sets, many of whom are the most disturbed individuals that have found their way in. Sadly, it doesn't work on those who abstain due to physical incapacity, religion or the truly psychotic. Just keep parroting expressions with an obsolete context like "free as in beer"... or "Alcohol and social bonding in humans" (as opposed to animals?) here on Hacker News..hah

[etaioinshrdlu]

I really want to understand what you're saying. Can you try to rephrase?

[smolder]

I read that as: alcohol is used to get employees to open up for "post-hiring interview" purposes, to get a better feel for their character. I've had people senior to me pry pretty hard into my own thoughts over alcohol at company events before, so that fits my experience.

[C1sc0cat]

I think your inbuilt cultural biases are showing here