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by lhc- 10y ago
Uber has a history of sketchy behavior, such as investigating journalists who have written less than complimentary stories. Uber has basically done the Exact thing Fowler is explaining before. To me, that provides a pretty convincing argume
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by lhc- 10y ago
It sounds like the criticism is "I hate that she might change her mind based on new evidence". I'd say its a good thing that they were willing to alter their policy based on whether it would create jobs or not.
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by lhc- 10y ago
Consider the pressure / race to the bottom this puts on the rest of the EU though. The EU has an incentive to try to keep things fair between the states (disallowing sweetheart deals to lure companies away from other members), because
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by lhc- 10y ago
There's a whole article above about what laws were not followed and a solution that works for both parties: Apple pays the taxes it owes. If it is unhappy with that burden, it can leave Ireland and the EU, but I suspect that will not h
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by lhc- 10y ago
If your cause is to decrease advertising on the web, and these actions diminish its effectiveness and potentially lead to decreased advertising in search of a better revenue stream, well that sounds like effective activism to me.
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by lhc- 10y ago
Except they're pretty clearly private companies, not Public Goods. And as such, they can do basically whatever they want about speech on their platforms.
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by lhc- 10y ago
But the article doesn't argue for NO parking lots; it argues that FREE parking lots are the issue. The stores could stay open with paid parking, and could lower costs for non-drivers because they no longer needed to subsidize that free
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by lhc- 10y ago
I'm not sure how you can argue drones minimize foreign civilian casualties, given the constant reports of drones bombing weddings and social gatherings based on the location of a cell phone. That's basically just repeating direct
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by lhc- 10y ago
I mean, Trump has also talked about banning legal muslim immigration from places like Syria; does that not count as anti-immigration?
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by lhc- 10y ago
Why can't we blame the democratic candidate, who was so unappealing to progressive voters that they preferred Nader? I would suggest it is the fault of that candidate (and his party) that they lost the election. No one is entitled to a
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by lhc- 10y ago
I agree with all of this. a16z and other VC's are pretty clearly on the side of capital, and don't really believe that labor provides any value. Employee's taking lower salaries and investing years of their lives don't p
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by lhc- 10y ago
You're saying we should ignore past bad behavior because Google, Facebook, etc. are good guys now. Logically, that would lead us to excuse current bad behavior by smaller companies because everyone does it, and they'll do good onc
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by lhc- 10y ago
Do you have a reference for that? Maybe some evidence of why you consider these numbers misleading? I worked in the tax business recently and I'd say both those numbers are actually below average for out customers (who were mostly poor
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by lhc- 10y ago
Doing this on LinkedIn would be really bad, because that data would be out there for recruiters, and you'd lose most of your leverage when trying to negotiate at a new job.
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by lhc- 11y ago
Another take on this issue is that the FBI and NSA have a strong opposing interest. While they may not lobby in the same sense as Apple etc., they do represent law enforcement, which is an enormously powerful lobby in the US. So all those p
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by lhc- 11y ago
To be fair, H1Bs are already only supposed to be used in the case where you can't find an American for the job, which already suggests the visa holder should have some extra special talent because they can do a job no American can.
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by lhc- 11y ago
Sadly the phone system is an enormous legacy beast, so this is a lot easier said than done.
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by lhc- 11y ago
We use Mesos/Marathon/Docker extensively at my work as well, and Marathon has definitely been the flakiest of those three.
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by lhc- 11y ago
FYI, Stash is now Bitbucket Server, and the plan as I've heard it is to work towards feature parity between the two.
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by lhc- 11y ago
But in this case, the buyer already purchased the product.
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by lhc- 11y ago
"turning off" might be accomplished by something like breaking or unplugging the mic, or hiding it in the glove box (as was listed in the article). You are giving the officers unrestricted access to these vehicles for large segmen
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by lhc- 11y ago
Of course, in the other direction, private spending has it's own problems. Most of the money is spent on recurring conditions where you have to take the drug forever rather than one-time cures. Additionally, things like hair loss and i
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by lhc- 11y ago
We use Stash (and Jira and Confluence and a bunch of Agile stuff). Its... ok. Its a lot better than some of the other self-hosted repositories we tried, but there are some rough spots. Pull requests are a lot worse than Github, for example.
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by lhc- 11y ago
It doesn't really change anything in Chicago. While it might be nice to get some individual corrupt official(s) where they belong, Chicago as a whole shows no evidence that it's becoming less corrupt.
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by lhc- 11y ago
If it isn't profitable, maybe they shouldn't have signed contractual agreements and made promises to the govt related to their buildout. They've already gained large benefits from promising to build out their network; it hard
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by lhc- 11y ago
You can try to be an independent state, if you'd like. Good luck against the US Government though, they have a bit of a resource advantage.
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by lhc- 11y ago
When will NATO destroy an entire nation, civilians and all? How is that a remotely reasonable response? That's like suggesting that Pakistan would be justified in nuking Washington DC because American drone strikes have killed civilian
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by lhc- 11y ago
To be fair, there are people out there who are pushing for surveillance and war because it is financially beneficial (see: the major rise in weapons company's stock prices since the attack). You have examples of intelligence higher-ups
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by lhc- 11y ago
So, you're suggesting that if surveillance works, then they can't act. But also if it doesn't work, they can't act. It sounds like the American people would be better served spending that money elsewhere if it can't
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by lhc- 11y ago
The companies are mostly responsible for creating them, though. No representative is out there introducing complex tax loopholes that benefit his donors without prompting. Whether or not it is immoral to use those loopholes once they exist,

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