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by 001sky 12y ago
No idea about this specific case, but the assumption of liabilities may or may not be involved. There are also some ethical considerations about keeping jobs in a going concern (however minimal), and some PR considerations about liquidation
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Shoplifting from Whole Foods and Snooping Through Uber(washingtonpost.com)
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See also: on how they pick the bosses of career regulators http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/presidents-wa...
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- Audit the Fed - Bar "revolving door" employment for 5 years - Lots of others...
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David Plouffe: A Leader for the Uber Campaign(blog.uber.com)
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Tech Uber Sought to Hire Opposition Researcher to “Weaponize Facts”(buzzfeed.com)
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Mobile tracking: Find an address? Easy. New devices can calculate your altitude(washingtonpost.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
Where is your source for this? Buzzfeed guy was not an invited guest. His excuse was that, since he was not invited, he was not bound to the terms of the invitation. As someone else has written, if you think you need a (written) contract to
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by 001sky 12y ago
That's wrong -- this is standard journalistic ethics. That's a gutter dwelling argument that is bullshit on both-sides. Because it supports the idea that private citizens should also be free to trash journalists. After all, if
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by 001sky 12y ago
This is dis-engenuous. One of the guests invited a tabloid reporter, did not appear to disclose the terms of the invitation to this person, and the result is predictable. The ethical nuances here are lost because you have a sketchy company
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by 001sky 12y ago
First, Uber did this brazenly and, one could argue, openly The reported quote was couched in the hypothetical; reported out of an 'off the record' private event; by a reporter that was the +1 of an invite. Those are major caveat
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Even Better, yesterday was just a dog and pony show. The 2009 dissent, led by a senior NSA official and embraced by others at the agency, prompted the Obama administration to consider, but ultimately abandon, a plan to stop gathering the r
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by 001sky 12y ago
Good article. Shows why the executive branch is responsible for this mess. The 2009 dissent, led by a senior NSA official and embraced by others at the agency, prompted the Obama administration to consider, but ultimately abandon, a plan t
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by 001sky 12y ago
In other news: Net Neutrality Emails Reveal a Cozy 'Social Network' Between the FCC and Telecoms https://news.vice.com/article/net-neutrality-emails-reveal-a...
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Uber investor Ashton Kutcher doesn’t see the problem with ‘shady journalist’(washingtonpost.com)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania Railway Mania was an instance of speculative frenzy in Britain in the 1840s. It followed a common pattern: as the price of railway shares increased, more and more money was
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by 001sky 12y ago
Funraising is very envy-inducing. Envy tends to be good for advertisers (look at womens print magazines, if you have any doubt). I'd be interested to see how this impacts their advertising business metrics.
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Deal by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Raises $3.3B Cash and Some Concern(nytimes.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
This is a really fair question. I think it is simply he doesn't want to look weak. The political problem with him fixing the EOs is he has to sign them. This is just a publicity stunt to blame someone else for not doing something he la
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by 001sky 12y ago
Fundamentally, the whole NSA operates under an EO. The directive of the NSA is basically an EO. So, Every thing they do can be curtailed by POTUS. The NSA only needs legislation to expand for the most part beyond existing laws. But here we
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by 001sky 12y ago
The captue of silicon valley by madison avenue never ceases to Amaze me. That's the difference between now. Amazingly, it has nothing to do with the NSA. But the privacy landgrab really stated with all of the VC backed companies despe
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by 001sky 12y ago
They have to operate in a policy grey area. They don't need to operate in an ethical grey area. Mixing the two is bad for business.
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The points you bring up are actually no longer huge problems for Uber <Uber VP: we could spend $1M to take revenge on journalists> That was yesterday, right?
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please see my comment above. I don't think you have a solid handle on what makes a monopoly exist. Nor on the relation between the existence of a monopoly (earned or granted) and the concept of ethics. The existence of monopoly doesn&#
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by 001sky 12y ago
Get a patent. Become a monopolist. Is that unethical? No. Build a great product that everyone uses volunatrily. Is that unethical? No. Commandeer the bay bridge and charge tolls. Is that unethical? Sure None of that is relevant to Uber. Ube
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by 001sky 12y ago
Back to econ 101 for you.
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That's according to PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who is also an investor in Uber competitor Lyft. (first sentence of the article)
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Amorality and lack of proportion aren't really gendered concepts, tho.
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Here's the problem for uber: (1) In many places they are breaking the law and/or want the law changed so they can expand without breaking it. (2) This means they need the moral high ground. They need to have people believe they ar
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by 001sky 12y ago
False choices what? Your comment is absurd. Fixing the EOs is simple. (That buys time. Time to get coherent legislation figured out.)

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