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by 0goel0 6y ago
This is a hot garbage of a take. No one is saying "ELECTRICITY BAD", but futile uses of electricity (most of which is derived from extremely polluting fossil fuels[1]) is bad. [1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplaine
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Aren't most large organizations bound by contracts that are set at the start of the deal? I don't think most large institutions (districts for eg) are affected by these changes in the short term.
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WhatsApp – More Official Information about WhatsApp Terms of Service Update(blog.whatsapp.com)
3 points by 0goel0 6y ago|0 comments
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Maybe ethics and morals should be mandatory trainings?
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Have they?
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by 0goel0 6y ago
I don't think gig economy is working for the hard-working workers. We were doing Instacart delivery of groceries until we found out that they punished workers for demanding -- get this -- a livable wage and common decency [0][1]. Doord
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by 0goel0 6y ago
I am truly amazed that the world's (top, second?) richest man runs a company that cleared $7.2 billion during a global pandemic year, but had to steal $62m to make its books look clean. Whoever participated this should lose their jobs,
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by 0goel0 6y ago
How else would you justify constantly raising new money at inflated valuations?
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by 0goel0 6y ago
I don't understand why the author continues to get their FB account back while at the same time asking everyone else to quit theirs.
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by 0goel0 6y ago
> It’s a specialized Google ...used to kill innocent people
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Stealing property is not a victimless crime.
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by 0goel0 6y ago
I know. I'm saying that the friction to conviction is high enough.
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by 0goel0 6y ago
What's not serious about stealing and selling trade secrets, jeopardizing life-saving R&D, blatantly disrespecting the law, and walking away with hundreds of millions of dollars expecting not to be caught?
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by 0goel0 6y ago
This is by design. White collar crime is rarely prosecuted and convicted. https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime...
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by 0goel0 6y ago
> His conviction is based on being a fall guy for Uber’s corporate espionage Do you have any evidence that he didn't commit the crimes he is convicted of? Because his lawyers would've loved to talk to you last year.
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Meanwhile https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons... "The brisk market for pardons reflects the access peddling that has defined Mr. Trump’s presidency as well as his unort
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Electric utility can shut off your data centers power if you don't pay the bills or break the contract. Same for your ISP.
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Ask HN: Legal source of DRM-free movies and shows?
1 points by 0goel0 6y ago|2 comments
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Before calling the person "stupid", read the article. He has bipolar disorder, and it's agony trying to live with it so people will be desperate to take measures to ease the pain.
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by 0goel0 6y ago
$1 is "less than" $100M
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by 0goel0 6y ago
> We are slowly squeezing a significant segment of the population out of public debate They are not debating. They are yelling and screaming mindlessly.
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Compare that to Trump's 12-hour ban after causing real-world violence and sedition.
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Beat the dead horse - news sites need money and show ads.
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by 0goel0 6y ago
That's not money laundering. The gift card in that scenario is still "dirty".
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Unless some high-level execs are convicted and put in jail, and the company is given a high-enough file[1], this is the cost of doing business. [1] 2 years of net profits? 50% of gross revenue? IDK. It has to be meaningful amount to truly d
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by 0goel0 6y ago
I like how some people in this thread are calling some transparency in adtech space "take down".
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by 0goel0 6y ago
A part of that could be that no one wants to accept they paid a lot for a broken product. It hurts the ego.
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Outstanding is a bad metric. "Float" is a better one. SWI has 53 million floating shares, resulting in 53m*23= $1.2 billion today. So a quarter of float traded. That is crazy movement.
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Privacy advocates are failing to respond to the “nothing to hide” argument(goel.io)
3 points by 0goel0 6y ago|2 comments
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by 0goel0 6y ago
Why should pointing out problems come with solutions? If some corporation causes me or my community harm, I'm gonna point it out. If they pay me to, I'll come up with solutions.

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