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by 394549 8y ago
> The one thing that you didn’t get in the Soviet Union was everyday crime, well, what we understand as crime....but property crimes and such were close to non existent. This isn't about the Soviet Union, but another Communist count
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I'm trying to get you to unpack your sentiment that Americans should support Uber and Lyft for nationalistic reasons. If you're going to dodge that, we don't really have much to talk about. > which i don't agree with
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> What are ethical lapses against lyft? I googled it and found something about spying. I have an answer for that, but you're dodging the question so I won't provide it yet. Why do you think I should "stand by" America
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>>> Why so negative. I like how Europeans/Chinese/Everyone stands behind their companies and expect them to succeed globally. USA on other hand is bent on destroying/defaming their own. > uber and lyft deserve it.
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> Sports teams are companies. Not the national teams in the Olympics/World Cup, which I think is the more relevant comparison when we're talking about "standing behind a nation's companies." Less relevantly, nei
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> Am I the only one who wouldn't mind a responsible way for people to target me with things I don't know about which I might be interested in? Targeting is about maximizing profits for the advertisers, it's not about maxim
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> Why so negative. I like how Europeans/Chinese/Everyone stands behind their companies and expect them to succeed globally. USA on other hand is bent on destroying/defaming their own. Companies aren't national sports
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> Considering they won't give you any real data they have on you via the 'download your data' function they've had for a while; I highly doubt it. There are leaks, the contacts.html file shows some evidence of the kin
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> I don't get the delete facebook movement. You can still use facebook without giving them all your data. Just.. don't give them your data! That's not true, they get all kinds of data from other sources, including stuff fr
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> Noted that https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Mark-Zuckerberg is real I'm skeptical that account is controlled by Mark Zuckerberg and will remain skeptical until I see a good verification proof.
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> IANAL, but "would allow us to" is a far cry from "we will do so"; could be as simple as that? They never _committed_ to lowering prices post-merger, just said they _could_...theoretically. Yeah, I was thinking along
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> Just two months ago, AT&T said in a court filing that buying Time Warner would allow it to lower TV prices. The US Department of Justice tried to stop the merger, arguing that it would raise prices for consumers, but a federal judg
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> It’s probably not so much about not looking bad and more about enabling productivity. I’m sure they are getting pushback from many companies which interact with foreign nationals whose work is affected by the GFoC. Anecdote time: I onc
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> For example, where a C used to be 70-80% it became 72-82%, up to A which is 93-100% That sounds something like an older system. I don't remember it entirely, but IIRC, very early in my school career, an A was 93-100% and an F was
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>> Grade inflation refers to the phenomena of getting an "A" despite having what used to be a "B" or "C" level of knowledge. > If an institution gives grade A based on some objective criteria and stude
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> That doesn’t work unless everyone else is doing it. And for that to work, everyone should be using it in the first place. It’s a catch 22 problem. If that were actually true, Wikipedia would be no more than four stub articles written b
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> Most important part of the tldr; is this law does not take effect until 2020. Lots of time to be amended before then. Yeah, and it looks like the process has already started: > And yet, a report by The Intercept revealed that lobbyi
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> Yeah, I’ve nothing better to do than roam around fixing maps. It’s not like I have a daily job or anything. /s No one said it has to be your job or passion. I've fixed a couple of areas in OSM, but I've probably spent n
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Has anyone mapped out all of the data brokers that are active in the US, what information they collect, what their sources are? I imagine a lot of that info is proprietary, but I'd really like to understand this industry better. It&#x
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> The increasing scope of responsibility of the "developer" (whether or not that term is even appropriate anymore is debatable) has given rise to a chimera-like job candidate: the "full-stack" developer. Such a develo
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> The poll shows that Republicans almost universally believe that these companies censor their viewpoint, despite the fact that these companies have bent over backwards to accommodate those views and to give them platforms. However, that
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> coinbase already has horrendous customer support. Yeah, I'm aware of that. To fix it, Facebook would have to hire a bunch of people well-trained people to take customer calls, but that will be expensive and violate their user-as-
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I'm not into cryptocurrencies at all, but it doesn't seem like a good idea to couple Google/Facebook (e.g. nonexistent) levels of customer service with a banking/investing like product. Though, it's not like the cur
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by 394549 8y ago
> Yes it works for basic texts, you can understand some words here and there. Even as an English speaker, which is not a romance language, I can understand quite a few Latin words here and there, due to the fact that something like 50% o
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> One of these days I'd like to do one of the Amtrak long-haul Western US routes although I expect the idea is more appealing than the actual experience would be. If I had to take one of those routes again, I'd do it as a sleep
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I wonder if this will trigger a domino effect in retirements. Two liberal justices (Ginsberg and Breyer) are also quite old. If there's a solid, young conservative majority, they might not see the point in delaying their retirement u
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> I dare not think of what's next My guess the is the next Supreme-court "nuclear option" will be another court packing plan. I can't think of any more escalations that could be threatened at this point. https:&#x2F
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While I'm glad that they're increasing their donation (and donating at all), I'm surprised it's only to $0.5 million per year for a company as big, profitable, and Linux-dependent as Google is. Though I suppose they als
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> They will just shift production to somewhere else in south east Asia. To be honest, that might not be a bad outcome. > Low margin manufacturing will never be in-sourced again. I'm actually kinda surprised by some of the low-mar
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by 394549 8y ago
> Even recently there was a chicken dispute case with China [1]. > That's not perfect in any way, and that's crazy slow You're right about how slow the WTO process is: Per your Reuters link: China's chicken tariff

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