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by ABCLAW 9y ago
This isn't a bait and switch based on legalities. If Oracle made representations to Google that they didn't mind them using their software, Google would be able to claim that Oracle is estopped from pursuing a claim due to the pri
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Developers are very quick to level the finger at players for the emergent behavior that their game systems create. Frustrating game experiences where players feel like they've had no agency in their loss lead to people being upset, whi
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I don't. Because months earlier, he was making public comments that it was a 'crazy idea' that his company could have influenced elections shortly after his chief information security officer was pushing against him and Shery
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
One of my friends runs a game shop. He told me a wealthy surgeon would come in weekly and buy $5,000 worth of baseball cards - either as singles, boxes of unopened packs, or whatnot. I remarked that the surgeon must really enjoy the hobby.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>However, the fact that some people can enjoy a game responsibly doesn't really excuse the game maker from taking advantage of those who can't. I agree with what you're trying to say, but not with this statement in particu
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Reading someone's workplace messages to resolve a workplace investigation into a workplace dispute between co-workers isn't totalitarian. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy on a corporate slack account.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I don't think this clause is crazy. It feels poorly drafted but this is just a single section of the contract. Who knows if other parts influence the interpretation of this section. With that said: The first segment of this clause is
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I currently work in legal/accounting. We do plenty of work in crunch periods varying between 12 to 15 hours a day, including or excluding weekends. People lose effectiveness within a week at that volume of work. Consistently. They beco
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
200k annual income is enough to service the mortgage on a luxury apartment on Manhattan proper without straining the budget too much. This is about owning, not renting. If you meant 'detached house' by home that's another thi
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I think we're radically changing the goal posts of success if a wide swath of educated, hard working young professionals can't afford to lay down roots in the cities they grew up in because of the current absurd asset bubble'
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
In many real estate markets in the west, gainful employment substantially above the median income is still not even close to enough to secure a reasonable sized 'home'. Then there are places like Vancouver, where the average yearl
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
RTFA = Read the [Expletive] Article.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Those stacks aren't popping out water vapour. Check the size of the stacks and the factory - there's no scrubbers or fractionation columns preprocessing the waste gasses. Paper mills are very polluting enterprises - the water you&
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the most anyone can do with such data at the moment is ad profiling You're wrong. We already see systems in the wild that gather this data to make financial decisions regarding you (whethe
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
If you're the oldest individual in your elementary class, you've got ~11 months more development than your worst-off competitors. You carry that age advantage throughout every level of education you go through, allowing you differ
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Doctor isn't paying overhead for an office, plus they get paid more than the co-pay by your insurance.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Responses like this really show the best side of HN. I'm not the OP, but I appreciate the work in pulling together these resources.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
This is a VERY interesting reply, because it showcases so much. Having innovators publish isn't, big picture, important. The big picture importance is getting people to actually use the fruits of research in society where that would be
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
The larger issue is how do we get universities incentives to produce practical innovation. Currently, there are a number of different institutional frameworks for trying to deal with the issue. Most of them don't work well. We have uni
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Do we include libertarian techno-utopianism as left leaning or democratic talking points? Because there's a ton of libertarian techno-utopianism.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>it’s that people have given up on that search for truth. No, it's that lowering the cost of information access also lowered the cost of DDOSing people with bullshit. It isn't that people don't care; it's that it is v
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
The control brand is not necessarily a retailer-owned brand. It is a control variable to determine the value delta that consumers ascribe to branded goods in the absence of quality difference.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>tactics other than being cheaper and faster to ship? Amazon regularly undercuts people to drive them out of the market - this is known as predatory pricing and it isn't new. It is an abuse of dominant position. But most Western ant
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I think the official case record is not in agreement with your understanding: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/32-CA-205351
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Would it be possible to rename the thread "Fired Google Engineer Who Authored Diversity Memo Withdraws NLRA Challenge."? I think that's quite a bit more accurate.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
You might want to actually click on the article's links. It isn't just private security companies. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/10/07/joint-statement-departme... Additionally, if you look at t
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
1) So? 2) Would you prefer it wasn't illegal to walk through the doors at all?
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
No, the point is that you can't assume "unwashed CS nerds" are troglodytes towards women while simultaneously trying to say tech doesn't have a problem with women. Your final paragraph is particularly telling. Re-read it
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I like how the unstated assumption that unwashed CS nerds are obviously hostile towards women is not further examined. Namely because that unstated premise is almost exactly the conclusion of the argument you're trying to argue agai
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
One of the large trends in financial technology development that I've seen is that banks seem to heavily prefer that their staff leave and form third party software service providing companies than hire and allocate resources to intern

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