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by CPLX 2y ago
The traditional left advocates for the rights of those who work for a living via collective action and organizing of working people, and attempts to break up concentrations of corporate power.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Money laundering can be defined as concealing either or both the source and destination of the funds. Channeling legal money into illegal activities qualifies as well. Not clear either is applicable to this case however.
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by CPLX 2y ago
France imports lots and lots of wine. You think their efforts to preserve a domestic wine industry are "failed"?
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by CPLX 2y ago
Huh? Either the chips we need are made on an island surrounded by Chinese warships, or they are made in Arizona. That’s what this is about. It’s not some abstract concept.
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by CPLX 2y ago
The goal is to ensure domestic production of physical goods intrinsic and essential to our way of life and other economic sectors. That’s an extremely defensible policy goal.
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by CPLX 2y ago
This statement contains the unstated premise that efficiency is a higher goal than all other goals.
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by CPLX 3y ago
We should be extremely hard on these people. They have accumulated staggering amounts of money and power and use it to exercise influence over many aspects of our daily life. As a society we should work tirelessly to hold them accountable a
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by CPLX 3y ago
Shame that this is downvoted, it’s a fairly straightforward description of what happened.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Amusing addendum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26957215
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by CPLX 3y ago
Thanks for reminding me of that. That was one of the dumbest fucking startup ideas most people had seen in awhile. Many just sort of said the obvious out loud, which is that it made no fucking sense as a business, and then all these rich su
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by CPLX 3y ago
The more we see the legacy of PG’s various protégés and “thought leadership” out in the world the more I start to think Jessica Livingston might have been responsible for much more of YC’s successful trajectory than people realized at the t
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by CPLX 3y ago
The song Cathedral by Van Halen is a particularly brilliant example of this. Except even more remarkable he used the knob on the guitar to do it rather than a pedal: https://youtu.be/3OqrWUooOJc?si=NJDoNGkSfJu0gM6X
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by CPLX 3y ago
You might find the book “Palo Alto” highly illuminating. I certainly did. There’s a lot more consistency in the backstory of Silicon Valley than I realized. There’s certainly an amazing culture of visionaries and innovation and creative peo
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by CPLX 3y ago
Your first sentence here is correct. The second sentence is ridiculous. The Obama administration was pro-monopolist basically across the board for eight straight years. The record is pretty easy to understand.
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by CPLX 3y ago
They aren’t just fleecing fans they’re also ripping off other participants in the market especially competitors. Matt Stoller has written a lot of detail about this.
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by CPLX 3y ago
It’s not that deep. People want to download shit and watch Netflix
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by CPLX 3y ago
Disagree. The most important skill as you go up higher in the ranks is emotional regulation. Many, many people simply aren’t able to do that. You can’t manage complex organizations that include people without that ability.
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by CPLX 3y ago
I run a company that produces conferences in about 20 cities annually. We run our conferences absolutely ruthlessly on time, like to the minute. We prep every speaker for it, we have a countdown clock on stage and we interrupt to end a sess
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by CPLX 3y ago
This can be made much more efficient if you just take all of the applications and throw half of them away. This will ensure that all the remaining applicants are luckier than the average applicant.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Since short term rentals are not housing (remember, they are “hotels” in our analysis) taking substantial numbers of them and converting them (back) into housing is conceptually identical to building housing.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Vacation rental type housing is not actually a basic necessity. It's a business, one of the oldest categories of business that exist. People who are members of a society get to decide what businesses exist in their society and what rul
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by CPLX 3y ago
> And even if "admissions committee of private colleges" were given that exclusive power, that sounds a lot better to me than the mindless operation of an unjust lottery. It's not. A lottery is infinitely more fair than le
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by CPLX 3y ago
You can’t quit and walk away from indentured servitude.
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by CPLX 3y ago
It’s not servitude they can quit any time and leave the country.
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by CPLX 3y ago
We already have marriage visas to solve problems like this. It happens all the time and has nothing to do with the H1B program.
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by CPLX 3y ago
The problem with your plan is that it essentially grants the ability to determine which people get to immigrate to the admissions committee of private colleges. If you propose that you have to defend it on policy grounds. I don’t like that
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by CPLX 3y ago
Your theory is that the Israeli government doesn’t approve of what they are doing?
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by CPLX 3y ago
If you want to get someone to click a link or open a photo/video having it sent to them by their nanny for example would seem pretty effective.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Have you ever read an NDA? They usually go something like this: For purposes of this Agreement, "Confidential Information" shall include any information, material, data, or know-how, including trade secrets and proprietary inform
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by CPLX 3y ago
Right but something that I do isn’t your secret. It can’t be in an arms length customer/vendor relationship. You can make an argument that internal documents of a vendor are trade secrets, maybe. But you can’t say that a piece of infor

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