HillaryBriss

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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
And Cal AG Xavier Becerra is a test case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20944284
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
California's AG Xavier Becerra might have some legitimate reason for staying out of this investigation, but, if so, he hasn't tweeted about it. It's interesting though, because he has in the past come out against Big Pharma,
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
> Then there is no risk to hiring a new employee beyond the wages you pay them. but you must not forget the additional administrative/accounting overhead, the risk from the wide variety of lawsuits one is vulnerable to as an employe
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
Jackie Chan once credited Buster Keaton as an influence on his own acting and film making, which, in my book, makes him a cultural-epochal appropriator. Late 20th century Hong Kong film actors must not be allowed to imitate or mock early 20
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
I think he means that outside of Google, advertising revenue has shrunk for the publishers and others in the space, and that Google has consumed and controls the lion's share of the advertising revenue.
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
> gleefully supporting the investigation because it threatens Google's future. what about gleefully supporting the investigation because it will create opportunities for competition, create room for other small companies to have at
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
or maybe both?
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
> ... the issue that is going to cause Google the most problems I am certainly biased because I seem to see more negative HN Google comments than positive ones. But, I'm starting to wonder if taking money from Google will cause poli
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
there's also Android's troubling anticompetitive behavior against SkyHook location provider: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/09/skyhook-google-m... and the restrictive conditions imposed on
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Mountain lion known for crossing 405 killed on the same Los Angeles freeway(cnn.com)
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
yes. and please let it be noted that MD associations in California opposed a law that would have allowed Nurse Practitioners to operate autonomously (as they do in some states)
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
the real genius of the AMA was finding a way to drastically slow the global MD population as it tried to correct the imbalance by entering the US and setting up practice.
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
the answer used to be: yes, there's always a case for skepticism and critical analysis of a scientific topic but in today's enlightened discussion climate one must also consider the magnitude of the shit-storm of personal attacks
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
don't today's students simply photograph the exams while they're taking them?
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
in my residential area most of the social activity is dog walking and neighborhood meetings where people discuss whose car or place of living was broken into and how to get the police to actually show up
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
> which I politely explain is effectively less money than I make now, due to costs of living a rule of thumb I hear from a financial adviser: "Why work in a huge first tier city for 10% more money when you can move to a second or th
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
per Wikipedia, the difference is even larger: LA Metro area: about 13 million Austin: about 1 million.
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How could a Coke can leak its contents without any apparent holes?(ask.metafilter.com)
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Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing(ineteconomics.org)
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States Expected to Unveil Google Antitrust Probe Next Week(bloomberg.com)
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
my humble guess is that the genie is out of the bottle: the vast majority of these LA drivers are daily commuters. now that these drivers are used to taking these routes, most of these residential neighborhoods will remain saturated permane
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
If the city's failure to prevent gridlock at major intersections across the city is any guide, LA will never get a handle on this problem. It will never have enough DPT and police to enforce any proposed solution.
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
It can be controversial. It can pit the wealthy against the working class: a well-off hillside neighborhood may demand that its streets be off-limits to through traffic. But this would mean that another, poorer neighborhood's residents
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
The police would not be required to add resources to enforce these laws. But without enforcement the signs would make very little difference to LA drivers.
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
at this point i'm just trying to understand better what your proposed change to the system is. AFAICT, it's: 1. remove CBP's current right to summarily deny entry to visa holders (which is to say, remove that right from the a
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
i'm wondering how bad this is
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
they didn't pronounce these students "innocent" or "guilty." this resembles the situation when a police officer arrests a US citizen. they do that thousands of times a day in the US without first determining innocen
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
What should the punishment be for a government that fails to implement such a system? (e.g. UN censure? the imposition of economic sanctions? an invasion?)
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
This indicates that entry to the US is not guaranteed by a visa: Issuance of a visa does not guarantee entry to the United States. A visa simply indicates that a U.S. consular officer at an American embassy or consulate has reviewed the ap
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
So, each of these cases would need to go to trial?

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