Lionsion

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by Lionsion 8y ago
>> Hedge funds or services who analyze it for hedge funds is the big one. It's normal to track hundreds of millions of people a day and trade stocks based on where they go. > Any articles/webpages about this one? Or a com
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> even though they're not as "straightforward" or "simple" as just blaming people you disagree with. You're getting way, way off track. This whole subthread started when someone asked why lawmakers would
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by Lionsion 8y ago
I wish the m68k architecture had beat out Intel.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The opposite is true: Less personalized ads -> Lower revenue per user -> An even smaller budget for journalism. I read an article recently that made a good point: personalized ads aren't advertising ; it's really dire
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Most newspapers are filled with regurgitated press releases. When I noticed this, I stopped my subs. I grew up reading newspapers that had investigative journalists out in the field. Gov't was much more accountable. That's a
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> By raising prices and lowering quality, a stagnant business can rely on its most loyal customers to continue to buy the product, allowing it to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze its customers as they croak. This slow liquidation of an as
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by Lionsion 8y ago
I realize that, I just wanted to drive the traffic to the original source rather than to some weirdo who uploaded a copy.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Right, and if the two parties, of their own volition, decide to use arbitration instead of courts, that's a good thing. But it should never, ever be required to sign away your rights for redress in the courts as part of any agreem
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I’m out. So do you admit you're wrong to the degree you think your comments shouldn't be seen? Or can you just not stand the downvotes? I think withdrawing and mass deleting half of a conversation is kinda bad form.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> "Legalizing forced arbitration is a right-wing conspiracy to reduce the scale of government". I figured that's what you'd say. I think you misunderstand the meaning and connotations of the term "conspiracy the
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by Lionsion 8y ago
That video seems to have been copied everywhere , and the copy you linked to seems to be on a fringe UFO conspiracy channel. As far as I can tell, this is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> One of the things that makes conspiracy theories so appealing is their simplicity. What exactly is the conspiracy theory here?
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Would freedom be allowing for gambling or banning gambling? It's not so binary. You could allow for regulated gambling that mitigates the social problems, but ban unregulated gambling. > To me the real issue is the lack of inf
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Also, I believe the rules and procedures in binding arbitration can be different than in the court system, which can further stack the deck against the consumer. I have a friend who lost a real estate arbitration case because of that, and g
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> No-forced-arbitration should be the norm. I'd go further to say that forced arbitration should be illegal/unenforceable without clear evidence informed affirmative consent, and that the offering of services cannot be made con
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Freedom means that you can voluntarily enter into arrangements that others think are a bad idea. Ah yes, the cherished freedom to "choose" to be scammed and taken advantage of by others. It's really the most important o
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> and that law makers are totally ambivalent about essentially losing their power. That "loss of power" may be welcomed by many lawmakers, many of whom are ideologically committed to "starving the [state]." [1] The cu
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by Lionsion 8y ago
These arbitration clauses should be illegal to begin with. You shouldn't have to depend on the largess of a company to have access to the real legal system to resolve disputes with them. It's screwed up that corporations now have
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by Lionsion 8y ago
But wouldn't it be a breach of contract and not a tort? There may be other torts involved, but I was only considering the issue you brought up with breaking their contract terms.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Or the willingness to do it, concede the lawsuit, then declare bankruptcy.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Securus received the data from a mobile marketing company called 3Cinteractive .... In turn, 3Cinteractive got its data from LocationSmart, a firm known as a location aggregator, according to documents from those companies. LocationSma
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I've been in the Army for 16 years. Dumb recruits are their bread and butter. They wouldn't give them up for anything in the world. The article seems to be talking about the almost dumbest of the dumb "Category IV"
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by Lionsion 8y ago
>> I think the correct approach is economic, not technical. > This is a technical problem. IMHO, it's both. Economic sanctions need to be put in place to motivate the telcos to create and adopt robust technical solutions.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The legislation makes an exception for mandates, requests or court orders that are authorized under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, a 1994 law requiring telephone companies to make changes to their network design
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I thought you had to root your Android to block ads? Maybe with Chrome, but there's an Android version of Firefox that lets you install uBlock Origin: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.moz
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Again, I said that sounds like it could be a reasonable trade-off. You have to balance... 1. the good of the theoretical possibility of getting a pittance more in interest from an international bank with 2. the social costs of not havi
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> They do not give you access to the underlying profiling and the social graph they have built on your information. There are hints of it though. I noticed in my most recent data dump there was a list of "contacts." Some of t
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> If people don't invest locally, wages will fall until they've fallen enough that it's profitable to invest locally. The problem with toy economic models like yours is that they're toys, and the elide many important
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by Lionsion 8y ago
>> lease reply substantially on why you seem to think communities like American Samoa would be better off if its people couldn't get bank loans. > I'd think it's obvious that they can't invest their money profit
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Corporations have rarely (if ever) been meant to further public good. They have almost always been for "unrestrained pursuit of profit to the exclusion of all other concerns". That's wrong. Corporations don't have

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