aerotwelve

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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Please vote in your local Democratic caucus/primary and force them to grow a spine. We need your help to make it happen.
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
In what manner does Equifax receive government protection? (Aside from Mulvaney's dereliction of duty in this case)
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Equifax took care of this possibility by taking advantage of the freedom they had to place binding arbitration clauses in their customer agreements. Unless you're independently wealthy, taking Equifax on by yourself in court is a non-s
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
If memory serves, that maximizing rate was somewhere around 50% under Laffer's initial model, which is why the first Reagan tax cut reduced the top income bracket from 70% to 50%. Now we're at 37%, and I guarantee you that's
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what did your contract look like? Did it guarantee benefits, a certain pay structure, or a grievance process if you were terminated without cause? Or, perhaps, none of these things?
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
This is assuming they have the money to pursue the back pay in court and the NLRB ends up agreeing with them.
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
How does this happen? Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to outsource the development of this critical system to a foreign contractor? Did anybody stop and think about what might happen to all of that public money if the con
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Ever since the release of the 2016 MBP redesign I've been hanging onto my late 2013 MacBook Pro for dear life. I really want to upgrade, but I just can't justify spending thousands of dollars on a machine with a keyboard that can
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Yes, the clock has been moved back several times. There's a nice graph on Wikipedia that provides a nice overview that is worth taking a look at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock#/media/File
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
There is no source because there is no legal imperative for corporations to maximize shareholder value anywhere in the United States. It's a myth. Shareholder primacy is a theory -- though it's really more of an ideology -- that
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Kansas and California both have equal representation in the Senate, which every federal law must pass through; there is no taxation without representation comparison to be made here.
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
No, but Apple is supposed to be better than Google about this. What a shame.
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
The FCC is absolutely equipped to regulate the internet (or, interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable). Believe it or not, that's exactly its congressional mandate!
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Brilliantly put. Just to add one more point: many of us are now bound by forced arbitration agreements with our ISPs. That more or less eliminates the courts as an option for class or individual action. It's convenient that Pai gloss
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. The only solution to this is to organize and fight for NN in legislation at this point. All of these alternative internet systems are a complete waste of time until someone tells me how they're going to get
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Facebook is accountable to their customers, which are the firms that they sell ads to. Facebook is accountable to their users in the same way a farmer is accountable to his livestock.
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Everyone understands that letting third parties sell your personal data at no cost to you is what happens when you use the internet, but it doesn't have to be that way. With some meaningful regulation, we could put a stop to this overn
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
I recently bought a new Android phone, not out of any love for Google and their horrendous privacy policies, but out of love for my headphone jack. Apple, what were you thinking?
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
If you're on OS X (apparently Windows now too?) Arq is a fantastic product that automates the process of creating archives, encrypting them before they leave your machine, and dumping them to AWS/other cloud providers. The encrypt
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by aerotwelve 9y ago
Your data is not safe unless you have a local backup that you control. Don't trust Google (or any one cloud storage provider); they haven't earned it.