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by athms 6y ago
It is very difficult to build anything in SF. The city doesn't have any available land, therefore you need to demolish existing structures and build higher. There is a loud and vocal community of activists that refuse to allow new cons
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by athms 6y ago
AB5 was in response to the California Supreme Court ruling in Dynamex v. Superior Court. In Dynamex, the court created a new 3-part test that replaced the old Borello standard from 1989. AB5 carved out exceptions in the wage law statute. If
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by athms 6y ago
It is an opinion piece from Bloomberg.
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by athms 6y ago
HPE and Oracle didn't leave the state, they moved their headquarters. The Oracle campus in Redwood City and the HPE campus in San Jose will remain, and they continue to hire locally. Also of note, both companies are incorporated in Del
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by athms 6y ago
Apple's Design Awards has snubbed Mac apps for the last three years and in those years the majority of the awards went to mobile games.
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by athms 6y ago
>No Time Machine There are plenty of ways to sync files or clone disks, either natively or using third party applications, both free and commercial. >Software compatibility: AppleScript, Office, Keynote/Numbers/Pages, Skype
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by athms 6y ago
Apple's has done the same thing regarding QA. Lots of companies have eliminated their QA departments, moved the QA engineers under development managers, and transitioned the QA labs to virtual machines allowing all tests to be identica
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by athms 6y ago
He was hired to stop the disease from spreading and he did a great job; he lopped off the infected limb. Nokia is better today because of it. In 2006, my girlfriend at the time worked in HR at Nokia's US headquarters in Irving, Texas.
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by athms 6y ago
Nvidia has been offering ARM SoCs since 2008.
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by athms 6y ago
In California, the two-party consent rule only applies when there is an expectation of privacy. As an example, dash cams that record audio are legal in California. However, there can be cases when somebody expects to have a confidential con
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by athms 6y ago
>Security cameras that record audio are illegal in California. It depends. The two-party consent rule applies when the audio being recorded is in a location where there is an expectation of privacy because the communication is considered
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by athms 6y ago
Farm work is more dangerous than being a cop, and the federal government lets children younger than twelve work on a farm unless a state sets its own rules. Age, hour, overtime and minimum wage provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards
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by athms 6y ago
>Find a new job" is equivalent to "move to a different country". No it isn't. Switching from cop to ditch digger doesn't require an immigration visa, learning a new language and culture, figuring out the metric s
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by athms 6y ago
Only a third of vehicles purchased are new. It has been this way for decades.
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by athms 6y ago
>I have no office or legal entity in the United States, yet there are US laws which, if I broke them, would cause the United States to attempt to extradite me. If you are in Canada and hire somebody to rob a bank in the US, you have viol
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by athms 6y ago
Yet, Twitch will not ban the women preying on lonely men (aka simps). The activity of these women is is no different than the grifters that prey on the elderly. Twitch has become the modern day peep show booth for these women, who engage in
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by athms 6y ago
>...excess light at times of the day when the Sun don't shine messes up our evolutionary psycho-biology, causing issues with sleep. That is folk wisdom in the IT field. At best, it is blue light, but there aren't enough long te
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by athms 6y ago
Retina is about pixel density.
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by athms 6y ago
>The white background is not good for the eyes. There is no evidence dark mode is better. In fact, human eyes don't have good night vision, we see best in daylight. Light text on a dark background makes the eye work harder and open
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by athms 6y ago
IBM made AMD the second source for Intel's CPUs used in the IBM PC line of computers.
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by athms 6y ago
You (and Ted Cruz) are under the illusion that platforms must be neutral. There is nothing in Section 230 mandating neutrality. Section 230 deals with liability of user content. The First Amendment gives platforms the right to censor.
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by athms 6y ago
>I don't get this view. People like things you don't like.
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by athms 6y ago
From Kristof's article: >Its site is infested with rape videos. Not illegal in the US. In fact, there is plenty of consensual porn made to look like women are being assaulted or coaxed into sex. > came across many videos on Pornh
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by athms 6y ago
>Texas also exempts grocery store food purchases from sales tax, barring a few specific luxury categories California does this too. That said, food prices are higher in California because the local cost of living is factored into all pri
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by athms 6y ago
>...implemented prop 13 back in the 80s. Your math is a little off, it was 1978.
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by athms 6y ago
>Maybe if you stay in the ecosystem. Not to discount your experiences, but I use FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android devices, professionally and personally, and I don't have many problems getting these devices to talk to each
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by athms 6y ago
>...what hope does the government have for protecting access to legally mandated backdoors in encryption? None. Both the CIA and NSA have been hacked too. The only entity that should hold private keys should be the person or organization
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by athms 6y ago
It has been this way for a long time, including selling albums. Musicians and singers make money by performing. The real money is made by song writers.
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by athms 6y ago
Universal Music Publishing is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group (UMG), which is a subsidiary of the French conglomerate Vivendi. UMG is one of the big three global music publishers, behind Sony Music but in front of Warner Music.
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by athms 6y ago
>The alternative would be to release the songs as public domain like Tom Lehrer In the United States, authors cannot put creative works in the public domain. The concept of abandoning copyright doesn't exist in US law. At best, copy

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