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by balozi 3y ago
All protected viewpoints whether we agree with them or not.
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by balozi 3y ago
Surely the developers must have tested their product before public release. Well...unless, and more likely, that Google anticipated the public response and decided to proceed anyway. I wish I was a fly on the wall during that discussion.
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by balozi 3y ago
This should be a civil issue in my humble opinion. Make it possible for employees to seek and obtain civil damages against infringing employers. Jail time unnecessarily drags taxpayers into the equation.
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by balozi 3y ago
Try as I might, I cannot see any upside for an airline chief executive to make this kind of statements publicly. Sometimes a CEO needs to know that they don't have to publicly announce their internal deliberations. Well...unless he was
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by balozi 3y ago
If I choose to not activate their features I end up stuck with the cost of hosting their hardware. Those heated seats cost me money to transport, maintain and insure. They should be paying me.
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by balozi 3y ago
A tiny window into how Harvard's $35 billion endowment was built. The story of why the ultrarich give generously to a an ultrawealthy institution.
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by balozi 3y ago
tl;dr: Industrial waste being dumped on communities Handing out 133,000 devices is not enough without including a complete lifecycle management mechanism which will recover and recycling all 133,000 devices at the end of their useful life.
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by balozi 3y ago
This is the sort of bill you get when you trap politicians between activists with a cause and lobbyist with money.
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by balozi 3y ago
I don't know much about landing extraterrestrial missions, but I would imagine that the moment of touchdown is exactly the moment everyone in the control room should be keenly paying attention to their assignment instead of jumping up
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by balozi 3y ago
Often people are fired because the higher-ups simply just don't want to deal with them anymore. Although the guy's claims could be credible, his firing could come down to other factors. Maybe he communicated his concerns the wrong
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by balozi 3y ago
Sometimes the profits are found in product development, instead of product delivery.
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by balozi 3y ago
Corporatized academia is far worse than Hollywood and Wall Street when it come to protecting bad actors. The name of the the game is "don't rock the boat and keep the grant money flowing". Nobody wants to bring focus on anoth
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by balozi 3y ago
The US is great as long as you are not poor. You don't have to be rich, just don't be poor.
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by balozi 3y ago
Said MBAs are in it for their annual bonuses. You'll see this in many companies today: go-nowhere/soon-to-be-canceled projects are launched -> bonuses are awarded -> people move on -> rinse and repeat. Only fools stick ar
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by balozi 3y ago
Do you have to tip your service attendant? How much, 10, 15, 20, 30%?
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by balozi 3y ago
Why doe Apple maintain retail stores anyway?
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by balozi 3y ago
For my teams, we used Twilio services on projects very early in the company's lifecycle. Its always been a running joke about how the company's trajectory will play out. So far the cynics seem to have won out. In hindsight it wasn
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by balozi 3y ago
Reddit has been purging subs and users with reckless abandon for some time now as they cleaned up the place in the name of "community safety" (aka advertisers). I guess the monetized government kids that stayed believ(ed) they wer
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by balozi 3y ago
Some states and localities already have high minimums, and employers pay even higher wages. Tipping pressure is still intense.
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by balozi 3y ago
I find myself avoiding a lot of establishments altogether. First the prices are insane, add the tipping thing and I leave these transactions feeling scummed.
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by balozi 3y ago
Wait, it's predatory pricing traditionally understood to be aimed at consumers/customers. Applying the term to sketchy pricing practices aimed at competitors is a bit novel in my book. I feel like words are being misused here.
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by balozi 3y ago
Distilled down to its most basic argument -the question becomes: can an institution that receives funding from a sponsor also claim that its output is independent of that sponsor's interests? My perception is that NPR serves specific c
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by balozi 4y ago
Consider this writer's observation then juxtapose the crazy incident involving the Fifth Circuit Judge protest just a few day prior to publication of this article. It seems like a tale of two very different institutions. One where the
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by balozi 4y ago
Isn't instant coffee the next logical progression in this tech roadmap?
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by balozi 4y ago
> We don't feel comfortable accepting patches from or relating to hardware produced by your organization. Is the discomfort based on technical, or legal, or moral/political reasoning?
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by balozi 4y ago
I understand 'material weakness' to mean falsified/faked/misleading/corrupted. 1) what happened to basic language?, 2) do the legal/PR people using these words honestly believe they are fooling anyone?
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by balozi 4y ago
I guess the underlying consideration for us is whether developing intel within our finical servicers is a prudent move.
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by balozi 4y ago
There have been stories about the one SV honcho asking his portfolio to check their money at svb days before the chaos. Leading me to wonder; are there any laws or regulations against tipping off your friends that the bank you work at is in
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by balozi 4y ago
So, is this a bailout, that we are definitely absolutely not calling a bailout?
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by balozi 4y ago
"Blasphemy" as an excuse is no better or worse than its American cousins such as "election interference" and "sowing discord/disunity" as an excuse for quashing rights of expression.

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