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by basseq 11y ago
I wonder if Apple just didn't have the rights to use Microsoft's logo; that's often a legal gray area. This clearly isn't a "redesign".
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by basseq 11y ago
"Making profit" is the #1 business justification. This is in the same vein as, "Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?" What, exactly, do you propose to criminalize? Excessive profits? What is profit? How is it
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by basseq 11y ago
The anti-competitive argument I like. You can take this to a logical legal argument with established roots in precedent and say that the "monopoly" in this case is detrimental to public welfare and spirited business competition.
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by basseq 11y ago
What's bad faith? If I have a product that someone will pay a million dollars for, why wouldn't I charge a million dollars for it? Because the alternate is death? So what—I'm not a charity. There's a morality question
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by basseq 11y ago
My recent Verizon cancellation went very smoothly. No "retention" specialists. Just said, "I'm switching to a competitor." I'm saving something like $50/mo with the change. Verizon sent me an email offerin
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by basseq 11y ago
Is it April First already?
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by basseq 11y ago
Interesting story, and it sounds (from a one-sided perspective) like Shred's founded acted in good faith. And I agree with the disconnect between frivolous lawsuits and small companies. I don't think the last line in particular do
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by basseq 11y ago
Since a majority of the U.S. is at-will employment anyway, a formal probationary period isn't needed because it's built in to the law. (Unlike some other countries where it becomes much more difficult to fire an employee, as noted
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by basseq 11y ago
This is fascinating. Unsurprised by a lot of the findings, as I see them on a pretty regular basis. I really interesting technology offering would be an application of this used to map the "real" power structure vs. the org. chart
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Former Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charged with Embezzlement in Japan(news.vice.com)
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by basseq 11y ago
Julian Savulescu has two arguments here: 1. Cheaters are going to cheat, and you can't catch everyone, so just allow cheating. ("So what the current system does is enable that, because it places constraints that are impossible to
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by basseq 11y ago
> ... it's hard for me to argue against telling people what they can do to their own bodies. This isn't a broad dictation, though. This is athlete governing agencies working to protect the "purity" of sport. Participa
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by basseq 11y ago
This example is much more compelling than the ones in the source article—very cool!
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by basseq 11y ago
I like this a lot. There's certainly no social stigma against paying for athletics (e.g., multi-million dollar coaching salaries, stadiums in the hundreds of millions). There's no stigma about students working for the college duri
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by basseq 11y ago
Location: Washington, DC / Northern Virginia (VA) Remote: Unlikely Willing to relocate: Unlikely I'm a technologist (front-end, HTML, CSS, CS Degree from a top public university) turned business strategist (management consulting,
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by basseq 11y ago
I was probably confused: we are in agreement.
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by basseq 11y ago
Frankly, I think the tactical HOW part of this article is very light. There's much content on WHY it's a good idea and apocryphal anecdotes. Here's some actual advice I gleaned from the article: - Say, "We’re going to ma
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by basseq 11y ago
Total BS. I'm a big fan of limit orders (though most of my purchases are DCA). Since Robinhood can't do limit orders (or couldn't when I was using it—or I couldn't figure it out), it's useless.
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by basseq 11y ago
If you don't do research, you shouldn't be buying stock . Most people shouldn't buy stocks, period.
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by basseq 11y ago
I found Robinhood to be useless. Not enough research/discovery tools to do anything other than "buy a specific stock". I also felt like my orders' fulfilled prices were wildly different than quote ticks—to the tune of a
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by basseq 11y ago
One correction: MMI doesn't list all the registered keys, but it does track them (e.g., you just see the total number registered). I know that dealers can un-register, and I know they're unique. http://pixady.com&#x
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by basseq 11y ago
Technically: not a clue. Modern keys are complex things. Gone are the days where you can have a piece of metal re-cut for $5 at Home Depot. A replacement key for modern cars is an expensive proposition: they have to be custom-ordered from t
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by basseq 11y ago
In newer cars, keys are unique and registered to the car individually. My Audi has a list of all keys registered, and I can have the dealer unregister any I've lost.
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by basseq 11y ago
One of the problems with unpaid internships is the system favors the wealthy: if you can't afford (via "[your] family and [your] own funds") to buy your way in, you won't get "first-hand knowledge about how the inte
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by basseq 11y ago
How old is this site? This isn't a disparaging comment. The explanation and detail is awesome, and lord knows I spent days on Q3 rails servers back in the early 2000s. I'm really just wondering whether this is a recent thing (in w
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by basseq 11y ago
> Last time I crossed the border I was even warned that my passport doesn't show proof that I left the US, it only shows every time I entered it so technically, they don't know if I am staying there more than 90 days. I can tel
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by basseq 11y ago
Here's a promo code for a free ride (helps me, too): SNIMH
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by basseq 11y ago
The "nice API" comment is something that struck me after using mint for a couple years: there are banks/brokerages out there who are set up for this sort of thing and handle it well: tokens, revocation, etc. (Interactive Brok
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by basseq 11y ago
> He told me I could make upwards of $300 a night... Interesting how that compares to the $90k/yr figure widely quoted last year (granted, for NYC not ATL). Working full-time (5 days a week, 52 weeks a year), that's $78k. (And
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by basseq 11y ago
Dutch auctions work with one item (or multiple items where a single buyer would want n items of a limited supply: see eBay). That still wouldn't solve the problem in this case: remember, they didn't run out of passes. They sol

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