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by bb611 10y ago
There is a chasm between anti-illegal behavior by the president and anti-president. By this definition of "actively and explicitly anti-Trump" the ACLU was probably the 2nd most anti-Obama group after the birthers. The ACLU has a
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by bb611 10y ago
Sorry, apparently I didn't include the critical fact that she worked 100% remote. Updated my original comment.
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Not always true, my last job had one director who worked 100% remote. She had multiple years of process knowledge she chose to share only when specifically needed to answer a question in a meeting or email. Much of this was critical informa
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Okay, that was a good read. Also the 2nd very solid Matt Levine article I've read in this thread, I think I detect a pattern.
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I disagree, he was paraphrasing early 19th century abolitionist Theodore Parker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Parker Another theologian for sure, but pretty squarely in the context of black rights in the US.
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> Cabell’s, which offers services that help librarians, researchers and others discover scholarly journals, has since 2015 worked with Beall on developing a journal blacklist. That list is slated to launch this spring.
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You're absolutely correct - the average American theoretically believes that every child is entitled to a high quality, equal education, but in reality only if it doesn't cost them anything. In light of that, there's very lit
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> $/pupil in public school operating costs is mandated to be equal across the state That's not accurate, a major part of Jerry Brown's education policy changes have been improved funding for title 1 schools (low income cri
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He never spent time in prison, but he was investigated intensely by the US gov't.
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I've had one for 4.5 years, and about 2 months ago this problem got bad enough that it started to really bother me, and I looked into what was actually causing it. Turns out the foam is pretty worn out so sitting for a small amount of
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by bb611 10y ago
Il2: Cliffs of Dover is what you want if you're looking for WW II multiplayer.
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Any days you accrue past the cap disappear though. If you accrue 15 days a year, work for 3 years, and never take a vacation day, you are paid for 3 weeks and lose 6 weeks of compensation, almost 4% of your pre-tax total over that period (a
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It should be noted that unlimited vacation is not expressly legal in CA, it's just never been challenged.
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> Sarbanes-Oxley is a big villian here. It pushes the cost of legal compliance through the roof for public companies, forcing companies to delay IPOs until revenue is higher. SEC compliance costs are significantly higher than SOX for pub
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> Both are stories about deleting information that doesn't fit a political agenda. One set of information is public, one is private. The information we're discussing is public - this recently released trove of CIA documents and
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There is no equivalency between deleting criminal justice records, which should and normally do remain private unless used in a court of law, and removing information that's been released the public sphere.
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Presumably the article in question: http://www.businessinsider.com/a-google-programmer-blew-off-...
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I appreciate many of your points but this: > No one has the actual Pentagon Papers outside of very specific news agencies is patently false, they're available in full from the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov&#
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You can go on to facebook's privacy settings and disown previous logins. You are right that they don't let you manage it with enough specificity to prevent someone who's using the same IPV4 address and browser as you.
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> From an engineering perspective, the 'best' long term approaches are those which produce either the largest number or largest percentage of desired outcomes. Given that activists have been working on this for several decades,
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> Regardless, in my view, anyone concerned enough to protest the treatment of animals in circuses and/or zoos is being hypocritical if they're not working just as hard (or harder) to end the suffering of all the other sentient
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by bb611 10y ago
Torts exist in the civil system, not the criminal system. The driver in this scenario would likely be criminally liable for negligent homicide, manslaughter, or one of their many legal equivalents in state law.
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I did read your articles, and didn't find them particularly compelling. Technology failures happen all the time, the fact that Tesla wasn't successful at rolling out battery swap but was successful with superchargers seems pretty
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I'm sure the tax credits play into the decision to build the station, but its position was intended to allow people to swap batteries for the trip from SoCal to SF, which otherwise requires a fair amount of time at a charger. For that
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I would also be a bit hesitant about job prospects. My last job was at a large nonprofit in SF on their data team, and both my boss and my only non-contractor coworker were PhDs who fled academia. Salaries for the tech teams in general we
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They gave up on them because people didn't use the only one they ever ran: http://fortune.com/2015/06/10/teslas-battery-swap-is-dead/ Realistically, it seems likely that there just wasn't enoug
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by bb611 10y ago
Two I've noticed in the past 3 years: - Better compatibility with modern hardware. In particular, working out of the box just the way you'd expect from windows, without having to go find some drivers and build them yourself. Sti
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I totally disagree. I've installed Ubuntu on 4-5 systems over the last 3 years, I find it exceptionally quick and easy compared to installing Windows. Obviously, I can't compare it to OS X for install because it's not possib
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I really don't understand why you wouldn't pay $3,000 instead of $1,500 to have the work laptop you want for the next several years. Assuming it only lasts two years (my last Macbook Pro lasted 5, and I wasn't nice to it), a
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"Seventy-one percent (71%) of respondents reported they were living in San Francisco at the time they most recently became homeless, an increase from 61% in 2013." It's true, it doesn't measure length of stay, but they c

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