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by bdowling 6y ago
A similar project recreated the Apple IIc computer program from the 1985 James Bond film, A View to a Kill : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YGVfwEEjRfs
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by bdowling 6y ago
> ... a system according to principles that advantage criminality so baldly. As I wrote elsewhere, there is no advantage to criminality because there are many ways that a corporation can be brought to justice.
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> And when that company commits a crime, it should be punished and its stock should lose value. I agree. That is part of the risk investors take.
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> It seems to me if they're responsible enough to get paid for the good parts, they're responsible for the bad parts too. Executives involved in crimes can face personal liability for those crimes. The corporation can also be w
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by bdowling 6y ago
> ... such criminal corporations enjoy an advantage over law-abiding corporations. There is no advantage to criminality. It is a general rule of law that no one should be able to profit from his crimes. That rule applies to corporations
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by bdowling 6y ago
> So your second point doesn’t really happen in practice. It happened in this case. From the article, "Zeeshan Zaidi, the former head of Ticketmaster’s artist services division, pled guilty in a related case to conspiring to hack th
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Then why should shareholders get the profits from the work they don't comtrol? Because they invested money into the corporation when the corporation issued stock.
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> ... but criminally don't face anywhere near the same levels of punishment. We generally do not punish corporations harshly for criminal wrongdoing because (1) punishing the corporation mostly harms the shareholders, who aren'
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At least one of the individuals involved in this TicketMaster hacking pleaded guilty to the hacking. "The charges against Ticketmaster come 26 months after Zeeshan Zaidi, the former head of Ticketmaster’s artist services division, pled
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by bdowling 6y ago
> This show is an infringement on ILO’s 1930 treaty on slavery. How is voluntary, compensated participation in a TV game show comparable to slavery?
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> ...lawyers will never work contingency because the money payout isn't worth the effort... This is probably true in a lot of cases. So, whether or not suing is worth it will depend on the specific facts of a case. > ...the emplo
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by bdowling 6y ago
> ... you are going to pay mentally by investing your brain to that issue. The purpose of the lawyer is so that you don't have to invest your brain in that issue. Your lawyer can deal with the intricacies of court procedures and emp
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by bdowling 6y ago
An employer-employee dispute will usually be litigated in either a state court or a US District Court (Article III court). USCIS, a federal Article II agency, has no influence over either court.
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> Even if she did, would she have been able to even stay while the lawsuit plays out over months to years? Unlikely. It is not necessary for a plaintiff to be a U.S. resident for a lawsuit to proceed in a U.S court. I'm not an exper
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by bdowling 6y ago
> ... especially when Apple is your legal opponent. If the facts are on the employee's side, then many lawyers would take such a case on contingency because Apple (or any large, successful company) has very deep pockets to pay a jud
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Immigrants are typically more desperate and companies take advantage of that. An immigrant non-citizen employee who is harmed by an employer has just as much of a right to sue the employer as a citizen employee.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Go to HR? Are you kidding me? First, HR is not your friend. The purpose of going to HR is so that the employee's attorney can later show that the company (1) had actual knowledge of the abuse and (2) subsequently did nothing.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> I don't know what exists in the US, but in France, you can sue your employer for free (You don't even need a lawyer)... In the U.S. there are many employment lawyers who will represent harmed employees on contingency, meaning
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by bdowling 6y ago
> There's also this great song by John Mayer Are you saying that “Waiting on the World to Change” is sung from the perspective of a demoralized communist citizen, living in a state in which the government controls all information? T
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by bdowling 6y ago
> How do people put up with this? One common strategy is to not carry anything of obvious value, don’t wear jewelry or watches or fancy clothes, don’t walk with your cell phone out. Basically don’t look like an easy target.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Not only is this a waste of time and money, but it’s damaging to our legal system. Agreed. The court is supposed to impartially apply the law. Long-term imprisonment for contempt when a party is defiant makes the court seem capricious
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Why do you need patents for secret technology anyway? A government contractor who invents something would like to prevent other government contractors from infringing on their invention. Also, if an inventor keeps an invention secret a
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by bdowling 6y ago
This, a thousand times. Housing advocates often call for building “affordable housing” but the problem of high prices is solved by building any housing . As you suggested, if new luxury housing comes on the market, then some older apartmen
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by bdowling 6y ago
> why Twitter does not delete presidential twits - they don't want to break the law. The law requires that the President retain and preserve records. [0]. It does not require anything of third parties like Twitter. [0] https:&#x2
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> It's not even journalism. Journalism is any public communication about the happenings of the world. This article is public and is about something that happened in the world, so it is journalism.
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> The authors repeatedly note the widespread inadequacies of the current research landscape. This is standard language in academic research papers. It is there to sell the importance of the research to the reader, in particular to journa
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by bdowling 6y ago
When an app seriously disrupts a core browser feature like navigation to the point that it’s nearly unusable, I call it broken.
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by bdowling 6y ago
I prefer `lasagnacat` for my existential/surreal Garfield riffs. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2AQkHXNVA-w9FA1m9VqO7A My favorite may be this one, a one-hour single-take monologue about finding the meaning of
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by bdowling 6y ago
Those levels.fyi compensation reports are distorted growth in the value of RSUs. At time of hire, RSUs are typically allocated at about 10-20% of total compensation. In the case of many reports on levels.fyi, particularly high-growth tech c
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by bdowling 6y ago
>> Funded co's are the top 1%, so that's arguably some $600K folks (L6) > Only 0.5-1% of startups get picked for VC funding This is a big misunderstanding. The rate at which pitches get picked up for funding is not relate

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