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   World EV Sales Now Equal 18% of World Auto Sales(cleantechnica.com)

   49 points by belltaco 3y ago|82 comments
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   by belltaco 3y ago

   I mean they're openly advocating deporting them for legal free speech, not even a dog whistle. I would imagine a good chunk are US citizens. While not fully understanding all the nuances.
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   by belltaco 3y ago

   I'm the opposite. If an app I am looking for has a store version, that means it'd be autoupdated and easy to uninstall. Updating Windows programs is a needless hassle of downloading from notifications and clicking through installs
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   by belltaco 3y ago

   If there are only 2.5 fatalities a year with 70% share then those are great numbers.
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   by belltaco 3y ago

   Cisco case was dismissed coz it was made up bs. Not because of lack of laws. https://theprint.in/opinion/dismissal-of-cisco-case-proves-e...
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   by belltaco 3y ago

   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/30/anti-sharia-...
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   by belltaco 3y ago

   > maybe we Americans should question whether we should have the arguers, as well as the arguments, in the US in the first place That certainly doesn't sound blanket racist against an ethnicity of 1.5 billion people... Land of free s
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   by belltaco 3y ago

   Not surprised Oracle is trying to save a buck on laptops and exposing both the company and employees to potential liability and not following basic security practices.
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   by belltaco 3y ago

   >In the absence of any case, ever, saying that it is illegal to discriminate on caste in the USA, it is almost certainly generally legal. That's not how it works. You're conflating court cases vs court decisions . > documen
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    Newsom pointed to ancestry, which covers caste perfectly because it's all about ancestry. > That this discrimination is occurring is not up for debate, it is objective fact Source for this so called objective fact? > which demons
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    > But additionally, the law prohibits discrimination based on "genetic information" That sounds specific to using DNA tests for things like health insurance or work fitness. In most of the cases you don't need to swab DNA
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    I am not upper caste and I don't think about caste. Nor does any of my friends or family ever talk or mention someone's caste except rarely in very limited circumstances about older parents in India caring about their children&#x2
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    Only stories alleging caste discrimination trend on HN and are assumed to be true. Not when they're withdrawn for lack of evidence, so we can't blame GP for not knowing that.
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    You're making a lot of assertions with no sources across multiple comments. >Well we know the discrimination happens, and currently is not prevented by courts. How do 'we' know that? > The harm to businesses, is that sa
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    Just like all the anti-Sharia laws that were proposed in the US? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/30/anti-sharia-...
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    If you wanted to save lives, you would focus on the low hanging fruit in the 43K deaths per year, not the 2.5 deaths per year. You could save 5 times more lives by banning all vending machines in the US or by making them safer when they fal
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    Same. No one even brings up caste at all, except very rarely in the context of someone's parents back in India wanting a spouse for their child overseas (for arranged marriages) to be of a similar caste(like date/marriage racial p
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    > many documented examples Source(s)? Should be easy to link if there are many, and they're documented as you say.
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/30/anti-sharia-...
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    They mean code comments, not HN comments.
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    Yeah no, they contacted us for an audit because a few people had the previously free and confusingly licensed JVM installed, and wanted us to pay for licenses for all thousands of employees. Just dealing with them cost us significant resour
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    > A Washington Post analysis of federal data found that vehicles guided by Autopilot have been involved in more than 700 crashes, at least 19 of them fatal, since its introduction in 2014 19 fatalities in 8 years... less than 2.5 fatalit
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/85929-coca-cola-su... The notorious Oracle lawyers must've put a bunch of legalese in the employment agreement that any failures to secure the laptop can result in liabili
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    Source(s)?
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    Downloaded files will be on your local drive, and also business emails if you use a mail client like Outlook to access business email. I heard of cases where lawsuit discovery requests needed legal to sweep employee laptops to respond. It&#
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    Wegovy, Ozempic and Rybelsus are all brand names for the same underlying drug semaglitude that was approved first for diabetes in different dosages.
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    If another ecommerce platform wants to compete on price to encourage customers to shop there, they cannot. Any discounts will only go to the seller's bottomline. How is that helping customers?
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    China Wins Crucial New Friend as US and India Lose Out(msn.com)

    1 points by belltaco 3y ago|0 comments
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    > Microsft CEO is concerned for _Google's shareholders_ Where does it say that?
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    by belltaco 3y ago

    Any quick sources to back that up? IMF appears to set some conditions to put the economy back on track before lending.