bleriot

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by bleriot 7y ago
Dang has no interest in upsetting Chinese loyalists, so he’ll never release the data behind his claims of “no voting manipulation”.
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by bleriot 7y ago
I’m not sure Disney is a productive company for society. I’d argue that Lebron James and Disney are purely for entertainment. And the owners of sports teams are able to attach value to the players by how many people they’ll draw to TV and s
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by bleriot 7y ago
The person in the article said “white people are so fragile”. That’s a racist statement, so no spinning needed.
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by bleriot 7y ago
Do you deny that the Chinese government makes it extremely difficult for US companies to operate there?
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by bleriot 7y ago
So there’s a time limit on censorship and free speech?
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by bleriot 7y ago
This is why free speech is such an essential right in the United States, and probably contributes to the success it’s had as a country in making things. It’s hard to create when some government can come along and crush your idea. I can’t th
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by bleriot 7y ago
Not to mention that the government initially ignored a huge amount of complaints before finally investigating.
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by bleriot 7y ago
I agree that zip2 was not a great accomplishment aside from making money, but it certainly wasn’t copyright infringement.
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by bleriot 8y ago
There’s no way to know how many of those were Chinese nationals because the only group with that data is FINCEN. So how exactly did you do this, and which county was it?
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by bleriot 8y ago
I’d think that the person who abuses customer privacy would be much lower class than that. I’d much rather work with someone like the WhatsApp founders than a Zuckerberg.
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by bleriot 8y ago
Considering that Amazon fulfills orders using counterfeit items from suppliers that they know have previously provided fakes to customers, and then removes reviews that point out counterfeits, I’d say they’re complicit in it. I’ve personall
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by bleriot 8y ago
Looks like you got downvoted by the usual anti-science politically-correct contingent here on HN, but you’re right to investigate that possibility. Here’s an analysis of the last major outbreak in the early 90s that shows how huge a factor
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by bleriot 8y ago
A lot of subs are full of edgelords. The sub was quarantined because they need to make Reddit more palatable to investors and advertisers.
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by bleriot 8y ago
Maybe Google should have put that in the explanation instead of not giving a reason.
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by bleriot 8y ago
For users. See all of the responses about gifs and bandwidth. I hate autoplay video but don’t want to sacrifice gifs to block it.
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by bleriot 8y ago
This seems specifically targeted to give Uber an advantage over Lyft especially with the 10,000 dispatches rule. I’d also keep an eye on where the TLC commissioner ends up now that she’s resigned. Given all the corruption in NY, it wouldn’t
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by bleriot 8y ago
Why is someone a shill for saying something negative about a totalitarian dictatorship?
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by bleriot 8y ago
Yes, a company at that scale could do it, but they’d have to actually spend some of their $200 billion instead of hoarding it Scrooge McDuck style.
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by bleriot 8y ago
This might explain it a little better: https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/money-laundering/
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by bleriot 8y ago
No, at least in the US. The Realtors have lobbied very hard to make sure that the real estate industry doesn’t have the same reporting requirements that banking does. So a lot of dirty money has made it into the US real estate system. The g
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by bleriot 8y ago
That’s just another reason why Chicago’s population is lower today than 25 years ago, and Illinois has lost population for five years straight. Corruption and bad policies are rampant, so why start a business or stay there if you can leave?
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by bleriot 8y ago
Par for the course for a company that “illegally diverted over $100 million from a fund used for safety operations, and instead used it for executive compensation and bonuses” according to the state.
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by bleriot 8y ago
They could afford to pay out a regular dividend, illegally skipped safety measures on pipelines, and “an independent audit from the State of California issued a report stating that PG&E had illegally diverted over $100 million from a fu
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by bleriot 8y ago
Looks like the decisions that favor patent trolls were all decided by majority Obama appointees. Makes me wonder if the new Supreme Court appointees will accept any challenges to these rulings and if so, will they finally put a leash on thi
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by bleriot 8y ago
They also took down a great little website they bought called Weatherbonk and never ended up using the site’s best features. I wonder if they were just buying up competition.