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by bmmayer1 8y ago
This deserves an upvote and extra points for creativity.
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California may mandate women board members–here’s how it would work(fastcompany.com)
3 points by bmmayer1 8y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
A profit-making corporation exists to make a profit, which isn't illegal or immoral, so I fail to see what 'responsibility' they have other than continuing to do what their shareholders have literally given them money to do.
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
If making money from using people's lives as leverage is evil, then let's go ahead and condemn doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, insulin injector manufacturers, and lifeguards while we're at it.
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
Right, I definitely agree with you. My only point was that it's easy to point to villains but real solutions are structural.
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
> squeezing money out of insurance companies because they can FTFY. But seriously, how can it possibly be the hospital's fault for doing exactly what the law and market incentives give them every reason to do? There's almost
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
This comment has no relevance to the article posted.
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess" - Ronald Coase
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
I'll just point out that there's nothing particular to Uber that makes being a hired driver a honeypot job for foreign agents. The headline seems like clickbait for the #DeleteUber crowd, especially with lines like this: > Than
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
This is a weird and unrelated comment.
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This passage resonates especially well with today's times: Audiences hoping for safe spaces—especially Jewish audiences—can be rudely jostled by Brooks’s wilder moments. The musical number “Springtime for Hitler,” first unleashed in th
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
How is removing yet another competitor from the market a good thing for consumers?
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
Does anyone have a link to the archived original (now deleted) article? It's not possible to truly evaluate a critical piece without reading the piece it's responding to.
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
> genetic data starts being resold Or hacked.
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
That definitely isn't true. I don't have the data on hand but I believe poverty in almost every country has dropped dramatically in the last few decades.
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
I won't downvote you but I think people are because it's a pretty perfunctory claim, not to mention inflammatory, that 'extreme inequality' A) applies to the West or B) is plaguing the West (for whatever we mean by &#x27
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
Obviously diplomatic immunity, national borders and such concepts predate Westphalia. But the Westphalian model is the model on which the modern world is built for better or for worse. That's not really a disputed fact.
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I would argue the concepts of citizenship and passports, along with their Westphalian corollaries of national sovereignty and diplomacy, are a very modern idea that, for the most part, protects people inside of nations from violence, and gi
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
Musk had no business being involved. Really, 'inventing' a MVP prototype of a submarine which he 'tested' in a swimming pool and then intended to test for real on live children, when an existing rescue effort underway wa
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
The fact that Clarence Thomas, widely considered to be the most conservative justice on the court, is on the record as being against the constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture is a really good sign that this shockingly still-legal tactic&#x2
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by bmmayer1 8y ago
Repeating a point that keeps getting downvoted for unclear reasons: "Wage theft" is an effective euphemism that misses the nuance of what's happening here. Not paying wages according to the letter of the law is not the same a
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China, India grapple with the consequences too many men(mercurynews.com)
135 points by bmmayer1 9y ago|179 comments
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Hard to believe 'United Statesians' didn't get more traction :)
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Even if some or all of the items on this list are true, to present them as obvious and unquestionable, without any supporting evidence, belays a shocking amount of arrogance that I'm surprised and embarrassed the HN community has deeme
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Facebook’s next project: American inequality(politico.com)
106 points by bmmayer1 9y ago|139 comments
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Why don't I address your comment piecemeal? I'm going to assume that the thing we care about the most is poverty when we're talking about under privileged people. > If in America, your options are very limited How are your
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Almost every nonprofit--especially local nonprofits like food banks, hospice care, shelters, legal aid centers, etc--has technology issues. They don't have enough money to pay for IT of any kind, especially in hyper competitive markets
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
He didn't ask which political platform or policy positions he should support. He asked what he could do to help the under privileged.
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
You're being downvoted because your comment doesn't make any sense. To elaborate: > The housing crisis is caused by economic inequality concentrating capital to a handful of cities This is a pretty bizarre claim, since by defin
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
How does unionization protect workers against the decline in demand for journalists and the collapse of the newspaper industry? (serious question)

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