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The Uber of Gentleman Companions – Matter(medium.com)
3 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
The government is in a much better position to protect people from fraud if it isn't the one perpetrating the fraud in the first place.
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Coming Soon: No Travel or Passport If You Owe IRS(forbes.com)
4 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|1 comments
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
And the situation won't get better with new net neutrality rules...
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
The headline would have been 900% better as "The Soviets took bear guns into space"
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
The user's wiki page does explain what is wrong with "comprised of": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giraffedata/comprised_of
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My Gravity lawsuit and how it affects every writer who sells to Hollywood(tessgerritsen.com)
329 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|125 comments
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Let's just look at the predictable consequences of this move: 1) Banks and other corporations will never lend money to poor people again. Full stop. If there is a chance that the government will write off that debt (effectively stealin
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
I love that quote but it should be mentioned that it is actually misattributed to de Tocqueville. Doesn't make it any less true though.
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Especially apt considering the first libraries were corporations. Non-profit corporations, that is. But people forget that "public library" is a 20th century neologism.
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Why is this being downvoted? It's a perfectly reasonable comment.
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Well to start with, it's a very misleading comparison. Every single person in North Korea is in prison. Just because most of them are not behind bars doesn't mean they are not prisoners. By contrast, Americans only (largely, overw
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The Blame for the Charlie Hebdo Murders(newyorker.com)
6 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|0 comments
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Rent the Runway, a Designer Fashion Startup, Raises $60M(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
7 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
"Parisian taxi associations had brought the case against Uber, accusing it of unfair competition" "Unfair competition" is apparently the newest word for "competition."
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The case against human rights law(theguardian.com)
41 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|54 comments
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Law Puts Us All in Same Danger as Eric Garner(bloombergview.com)
3 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
That's so interesting. I only use Instacart for meat. I get Costco meat by the freezerful every three months and it works great.
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Eric Garner's Murder Reveals the Ugly Core of Government and Law Enforcement(reason.com)
8 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Salinas' defense attorney is named "Tor Ekeland."
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From Boston to Ferguson: A Lesson in Passion and Prejudice(brianmayer.com)
3 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|0 comments
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How I Landed 5 Dream Jobs in One Month by Giving Away My Best Ideas(medium.com)
4 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|0 comments
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In Defense of Marissa Mayer(businessinsider.com)
1 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: OK Shift – SMS-based shift scheduling for the service industry(513-ok-shift.com)
1 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|0 comments
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Against Productivity(medium.com)
329 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|104 comments
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ReservationHop Ditches Restaurant Reservations, Launches OK Shift(techcrunch.com)
1 points by bmmayer1 12y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
What about companies like Softbank?
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
This article seems to suggest it's near impossible to leave a megacorp and start a company. So how did the first megacorps get started in the first place? Presumably there is a fair amount of entrepreneurship in Japan, otherwise they w
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
The regulations are what created large banks in the first place. It's virtually impossible to start a bank today because of the web of regulations; thus new banks don't get started and the big banks don't get competition.
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
I'm not saying they're mutually exclusive. I'm saying we're not a capitalist country or a free market country. US "capitalism" is not dependent on the free flow of capital--it's arguably very unfree flow o

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