cgaudreau

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by cgaudreau 13y ago
"Cancelled insurance" has mostly meant that you would lose your current plan and be automatically enrolled in a new plan by the same insurer, not that you would be uninsured. Some people did in fact lose their insurance or face
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by cgaudreau 13y ago
I don't want to get in to ad hominem, but Matt Drudge is known to say untruthful things. In fact, that "unexpected requirement" is challenged by numerous people [0]. And of course, everybody already knew that you would pay a
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by cgaudreau 13y ago
The Administration actually does have legal authority to execute various parts of the law as they see fit. It does undermine credibility and set a bad future precedent, however.
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by cgaudreau 13y ago
Mandating people to buy health insurance and mandating people to buy weapons are two entirely different things.
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by cgaudreau 13y ago
Good thing they extended the deadline a bit for those experiencing technical issues, then.
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by cgaudreau 13y ago
Indeed. It reminds me of how Steve Jobs received credit for Jony Ive's designs[0]. Americans have been raised and convinced to believe that CEOs and business executives are the source of all creativity, and that their wealth is a logic
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by cgaudreau 13y ago
I wouldn't call using the power of free speech to oppose the hateful views of a CEO to be totalitarian righteousness. Would you feel invigorated to work for a CEO who supports slavery?
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by cgaudreau 13y ago
This particular website appears to have buckled under the traffic. In the mean time, here's a mostly equivalent article: http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/28/mozillas-bad-week-employee...
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by cgaudreau 13y ago
A pressing problem is the fact that a large slice of Americans believe that the owners are the creators.
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by cgaudreau 13y ago
The ability to have easy credit was the foremost event which brought about the consumer era. Reverting back to a defacto gold standard would be a retrogression on a scale rarely witnessed in the previous few centuries.