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by clipsy 3y ago
> Even if NPM did allow developers to unpublish any package, there's nothing stopping me from downloading a tarball of your package as soon as you publish it, and hosting a mirror of it somewhere else. As far as I can tell, NPM does
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by clipsy 3y ago
This is being enforced by the NLRB which, as far as I understand, only enforces federal labor laws. So it should not matter what state you're in as far as having similar protection goes.
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by clipsy 3y ago
Free speech is when you say something Musk agrees with.
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by clipsy 3y ago
It looks like an interesting list and I've bookmarked it to read some of the articles myself; thanks for sharing!
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by clipsy 3y ago
Lawyers will ensure at any cost that AI does not make their field redundant; I wonder if tech workers will be as smart.
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by clipsy 3y ago
When doctors and lawyers work long hours, they bill for those hours.
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by clipsy 3y ago
I just recently cancelled Prime based on the news about putting ads on Prime Video; between that and the fact that shopping on Amazon has become a nightmare it's just not worth it. Netflix is definitely on the chopping block, I don&#x2
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by clipsy 3y ago
Seems like more of a 19th century problem that red states are reintroducing.
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by clipsy 3y ago
In virtually every conflict in recorded history, the soldiers on “opposite” sides have had more in common with each other than either had in common with their so-called leaders.
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by clipsy 3y ago
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes."
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by clipsy 3y ago
This is a prima facie absurd view of buyouts; if this were actually how things worked it would be fiscally irresponsible to lend money to any corporation (because the ownership might change, absolving them of their debt), for example. Or, s
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by clipsy 3y ago
Perhaps I'm misinterpreting, but it sounds like you think this is ridiculous: can I ask why? Buying a company generally includes accepting their liabilities, I don't see why employee bonuses would be any different. Edit: Parent ha
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by clipsy 3y ago
But then it'll turn out they have nothing and their 15 minutes of fame will be over!
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by clipsy 3y ago
Was ketamine also causing the male pattern baldness he had before his hair implants?
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by clipsy 3y ago
The employees do not have the right to sell the store at any price, so I don't think the analogy holds up. From a short bit of googling: "In Federal Claims courts, the key components for evaluating a claim of improper bait-and-swi
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by clipsy 3y ago
I also ANAL and I have no clue if it would hold up in court; I was more sardonically drawing an analogy to how section 230 of the DMCA shields companies from responsibility for content surfaced/promoted by "algorithms" while
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by clipsy 3y ago
There's a great new "use case" for AI: dodging bait and switch laws! Sure, normally if a dealership employee explicitly offered a car for a given price in writing only to reveal it was incorrect later it would be illegal, b
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by clipsy 3y ago
It's possible that age is a hidden variable, certainly, but it's also possible that Saturn, Pontiac, and Mercury are exceptionally low due to selection bias -- as you note, they've all been defunct for a decade at least; this
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by clipsy 3y ago
It sounds very dramatic, but the fact that the article didn't include even a single quote from the EO to support their argument makes me skeptical. Perhaps it's a real concern, but the article itself is trash.
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by clipsy 3y ago
What about 3?
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by clipsy 3y ago
Great start, now convict all the child molesters.
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by clipsy 3y ago
Here's a breakdown of large tech company donations for the 2020 election: https://observer.com/2020/11/big-tech-2020-presidential-elec...
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by clipsy 3y ago
> Is the root cause Israel's policies, or the very idea that Jews have any right to self determination in their historical homeland? Do native Americans have the right to self determination in their historical homeland?
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by clipsy 3y ago
It's not strange at all -- it was passed explicitly with the intent to harm an industry that primarily supports the "wrong" political party.
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by clipsy 3y ago
> The standard way to get into these high schools, by the way, starts at age 5, when you take your kid down to IIT and graduate psychology students administer a pseudo-IQ test. In my experience it starts a year or two before that when yo
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by clipsy 3y ago
It's pedantic, I know, but I can't help but point out that by definition we will never have effective treatments for treatment-resistant depression, because every new treatment updates the definition of "treatment-resistant.&
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by clipsy 3y ago
I think Elon's a piece of shit generally, but these investors are all big boys who should know that if it's not in writing it's irrelevant.
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by clipsy 3y ago
> It's not the IRS, they didn't write the law. Yes, let's give "credit" where it's due: the change to section 174 is part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, supported in both houses of congress solely by
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by clipsy 3y ago
Genuine question: Are there any auto manufacturers that do a good job of just supporting CarPlay and Android Auto and getting out of the way?
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by clipsy 3y ago
uBlock Origin on Firefox still seems to be working fine for me.

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