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by faintrain 7y ago
Ha. I see what the writer did here. I was expecting a legal or technical solution of a different kind lol. Now if I were to send this article to the business team at my company in order to make a point about privacy I’m sure it would result
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by faintrain 7y ago
The two are very related. You may want to read up on the period of Reconstruction. The southern states moved to use of prisons and sharecropping/terrorism to maintain their hold on cheap labor. There’s too many studies and books on thi
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by faintrain 7y ago
No one is saying the treatment of small businesses isn’t wrong. Instead this treatment is a fact of life. We can complain or we can change it. The HN community complains about this sort of thing often but has been pretty unanimous in being
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by faintrain 7y ago
What are your options? 1. Build your own. 2. Collectively organize with other Etsy shop owners to advocate with Etsy leadership. These type of policy changes aren’t a surprise anymore, no? We’ve seen them from Apple, Facebook, Shopify, Twi
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by faintrain 7y ago
The same people complaining fail to advocate for change. You don’t like Etsy policies go elsewhere. This is not rocket science. You don’t like the fact that big companies abuse consumers, small businesses, and their employees, you can vote
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by faintrain 7y ago
Equating car wrecks to companies making policy changes to increase their bottom line makes no sense here. Your argument is effectively everything is OK as long as you’re not told. The bottom line is that small business and consumers have a
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by faintrain 7y ago
You may not like the ALEC list but in some form most of the major US corporations that have existed for sometime have benefited from slavery. It’s a fact that a number of American and European institutions benefited both directly and indire
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by faintrain 7y ago
The current political climate around the Trump administration gets more and more insane. The one thing it demonstrates is that the American populace is not worthy of its pseudo-democracy but is lucky to have it. The question is how long wil
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by faintrain 7y ago
It’s not surprising that business interests will take advantage of their employees. The surprising thing is that modern employees somehow are still surprised by what is standard corporate behavior and don’t see the value in collective barga
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Engineers warn of dangerous car seats; Evenflo ignores them(propublica.org)
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by faintrain 7y ago
As anyone who has suffered injustice in a court will tell you... We have a legal system not a justice system. Those in poverty and without power have known this for sometime. Read: Gideons Trumpet by Anthony Lewis Follow: @innocence
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by faintrain 7y ago
At one point in US history from 1863-1930, the lynching of black men was a regular occurrence throughout the Midwest and South. Another fun fact is that most slaveholding families recovered their wealth less than one generation later throug
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by faintrain 7y ago
I like Ray Dalio. I’m a big fan of his book, Principles and his favorite book recommendation, Lessons of History by the Durants. However, his LinkedIn post is irresponsible and appears more to do with discrediting journalism than sticking t
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by faintrain 7y ago
JP Morgan Chase and McKesson both use Ruby with McKesson leading the pack in RoR LOC among the Fortune 50