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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> Imagine George W. Bush has his stooges trying to undermine and overthrow Obama if you don't see why this would be problematic for current administration. I'm uncertain why you think government employees exercising their 1st a
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Banks (including small banks) frequently make errors that they stubbornly resist resolving without a gun to their head. Hence, the regulation that kills many of them. If they were capable of self-regulating to a reasonable degree, the polit
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> The reason there aren't more regional banks is precisely because of all the regulations. I have represented numerous small banks over the last decade. Every single one of them have been sold to larger banks because they cannot co
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> Of course it sounds bad that they want to shut down a 'consumer protection' agency. But those sound like legitimate concerns. At a minimum a restructuring sounds like a good thing. If only the concerns weren't a bad joke
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You are aware Steam distributes rootkits, yes? If you use it, you are just as "guilty" as the logic used in the OP.
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> I mean, there is such a thing as ethics. A programmer writing software with malicious intent or with the explicit purpose to defraud, undermine, or otherwise harm another person and/or their property should absolutely be held resp
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It works with intent but "intent" is really only available to Bing, Google, etc. where the user is searching for something _specific_ to purchase. For instance someone googling reviews of Samsung Dryers probably is considering buy
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> How is one to vote when neither major party candidate was pro-privacy? You vote 3rd party for someone who is and bitch at whichever major candidate wins regardless (which is why they resort to form letters, so at this point its newspa
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> Sure they would, so long as they are trying to have their vote directly effect a change. Outside of "sending a message that I support someone else," the logical voter must consider that their vote will only change an outcome
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> These five words are, as far as I can tell, the poison in the pudding of American politics today. > 2) The fact that huge outcry over the NSA is not visible might just mean we're looking in the wrong places. I've traveled
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Because they did, its typical corporate PR speak for any PR release which is basically what the OP is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/google-en... Even someone as popular as Steve Yegge th
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They can't get the content of communications w/o a warrant is the reason. They need that for legal action. However, the stuff they can get without a warrant is enough people /do/ freak out if its applied in a manner they
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3+ years worth of expenses so you don't need to worry short of some massive disaster that leaves you unemployable. Assuming you are reasonably disciplined you can do that pretty quickly.
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Yep. As Tech folks, honestly, we should just save up FU money and then stop worrying.
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> If I don't like Uber, I can... stop using Uber. What can I do if I don't like the service a state provides - can I opt out and stop paying? No, my only option is to flee - which the state will often try and prevent you doing
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> - given indefinite leave in 1992 to remain in the UK after her marriage - but this lapsed because she lived outside the UK for more than two years > this is a textbook case of someone playing the system, including overstaying on a t
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> It's about numbers. As sien noted earlier "So about 50% of US citizens you would treat like holocaust deniers/flat-earthers? http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/04/public-views-on-climat...
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You are aware these include people advising the President, such as Bannon, correct? This isn't some lunatic fringe at this point but includes people the President of the United States either takes advice from or treats as friends (i.e.
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> Or is the data connection used by the car in some other way? They probably will be collecting diagnostic data like Tesla does and it'll be written in the fine print. That is likely the real reason for the 4G modem installed in the
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Under normal circumstances, yes. However, in this case, it is already largely public and making Uber look the villain is a viable strategy given that Uber likely is the villain.
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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/02/27/it-admin-was-aut... They are probably thinking they can go that route.
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> I never said it would be easy. All I'm saying is to shout them down and ridicule them is going to make the problem worse. Socializing is a good first time. Keep talking to them. Try not to lose your cool. It's hard.. it&#x27
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> I mean, literally, year old events that have dozens of news articles (including multiple right-wing sources) they choose to disbelieve over their chosen charismatic leader on YouTube and Right Wing Radio. Please explain to me why peopl
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> This would only allow them to win more elections and retain power for longer. Instead include them in discussions; try to socialize them. Don't talk down to them as they will move away from the discussion and purposefully remain i
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> Or it was an unauthorized leak. Someone in HR, with access to the files, deciding for themselves what the right thing to do was Yes. I just would have expected it to be closer to the actual event rather than waiting ~2 years.
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> If GP is correct, I would think that the point is not to detect departures by people who have overstayed but to more reliably detect all departures, so we can more accurately figure out who has not departed, but should have. You don&#
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Just fyi, generally someone who filed a complaint or being investigated by HR doesn't have access to HR's internal notes on the investigation. It very much reads as if a HR employee is the source. HR works for the company and only
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That might be and it might be my life experience biasing my opinion. I just came away with the impression Recode started to investigate and got spoonfed a line of attack against a commercial competitor. To me, the chain of events seems to b
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> Amy's situation was grave, and kudos to her for getting out. But everyone should read these stories and burn this line into their heads permanently. Yes but the company's best interest is to support Amy and fire Mike#2. The r
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> Uber execs found out about the situation after Recode informed them of the chain of events between Singhal and the search giant this week. > Indeed. According to multiple sources and internal notes read to me, after discussing the c

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