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691.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Grouping by company is simply artificial in a market economy. And using revenue other profit is ridiculous. It makes more sense to just look at where the highest paid employees are and the most profitable companies are by return on invest
692.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Does smartlock work with native mobile apps (which may or may not use magic webviee for auth), or is there a way to manually transfer password to log into an app?
693.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
For a recurring subscription, the cvv was verified at the beginning. Cvv is for verifying the card security, not vendor account management.
694.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Kant's philosophy is universal, not individual. His morality (and many others!) accepts that people may becomes martyrs. Should you kill a person to save two? Kill two to save one? Does matter who the people involved are? Anti-Kantian
695.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Lying isn't bad. Hurting people is bad. There are many totally honest ways of hurting someone.
696.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Surely there are web business that print and mail documents for you.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Why blame the operators for management's barbaric rules?
698.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's backwards reasoning.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Why not? Nonprofit just means no one is a capital shareholder taking profit. It means nothing about the mission, values, or economic rights of the organization. The NFL is a nonprofit.
700.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's because you didn't go to an elite math school.
701.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Harvard has not perpetuated the myth of meritocracy in decades. That's what the whole lawsuit is about: trying to force the plaintiff's version of meritocracy. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Businesses will likely comply to presert access to California customer business. They will build web frontends for proper account management (cancellation). And they will go out of their way to disable those frontends for non-CA customers,
703.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Nate silver makes hundreds of predictions every year. You can compute his average and error in his estimates.
704.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
0.9 in 10 is also no more than 1 in 10.
705.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's tautological. DFW is considered great by people who like DFW's style.
706.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
"little" calls to mind "litter". One big tinidit in the preface wouldn't be so annoying to read.
707.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
The margin was not "substantial". She didn't even get a majority of the vote.
708.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Use indentation only for code, not blockquote > They were diving upstream in the system so they were having to swim against the current, or pull themselves along the walls. Some of the cave is fairly constricted and other points
709.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
You think UK, the land where whistleblowing and news reporting is illegal libel, is better for free speech than the EU?
710.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Please don't use sarcasm on HN. It is low quality discourse that only causes confusion, and sarcasm doesn't have a detectable "tone" in text.
711.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
I sell my stuff via Walmart. I have no problem if Walmart is given the legal right to prosecute shoplifters, since (likr a publisher) they already paid me for my work.
712.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Google cache is not infringement, because Google respects robots.txt and because it only caches content made freely available by the publisher. Advertising is a business model, not part of the license agreement of a non-consentwalled websi
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Right. Are you really sure your kid is a rotten person, or would you rather assume that they are a good kid who made a fixable mistake?
714.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Your comment is non responsive. Telling your child they are bad people is not discipline.
715.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Less likely that Google and DO will both lock your account at the same time.
716.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Google Drive doesn't back up email and calendar your private machine.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
In real empirical practice, which happens more often: google locks a user out of their own data (a user who wasn't intentionally blatantly violating the TOS), or a non-google-user loses their data to due some technical error or natur
718.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Archive.org uses the "archival library" argument of fair use.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Why can't another site pop up? There was one last year with a 4(?) letter name I forget (Lyme or something?) but it failed and shut down because it's impossible to pay the server bills with only nontoxic content, apparently.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's a rather poor option. Mac App Store and Android for example offers much better sandboxing options.

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