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by hash872 5y ago
As a longtime crypto & blockchain skeptic- I have to be fair and note that, according to this FT article, HSBC and Wells Fargo are using (non-crypto) blockchain specifically to settle currency trades. And this is apparently past the tes
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Isn't that the nature of contracting though? Like do you think that contractors who are placed through a staffing agency are building better relationships than those found via an online platform?
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Ask HN: Why isn't there an Amazon for skilled 1099 contractors?
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This argument is my pet peeve. Taxi companies employed drivers as 'independent contractors' who were paid pretty similar to Uber drivers now- by the ride, not by the hour- and frequently forced the drivers to do or pay for their o
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by hash872 5y ago
1. All of your language around this is unnecessarily emotional & aggressive 2. Developers don't make all of these decisions about website content, compliance, privacy & legal requirements- business owners & attorneys do. We
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I've seen a lot of people make this claim, but I find it hard to believe that basically every website on Earth is violating GPDR with the nag screens (if they're so willing to break the law, why don't they just not have any p
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Even if I agreed with your analysis (which I don't, and 'corporate leeches' and 'greedy bastards' is unnecessarily aggressive & uncharitable)- I don't think that littering every website on planet Earth with
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Litigators frequently work on contingency- so they work for 'free' for the litigant, in exchange for a healthy percentage (a third or higher) of any settlement. This is without including the actual government, where an employee ma
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And they can find an attorney to say that they were discriminated against, or that the company somehow did something improper, etc. As America is (to my knowledge) the only developed country where the losing party does not pay attorney&#x27
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Yes but there are regulatory, legal and potential lawsuit issues why just firing people is not like snapping your fingers. It's an exercise with significant friction
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Surprised to see this entire conversation and no mention of the Jones Act, which pushes the US towards using more truckers because it's unfeasible to transport goods by ship from one American port to another. Traveling by water being v
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I'd be interested to know what makes your business model different from Hired.com, which was basically the same thing, right? Just curious as someone who follows the space
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He was militantly anti-gay rights and anti-gay marriage. I'm not familiar with the rest of his conservative views, but I don't find much iconoclastic or libertarian in there- he was a standard-issue Republican in the GWB era
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Not to be repetitive, but- let's say your website has visitors from Thailand, and you do something to defame their monarch. Are you in compliance with Thai law? What if you have Chinese visitors, are you subject to Chinese law? What if
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by hash872 5y ago
I don't mean to be confrontational, but as an American with websites in the US- why would I care? The most basic tenet of sovereignty is that a country's laws stop at their border, unless otherwise agreed in a treaty. I may be vio
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by hash872 5y ago
I think the pool of developers who are not freelancers, are OK with part-time work, don't need more salary than you're paying them for part-time work (like they have a cheap lifestyle or are already well-off?), and won't co
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As someone who's hired part-time developers off and on for years.... the issue is that they typically start out working the agreed-upon number of hours, then begin to work less & less over time. There's no feasible way to mak
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>Where are the voices that seek a structured shift away from personality cult politics? Part of the issue is populism, which is as strong on HN as anywhere else. If I said 'hey the US & other countries should move away from a pr
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by hash872 5y ago
The United States is consistently in the top decile of least corrupt countries globally. Don't really care for your second to last sentence either, let's tone that kind of rhetoric down. (The author of the Twitter thread should ab
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by hash872 5y ago
I mean, judges in developed countries make these kind of judgement calls all the time, probably dozens of times a year in a country the size of the US. There's tons of well-developed common law around what is a legitimate expression of
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by hash872 5y ago
If I were designing a constitutional system for a new country, I'd certainly include freedom of religion as one of the basic rights- while also codifying that there are no religious exemptions to any laws. Regardless of your faith, you
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The US already 'provides' healthcare now. In 2020 the government spent $769 billion on Medicare and $714 billion on the military- so, America spends more on healthcare for the elderly than the entire military budget. The governmen
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by hash872 5y ago
What are the countries where you can interact with a blockchain that contains CSAM, but you can avoid charges by explaining in technical detail what a 'striped raid' is to the relevant authorities? Can you name these countries? My
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by hash872 5y ago
Let's say instead of 'copyrighted file' it's CSAM material instead. Is it 'illegal'? Maybe you can convince a judge otherwise.... after your home has been raided, you've already done at least some time in
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by hash872 5y ago
Cuba is completely free to trade with the other 85% of the world economy that is not the United States, and indeed they've done so since the Soviet Union collapsed. They do quite a bit of trade with various European countries, and in p
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by hash872 5y ago
The problem here arises that any company that isn't tiny has engineers with the same basic job description, but at multiple levels of seniority. And then multiplies the larger the company gets. I.e. we have a Software Engineer 1, Softw
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by hash872 5y ago
The 13th Amendment came after a civil war had started- Lincoln didn't run on ending slavery in 1860. Also a number of Western US states (and some British colonies) started allowing women to vote decades before WW1- Wyoming in 1869, f
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by hash872 5y ago
Yes but they also tend to have multiple political parties knitted together in a fragile consensus too, so marshalling large-scale changes across all of the parties is pretty challenging. A coalition partner can always not just say no, but b
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Not sure you picked the best examples there- both of these things required a Constitutional amendment, aka had to pass both houses by a 2/3rds vote, then be voted in by three quarters of the states. That's like the definition of a
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by hash872 5y ago
Good piece. I'd tend to argue more for mild vetocracies/Madisonian political systems with multiple checks & balances when we're constructing actual governments. Many people heavily involved in politics ("intense poli

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