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by hash872 5y ago
I run a business and I absolutely would fire a customer for being needlessly rude to an employee. If they're angry at the employee they can direct their 'feedback' to me. But yeah this 'the customer is always right'
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by hash872 5y ago
1. It's a bit different if it's a 'customer success' type person from a product that you're already using- that's different from totally cold outreach 2. You're free to just ignore them, especially over el
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by hash872 5y ago
Evan, your response was needlessly rude, and if I were Mailgun I'd let you go as a customer. The idea that you'd drop a company over this is overly dramatic. I would encourage you to be nicer to relatively low-level employees, and
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by hash872 5y ago
When people use 'you'd have to change the Constitution' as a criticism, they are mostly noting that it's extremely difficult to change the Constitution, and are probably not motivated by a deep reverence for the document
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by hash872 5y ago
According to the Axios article, the lawsuits are about antitrust, not alleged fraud. As I detailed, the reason newspapers are in a precarious financial position is because they previously held a geographic monopoly on classifieds advertisin
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by hash872 5y ago
Many state judge are elected- for a very long time, the US was the only country in world history to ever elect judges. It's unheard of, not just in the developed world, but also among developing countries. (We were however joined by Bo
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by hash872 5y ago
I'd imagine these lawsuits' chance of success will very strongly hinge on where they are impaneled. A jury in a conservative, working class or populist area will probably be pretty sympathetic to striking back at Big Tech, regardl
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by hash872 5y ago
The US does not have laws against 'hate speech', this is completely incorrect. Libel is a civil matter, and the US is commonly described as having the highest bar to proving libel in the developed world
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by hash872 5y ago
I remove myself from data broker websites as a hobby, and I don't find it futile at all. They haven't repopulated my data whatsoever, and they actually take GPDR/CCPA threats pretty seriously. (Sometimes you do need to email
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by hash872 5y ago
You missed Canada at #5. And Taiwan (#11) & SK allocating around 15% of their seats to PR- recently, as in the last three years- I would not call a 'significant amount' of PR
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by hash872 5y ago
Yes, and I believe Taiwan has started doing something similar. That's still under 16% of all seats, and- they just started doing this in the last couple of years. They were 100% similar to the US system until very recently
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by hash872 5y ago
The UK does not have proportional representation, that's not correct. FPTP & PR are opposites- you have to choose one system or the other. I agree that presidential systems are probably suboptimal, but it is worth noting that South
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by hash872 5y ago
I read it, I thought it was pretty handwavey. Anyways, doesn't explain how Canada, Britain, South Korea & Taiwan all manage FPTP successfully as stable democracies
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by hash872 5y ago
>You spent two paragraphs arguing that FPTP voting systems are responsible for the stability of the US, Canada and Britain I did not say that, I'm sorry that you got that impression. I am saying that political systems overall are si
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by hash872 5y ago
The US was stable for the entire 20th century with FPTP. If it's so bad, why was the US stable for so long with literally the exact same system we have now? Canada's used FPTP for its entire democratic existence, it's one of
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by hash872 5y ago
San Francisco uses ranked choice voting or IRV, not a two-round runoff. I should've used a different term to avoid confusion. Here's what I mean by a two-round system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_sy
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by hash872 5y ago
I'm not for IRV, you're confusing that with a 'normal' or two round runoff. In a normal runoff there are two rounds, the second round is a few weeks or a month after the first one- the French, most famously, do this for
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by hash872 5y ago
Many people find selecting a candidate for political office with 20-30% support to be deeply suboptimal. You're flirting with your government being perceived as illegitimate by regular citizens. At the national level these are incredib
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by hash872 5y ago
Gentle reminder that approval voting has been tried & discarded by a number of organizations over the decades (it's literally centuries old!) The main issue is that consistently 80+% of voters 'bullet vote', or simply sel
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by hash872 5y ago
>Silently gathering data about a person's activities (As a privacy fanatic who uses GPDR all the time to get control of his data) sadly, I think that this is the fundamental nature of the technological era that we're living in.
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by hash872 5y ago
A number of other developed countries have judges who serve a more inquisitorial role, they're not just neutral referees in the process. Up to you if you think that's better, I'm pretty skeptical of the power of the state so
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by hash872 5y ago
I think the argument is that a powerful Prime Minister is not really subordinated to parliament- that Merkel does not, in practice, really answer to the party, but instead the party answers to her. I am not personally making that argument,
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by hash872 5y ago
The total value of all US real estate is $50 trillion. There's not a lot of situations in life where you can say, even the United States government doesn't have enough money to make a dent here- but....
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by hash872 5y ago
>I agree some of the LLCs are investment vehicles for individuals, who buy a property, wrap it in an LLC, and pay a management company to rent it out, but that's a bit different (these are just passive investors buying into an asset
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by hash872 5y ago
You are not accounting for bad faith actors who lie about the landlord's actions for their direct own financial gain. Living rent free in a property is saving a tremendous amount of money! Like, as a % of income it's probably more
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by hash872 5y ago
You're advising that a non-attorney can represent themselves against a professional attorney and somehow win. What are the odds that an amateur that's never done a job can defeat a professional who does it full time? The other iss
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by hash872 5y ago
Yes, as the other commenter mentioned, anyone can set up an LLC so that doesn't mean much. The fact that 41% of landlords have the property in their names & not an LLC just shows you how unprofessional and small-time these operatio
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by hash872 5y ago
When I worked in commercial real estate in a blue state I was introduced to the 'right to counsel' concept, which is just wild. Grifters and professional con artists can successfully not pay rent to small-time family landlords (mo
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by hash872 5y ago
Sure, but this NYT times piece that says Google specifically tried to 'slow down' European privacy rules disproves Thompson's argument that they want privacy to impede competition. It's pretty binary- if they wanted pr
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by hash872 5y ago
I'd like to see the reaction from libertarian types who always insist that regulation just entrenches large incumbents and makes competitors emerging tougher. (Ben Thompson of Stratechery has been banging this drum forever). If large c

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