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by hsod 10y ago
I don't see how it's wage theft if you were aware of it when you accepted the job.
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by hsod 10y ago
> They are willingly serving up a page to my computer for free. This has absolutely nothing to do with payment. This seems self-servingly reductive. It sure would be convenient for people who don't like paying for content if the Int
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by hsod 10y ago
Really? It sounds like you're describing a felony, and one that would probably not that hard to be traced back to the perpetrator.
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by hsod 10y ago
I use Yelp all the time when I'm in a part of the city I don't know well. I mostly ignore the star rating and just look at the pictures and skim individual reviews for relevant info. Works great for that purpose.
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by hsod 10y ago
Twitter is not a publisher nor a press outlet, it's a platform. Would you be OK if Comcast decided to filter out Trump campaign emails? After all, Trump is still free to send letters, or talk to people in person.
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by hsod 10y ago
Project Include is disassociating with YC because YC is associated with Peter Thiel who is associated with Donald Trump who advocates hatred and violence. Are we to draw a principle from this? Is PI arguing that dissociation from those who
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by hsod 10y ago
It basically comes down to local tax bases. Schools are funded by local taxes so rich neighborhoods have better schools. This was challenged as a 14th Amendment (Equal Protection) violation in a famous supreme court case, San Antonio v. Rod
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by hsod 10y ago
Twitter is a huge, huge place and your conclusions are massively over-generalized. There's lots and lots of good stuff: analysis of news stories, humor, statistics, low-level or amateur reporting. Covering tons of niches: sports, polit
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by hsod 10y ago
That seems uncharitable, the OP was somewhat confusingly worded.
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by hsod 10y ago
I'm comfortable praising someone for giving away 3 billion dollars to fight disease, even before the results are in.
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by hsod 10y ago
> That might be a relevant question for whether or not he should be pardoned for committing perjury, but it's not a relevant question to deciding whether he committed perjury. I'm not a lawyer, but it could perhaps be an affirm
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by hsod 10y ago
Median American household income 2015: $56,500 [0] Median American home sale price July 2016: $244,100 [1] [0]: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-poverty-idUSKC... [1]: https://ycharts.com/i
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by hsod 10y ago
> The public misses that important detail. I bet if I asked ten people in my office right now, less than half would say confidently that airplane autopilot is a turnkey solution.
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by hsod 10y ago
You put the headphones back in the case when you're not listening, and they charge. Do you frequently listen to your headphones for > 5 hours uninterrupted? I'm sure some people do but I bet it's pretty rare realistically.
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by hsod 10y ago
Seems like the new thing is if you drop it in the pool/bathtub/toilet (and quickly retrieve it) you should be fine
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by hsod 10y ago
> If Amazon of Google ever give up their books service in a prolific blaze of fire, customers lose all those purchases. I highly doubt Amazon would delete all the books off my Kindle if they were shutting down. I wouldn't be able to
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by hsod 10y ago
I'll say it's a ridiculous position. How can it possibly be ethical? The owner of the server and the content has specifically told you to stop sending packets at it. I honestly don't know how to construct an argument for this
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by hsod 10y ago
You think "There is an amazing amount wrong with this ESPN piece on DraftKings/FanDuel. Awful." is a strong, emotional objection?
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by hsod 10y ago
What makes a price fair?
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by hsod 10y ago
I get annoyed by this comment in every thread not because no one believes that but because it attacks a very weak form of an interesting argument. The stronger form would lead to much better discussion, and these comments frame the argume
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by hsod 10y ago
I think this is pretty true for economic issues, but not for diversity/identity politics/social justice. On those issues, the HN-hivemind is pretty solidly leftist (though not to the extremes of some corners of the web).
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by hsod 10y ago
SomethingAwful handles this by charging for accounts, so if you get banned it costs 5 or 10 dollars to get a new identity. Urbit handles this in a decentralized way by intentionally limiting the namespace, so that once it runs out you have
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by hsod 10y ago
Those are both decisions regarding preliminary injunctions , so your claim that they were found "not illegal" is erroneous. It's explained pretty clearly in the short paragraphs you linked to.
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by hsod 10y ago
> can't help but conflate numerous unrelated arguments from different people. This is exactly how I would describe your comment, far more than the one you replied to. The comment you replied to attacks a single argument-- that relie
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by hsod 10y ago
Yes, if those people did it frequently and explicitly and wrote posts online about how great it is and how everyone else should do it too.
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by hsod 10y ago
This is an overly specific distraction. Accidentally or unwillingly loading FB resources doesn't come with any ethical obligations, obviously. I'm talking about being a Facebook user, as in maintaining a profile and logging on and
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by hsod 10y ago
IMO, the technical mechanisms are irrelevant. the ethical questions easily map to a face-to-face interaction.
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by hsod 10y ago
> Why shouldn't I approach them the same way? Practically: because it leads to a race to the bottom, lowering to their level, the world just gets worse and worse Philosophically: because ethics are a fundamental part of who you are,
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by hsod 10y ago
> Facebook's profitability is not your problem. No, but acting with honesty and fairness is. Facebook is asking you not to use their service if you are going to block ads. I think it's obvious that the "right" thing t
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by hsod 10y ago
> I have Netflix and Amazon Prime; is there a reason to add Hulu to the mix, at this point? If you want to watch currently airing shows on your own schedule, instead of when they actually air. If you only like to watch back catalogs, may

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