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by ikeboy 6y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-executives-leaving-ex... This has been a thing for years.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Indian Notice definition A. My usage is valid. If someone thought I meant definition B, I'm sorry about that, I thought it was clear in context, given that OP listed the
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by ikeboy 6y ago
What exactly is your point?
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by ikeboy 6y ago
>So I'm assuming you're saying that they shouldn't hire in India apparently because of less than minimum wage. That's not what I said. >So these kinds of things can be avoided if Amazon were to hire decision makers
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Please read the above comments, in particular the part about critical business functions.
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That's not the relevant comparison.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
You can't honestly tell me you believe the deterrence effect is just as strong whether someone is US based or not.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
If a company was outsourcing critical business logic to, say, Nigeria, I would absolutely criticize them for that. The color would have nothing to do with it.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Tenet finished shooting before covid hit.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Most of those people weren't Amazon employees. The two employees indicted were India based (read the actual indictment, one of them moved to the US later).
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by ikeboy 6y ago
The difference is that people from other countries are generally not subject to US jurisdiction. Certainly the deterrence effect from stories like this is far larger for US based employees and contractors than foreign ones. It's not xe
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by ikeboy 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17999282 Story from two years ago
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Don't outsource critical business logic (like whether an 8-9 figure account should be suspended) to Indian low level contractors? This has long been a major issue with Amazon - often the people making the decisions as to whether a busi
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Six indicted in multimillion dollar scheme to bribe Amazon staff(justice.gov)
257 points by ikeboy 6y ago|152 comments
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Yes, the difference is he switched from being against higher capital taxes to in favor.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
It's interesting to read this nuanced and economically informed take with his more recent post saying we should raise taxes on capital. See https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Year-in-Review-2... Reading t
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by ikeboy 6y ago
>This objection, though, is jam-packed with value-claims: It claims what we “ought” to believe and references “good” evidence. The very challenge pre-supposes the reality of value. There's no reason those terms need to be taken as o
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Re page 15: refusal to deal is a very narrow doctrine. Usually companies are free to deal with whoever they want to. Re the market analysis, HiQ didn't adequately allege the relevant product market. Even if LinkedIn participates in the
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HiQ Labs vs. LinkedIn – antitrust claims dismissed, interference claims allowed [pdf](courtlistener.com)
2 points by ikeboy 6y ago|2 comments
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The argument was that it was strictly harder to extradite him from Sweden than from the UK, therefore his argument against going to Sweden was bullshit.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Yeah, I prefer just denying the philosophical coherency of death (only experiences exist and being dead is not an experience), or alternatively relying on a quantum multiverse or other levels of the multiverse that imply one cannot die beca
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by ikeboy 6y ago
The article makes it sound like the lawyer botched the first trial, which is mildly surprising given that it was paid for by insurance with a strong motive to win. You should know before trial exactly how a witness will answer all questions
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Documents are supposed to be relevant. If you only want to fight on a core legal issue and don't dispute the facts, you should be able to cut down discovery significantly. Which may not be an advisable approach, if the facts alleged ar
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by ikeboy 6y ago
In fact, it's even possible to invalidate a patent on a motion to dismiss. See https://www.knobbe.com/news/2018/12/invalidating-patents-und...
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by ikeboy 6y ago
But OP falsely claims that summary judgment is impossible. This just isn't right. Summary judgment is possible whenever there's no genuine dispute about material facts after discovery. If the facts show prior art, the judge can ab
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by ikeboy 6y ago
I like mega, it's encrypted, there's command line tools (megatools), it's very fast to upload from a server in my experience.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Art of problem solving has techniques, books, videos, etc. https://artofproblemsolving.com/resources There's also http://brilliant.org which is useful
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by ikeboy 6y ago
This is my case, which I've discussed several times before here https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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Antitrust case against TP-Link allowed to move forward [pdf](courtlistener.com)
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Yes, that's almost exactly how it works. First option can be chosen to beat at least 511 others, second option to beat 255 others of the remaining, and so on. Just add up total number of group preferences among each subset and divide b

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