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by jellicle 7y ago
I'd go the other way: HN users bend over backwards to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, which he then sets on fire. He just held an event for Tesla investors called "Autonomy Day" at which he went on at great length abou
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by jellicle 7y ago
Well, I'd be okay with eliminating all drug patents in exchange for NOT using government monopsony purchasing power. Are you game? After all, if we want an efficient level, drug patents are the enemy. And hey, if we look around the
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by jellicle 8y ago
And since the studies have shown that high-priced CEOs underperform, those Disney shareholders could have made a ton more money with a $1,000,000/year CEO. Too bad for them. Also, if the stock has no value I'll take it off him fo
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by jellicle 8y ago
Add another zero? Or maybe two? I mean, here's the thing. If you spit on the sidewalk or look funny at a cop, you can spend months in jail. Facebook is doing some bad stuff to a whole lot of people, all the time, flaunting the law, w
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by jellicle 8y ago
The USA can print as many dollar bills as needed, right? But Tether cannot.
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by jellicle 8y ago
Which newsrooms do you think are run by the "far-left"? I want to subscribe and I've never been able to find any, despite diligent searching.
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by jellicle 8y ago
Yes? You make several times what most families make and are well into the top 10%. You probably have an easy time comparing yourself to a billionaire's lifestyle and saying "I'm not rich". You probably have a hard time
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by jellicle 8y ago
> father puts him in charge of a company that does $2.4 billion in annual revenue > self-made man!
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by jellicle 8y ago
All states allow absentee voting, so...
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by jellicle 8y ago
Coastal cities will only be saved if lots and lots of money is spent on them. New York City will almost certainly survive for the foreseeable future (they've already got sea wall plans...). New Orleans, highly vulnerable and lacking
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by jellicle 8y ago
We were literally just discussing the law that makes hacking a criminal offense. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act makes it a federal offense; most if not all states also make it a state crime; most if not all other countries also make it a
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by jellicle 8y ago
You are making a distinction that the criminal justice system does not make.
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by jellicle 8y ago
If criminal law isn't capable of handling a hacker who hacked 1.5 million victims, criminal law is broken. (If Facebook changed its name to Lulzsec2.0 of course the FBI would be very interested in the situation.) And while the previous
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by jellicle 8y ago
If we're talking about proportionate contributions, the most-contributing taxpayers are the very poor, not the very rich. They pay a considerably larger share of their income in all taxes than the wealthy do.
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by jellicle 8y ago
The US public has great appetite for inequality-reducing measures, as any poll will tell you. The political class does not. But perhaps publicly releasing tax returns would spur enough public disgust when people realize just how little in t
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by jellicle 8y ago
Any data broker will happily sell you a list of high net worth individuals for a few dollars, customized any way you like it.
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by jellicle 8y ago
Solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels, today. There is no reason at all why humans can't continue to use a lot of energy and also cease pumping CO2 into the atmosphere. All that is required is that the changeover be made.
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by jellicle 8y ago
The problem is all those other things are CALCULATED values off the AoA sensor. Literally everything depends on a single tube which is known to get clogged with ice, bugs etc. So for the 737 Max, a single clogged AoA sensor causes all these
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by jellicle 8y ago
Yes, urging people to walk/cycle/bus instead of driving around in single-passenger cars is exactly the same as filling your city with bears.
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by jellicle 8y ago
So, your examples are all "reporting about court cases" and you use court documents as your citations for facts. Court cases are as good as we have for determining facts, I suppose. (Though the error rate in court cases is quite
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by jellicle 8y ago
"apt install okular" requires an extra 195 packages and 194MB of space on a Ubuntu machine I have handy. It's not all of KDE, but...
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by jellicle 8y ago
And if you have questions about the credibility of Credder, you can just check the Credder ratings on Verrit, which is itself verified by Truther and Accurit, which are backed up by Credder. Solved! News trustworthiness is not a technical
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by jellicle 8y ago
Plenty of people are making money in music, just not artists.
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by jellicle 8y ago
Is that a trick question? The negative externality is leaving a usable property vacant when public policy encourages use. You're maintaining this situation: https://squattinglondon.files.wordpress.com/2018/01&#x2F
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by jellicle 8y ago
"Steal"? You gave them a license to do so. Yes, they could use your images in their advertising, or publish a book of your images, or make a movie out of all your messages and videos, or anything else they wanted to do with, as t
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by jellicle 8y ago
How would anyone be able to look at your house if they didn't own it? No, the expansive licensing Discord demands here is not required to operate the service.
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by jellicle 8y ago
So you're saying my car will become vastly more powerful, and therefore I won't buy one? What? Is that how it worked with, say, cellphones? Or automobiles, for that matter? When automobiles became vastly better quality and more u
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by jellicle 8y ago
The article seems to want to say "suburbs cause wealth" but only provides data for "rich people live in suburbs".
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by jellicle 8y ago
>Sharing economy Back in the day we called it sharecropping and we knew it was bad.
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by jellicle 8y ago
Um, please explain how Facebook using data you gave it for Facebook's purposes violates Facebook's terms of service.

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