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by jellicle 11y ago
Let's take a slightly more factual article: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/13/postal-service-tallies-51b-lo... USPS made $1.2 billion in operating profit in the last fiscal year. The USPS has been an indep
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by jellicle 11y ago
I thought the problem was there is no tally of people killed by police. There's no central registry, no requirement to report. The only stats collected on this are people collecting news clippings, but of course many things don'
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by jellicle 11y ago
Isn't this article about suburban ride-sharing? Car ownership in the suburbs is 100%. I don't think anyone disputes that a lot of people live in cities and don't own cars.
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by jellicle 11y ago
> The French military has carried out its first airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, according to a statement from the office of France's presidency. > The country had announced earlier this month that it would expand its aerial cam
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by jellicle 11y ago
When I read stories like this, my only thought is how little San Francisco resembles any other city in the world. If you are designing your [next big thing] to be successful in SF, it won't be successful anywhere else. If you are des
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by jellicle 11y ago
Median real wages for IT workers (and any subcategory you want to pick) in the USA are on a decline over the last fifteen years or so. This suggests that the field has a substantial surplus of workers. Wages are decreasing. There's n
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by jellicle 11y ago
Is there any company in the U.S. that needs more tech workers than exist in the United States or can come to the United States to work? If not, your example is silly. No company needs more than a tiny fraction of all the workers. Any comp
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by jellicle 11y ago
So given the evidence that arbitrators are substantially more biased towards corporations than regular courts are, your argument is that it's actually the courts that are biased in favor of individuals and the arbitrators are actually
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by jellicle 11y ago
All my customers will ever know is that their disputes are required to be arbitrated by "Super Fair Arbitration, Inc.". They won't know that Super Fair has a 99% corporate win rate, and that we pay them a bonus every year th
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by jellicle 11y ago
And since it is only the U.S.'s regulations that make a particular piece of property "yours" rather than "no one's", arguing about the legitimacy of said regulations is incredibly daft. In the absence of regul
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by jellicle 11y ago
The reason why it was negotiated in secret was primarily to avoid public opposition to parts of it that will hurt the public. It wasn't secret to the entities benefiting from it, only to the entities being hurt by it.
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by jellicle 11y ago
> but arbitration rules don't work that way. They work exactly that way. If the arbitration company doesn't produce results that favor my company we will dump them as a service provider. Each year, we can run an A-B test, ran
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by jellicle 11y ago
> This law isn't actually as draconian as it sounds: the prosecutors must prove to a very high standard that you do actually know the key, and haven't really forgotten. Not really, no. If the prosecution can show that the defe
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by jellicle 11y ago
The rules of evidence are different in the UK. Be careful giving US-specific advice to a world audience.
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That clause is just to undermine the European Union data directives.
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by jellicle 11y ago
Or we could just regulate sane minimums and then not have to worry about it at all.
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by jellicle 11y ago
Most civil and criminal cases are adjudicated by a judge alone.
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So you're saying the conviction rate is between 87% and 100%.
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by jellicle 11y ago
Nearly nothing has entered the public domain in the U.S. in decades, and likely nearly nothing ever will again.
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by jellicle 11y ago
I'm arguing with your lies that the only thing CISA exempts from disclosure are "compromised account names and passwords".
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by jellicle 11y ago
> Example from today's AMA is FFTF's claim that CISA "exempts itself from FOIA", making it impossible to challenge in court: they're referring to Sec 4 (d) (4) (b), which exempts from FOIA individual shared indic
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by jellicle 11y ago
> What austerity are you talking about? There was no austerity in the US. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/austere-indeed/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02&#x2F
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by jellicle 11y ago
The point of incognito mode is to send out less information. The web browser can update itself perfectly well a) through the normal OS software update process b) when started in regular browsing mode.
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by jellicle 11y ago
I often see this given as an excuse for the U.S.'s prison system, but it seems a sort of non-sequitur along the lines of "difficult to compare the two, because Finland is named Finland". Is it just a codeword for the sentimen
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by jellicle 11y ago
What money? They have lawyers on payroll and filing fees are minimal. Their direct outlays so far in the three figures. And I don't get what "following through" is supposed to mean? Trying to convince a judge that someone
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by jellicle 11y ago
Four hours in and I don't see any comment here with the right take on it, so here you go: Amazon is not suing these 1,000 "John Does" in order to win, they're suing them in order to identify them and ban their Amazon acc
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by jellicle 11y ago
I don't understand the conservative desire to centrally manage the lives of the poor, taking away choice and freedom in favor of centralized bureaucracy.
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by jellicle 11y ago
A history of Republican obstructionism: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2015_02/...
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by jellicle 11y ago
Congratulations, you've invented Larry Lessig's idea. He noted that $50 per voter would be enough to swamp the contributions from the billionaires.
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by jellicle 11y ago
You seem confused about cause and effect. The GOP started their policy of total obstructionism (no votes for any Democratic policies, period, regardless of merit) in December 2008, immediately after the elections. There were caucus meetin

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