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by jellicle 11y ago
Background: Uber's offices in Montreal were raided a few days ago by Revenue Quebec: http://globalnews.ca/news/1998322/montreal-uber-offices-raid... . What is new news is that the URL above (a major Montreal
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Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Government Raid(lapresse.ca)
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Green is not the primary author. Lacour is the primary author. Green is the older, more established, secondary author; he's supposed to be playing a sort of mentor role to the primary author. He has sent a letter outlining his conce
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by jellicle 11y ago
Taxi companies may fight regulations, but they don't flout them. If the city says, "We want 500 accessible taxicabs next year", taxi companies may say, "How about 200, five years from now?" But they won't say,
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by jellicle 11y ago
If you read the report, the retraction letter was sent to Science , presumably by email, on May 19, 2015. I'm okay with Science giving some due process here. Contacting the primary author and other parties, the peer reviewers, disc
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by jellicle 11y ago
What are you trying to say? That Snowden wouldn't end in Fort Leavenworth? You are correct. Snowden would end up in ADX Florence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence I'm not sure how that is an impro
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by jellicle 11y ago
But it's only you presuming a limitation on the NSA's actions with no basis for making that assumption. The fact that certain documents X have come out showing that Y happened in place Z does not mean that Y isn't happening
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by jellicle 11y ago
If you had clicked the link I provided, you might come to understand that since 1995, U.S. trademark law does not just work in the way you described, but also includes the concept of "dilution", where famous marks are protected by
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by jellicle 11y ago
You didn't even click the link I provided, did you?
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by jellicle 11y ago
> Did they really trademark Sprite™? No, or they would have used the R symbol instead of the TM. > Doesn't Coca Cola own that? Yes, and under modern trademark law, Coca-Cola will be contacting/threatening them shortly, so yo
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by jellicle 11y ago
No no no! Good-and-Tidy just doesn't get the business model here. They need to do it for free, and make it up on volume.
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by jellicle 11y ago
So you can just put a couple of cones across a highway and stop all traffic for a few hours? Cool! I'll bet you can even camouflage the transmitter so that no one can figure out why all traffic has stopped until they come out with a
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by jellicle 11y ago
What do you propose to do about the idle rich who inherit large sums and thus never need to work? Or people who marry rich spouses?
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by jellicle 11y ago
It's all well and good for every bold young man to think that he is a unique and special snowflake, the "One" who can see through illusions, take the red pill, and become a superhero who saves the world. In reality, you aren&
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by jellicle 11y ago
On the one hand you can say it's an overreaction. On the other hand meeting commitments is a pretty basic life skill, and probably one you should learn. It is no harder to be places at 9:00 than it is to be there at 9:06. Being late
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by jellicle 11y ago
> drawn into the witch hunt What witch hunt? The fired developer has literally never even been identified publicly. To this day.
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by jellicle 11y ago
> The individual who was fired said "As a result of the picture she took I was let go from my job today. Which sucks because I have 3 kids and I really liked that job." Isn't it really "As a result of my manager firin
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by jellicle 11y ago
> Because Well, no. Because some manager somewhere decided to do something, something happened. Ms. Richards had nothing to do with it. It is really fascinating how you've avoided putting the slightest blame on the employer here.
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by jellicle 11y ago
> Adria Richards did a lot of wrong when she tried to ruin someone else's life Since ludicrous lies like yours are so common, I feel compelled to reiterate that the sum total of what Ms. Richards did was say something was "not
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by jellicle 11y ago
Hacking several million computers is minor? What qualifies as major, then? The Morris worm infected 2-3 orders of magnitude fewer computers... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
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by jellicle 11y ago
> So before I accept an offer I need to know that they will be flexible about taking unpaid leave. Just as long as you understand that some (many? most?) employers will not hire you once you tell them this.
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by jellicle 11y ago
Don't worry, for the purposes of discrimination in the U.S. (and many other places, no doubt), stereotypically Arabic names are just as good as stereotypically African-American names. You're covered either way.
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by jellicle 12y ago
> Majority rule based on one-person-one-vote notoriously results in tyranny of the majority–a large number of people who care only a little about an outcome prevail over a minority that cares passionately, resulting in a reduction of agg
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by jellicle 12y ago
> Especially considering that the majority of law enforcement are there to do the right thing for the right reason Let us suppose three categories of police officers: a) bad cops b) cops who generally act good themselves but who will lie
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by jellicle 12y ago
Really? http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/quebec-language-pol... In Quebec, the law is that the public has an affirmative right to be served in French: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char
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by jellicle 12y ago
Most Canadian cities are fighting Uber's refusal to follow city bylaws and insurance requirements, Montreal is only the most recent: http://globalnews.ca/news/1678342/city-to-announce-developme... Uber's
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by jellicle 12y ago
As a general rule, skyscrapers don't increase density much, as most of the space is taken up by elevators, plumbing, electrical, and so forth. A block of five-floor walkups is almost as dense as a 50-story tower-with-empty-space-aro
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by jellicle 12y ago
You can see that the population gets these sudden bursts of laziness over time, which oddly are correlated with the business cycle: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/03/an-epidemic-of-laziness... Lazy takers!
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by jellicle 12y ago
No no, your claim was this: "so much that it's considered wrong on many points by economists of all political persuasions." Good economists expanding on or critiquing small parts of a huge work doesn't represent any sort
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by jellicle 12y ago
> In academic circles, there is ample criticism of that book, so much that it's considered wrong on many points by economists of all political persuasions. No, there isn't. Only Fox News believes that. You clearly haven't

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