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by jellicle 5y ago
You're probably 1000x as likely to be fired for a bad commit than you are to be fired as a cop that has made a poor policing decision. After all, you don't have a union.
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by jellicle 5y ago
> It is fundamentally about how Google should increase diversity Well, it was fundamentally about how Google should stop all efforts to recruit or promote women or non-white men, because Damore believed those efforts were "discrimin
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by jellicle 5y ago
COVID is a permanent fixture of the Earth now. It's like measles or malaria. You'll never have a day in your life where COVID doesn't exist. Ten years from now, COVID will still be a problem - an active, pressing problem that
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by jellicle 5y ago
> > Permanently divorcing physical location from economic opportunity gives us a real shot at radically expanding the number of good jobs in the world while also dramatically improving quality of life for millions, or billions, of peo
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by jellicle 5y ago
That may once have been true, but it's certainly not true today. Kids born in the 2000s can expect to earn less than their parents, as income has been pushed up to the ultra-wealthy. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/
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by jellicle 5y ago
> These internal barriers mean Europe has many smaller firms operating at national, not continental, scale. Each country tends to have its own banks, utilities, airlines and supermarkets. (Europe has over 100 mobile operators, compared w
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by jellicle 5y ago
> commercially available drones and fuel-expedient (?) A transcription error that has been carried forward over several sources, apparently. The general undoubtedly said "field-expedient", meaning devices that can be cobbled to
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by jellicle 5y ago
The IPCC has been forecasting up to 1150 ppm by the year 2100, and they are a conservative forecaster (climate changes have been following their highest forecasts, or even higher). So yes, your grandchildren may well live in a world where t
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by jellicle 5y ago
Perhaps people should. There's no intrinsic reason why a system must exist where certain kinds of enterprises can be FUNDED by me, I can receive PROFIT from them, but I cannot receive any CONSEQUENCES from them if they commit crimes. O
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by jellicle 5y ago
Pretty trivial to declare your car at $26,000. The extra tax is minimal, and if someone buys it, the $1000 bonus will cushion your annoyance. If we think that "everyone" will have to "overdeclare" in such fashion, then o
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by jellicle 5y ago
The entire middle class already does pay a regular tax on their assets. We call it "property taxes". The groups who AREN'T taxed on the bulk of their assets are the poor (who have no assets) and the wealthy (whose assets aren
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by jellicle 5y ago
Seems to me that nearly every assertion in that Reuters story is wrong. Police agencies may be being given a new, additional way to request video data, but nothing Ring can do can prevent police agencies from using the old, legal methods of
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by jellicle 5y ago
One phone company and one cable company is what most people have now for broadband competition. How will that change?
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by jellicle 5y ago
If you're 5 pounds overweight, you have a "comorbidity". If you die of COVID, I guess you were going to die anyway so it doesn't matter, right? No, your hypothesis is wrong. COVID has massively increased death rates, ind
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by jellicle 5y ago
There are only a couple of US states that have something along the lines of "or political beliefs" appended to their workplace discrimination laws. In most US states, it's perfectly legal to announce that you're firing a
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by jellicle 5y ago
Just an utterly absurd statement, the exact opposite of the truth. Current price increases are due to things like "not enough computer chips", which have absolutely nothing to do with Biden's policies. To the extent that any
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by jellicle 5y ago
Your little subdivision that replaced a farm should have a commercial center that you can walk to.
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by jellicle 5y ago
"...but not regulated like any bank"
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by jellicle 5y ago
Charity = good Cryptoscams = bad Want to contribute money? Write a check. Don't sully charitable operations by trying to glue a cryptoscam onto them. It seems rude to flag a link to paulgraham.com on Hacker News, but I'm going to
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by jellicle 5y ago
The tax man will put a lien on the building and get their money when the building sells. This idea that being given billions of dollars (as the Lee family was) is somehow a bad thing or has downsides is just ludicrous propaganda. For any bi
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by jellicle 5y ago
The jury trials you are thinking of are petit juries. The grand jury is an extra pre-trial step, which most countries have abandoned at this point
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by jellicle 5y ago
Voice commands aren't going to give you an exhaustive list of possibilities, they're going to play the top result. Q. "Play Diamonds by Rihanna" A1. "Playing Diamonds by Rihanna from Youtube Music" A2. "Pl
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by jellicle 5y ago
There are lots of people who like cars, and lots of people who like avocados, and lots of people in your ZIP code, but the intersection of those sets is... you.
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by jellicle 5y ago
When I read statements like "minority mobs can't cancel users", I assume the intent here is to build a right-wing social network like Gab or Parler. Is that the intent? If that is not the intent, you should consider revising
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by jellicle 6y ago
What you will find is that the vaccine-hesitant are perfectly happy to take the word of authorities who say "this vaccine is unsafe" and only have trouble accepting the word of authorities who say "this vaccine is safe".
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by jellicle 6y ago
> The IRS does not focus a large share of its energy on poorer people. This is just untrue. In 2021, almost all of the IRS' enforcement energy is focused on poor people. This is continuing a trend that has gone on for 30+ years now
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by jellicle 6y ago
As you'll immediately get that $300K refunded with your next tax return, it should be trivial to borrow money for a few months. The idea that there's no access to capital to build out successful businesses is laughable.
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by jellicle 6y ago
The existence of one problem doesn't preclude the existence of others. Both are problematic. The law being used to sue police officers - the Ku Klux Klan Act - came into being because the Federal Congress recognized that in certain sta
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by jellicle 6y ago
You seem to have confused a true statement (qualified immunity is about torts, not crimes) with a false one (if there was a crime, then there can't be any qualified immunity claim in a corresponding civil case).
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by jellicle 6y ago
Every dollar invested becomes untaxed, whether that happens immediately or is delayed. Always has.

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