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by jellicle 6y ago
Amazon has a "good" part: high quality goods of known provenance delivered quickly. Consumers love this part. And they have a bad part: random sellers with zero vetting selling garbage from an infinite number of procedurally-gener
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Mmmm, if we polled the leadership of the Democratic Party or Democratic elected officials, I think you'd find that nearly 100% of them support qualified immunity or, if they express lack of support, are nevertheless unwilling to act ag
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Well, among other things, if you simply poll people and ask about drug use, white people admit to using drugs at higher rates than black people but are punished much much less frequently for it. So there are plenty of ways to acquire statis
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by jellicle 6y ago
Floyd was killed May 25, 2020, the protests began on May 26, 2020 and Chauvin was charged on May 29, 2020. Please don't lie.
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Where do you get the idea that a search warrant is required to get a third-party to hand over data about you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine And no, there's nothing on that nest.com page that s
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by jellicle 6y ago
Before you install cloud-recording cameras in your home, especially from a major company which the police will check first, be AWARE that local and federal law enforcement can simply request your data from Google, no judicial search warrant
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Yes, three of the four guilty cops are free with no charges, and the fourth is only being charged due to the protests and would not have been otherwise.
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Don't take that for actual closeness. In many votes including this one, Senators may want to vote against leadership but will only do so if permitted. So if, say, 5 more Democrats had insisted on voting yes to make the amendment pass,
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Here, you can check out this guy: http://origins.osu.edu/milestones/july-2015-bartolom-de-las-... And read his book: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20321 Since it was written in the 1500s by an
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That story describes random employees being asked to become investors, speculators, silent partners in the business. Here are the conditions: * you do lots of work now, up front * you have no say in the business * you have no say in the
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What actually happened to Sears: https://www.salon.com/2013/12/10/ayn_rand_loving_ceo_destroy...
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Most of your local small businesses have already closed permanently. We haven't even gotten to the next contractionary wave where state and local governments lay off millions of people. It's conceivable to imagine a world where g
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Well, on the one side, you've got a Wikipedia article whose sole source is a Reason.com article from 2001. On the other side, you've got everyone who ever studied this issue, showing that consumption measured by any statistic at a
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by jellicle 6y ago
As Uber will happily insist to you, "drivers aren't employees of Uber".
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In the absence of copyright, one supposes that authors would get large up-front fees for publishing, and that the fee for book 4, book 5 and so on for JK Rowling would have been quite large, so I suppose she would have done just fine. Thin
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How exactly would this work? Station someone on the sidewalk outside the hospital and interview people leaving the building? "Excuse me sir, have you received a medical implant today? We're interested in enrolling you in our st
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> companies are always scheming, wicked villains I believe the baseline assumption is that many people are trying to make a buck, and something like coronavirus is a great opportunity to scam people. Is that wrong? I'll bet if I pur
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This is not a story about people unable to pay off their full balances. It's a story about people unable to make even the small minimum payments.
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Since this is infectious before symptoms show up, it's basically impossible to eliminate it entirely. But suppose A starts showing symptoms, tests positive. We can immediately notify B1, B2 and B3 that they need to quarantine, immedia
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by jellicle 7y ago
> Automation coming sooner I'd predict the opposite. The world will shortly have an international depression, and to the extent that businesses are allowed to be open, there will be 1000 applicants for every position. Wages will co
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by jellicle 7y ago
How many man-hours do you think $10,000,000,000 gets you? Alternately, what do you think the pay per man-hour ended up being?
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by jellicle 7y ago
If that's truly your fear, you should support real (and acceptable) moves for fighting climate change as a way to head that off at the pass before it comes to be. Today, if you make a list of all the fascistic bad things that governmen
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by jellicle 7y ago
Pricing would likely be similar to the free market pricing for prison phone calls. What, $50 per letter, something like that?
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Their pricing structure is set by Congress, which has refused to allow them to do so.
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Odd that The Jungle is mentioned here. Does everyone realize that the US isn't doing any inspections of any food facilities any more?
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We started off the thread with "these TOS are dubious, they can be ruled unconscionable..." They aren't dubious, they aren't ruled unconscionable. If you sign up for some service and agree to the terms of service that in
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by jellicle 7y ago
Nabla is correct and the prior two commenters are wrong. Although many people think that arbitration clauses are unenforceable, in fact they are completely and totally enforceable under US law in every state. When you take your [service] t
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Okay, so if I promise you you'd have a hospital bed and a ventilator for your last week on Earth, you'd go let some infected people cough in your face? If your answer is no, you're still worried about the consequences of infe
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by jellicle 7y ago
The author missed inter-family infection growth during a lockdown. If you have a family of 5 people and person 1 is infected, person 2 gets infected by 1 after one week, a week later person 2 infects 3, a week later person 3 infects 4, a w
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by jellicle 7y ago
NYC had a pre-existing large scale school lunch program (more than lunches, they offered breakfast and after-school food too). It has been repurposed.

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