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by jogjayr 8y ago
That's just one of the charges. The others are even more damning - targeting by sex, religion or country of origin.
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That's a hypothetical question. Does it really correlate with protected group memberships?
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The law finds the combination of "housing ad" and "discriminatory targeting" to be illegal. You can do discriminatory targeting when you're selling wheelchairs or other products. You can post housing ads. You just c
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Sure. But income or wealth aren't protected classes. And anyone can walk into a Whole Foods just to see the ads, without spending any money. There is targeting happening when you advertise in Whole Foods but it's not discriminator
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No. Because a preference for organic food isn't a protected class.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
No. Because anyone can buy the WSJ and Teen Vogue and see the ad. If you're excluded from being targeted by an FB ad you have no chance of seeing it. If that exclusion criteria forms the basis of a protected class and the ad in questio
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Bras and strollers are not essentials for living. Housing is. That's why Fair Housing laws, and not "fair marketing" laws exist. > what we want to prevent, isn't landlords who can target only some group, but landlords
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by jogjayr 8y ago
It seems to me that even though the intention of that is discriminatory in some way (and not necessarily against protected classes - the Whole Foods ads might be simply to target higher-income tenants), it's not in fact exclusionary. T
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by jogjayr 8y ago
My experience was in 2006 and the 2009 article feels very familiar. I accept that they can't control how long French authorities take to grant people transit visas but they could definitely do a better job of communicating and making s
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Having experienced it myself, I'd say "it depends" - on the airline and the country. In my case it was a connecting Air France flight from Paris to Mumbai that had to turn back to Charles De Gaulle after encountering problems
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> When insurance pays for everything patients stop worrying about costs, which in turn causes hospitals and drug companies to raise prices. This is what has caused Health Care to fail from a costs point of view. There's also the pro
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> I was never really sure what the business case for operating a public DNS resolver I always assumed it was to improve speed and security on the web.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> The restaurants I look at in the Seamless app. The Reddit posts I clicked on in the Reddit app. Unless I missed a press release announcing Google's acquisition of Seamless and Reddit, this seems impossible. AFAIK MyActivity doesn&
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Having lived in Atlanta and visited New Orleans 2 years ago, I'm more in agreement with GP. New Orleans seems interesting for a vacation but I can't imagine actually living anywhere near the French Quarter. This article about Amst
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by jogjayr 8y ago
But it's not summer in Mumbai now, it's monsoon season.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> The whole point is to fix all the problems with tech insularity and wealth polarization that everyone complains about here. It's not at all clear how forcing some software engineers to eat out for lunch will magically fix insulari
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> the tech community is notoriously insular in the Bay Area in ways it is not in other tech hubs like LA, Boston, NYC, or Austin That might be because 1. Not as many people move there right out of college to work in the tech industry. Th
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by jogjayr 8y ago
See this other comment for an explanation of why you might not have worked with any decent engineers who were on H1B: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17615528 Your experience doesn't mean that good engineers on H1
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Strongly agree with most of your points. It's a MASSIVE pain in the posterior to be job-hunting. You effectively take on a second part-time job doing interview-prep and everything else in your life gets put on hold - vacations, weekend
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by jogjayr 8y ago
According to Wikipedia, for smallpox the reason was: > Based on past experience, it is estimated that 1 or 2 people in 1 million (0.000198 percent) who receive the vaccine may die as a result, most often the result of postvaccinial encep
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I think it can drop or stay the same if the costs of driving by yourself and owning a car rise sufficiently. You can do this by implementing congestion pricing and heavily advantaging carpool vehicles on the road by giving them more dedicat
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by jogjayr 8y ago
My apologies, I'm a bit annoyed by comments everywhere on this discussion that don't count shared taxis as public transport. I wrote in another comment that without congestion pricing or aggressive expansion of HOV lanes, the effi
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Ok let me unburden you. I can't wait to get rid of my personal vehicle if a comparable SDC alternative exists. I'd be very much in support of congestion taxes, carbon taxes, and expanded HOV lanes, however.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> we may have people using cars even more instead of walking or public transport You're aware buses are large automobiles right? Lyft Line with self-driving cars is effectively a more nimble, efficient, usable, and cheap bus network
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Self-driving vehicles make mass transit more usable and economical, if you expand the definition of mass transit. Implement congestion taxes and dedicated lanes for high-occupancy vehicles (vehicle more than 50% occupied) and you have a fle
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> Why would Disney or Comcast want Netflix to fail when it's a boon for them currently? See Pandora for a lesson in what happens when a content distribution company has no pricing power with their suppliers (content producers). Note
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> for every Altered Carbon you have a half dozen utterly forgettable shows That's no different from regular TV. We were spoiled in the early years of Netflix streaming because they could cherry-pick license all the good stuff from e
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Netflix doesn't force employees to take RSUs. Every employee has the option to take anywhere from 0-100% of their compensation in cash. [1] This was also my experience. 1. https://www.quora.com/How-does-Netflix-compensa
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by jogjayr 8y ago
You're saying git is so bad that an ecosystem sprung up to support it? But if it's so bad why would it have a large enough userbase to support that ecosystem? That logic seems backwards.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
You're better off releasing from trunk/head/master than cutting a release branch. And if you are cutting a release branch, you don't need to merge it so SVN branching is adequate, if still unpleasant and awful to use. Th

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