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by kodablah 8y ago
> Facebook the company needs to be changed drastically by strong external forces (maybe governments, though the effects could include some harm too) It seems most can only imagine a government-led punitive solution. I would like to see m
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Walking. That’s how you get around quickly. You either have a limited definition of "quickly" or a limited definition of "around". > Also maybe you don’t need to get around so quickly. Or maybe you do. > That’
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by kodablah 8y ago
Where did Google use Motorola's patents offensively like a troll might? In the absence of an example, will you admit you are incorrect?
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by kodablah 8y ago
It should also be noted that now the policy is to not grant a TCK to any open source implementation that is not an OpenJDK derivative.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Does anyone believe Google will not be doing the exact same thing with its (moribund) technologies in, say, 5-10 years? I believe it, what about Google has shown otherwise? In many situations where they could have been offensively liti
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by kodablah 8y ago
Admittedly I assumed this thread had devolved to general development unionization. If game industry employees are valuable, not easily replaceable, limited to only a few companies, and can't easily repurpose themselves then unionizatio
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by kodablah 8y ago
In the current market, I'd rather bargain for myself. We shouldn't pretend what a union wants is what every one of its members wants. Leaving at-will firings on the table for instance is unlikely to garner popular support. I perso
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by kodablah 8y ago
That's the beauty of the current over-abundance of demand for devs. You fire bad bosses by quitting. Simply put, if you want to pick your best company, you have to be willing to find it. Similarly, if an employer wants to pick their be
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by kodablah 8y ago
I think not recognizing the arguments as built instead of propaganda-fed shows how effective the anti-corporate narrative has become. Unionization doesn't stop illegal collusion, prosecution stops illegal collusion. What is with all th
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by kodablah 8y ago
> 20 minutes later, I gave up and drove to the library (!). Assuming it's traditional Google search from your ISP, there other alternatives such as using startpage.com or Tor.
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by kodablah 8y ago
As someone on the employee side (not games), I too want my company to be able to fire bad employees at will. Having been at companies that do and don't, I very much prefer the ones that do lest the workplace become bloated with low qua
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by kodablah 8y ago
Yeah, about their little web service they are building. I don't think anyone, here or elsewhere much less the majority of them, would say that advice is globally applicable.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Why do bottle bills tend to get high amounts of participation once enacted? Environmentalism is more popular than folks think. The bigger reason, though, might be that a culture of recycling has become popular. Another reason is that t
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by kodablah 8y ago
I don't believe this is true unless you are intentionally assuming all ventures are painted with the same brush. It's not true with self driving cars, med tech, or anything else having to do with human safety. Not only is there no
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by kodablah 8y ago
Sounds to me like "Facebook lobbied for reduced responsibility". After all the non-stop news chastising FB for not censoring things that are fake or otherwise considered bad, I would expect them to want to defer responsibility on
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by kodablah 8y ago
> But rather than a follow-up from Holmes, Shultz received an email, obtained by "Nightline," from Sunny Balwani. > In the email, Balwani wrote in part: "...The reckless comment... based on absolute ignorance is so insu
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Scaled up, if a high enough percentage of people in a group view something as worth sharing, then it is impactful. Disagree, but impactful can be seen as an overloaded term. We need to accept in modern situations that the ease of shari
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by kodablah 8y ago
No offense, but what your mother shares does not determine what is a very real impact. Also, whether something is shared does not mean it is impactful.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> the amount of misleading information on the web is having a very real, very serious impact on the world I'm not convinced this is true. I'm more convinced many really want it to be true to explain results they otherwise can&#
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by kodablah 8y ago
This is a simple case of the negatives of transparency in government. You gotta take the bad with the good when the good outweighs the bad. A public's right to hear police chatter outweighs their potential to misuse it. It's alway
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by kodablah 8y ago
> I doubt that Apple will build a significant backdoor Why? They clearly have cooperated with countries' requests even if it seemingly went against their principles (e.g. Chinese laws around iCloud data). And they also have a histor
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by kodablah 8y ago
I don't see this as hypocrisy any more than someone accepting a tax cut via policy from a politician they voted against. In fact, if anything, what Brexit has shown me is that there is one side that only sees things in black and white.
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by kodablah 8y ago
I am familiar w/ (relatively) high fees and near-universal acceptance so I'm not sure your dichotomy holds. Either way, I do appreciate the features my card providers offer me as a buffer between my bank and the merchant. Don&#x27
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by kodablah 8y ago
Hrmm, many people in other areas only spend money on credit cards they actually have too. I was also curious about the dispute resolution feature of the card itself. It is my primary reason for a CC (rewards are just a perk) so I don't
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by kodablah 8y ago
> It's possible to criticise something and still understand it's utility but simply feel that the danger is worse. Sure so long as it's OK to come to a different conclusion. Since utility of these things are basically unqu
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by kodablah 8y ago
Sure. The consumers do (at the end of the day), hence the fees. We also pay for the costs borne by them to resolve disputes, handle those that don't pay back, etc. Also hence the fees.
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by kodablah 8y ago
In order: 1. Techno-snobbery (e.g. this tweet) 2. Spam (to the point of justifying email centralization) 3. html/css/js over-complication (to the point of unreasonable implementation requirements)
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by kodablah 8y ago
I know, and cars are the worst thing to ever happen to the planet, synthesizers are the worst thing to ever happen to music, etc. Worst thing to happen to pundits? The inability to recognize the value of something to the common person beyon
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by kodablah 8y ago
> The fine would have been higher, but Brussels reduced the amount by 10 percent to thank Mastercard for cooperating. I am unable to find a link to the ruling in the article, does anyone have it? Curious how this number was arrived at.
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by kodablah 8y ago
Are there any consumer benefits, ala rewards, for using this card?

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