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by mark212 10y ago
Agreed. There's a lot of hyperventilating in this article that, gosh, a wealthy country might want to spend a bit of money to build some weapons to defend itself. And then, incredibly, sell them to other rich countries.
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by mark212 10y ago
Sadly, it's the other way around. Arbitration agreements are almost always upheld and enforced. It's rare for a plaintiff to win when the defendant brings a motion to compel arbitration
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by mark212 10y ago
No they're not. If the previous version of the license has a class action waiver and arbitration clause then all future disputes are covered under that provision. Failure to consent to the Win10 license means nothing. (Might be a great
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by mark212 10y ago
See Concepcion v. AT&T Mobility LLC (April 2011) where the US Supreme Court ruled exactly that: class action is incompatible with arbitration so head over to arbitration as a lone individual.
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by mark212 10y ago
No they don't. Failure to read the entire agreement is not a defense. It's binding if you did some affirmative act (including using the product) after notice of the terms, even if it's only a link. Reasonable expectations mea
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by mark212 10y ago
Absurd it is, but they are legally binding and have been used to screw consumers since 2011. Thanks Scalia!
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by mark212 10y ago
I am a lawyer and yes it is
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by mark212 10y ago
no, not really. The most common latinism is "ibid" in its various forms, which is used to avoid repeating a full citation. NB is used more like "i.e." or "e.g." in the US, from my experience.
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by mark212 10y ago
because instead of expelling the sexual predators, the Church transferred them to other locations. Seems completely on point to me.
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by mark212 10y ago
Authors generally assign the copyright to the publisher in exchange for a royalty, so no probably not.
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by mark212 10y ago
You miss the point. Where's the offline part of the YouTube comment section? My kid's kindergarten class has an FB page that is very important to how the class functions day to day. Sure you could code up a replacement but it woul
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by mark212 10y ago
no they don't. The article isn't reporting accurately on Facebook's argument. The TCPA has exceptions for emergency communications and debt collection activity where the debt is owed to or guaranteed by the federal government
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by mark212 10y ago
FCC can't repeal the TCPA, only Congress can do that, and it's unlikely given the way even modest amendments to the law have been roundly criticized. Last try in 2013 was the only time I've seen Mother Jones, NYT editorial pa
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by mark212 10y ago
no, they bought a company called Grand Central in 2007 and re-branded it as Voice. This was well before Fi. A couple of the key players from GC left to form Uber Conference in 2012 which was then rebranded as Dialpad with backing from Googl
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by mark212 10y ago
Now _this_ is how you write a readme. The first sentence has a clear, concise explanation of what the code is for and why you might care, without a garble of acronyms and abbreviations.
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by mark212 10y ago
really? you took the time to write that as feedback for this project, and couldn't think of something more constructive to say. How about "I was put off by the negative tone. I see what you were going for there, but it came across
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by mark212 10y ago
I laughed out loud when I saw this and thought "Genius!" I love the negative reinforcement and I love the cheat day upgrade. Being a huge type snob / nerd / jerk, I, too, would love to at least have some exemplars of the
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by mark212 10y ago
oh no apologies necessary. It's becoming increasingly common on HN lately and I can't fathom why people take the time to write a thoughtful piece to advocate a particular view and then immediately lose a massive amount of the audi
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by mark212 10y ago
it wasn't originally
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by mark212 10y ago
had to go all the way to her Google+ bio to find out that she's a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, so I'm guessing that SRE in this essay means that.
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by mark212 10y ago
not once does the writer explain what she means by "SRE" -- yet uses it repeatedly. Spend a few words early on to define your term and then go ahead and abbreviate away. That's just writing 101.
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by mark212 10y ago
I think this is a great idea. Hope it works out for you and is mutually beneficial
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by mark212 10y ago
comment says "metaphoric" debt. Surely you can agree that the principals of a company owe (in the sense of being socially obligated) a debt of thanks and gratitude to investors for taking a risk on them in the first place?
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by mark212 10y ago
not to quibble, but no, they're not literally owed debt. The assets of the company are used to pay off any actual debt (payroll taxes, outstanding invoices to vendors, etc). Only then is any remaining money distributed to the equity
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by mark212 10y ago
I think you're 100% correct and I've been telling state and federal regulators (as well as federal judges in the rare chance when I'm permitted oral argument on a motion to compel arbitration) exactly that. The alternative to
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by mark212 10y ago
I tried it twice, asking the manager flat out "what happens if I don't agree to arbitration?" And he said "Then we can't sell you a car."
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by mark212 10y ago
I've had all kinds of problem with outlook.com and other Microsoft related email recipients marking my email as spam. I use Fastmail. Fine with Gmail though.
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by mark212 10y ago
how? he's dead
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by mark212 10y ago
can you explain exactly how a presidential election is (or could be) gerrymandered? Aside from two (Iowa and Maine) all the states award all of their electoral votes to the winner of that state's popular vote. So unless the shapes of t
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by mark212 10y ago
CARB is a government agency though. They would be denying if it were false instead of "no comment". I suspect this is true.

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