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by mark212 8y ago
I disagree that it's segregating or done on purpose, but it is deeply unfair that the price of a good "public" education is being able to afford the real estate in that catchment area / school district.
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by mark212 8y ago
because it gives him a nice chart: the top 0.1% have been taking the gains away from the bottom 90% -- while that 9.9% in between has been holding steady. And I agree, it's a stupid core idea.
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by mark212 8y ago
I know. It’s like he’s never even heard of Renaissance or Bridgewater
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by mark212 8y ago
doesn't matter if the business was outside of California. The California Supreme Court has ruled that if one side of the conversation is in California (e.g., Google calling from Mountain View) then California law applies. See Kearney v
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by mark212 8y ago
completely anecdotal, but I just interviewed a candidate for an open position at my employer yesterday via skype. His laptop in Ohio to our conference room in California. Went off without a hitch (except my colleague couldn't figure ou
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by mark212 8y ago
My experience is the same. The touchbar on my 12” MB is so sensitive the slightest brush will make the cursor jump up to a different position. Very frustrating. And the keyboard is quite loud. Hate the arrow keys too, can’t tell by touch wh
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by mark212 8y ago
I was wrong, it was passed in 1925. More here, including a link to the Concepcion decision by the USSC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act
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by mark212 8y ago
for sure -- though it's hard for me to feel too bad for a state-sponsored TV channel when the feed is stolen by state-sponsored pirate.
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by mark212 8y ago
This is the only state-sponsored pirate TV I’ve ever heard of. Makes it really tough when the entity doing the stealing is a sovereignty.
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The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Network(nytimes.com)
71 points by mark212 8y ago|33 comments
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by mark212 8y ago
so eating high-fat foods and being sedentary won't increase my cholesterol -- so long as I'm well-educated and a high-earning professional? I think there's some actual science that backs up many of the diet and exercise claim
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by mark212 8y ago
note that the article isn't really talking about aristocrats, whatever their modern equivalent would be, but today's upper middle class. The kind of people who work for a living, highly paid for sure, but who aren't rentiers
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by mark212 8y ago
to be charitable to the author, it's not so much that the ideals aren't good ones, it's more the preening self-regard that the upper middle class (author's words here, and it's an important distinction) holds wh
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by mark212 8y ago
I had the same response, though not quite as witty. Don't know who this author is talking to but the folks I know who engage in this exercise-as-morality are quite firmly on the Left. The politicians opposing higher wages and subsidize
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by mark212 8y ago
$35 per month for the digital subscription seems steep to me. Wall Street Journal provides nearly the same coverage at a fraction of the cost.
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by mark212 8y ago
tweet is from 2016 referencing the iPhone 6 with 2 billion transistors (Pixar had very roughly 1 billion total in its render farm). Current iPhone X: 4.3 billion transistors.[1] So two years later it's now more than 4x the Pixar comput
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by mark212 8y ago
in class actions, the compensation is very much "controlled and limited." The lawyers have to make a separate motion to be awarded fees and there is intense scrutiny by the court and potential objectors of every dollar requested.
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by mark212 8y ago
If there’s no swiping, can it really be a Tinder competitor?
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by mark212 8y ago
the pro-business agenda is to eliminate or reduce class actions as much as possible because they can be a huge cost of doing business. Litigation generally is how businesses are held accountable for their actions because in the US there ten
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by mark212 8y ago
why not? If Google wants to give them money knowing their particular interests and motivations, take every penny.
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by mark212 8y ago
very much this last comment (but to be clear, they're not "plaintiffs" they're the appellants / petitioners; at the trial court they were "objectors"). Ted Frank has been trying to radically remake class a
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by mark212 8y ago
no, there was a case in court. It was litigated for 3+ years before Google decided to settle. Ted Frank filed an objection, which the trial judge denied. He then took it up on appeal. So yes, the appeal is most definitely politically motiva
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by mark212 8y ago
that's not true. The recipients weren't law schools (unless AARP is now running a law school), though a couple of the lawyers on the plaintiffs' side did have some affiliation with the parent institutions of the privacy proje
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by mark212 8y ago
So just to be clear because I don't think this article does a very good job of explaining the background. Google was sued in 2010 for a privacy violation as a class action. They chose to settle and the terms of that settlement (accordi
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by mark212 8y ago
can't. There's a federal law from 1928 (I kid you not) that says no state can impair the ability of parties to agree to arbitration. The fiction is that clicking on a terms-of-service button is "consent" to all the terms
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by mark212 8y ago
this is Apple after all: you're missing a digit -- $34.99
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by mark212 8y ago
Transaction costs for one. It sounds like an incredible mess to actually implement. And why shift that burden to the customer? In a haircut scenario, the person getting the cut is unquestionably a customer and not an employer. So why make h
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by mark212 8y ago
Judicial overreach? Someone has to interpret the law. The original standard was judge-created and the refined over several decades. It was a mess and gave conflicting results in quite similar cases. This, no matter what you think of the out
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by mark212 8y ago
Yeah exactly. This is a question of state law and the Cal SC is the final word on what state law means. The only exception is if the USSC agrees that the state law violates some provision of the US Constitution and that’s extremely rare. No
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by mark212 8y ago
It could also be a "no really, I'm leaving" announcement to end debate internally. He leaks it publicly and baldly and now there's no going back.

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