maym86

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by maym86 8y ago
Did you miss what happened with Facebook in the 2016 election? Did you not see Zucherberg testifying to Congress? Given these stories why would Facebook not deserve increased scrutiny by the NYT (or Fox news)?
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Agree all the large powerful tech companies need to be scrutinized. Given Zucherberg had to testify at Congress recently it seems reasonable and expected that it would result in a little more focus on them.
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Just because they didn't do something before why should they do it now? Is that really your argument?
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Facebook is a multi-billion dollar corporation with a history of obfuscating the truth and a terrible record on privacy. With the power they have they deserve scrutiny. I agree that selecting patents isn't a very convincing aproach but
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I don't disagree but isn't this true for the popularization of any technology. First it's just the nerds then come the less informed masses who don't fully understand the details along with the people trying to make mone
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Exactly my point. Thanks for adding more detail.
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"Learning to control it" ("it" being the stress of poverty) just sounds like another overhead you are expecting people to deal with that people in a more stable situation don't have to worry about.
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All programmers here know how hard it is to get work done when you need to focus and are in a disruptive environment. It's much harder to get work done when you're dealing with a lot of overhead.
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Weird how it is that we can ban magnets but not guns.
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Read bad pharma by Been Goldacre. It's a detailed outline of many issues with the industry. The extent that pharmaceutical companies go to make profit, mislead doctors and harm patients is crazy. This law will definitely be abused for
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Anyone here stay working for Uber the money?
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Seems like with weed it's just a matter of time but in the case of the conservative government why change it if their older voter base isn't asking for it and a portion of them would have a negative reaction if they did. I guess t
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by maym86 8y ago
Why doesn't Uber/Lyft support actual carpooling so that if I know I need to go somewhere I can offers other people a ride to/from nearby locations. Given the traffic in large cities and the number of single cars going the sam
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by maym86 8y ago
What would cause them to initiate it? What initiated it in the Jawbone case?
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Interesting. How would the federal prosecutor have found out about these people? Jawbone must have initiated in some way.
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Sure, but that was civil not criminal.
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Curious why Google hasn't persued a criminal case against Levandowski for the Otto/Uber IP theft?
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Never seen these NDAs actually be successfully prosecuted. There must have been some emails or something where they were clearly sharing IP and leaving a papertrail.
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How come someone didn't come up with the idea of smaller trains (sleds) before? London tube is fairly small in diameter.
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I don't get it. Aren't there lots of companies around the world that already have this equipment and have done this kind of work for years? Drilling holes for trains is nothing new. What does Musk's company offer that is diff
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by maym86 8y ago
This is a tax on the company. This is not a direct tax on workers. A flat tax on people I agree is bad policy. This is not that. It isn't even a flat tax on companies as requires the company to have a large minimum amount of revenue. I
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It's nothing to do with spite nor is it throwing money away. It's about redirecting money from some of the richest companies in the world to help people who have nothing.
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It's also "a tiny number" to the big businesses. Why resist paying it so strongly? It probably doesn't seem like such a tiny number if you're homeless.
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This is depressing. We can't even get $275 per full-time worker each year (previously reduced from $500) from some of the worlds richest companies to pay towards the homelessness situation they have helped create. Jeff Bezos wants to b
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by maym86 8y ago
They are not great. They recently committed mass systematic fraud on their own customers by creating unwanted accounts and charging people for them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_sc...
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by maym86 8y ago
Have you considered people don't like scooters in the city because it's another thing that's happening in SF where rich private companies decided to introduce changes without asking the people who lived there. It's likel
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Are you comparing tent cities where homeless people live with faeces and broken glass? I certainly think the city could do a better job providing public toilets and cleaning the streets but what are you suggesting they do with the poor peop
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> Pointing out that they are bad is useless to everyone. Only if the people making the decision are comptent and already considered the issues.
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Generally I have always hated the argument that anyone opposed to anything needs to have a better solution before their opinion is valid and will be taken into account. Sometimes it's clear how a particular solution is negative but bey
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That diagram at the top of the Wikipedia article made the concept more clear to me than the whole orginal post. Drawing the valves like that really helps. Edit: grammar

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