maym86

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by maym86 8y ago
They always threaten bad results for the workers when people try to unionize, often baselessly. If they could automate the jobs away they'd have done it anyway.
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by maym86 8y ago
Why are you so sure this isn't the case?
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by maym86 8y ago
The net neutrality debate is about the repeal of fedral rules rather than adding an additional law. Thus a state's right to set their own rules applies. There is no fedral law to make ISPs behave in a certain way, just the lack of one,
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by maym86 8y ago
Sure, but the parking requiments mentioned above only really an issue in high density cities. I don't think requiring adequate parking is an issue in the lower density areas. Hopefully this will encourage people to consider other optio
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by maym86 8y ago
You don't need atonomous vehicles to make this work. A good public transit system within the city, decent bike lanes and some park and ride options for getting in from the outskirts could be enough to make up for the reduced parking op
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by maym86 8y ago
Can huge funds like this run into monopoly issues when they own a significant part of multiple large companies in a space?
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by maym86 8y ago
Wild speculation. Any evidence? I don't think there has been much stopping these companies selling the data up to this point. That's been the issue with Facebook and others, they have happily sold peoples data with little legal pr
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by maym86 8y ago
Just saying someone doesn't understand something because they disagree with your idea is not a constructive argument. You pay in monthly based on income up to a maximum amount. If you say a speeding fine just counts towards my monthly
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by maym86 8y ago
That happens either way, the discussion is about having an effective fine to discourage people and crediting the person's social security account clearly doesn't do that.
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by maym86 8y ago
Speed until you max out your social security benefit is a crazy incentive.
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by maym86 8y ago
It means the fine could have less of a deterrant effect on anyone who can afford it as they can frame it as money they'll get back in the long run. Why not speed if your ticket counts towards your retirement. Having a inbuilt social go
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by maym86 8y ago
Could just run the software on an Android phone.
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by maym86 8y ago
Would it be possible to build a bike like this but with multiple gears to get to speed from a standing start and not be towed? Is 100mph tow detatchmemt a required limit for the record?
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by maym86 8y ago
This. My inbox is a to-do list for things I need to act on. Anything else gets snoozed until it needs to be done. Having non-email to-do items here too worked so well for me. Having to move back to a separate to-do list will be a pain. If t
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by maym86 8y ago
If they'd just implement the reminders and grouping features in Gmail I'd be fine with this. I don't particularly care about how the UI looks. I use snoozed reminders so much and being able to unclutter my inbox with groups m
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by maym86 8y ago
- All passengers near you are young children.
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by maym86 8y ago
Some politicians have the goal of making these things run as ineffectively as possible. Underfunding initiatives and then claiming they don't work well is a tried and tested method for attacking government services.
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by maym86 8y ago
Optical telescopes are in space to avoid the effect of the atmosphere. Radio telescopes aren't effected in the same way so I don't think there would be an advantage for them to be in orbit and it would cost a lot more.
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by maym86 8y ago
It because the source of the money has cynically evaded tax for years and pays some of his workers less than they need to live such that they are supported by food stamps. The working conditions in Amazon factories are notoriously tough. It
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by maym86 8y ago
What's the difference?
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by maym86 8y ago
How about pay your workers so they're not on food stamps and pay taxes so public schools are supported first.
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by maym86 8y ago
This is not about protecting consumers, it's about protecting big agriculture from potential competition. Can you be fined in Missouri for calling a limited internet connection "unlimited"? If the actions in the article about
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Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code(theguardian.com)
6 points by maym86 8y ago|0 comments
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by maym86 8y ago
This is what I was thinking. If one person is able to break a system with a small mistake then processes are at least as much to blame as the person. Mistakes will always happen because programmers are fallible so a deployment process desi
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by maym86 8y ago
butt clenching https://www.dictionary.com/browse/buttock-clenching
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by maym86 8y ago
Exactly this. The hype was all in the prototyping phase of the technology, going as far as you can get to make a demo and impress some investors. Progress looked like it was happening quickly because a controlled demo could be made with exi
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by maym86 8y ago
Android is a platform that allows Google to target advertising and collects user data. The original intent was to make sure mobile users use Google products. They can and do make money from that.
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by maym86 8y ago
> You're giving up 30% of your revenue. Only if people would find and download your app somewhere else. This works for fortnite because they have the brand recognition and fanbase who will seek it out elsewhere. Even then it might b
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by maym86 8y ago
> You've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. Not really. It's an ongoing discussion sparked by the number of articles that appear on the front page that are deeply related to the economics of the tech industry. It i
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by maym86 8y ago
Even shared bus services can made into something desirable with the right marketing and investment. The large tech companies provide luxuary coach services with WiFi to their workers and the people riding them are seemingly very happy with

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