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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Or they could just promote the up-and-comers more aggressively. Instead of a redistribution of wealth (which would be talent agnostic) go for a redistribution of coverage. Also, if revenue was diverted completely from top artists to everyon
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
You hit the nail on the head, I read the first paragraph and thought the same thing. The only thing a 4-day work week is guaranteed to get you is a 3-day weekend. What you do with that time is entirely on you.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Because at that point the distinction is an arbitrary hand-wave, and they can just drop the point at which they start throttling lower and lower to save money.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I think it's more like "You can't have one without the other, therefore they aren't just contractors". A ride-sharer / driver needs the platform and the platform needs the driver, fundamentally. It's not
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
No, it's: "No Uber/Lyft, no drivers"
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
It's not the only factor but it is one. I guess it ultimately depends on the country / state / court. Others factors generally include things like how you get paid (do you bill the client, or are you on payroll?) or the natur
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Indeed, the court's argument was "if Uber didn't exist, the drivers wouldn't be drivers", as in "drivers are NOT independent". So, if Lyft and Uber and a hypothetical third all had similar business models,
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
While I appreciate the tongue in cheek nature of your comment, keep in mind the vast majority of people don't realize how bonkers the Mercator projection makes the world out to be.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
What's fascinating is the lengths some people will go to investigate a mystery. What's tragic is the lengths some people have to go for a better life.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Although the method of the attack didn't directly break Tor/VPN, the nature of it has compromised confidence in those technologies. What good is using Tor or a VPN if I can't be sure any web page I load will compromise me? Su
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
You are wrong because this IS about how the Internet works and less about how one person/company screwed up. Apparently all it takes is one ISP misconfiguring something to break large swathes of the Internet. I believe the consensus on
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Haha, that's pretty great. Whoever runs the Twitter account must feel pretty bad about the timing on that...
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Content aside, the article employs some really cool scrolling effects too.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I personally hold that RIM failed because it ignored it's winning demographic (government, military, enterprise and business users) and attempted to create a device for the broader consumer market. The Storm was rushed out, as the arti
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Card aside, the first search result is a little disturbing.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
A more interesting search (in terms of the card) is "What happened to the dinosaurs"...
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Food, clean water, and shelter are important after a disaster... not cash. Who are you going to buy "a new roof" from when everything is in shambles? What value does money have when everyone has the same amount, but no one has the
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I suspect some people have started to assume that "two-factor authentication" literally just means "phone/dongle".
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Here I was thinking this was going to be a blog post advocating a work-life balance...
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by mfoy_ 12y ago
I think that if we, as a community, innovate on our rhetoric we can really disrupt the overuse of "innovate" and "disrupt".
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by mfoy_ 12y ago
Also, if you went with something like "Margret Thatcher is 110% sexy" then you've got even more characters, even more entropy, and even more special characters and it's even more natural to type out.