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by mfoy_ 8y ago
You're not wrong, but that's a very charitable interpretation. The furloughed employees aren't actually guaranteed back-pay. Additionally, the ones who are deemed "essential" just have to work for free or quit.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I can't argue with that
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Oh well, I can see why HN wouldn't want every passing Trump scandal to show up on the front page, but this is pretty big.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
So, before he announced the details of the re-opening, he said that many of the furloughed employees strongly supported him and that many even encouraged him to continue the shutdown. He's living in his own version of reality.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Off-topic, but damn HN... I submitted the CNBC and CBSNews versions of this. One got zero up-votes, and the other got flagged.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
The summary of his speech was: Government will re-open through to Feb 15th. Back pay will be paid ASAP. He spoke about the wall for quite a while. If congress doesn't agree to fund his wall, he will shut the government back down on Feb
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Oh boy, he just doubled down and said that if congress doesn't give him his wall he's shutting government down again on Feb 15th.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
The announcement was in the first 20 seconds of his speech. He will support a bill to re-open the government up to Feb 15th. Back-pay will be provided ASAP. The rest of the announcement is just him describing his wall plan.
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[LIVE] Trump expected to back a move to reopen government for a few weeks(cbsnews.com)
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Re: Hijack 2 This is huge in mobile apps. Loot creates, "packs", etc. which means every end result doesn't have a fixed cost, but an "Expected" cost. I.e. if you want a certain item, you don't know how many t
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Thinking about it, same here. If there's some tedious but critical 10-min sysops task, I'll usually just do it rather than try to pawn it off on a junior coworker. But if we want to do something exciting, such as set up a new piec
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Nice try, Oyster. Back to the NY harbour with you.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
It's not "a case", it's "arbitration". Arbitration is extremely... arbitrary.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
The sentiment regarding unions and labour rights in the U.S. isn't really moving in the right direction. This type of clause is especially scummy, however... see the following article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/can
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
>Result: Police cannot obtain 127 days' worth of cell-site location information about a criminal suspect without a warrant. This was a weird one, because it seemed like they were cool with about 6 days of unwarranted cell-site data.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
A "group" in a business sense isn't distinct, unrelated entities. The company I work for is the "something something group".
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
You're describing markets the ways journalists are joked[1] about describing guns. Except you're doubling down and saying "No, you're wrong. All assault rifles are AK-47s, everyone knows what I mean when I say an AK-47,
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I tried to help him out, to no avail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18941848
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
You must be trolling.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Did you try checking the dictionary? https://www.dictionary.com/browse/monopoly
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
>Literal meaning of the word is absolutely irrelevant. Well, to that I say: "Pelecie inoteso su erik anohot fete derera notel not. Toyino litifid ca yigo lece yevi vitod emefan berie nisur, cinim pociepem oce irimo alucetef cupara y
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
>I don't think everyone needs to be able to afford to eat meat every day. I think you mean not everyone needs to eat meat every day... the way you phrase it makes it sound like an argument for lowering the minimum wage.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Works in Canada too. But the more people do it, the less useful it will become.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
This kind of makes me want to play KSP again...
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Your entire comment is off-topic. You ignored points #2 and #3 and misrepresented #1. That's a classic straw-man fallacy. I did not say "it's an OK fallacy", so do not put those words into my mouth. I said authority serv
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Down-votes are not for factually correct or incorrect comments. They are for comments that either do or do not contribute to the discussion. Saying that he believes that "aliens created a solar sail-powered pancake-shaped spacecraft 60
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I down-voted you, and here's why: 1. An appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. However, authority does serve a purpose. People will take Harvard astronomers more seriously than backyard astronomy enthusiasts. Therefore his credentia
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
That's actually a fun thought... once you've got your probe up to a third of the speed of light or whatever... how are you going to slow down again in order to actually do anything useful? Or maybe this is a solar sail that was pa
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I never said that multi-class shares are a scam. This is a straw man argument. EDIT: To clarify, almost every scam involves the victim doing something of their own free will. Either they do not have all the information they need, or they do
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
What's complex is the ownership structure of any company with multiple classes of shares, especially with different voting weightings. Simple would be "1 share = 1 vote". ----- What's deceptive is the conflict of interes

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