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by moate 6y ago
As an MLB fan, I felt like it got even worse/less clear because it was about sports. I thought this had something to do with Barry Bonds. Reread that about 5 times.
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by moate 6y ago
Why not the opposite? Crime is down, policing is working: stop expanding police force size, keep budgets in place, and see what happens. We have no idea if it's "more/higher paid cops" that's causing the reduction i
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by moate 6y ago
Can you spin this thought out a little more? Do you think cops have gotten LESS power over the last 10 years? Do you believe their unions suddenly stopped being some of the strongest political forces? Also, cops make about 15K more than the
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by moate 6y ago
Are you aware that one of the largest political issues in the US right now is exactly that: a complete lack of trust and respect in the police and how they go about their jobs? A popular slogan in the US is ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards) This
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by moate 6y ago
I'm aware of what gambling is, and all the forms it can take from rolling dice in an alley to investing in the stock market. Your first post was trying to differentiate GameStop from Tesla. Neither have assets that support their price
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by moate 6y ago
>>The rest of the institutional guys are fine and don't care about this except I have been in frequent touch with my wall street friends. Many are "fine" and the general feeling is that long term this will get sorted ou
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by moate 6y ago
I mean based on popular understanding, they KNEW they should be figuring out electric cars (and have been!) but: 1- Oil companies pressured the industry/government to keep supporting their platform 2- Most car companies didn't co
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by moate 6y ago
This is all "speculation". You're not basing the stock price on earnings but intangibles. You believe there is a disconnect between the long term value of Tesla and it's current price based on your perception of market f
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by moate 6y ago
It might have. Unions are political forces. You get a few thousand people calling and screaming at politicians and news outlets to create a negative stink about it, maybe the company looks at other ways to make themselves more financially h
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by moate 6y ago
The union workers I know generally are pleased by their union, especially if they worked in their location prior to organization. They are able to remember and appreciate the difference between how management treated them before and after.
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by moate 6y ago
>>In other words: these employees would have lost their job regardless of their union status IDK that we can make that assumption. Instacart management has made themselves out to be anti-unionization (a common view by management in th
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by moate 6y ago
It is, but it's much easier to get it past the National Labor Review Board when it represents 1/200th of the people fired. Going to be hard to get a retaliation judgement on this one IMO (FWIW, I'm pro-labor and think this mo
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by moate 6y ago
What do you view the Republican platform as being? What specifically is he wrong about?
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by moate 6y ago
So they can pose hypothetical arguments about the corruption of the as-yet unformed union in an effort to undermine support for it. "What if the union is BAD!? We should consider other things before we lock ourselves into a democratic
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by moate 6y ago
So we agree that "nothing is perfect". My question is why did this group unionize if nothing has changed for the better (in your words "its the same as before except now you owe union dues")? Wouldn't it be more lik
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by moate 6y ago
>>I'm honestly kind of surprised to see the teacher union hate in this thread. I mean, have you seen the American Education system? Millions of people thought Betsy Davos was a good idea. MILLIONS. The DOE under her tenure was ba
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by moate 6y ago
I don't understand. Unions, private or public, represent a massive special interest voting bloc. Instead of "I will be able to directly raise your pay if you vote for me" it's "I will directly benefit your company&#
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by moate 6y ago
>>It's no longer a political issue of paramount importance. Found the guy who can afford to pay his rent/bills and buy food!
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by moate 6y ago
1- Your first sentence implies you stopped being apathetic, which seems to run contrary to your implied point. 2- "if you don't want to get this or spread it..." that's fine, except untrue. If joe super-spreader is runni
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by moate 6y ago
I mean that's really the crux of my argument. Nothing illegal happened unless AWS violated their TOS/contract. The idea that someone HAS to do business in perpetuity with you or else you'll be ruined is...bizarre? It's t
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by moate 6y ago
As I just said to my wife, you'd have a better shot with a lawsuit against the sky because you got a sunburn than you would trying to sue AWS for booting you from their servers. At least the sun never got you to agree to a draconian To
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by moate 6y ago
Because AWS decided it was. It's really that basic. I think gay people should be able to get wedding cakes from literally any baker as a protected class, but the law disagrees with me. The end, unless new laws are passed. Parler is not
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by moate 6y ago
I feel like the AWS lawyer is going to make the following claims: 1- This action (dropping Parler) is within the actions established in our ToS. 2- Parler's very goal is to attract these sort of demographics and similar actions have b
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by moate 6y ago
The entire down-voting mob I've been railing against the last 2 days missed this. "I want things that I like to be available to me and I want people who deny it to me to be held criminally liable because I don't understand th
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by moate 6y ago
One major difference: Rosa Parks was an individual attempting to use a private service. Parler is a business attempting to use a private service to do business. Rosa Parks getting kicked off for being black is one thing, but what if she was
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by moate 6y ago
HN posting rules require me to say more than just "LOLOK" so we'll go with this: That standard doesn't exist and isn't objective. No, even that really clever one you're about to come up with. It's not real
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by moate 6y ago
Probably the ToS has language about when AWS can decide to stop hosting. I would assume the langue is extremely broad, legally speaking, in how much control it gives AWS to their own platform. If you're going to build something aimed e
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by moate 6y ago
Hi there. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello... Your thesis is flawed. You can't define "good faith" in any real way. You either have to accept that sites will be mode
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by moate 6y ago
It's more analogous to a single server host refusing to host a site, while the material components (actual physical servers) are still readily available if likely outside the financial range for a site at their size (tbh though, I have
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by moate 6y ago
This is not similar to having 4 ours of unfettered access during a riot. They literally were digging in desk drawers, using the phone, leaving threats, carving hate speech into wooden doors, etc. I once saw a citizen with a 6-shooter strapp

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