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AT&T, Time Warner, and the Need for Neutrality(stratechery.com)
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by mrleiter 8y ago
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=14... Germany and the United States put (tarriffs) pressure on Switzerland and the turn of the century, forcing them to protect their patents in Switzerland. Th
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Yes, a cautionary tale would be good. It's just the way you phrased it that was bugging me. Also, I was not gunning for pity, nor was OP, true. Still, in such moments kind strangers on the internet who wish you well still feel good I b
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by mrleiter 8y ago
I think this is an extremely interesting paper to discuss, because it is rather polarising. A)it's based on an ideal free market society, which is not really existent B)it's written from a capitalist viewpoint
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How much income inequality is fair?(arxiv.org)
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by mrleiter 8y ago
So many things could have happened, not everyone is able to save up. Also, it's irrelevant - either you want to help or not. Discussing the "impossibility" of his situation is not yours to judge, seriously.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on the use of studying philosophy(books.google.at)
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by mrleiter 8y ago
One of the premises of your argument is based on a very egoistic opinion: that you get to decide what is "enough" for an individual in the western world. Productivity has grown far more than real wages, so somehow that must have b
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Voters oust judge following lenient sexual assault sentencing(theguardian.com)
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by mrleiter 8y ago
If a company has an investor call, they sometimes supply the investors with a deck to follow the call - a calldeck.
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by mrleiter 8y ago
This is a two-sided sword. Yes, Monsanto will disappear and that could be a good thing. Like lastUsername said before: if they continue their work ethic, then Bayer will become the new Monsanto. Or as Shakespeare put it in Romeo and Juliet:
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CBA agrees largest civil settlement in Australian history(ft.com)
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by mrleiter 8y ago
That's kinda nifty for advertisers, if Google will allow advertising there (which I assume they will). Hyper-local advertising surely has its perks: low cost/high success I think are quite possible.
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Because different laws apply.
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by mrleiter 8y ago
The threshold would be the law.
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by mrleiter 8y ago
That would be somehow sobering. There is another option: a small bank that does not trade derivates and where people within know the customers not only by an excel sheet [1]. But then again this is impossible to scale. It's still nice
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by mrleiter 8y ago
>Australia's scandal-plagued financial sector is at the centre of a national inquiry into misconduct. Is there a country on this planet where the financial sector is not scandal-plagued? It is a serious question, with a cynic undert
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How do public research labs use funding for research?(arxiv.org)
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Thanks :)
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Russian journalist faked his death to root out who was after him(theguardian.com)
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by mrleiter 8y ago
>In an even broader sense, this frustration captures man’s existential dilemma in a Platonic universe of unknowable absolutes. Truth exists. Answers exist. A hard foundation of reality exists underneath a concealing fog. But humans will
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Bertrand Russell proved it via set theory [1]. Which is again based on the axioms of set theory, so as repsilat said above, you end up in one of the Münchhausen trilemmae, in this case you end up in some mix of regressive and axiomatic argu
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Good point. You can avoid this by sending this request when you are logged in (by copying the message) or by verifying this via an email sent to/from the registered one
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by mrleiter 8y ago
I have drafted these today - if you have any comments, please tell me, I am happy to develop this further :)
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Show HN: GDPR templates to request/erase personal data(dropbox.com)
14 points by mrleiter 8y ago|5 comments
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by mrleiter 8y ago
> I am only claiming that it is accepted by most people without any reflection. If you discuss philosophy with a scientist/tech-person, on most occasions this happens, or at least from my experience. Questions about usefulness, meas
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Asking for progress in philosophy is the wrong way to approach it. Philosophy is a domain that lives on exploring new ideas, asking different questions, refining answers. A more appropriate approach in my opinion would be to ask if there ha
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by mrleiter 8y ago
I did not downvote your comment, I flagged it instead. Insinuating to hang democratically elected law makers for doing their job, in this case protecting the privacy of their constituents, is beyond any discussion.
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by mrleiter 8y ago
This regulation has been on its way for 2 years, and before that it was discussed extensively. Any big corporation not complying or making such a move as simply blocking EU users is ridiculous. Lobbying obviously didn't work so now the
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Many people are lactose intolerant [1] and rely on milk that is not from a cow. The marketing behind it may be offsetting to some, as it is not directly aimed at lactose intolerant people, but calling it a fad is a bit too early to tell I t

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