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by nickff 2y ago
This doesn’t seem to fall inside the scope of that act, according to the link you cited: > ” The Silenced No More Act bans confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements relating to the disclosure of underlying factual information r
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by nickff 2y ago
Most corporations are not run by psychopaths (even the big ones); the idea that they are has become a sort of meme, with little evidence in its favor, and a great deal against it. There's even a book about this: https://en.w
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by nickff 2y ago
I’m not sure about Texas, but in many other places, liens are one of the first things a contractor does (often before they start work).
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by nickff 2y ago
Where are you getting those numbers? There are a few articles that cite '44% of flipped home purchases', but not 44% of total home transactions. This source says that private equity owns 3.6% of apartments nationwide and 1.6% of
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by nickff 2y ago
I suspect that most of the calls were for first-aid, not fires. Most fire departments spend the vast majority of their time responding to medical issues unrelated to fires. Boeing has about 67k employees in WA, so equates to ~0.3% of them r
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by nickff 2y ago
Butchers are less common than supermarkets, and generally more expensive, but most places have them.
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by nickff 2y ago
Does this piece have anything HN-ish about it? Just seems like a pro-union take on a normal contract negotiation. > "Boeing’s lockout of its firefighters is simply the latest move to impose relentless cost-cutting, endangering publi
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by nickff 2y ago
Overbooking allows for reduced emissions, as more flights are closer to capacity. Do you think that eliminating the practice will be beneficial on net?
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by nickff 2y ago
I believe that it has actually dropped since 2000, with double-digit percentages of courses closing.
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by nickff 2y ago
You think someone using a common idiom should be in prison, while you can't be bothered to use punctuation?
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by nickff 2y ago
People are constantly bombarded with notices, to the point that most of us actually read very few of them. I'm not sure the notice makes a big difference here; what proportion of taxpayers do you think actually know their total tax lia
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by nickff 2y ago
How did you arrive at this conclusion? 'Deck' seems to be a widely used and accepted term: "Collectively, a group of slides may be known as a slide deck." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presen
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by nickff 2y ago
I don’t like the government forcing business owners to assist in controlling the populace either, but this is hardly a unique situation. The best example I can think of is requiring employers to pay deduct employees’ income tax. Should we s
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by nickff 2y ago
I agree with some of your points, but what about the frustration when someone breaks their nice & expensive umbrella by accident, or has it stolen from them? What about the inconvenience and anxiety of not wanting to lose it? What about
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by nickff 2y ago
They have a lot more power than you might think from that quote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Board... They can now try Apple in an administrative court, with an 'administrative judge&#x2
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by nickff 2y ago
Investment firms have finite purchasing capability, and would certainly stop buying if they expect home prices to drop. In addition, if the houses are expensive to hold, they’ll either be rented out or sold. Speculation is a symptom of pric
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by nickff 2y ago
The police are not there to protect individuals, they’re there to protect the government. This has been made abundantly clear in a number of cases where police have disclaimed any duty to citizens & residents. Given all of that, the vic
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by nickff 2y ago
Private equity discovered that regulations, compliance requirements, & other similar barriers to entry are the most effective 'moats' which allow businesses to raise prices and have little impact on demand; they are now exploi
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by nickff 2y ago
Wouldn’t a DDoS be perfectly legal and permissible under your logical framework?
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by nickff 2y ago
The ‘bowls’/balls used for motorcycle stunt riding might be good examples for this (and could be fun).
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by nickff 2y ago
The problem with this logic is that I’m not sure you’d want it applied when the tables are turned. How would you feel if Israel-supporting lawyers started filing frivolous nuisance suits against these protesters? Still fair game? Keep in mi
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by nickff 2y ago
Using the process seems like ‘abuse of process’ in cases like this where the protesters clearly violated the law and their obligations to their counterparty (in this case their employer).
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by nickff 2y ago
No, it won’t, as the federal government has repeatedly pressured banks to cut off banking to legal, but ‘undesirable’ industries (as well as cannabis). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
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by nickff 2y ago
You’re mischaracterizing their findings: > ” Immediate implementation of VA-ECMO in patients with rapidly deteriorating or severe cardiogenic shock did not improve clinical outcomes compared with an early conservative strategy that permi
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by nickff 2y ago
Should there be reciprocity, where the employees are not allowed to leave while their project is still 'cared about', and they're still getting paid? I suspect your answer will be "no", and if so, I'd like to h
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by nickff 2y ago
These people got paid for their work, and in many if not most cases were able to benefit from their part in Google’s growth over their tenure via stock options. Why is it wrong to part ways after the relationship stops being mutually benefi
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by nickff 2y ago
Are they treating their employees poorly? According to one quote, "... it’s the best job I’ve ever had, and I’ll miss it deeply". That sounds pretty good; do you think Google should have to retain every employee they've ever
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by nickff 2y ago
What constitutional right to privacy from private parties? There’s no explicit constitutional right to privacy, and the constitution only binds the government.
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by nickff 3y ago
If this were true, Tesla would be (almost two times) ‘bigger’ than any other automaker, but it actually has less than one third the revenue of Toyota. By what measure is TSLA bigger than Toyota?
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by nickff 3y ago
It probably wouldn’t have much of an impact on the sales or marketing of this product, but it’d definitely have significant impacts on drug manufacturers’ future plans (by reducing expected ROI & discouraging the development of ‘margina

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