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by nimish 8y ago
Legality and morality and not the same. There are lots of things that are legal that are morally dubious or unethical: payday loans, for one. Just because the law allows it, doesn't make it a moral thing to do.
782.
by nimish 8y ago
Ah, great, another company that wishes to profit off content while attempting to wash its hands of the implications of that content. Offering something for sale on a platform, or store, or "aggregator" as we're now calling it
783.
by nimish 8y ago
Those are mostly non-voting shares, making them minor shareholders even though they have the most numeric shares. Alphabet insiders (read: Brin, Page and Schmidt, along with other executives) control the vote.
784.
by nimish 8y ago
Burying the important info that Alphabet's major shareholders are its founders and senior executives. The headline should read "Alphabet management votes down employee backed diversity proposal".
785.
by nimish 8y ago
Man if only there was a mechanism where workers could bind together to increase their bargaining power. Except Americans have been indoctrinated for decades that unions=bad. This is the result. And guess what? Mandatory arbitration robs you
786.
by nimish 8y ago
Surprised Amazon even allows you to sue it, what with mandatory arbitration being all the rage. Welcome to America. Corporate power rules.
787.
by nimish 8y ago
No, Theranos started to fail as soon as anyone with real medical expertise without a stake in the company started to probe it. Theranos was extremely successful at fleecing VCs and embarrassing political board members. It's a good thin
788.
by nimish 8y ago
I disagree. Kubernetes came out of Google, but has exploded in popularity due to its capability (which comes with extreme complexity): it can scale to extreme levels, but wrapping your head around it requires far more time and trouble for y
789.
by nimish 8y ago
kubernetes is a classic case of a tool designed for consultants and companies to sell consulting services (Including cloud services, which is why every cloud provider leapt onto it). In like 90% of the cases when someone used Kubernetes, Do
790.
by nimish 8y ago
Surely the greatest innovators in Silicon Valley could focus on creating sustainable business models that don't rely on data harvesting? Necessity is the mother of invention. Might be a little more lucrative than juice bag startups.
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by nimish 8y ago
Great, but you are not a disinterested source on this. You are an insider (C-level exec) who allowed someone to write a potentially conflicted PR piece without disclosing that the beneficiary of that piece has a non-trivial investment in yo
792.
by nimish 8y ago
You guys had an undisclosed (in the piece) investment from Qualcomm and then touted their products without clearly stating conflicts. It's: * a PR piece -- you guys are making the case for your/qualcomm's tech on a blog, desi
793.
by nimish 8y ago
It's not so simple. What kind of engineering support, hardware support, optimizing support did CloudFlare get in exchange for a submarine PR piece? That can easily outweigh the performance-per-watt advantage that the blog touted. Qualc
794.
by nimish 8y ago
Very much so. It undermines their value argument considerably: what kind of sweetheart deal did they get that a regular customer wouldn't?
795.
by nimish 8y ago
Finally a car manufacturer realizes it can't out-compete a software company at making good software. The reason infotainment sucks so hard is that car companies want to "own the experience" and also want to cut costs, so they
796.
by nimish 9y ago
Theater owners are both extremely powerful and extremely weak: they have put their foot down on any improvements to the film distribution process out of existential fear of losing their early film run monopoly. The studios still need the di
797.
by nimish 9y ago
PSU has unlimited coffers as a state school and the Outing Club is very popular, and also run by amateurs. A perfect storm for e.g. a rich international student to get injured or killed and then have their parents sue Pennsylvania for megab
798.
by nimish 9y ago
This is almost surely related to the insurance policy PSU has for official clubs. If the Outing Club could get liability insurance for itself, I doubt that PSU would care. If it wants to use the university's policy, it plays by the uni
799.
by nimish 9y ago
Nah, it's not like there aren't a million towns out there with adequate regulations they could have just copied. Or they could have made that "contact Harold if he's being an jerk" have legal teeth: community review
800.
by nimish 9y ago
Hydrogen the atom is very common but what is needed is hydrogen the gas i.e. molecular hydrogen or H2. Hydrogen is very reactive so it's usually always bound up, for example in water. Stripping off the hydrogen atoms into H2 gas is ene
801.
by nimish 9y ago
That's true, but it's the cost this town paid for not wanting regulations at all. They have literally no zoning regs and are now crying that someone took advantage of them. They shouldn't have been so naive.
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by nimish 9y ago
No one considers it? Did you miss the giant tax code overhaul that was based on this? It's economic orthodoxy in the US government and corporate sector.
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by nimish 9y ago
Hydrogen has serious technical issues compared to batteries. It is very hard to store, easily flammable, can cause metal issues -- see hydrogen embrittlement and attack -- and is basically not present in nature except as a byproduct of foss
804.
by nimish 9y ago
You can totally write regulations that require the consent of the community before doing things like this. It's hard to write them to not have side effects, but it's doable.
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by nimish 9y ago
I don't see why giving poor people direct cash transfers requires 100% effectiveness when giving wealthy people tax cuts on the off-chance it will trickle down is considered dogma.
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by nimish 9y ago
Anyone can build a $1MM car. There's tons of low volume hypercar makers. It takes real engineering and business genius to sell millions of a $20000 car that doesn't suck and turns a profit. Honda's finest engineers are likely
807.
by nimish 9y ago
A strong, well-funded safety net protects and lifts all boats.
808.
by nimish 9y ago
Using metcal and 60/40 is an odd recommendation. Metcals are great for reproducibility since they don't have arbitrary tip temp choices, but for exploratory work I like using a quality iron like Pace.. 63/37 is way easier to
809.
by nimish 9y ago
jq exists, is fast, and works well. Is this compatible?
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by nimish 9y ago
I've been watching zippy for a while, unfortunately it relies heavily on Jython which is dead. Would be very interested to see progress on this! (And maybe contribute as well!)

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