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Amazon Prime growth is slowing down in the US, says Morgan Stanley(cnbc.com)
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France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools(theguardian.com)
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Can China Contain Bitcoin?(technologyreview.com)
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
Updated: South Korea Clarifies Position After Reports of Possible Ban on All Crypto Transactions "On Monday, Financial Services Commission (FSC) Chairman Choi Jong-ku clarified to reporters at a luncheon meeting that “the FSC is mappin
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
This is from their legal agreement: 7.1 Discontinuance of Services. Subject to Section 7.2, Google may discontinue any Services or any portion or feature for any reason at any time without liability to Customer. 7.2 Deprecation Policy. Goog
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My offer numbers from big companies(us.teamblind.com)
193 points by non_sequitur 9y ago|288 comments
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
Relevant excerpt: "The Chinese government is building one of the world’s most sophisticated, high-tech systems to keep watch over its citizens, including surveillance cameras, facial-recognition technology and vast computers systems th
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China’s Tech Giants Have a Second Job: Helping the Government See Everything(wsj.com)
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
This article is pretty clickbait-y - their 2 "recommendations" are to short bitcoin or buy puts in bitcoin. Doing either isn't usually recommended for novice investors when dealing with reputable S&P500 type stocks, let a
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
“Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return,” said Bogle, 88, who started the first index fund in 1976. “You know bonds have an interest coupon, stocks have earnings and dividends, gold has nothing. There is nothing to support bitcoin except
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
7 years is a tiny sample size if you are hoping to retire off it (unless of course you cash out your millions during that time). His advice makes sense if you are looking at a 30 year retirement horizon - it may not be there in 30 years.
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When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?(bmj.com)
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
Are sites like fakespot not sufficient (or any other popular meta review sites)? HN/reddit review writers would be such a tiny subset of purchasers that you probably wouldnt get much relevant data.
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Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat(bloomberg.com)
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Why We Need the Ritual of Holiday Meals(wsj.com)
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
"Microsoft and its 29-year-old chairman, William H. Gates, clearly want to be No. 1 again." Really amazing what he had done by 29. As someone older than that, I'm really starting to feel like I'm hitting the "older
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
What kind of rumors? Any links or anything that would give some context?
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
You could just launch an ICO, doesn't seem to really matter what it does. A platform that helps launch platforms that launch ICOs?
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There's only 1 quail left in San Francisco, and cats are likely to blame(sfgate.com)
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
They definitely had permission. Android was cross marketed on Kit Kat bars as well, e.g.: http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1444541.13782299...
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How to Make a Clichéd High Fantasy Cover(thoughtsonfantasy.com)
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
You (and most people in this thread, and discussing this on the Internet) are confusing 2 completely separate concepts. Fair use is a COPYRIGHT doctrine. It is part of the US copyright law that says, creators of a copyright can enforce thei
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
Flip it around - courts decide not to apply arbitration provisions because it involves giving up a key right (jury trial), so they find that there was no meeting of the minds in the TOS given the manner it was presented. Essentially, if a b
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
When lawyers write letters, they will throw everything they can possibly think of and the kitchen sink, even if it's not relevant. Many of the cites in the letter are not relevant to this situation (I'm not going through every one
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
The EFF letter cites a bunch of cases where an arbitration clause was unenforceable because of the way the terms of service were presented, which has nothing to do with the current situation (whether a restriction on using images from Zillo
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
Because Zillow is ultimately right here and her use of the images without Zillow's permission is against their terms of use (which contrary to the hand-wavy analysis in EFF's letter, is absolutely enforceable). However, Zillow doe
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
Of course I'm guessing, I don't work at Zillow and I've never seen the contract. A similar guess was also made by The Verge - "I’m all but certain some brokerage or MLS provider saw Wagner’s blog, got mad that their phot
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
No, it's not true. From their Terms of Use: "Except as expressly stated herein and without limitation, you agree that you will not, nor will you permit or encourage any third party to, reproduce, publicly display, or otherwise mak
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
Zillow likely has a clause in their contracts with MLS/wherever else they get these pictures, that they cant allow the pics to be used for any other purpose other than for posting on Zillow. They are trying to enforce this since they h
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by non_sequitur 9y ago
Yeah it's not clear if they actually indemnify pre-signing bad acts though? What would be their incentive for indemnifying him for bad things he did at Google? I do agree I wouldn't have called it "bad acts" if I was dra

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