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by notsony 11y ago
Is it really absurd? "Clinton Foundation took at least $1,250,000 from Qatar and its World Cup committee implicated in FIFA bribery scandal" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3099839/Clinton-Foun...
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Oh, hello? Could everybody who downvoted please upvote? Thank you. "Clinton Foundation took at least $1,250,000 from Qatar and its World Cup committee implicated in FIFA bribery scandal Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.u
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The details don't actually matter. The impression is that doing business in the US is risky for your personal safety. Look at Bitcoin start-ups. Look at Silent Circle who have moved to Switzerland. The uncertainty of the rule of
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by notsony 11y ago
Authorities accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, of raping a maid in a New York hotel and made him do the perp walk in front of the cameras. What happened in the end? Career ruined but all charges dropped.
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But talking about an investigation into FIFA is somehow on-topic and relevant to HackerNews?!
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It was stupid for FIFA members to vote for Qatar. Maybe some were bribed, maybe some believed the presentations about hi-tech stadiums that cool the temperature down. However Qatar are solely responsible for the slave labor and worker deat
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FIFA is not a public institution, it's a private association. How a private club wants to structure payments is entirely up to them. So how will any bribery charges stick, unless public officials have been paid off? Can't believ
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Your first point is of course true. Your second point about "false flag" makes no sense whatsoever. EDIT: This is why HackerNews is going to the dogs. This perfectly reasonable comment has been downvoted numerous times.
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Hey everybody, look at FIFA over there! Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department (26 May 2015) Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial
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Accenture Beats BT, CSC, General Dynamics and Vodafone to £168m NHS Email Contract(computerweekly.com)
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WSJ Crowdsources Investigation of Hillary Clinton Emails(graphics.wsj.com)
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Banks hit by record $5.7bn fine for rigging forex markets(theguardian.com)
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The perpetual SHA256 hashing machine... Did anybody tell 21 that pure proof-of-work hashing was just an experiment and could go the way of the dinosaur? Ethereum, Nxt and other cryptocurrencies are already using proof-of-stake or some other
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Roger Bootle: Europe is a complete disaster – Britain must leave(moneyweek.com)
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People should only be hired on merit. It should not be the job of human resources to resolve social issues.
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From a comment on Reddit so research required but it could be true that it comes down to money: "As an applicant to medical school. On the day of my interview at my state school, a director basically told everybody that the school favo
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by notsony 11y ago
True... but what if you are going to have to spend your whole life fighting against silent discrimination? Reddit CEO Ellen Pao says she is hiring for diversity. Google and IBM are putting hundreds of millions into diversity programmes for
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by notsony 11y ago
> I hate typing on my phone so I'll make this short. Have you considered getting the Blackberry Passport which features a physical keyboard which is also touch sensitive for swiping. I find the Passport quite interesting and it can
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Getting a Job at McDonald's Harder Than Getting Accepted to the Ivy League(dark-bid.com)
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Thank you for speaking common sense.
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by notsony 11y ago
Please stop posting your nonsense that Brendan Eich voluntarily resigned. Everybody knows that he was forced out and to pretend otherwise is insulting to anybody reading.
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This is madness. Have you ever heard of constructive dismissal? California Supreme Court: "the employer either intentionally created or knowingly permitted working conditions that were so intolerable or aggravated at the time of the e
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Ridiculous! He was hounded out, forced to resign and you damn well know it. Bigotry? What are you smoking?
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What happened with Brendan may be very relevant. See my post further up in this thread. Brendan did not like what the W3C was doing with DRM and was quite vocal about it. His prop 8 donation was public knowledge for years and nobody had a
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If only company boards listened to their employees and "community" all the time! I think it's about opportunism. A situation developed and by simply stoking the fires of social media outrage, a major obstacle to adoption of
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One could argue Mozilla was quite purist when they ejected Brendan Eich because his personal beliefs were not shared by fellow employees... but more on that later. Perhaps the real reason Brendan Eich was thrown out of Mozilla was because h
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Girl, 11, is youngest US chess master(bbc.com)
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If Apple's cash is repatriated to the US it is subject to tax. Everyone agrees on that. However Apple has found a way to repatriate the money without paying tax whilst still claiming its money is offshore. Look up 'Braeburn Hedge
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Bitcoin faces a crossroads, needs an effective decision-making process(freedom-to-tinker.com)
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Ask HN: Does FireJail reduce the need for Docker?
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