npiazza83

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by npiazza83 9y ago
That's the cost of starting a business impersonating a common carrier.
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by npiazza83 9y ago
Please keep the discussion to how this affects Facebook stock prices and IPO or you will be removed by Hacker News' moderators.
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by npiazza83 9y ago
Watch me make a grand jury disappear.
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by npiazza83 9y ago
The law is designed to cover cases you might not immediately think of. Protecting men/women from "legal" harassing communication in the work place, protecting homosexual couples from discrimination, etc. eliminating such prot
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by npiazza83 9y ago
In making this argument to personal friends I have heard several times, "Well what about tow trucks? They have the right to enforce contracts on private property and they aren't officers of the law!?" The answer is that there
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by npiazza83 9y ago
That's why I put in all my contracts that I may personally enforce fines and payment using the client's credit card info that I have incidentally acquired through managing their online services. I sure hope that's legal!
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by npiazza83 9y ago
Its A) codified into a business contract, not the actions of a private individual B) the use of private metadata and C) the stipulation that BBC is the enforcement mechanism that is problematic here. Otherwise the BBC would quickly find tha
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by npiazza83 9y ago
The court treats the actions of individuals on a case by case basis. Your analogy breaks down when codified into a business contract. By stipulating a course of action that may cause real financial harm. Even if they were to stipulate fines
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by npiazza83 9y ago
Funny, I've never heard of an Officer of the BBC. I've heard of an Officer of the law and an Officer of the court. They're generally responsible for enforcing penalties, fines, jail sentences, probation, sex offender lists, e
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by npiazza83 9y ago
The courts and laws are established to determine appropriate action in such a case. Proving real damage to the BBC due to what they perceive to be "hate speech" is difficult. The BBC has put in their terms that they reserve the ri
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by npiazza83 10y ago
Honest question here... can you plead the 5th amendment to avoid civil liability? I don't know if revealing company trade secrets is an actual crime (even if you work for NASA) but working for almost any company this would be breach of
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by npiazza83 10y ago
This is what legislation is for. There's always a bigger fish.
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by npiazza83 10y ago
This is akin to my bank freezing my accounts because I gave them a bad review online. I would love to see them try to enforce this. *If a brick and mortar bank tried this there would be a run on their accounts so fast it would make Usain Bo
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by npiazza83 10y ago
handouts.
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by npiazza83 10y ago
Most of America isn't a great place for those with children but not wealth! I think what makes San Francisco a target is that it isn't a great place for those without children who would be classified as wealthy in any other part o
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by npiazza83 10y ago
Strawmen are stuffed full of perhaps. It makes the best kindling.
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by npiazza83 10y ago
Anecdotes and mild testimony from his peers about odd behavior sways you to the side of involuntary medical incarceration? I don't understand what convinces you here?
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by npiazza83 10y ago
if you remove the trailing slash it loads.
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by npiazza83 10y ago
please tell me the bonus is a party parrot
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by npiazza83 10y ago
People complain about Silicon Valley's obsession with culture fit, infantilizing its employees, and supplanting an actual adult life with 'perks' but truth be told only the last one is a SV invention. (government standard rai
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by npiazza83 10y ago
I would love to see more foreign voices in China and one day I hope one of them will be able to tell us, "Yes, Virginia, you can start a company in China." For now there is only one repeated refrain coming out of entrepreneurs who
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by npiazza83 10y ago
When you use a true doughnut stuff drifts toward the outside of the doughnut. You have to up the current constantly to keep it from drifting toward the outside of the doughnut. If you make a doughnut twizzler it doesn't happen.
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by npiazza83 10y ago
Furthermore, how do we ascertain whether or not group work is just "outsourcing" for teachers and the students that learned the concept aren't simply k-12 unpaid TAs who find their role as "assistant professor" pret
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by npiazza83 10y ago
I don't understand how our government can fight against the widespread use of strong encryption but in the same breath insist that it is the ONLY way to conduct an election? This argument that everyone's vote or at least the defau
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by npiazza83 10y ago
Let's see the alt-right turn up to peacefully protest and enact change through hard fought legislation and community action then. They don't need anyone's help. Let their movement fail and maybe they'll protect yours nex
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by npiazza83 10y ago
Facebook sponsored a hackathon to solve this issue and a team of college students found a somewhat trivial answer in just 36 hours. That's pretty cool.. and related to the topic of this news article... Its worth discussing I guess? But
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by npiazza83 10y ago
http://imgur.com/a/5GTem
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by npiazza83 10y ago
A bad narrative beats no narrative.
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by npiazza83 10y ago
Then you have no allies
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by npiazza83 10y ago
I propose a common core for dating. The first 3/4 of each initial pairing shall be spent picking out furnitue at IKEA and the last quarter you both shall play portal 2 co-op. There shall be an officiator and witness on hand to immediat

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