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by npizzolato 10y ago
"Those two companies in particular" were Uber and AirBnB, the only two companies I named in my comment. I never said Amazon flaunted the law.
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by npizzolato 10y ago
That's not what you said. You said no one on HN doesn't bat an eye at Uber, AirBnB, etc. I personally think the way those two companies in particular flaunt laws is unethical, and I think they should be punished until they start f
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by npizzolato 10y ago
If the autopilot couldn't safely handle going 55-60mph, it should have slowed down to speeds that it could handle. If it couldn't safely handle those conditions, it should have safely slowed to a stop. Failing ungracefully is comp
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by npizzolato 10y ago
> I haven't encouraged locking anybody up, or fining anybody. Well, you encouraged "consequences," which usually means one of those two things. > But we encourage this behavior every time we allow it to happen with no c
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by npizzolato 10y ago
I half expected the final paragraph offering condolences to end with "but remember, this really wasn't Tesla's fault!" The third paragraph reads like Tesla is trying to wash their hands as much as possible. "Remembe
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by npizzolato 10y ago
> The autopilot doesn't drive the car, the driver does. The autopilot is a help just like cruise control. Tesla are very clear (apart from the naming of the feature) that the driver must still drive the car. I'm sorry, but that
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by npizzolato 10y ago
Is it really shoehorning when Thiel's lawyer is threatening Gawker with a lawsuit about an article they wrote about Donald Trump?[1] Seems like that's very relevant. [1] From the article, http://gawker.com/now-pete
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by npizzolato 10y ago
According to another comment thread, those clauses are not enforceable.
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by npizzolato 10y ago
That's really easy to say behind a throwaway account on the internet. It's a much harder choice when it's your life and freedom on the line, and I don't know if anyone can truly say it for sure until they're in that
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by npizzolato 10y ago
He said, in 209 characters. You need to remove all nuance to fit any reasonably complex idea in 140 characters . And so we're left with soundbites and absolutes, the backbone of all good discussions!
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by npizzolato 10y ago
> The fact that you're tired of people complaining about Google discontinuing products tells me that Google may have a problem convincing people to adopt new services. Or there's a very vocal minority of people here on Hacker N
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by npizzolato 10y ago
Reddit has a lot of active, helpful communities hidden away in smaller subreddits. It's really only the default subreddits and other huge subreddits that are bad.
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by npizzolato 10y ago
My point being, if you can be made to agree to submit to a breathalyzer when driving before you get a license, why can't you be made to agree to submit to this text-analyzer when driving before you get a license? I'm not saying th
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by npizzolato 10y ago
Couldn't the same be said for a breathalyzer? Forcing someone to breathe into a machine could be seen as forced "speech" in the same way giving up a password is. That seems to be allowed since the only penalty for refusing is
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by npizzolato 10y ago
I don't think it's a lot to ask for a readme to contain the full name of the acronym it's implementing and maybe a link to a wikipedia page. I mean, it already has a link to the golang website, but no mention of what BGP actu
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by npizzolato 10y ago
I don't think it's pedantic. It changes the meaning of the map drastically. Most major cities in the US are not capital cities. In the top 10 states by population, only one is a capital city (using 2014 numbers). https:/&#x2
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by npizzolato 11y ago
Wow... No one said lawyers can't be wrong, but the law is complex, and if you haven't studied it, it's a pretty good bet you don't really understand all the details. It's pretty funny to see you belittle lawyers in
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by npizzolato 11y ago
You're giving a lot of strongly-worded advice/opinions on legal issues in this thread. Are you a lawyer? Can you point to any case-law to back up what you're saying? I'm not a lawyer, and I don't really know who&#x2
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by npizzolato 11y ago
As someone ignorant of accounting law, it's not obvious to me why he's being obtuse, and just saying he is doesn't add anything to the conversation. In the other article, he goes on to say "The people who say that this i
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by npizzolato 11y ago
Typically, I think it would mean "I would like this issue/request to be fixed/implemented."
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by npizzolato 11y ago
That's only true if businesses act with perfect rationality towards long-term thinking and have perfect information, which is obviously not true. The middle manager with numbers to hit for the quarter probably doesn't care to do t
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by npizzolato 11y ago
> I bought an Echo a couple of weeks ago, and I love controlling my Philips Hue lights with it. If I'm on the couch watching a movie, I can just tell Alexa in the kitchen to dim or turn off the living room lights. Setting a timer an
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by npizzolato 11y ago
So you're basically just arguing that their webpage doesn't have a good layout. If you want to dismiss the product because of that, that's your choice, but I wish people would keep complaints about website design to themselve
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by npizzolato 11y ago
Apple isn't questioning the legality of the request based on 4th amendment concerns. Most requests from law enforcement ask a company to give up information they already have. What makes this unique is that the request is for Apple to
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by npizzolato 11y ago
TIL what an initialism is and how it differs from an acronym :) Funnily enough, Chrome is flagging it as a misspelled word, but googling for it brought up its definition in Google's usual definition box.
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by npizzolato 11y ago
Looking at Paypal's Q4 2015 statement, they made $500 million in profit on $2.5 billion in revenue, up from $400 million in profit on $2.1 billion in revenue from Q4 2014. If that's what a sinking ship looks like, I'd love to
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by npizzolato 11y ago
Continuing the analogy, if it was originally 60-40 men-women, and the allegation is correct that only women are allowed to appeal their results, that's more like tipping the balance 40-60, which is a negative outcome for men. Allowing
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by npizzolato 11y ago
> This doesn't make using their apps a "non-starter". I don't think the parent meant a "non-starter" in general. This app seems really awesome, but I primarily develop on Windows, so it's a non-starter
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by npizzolato 11y ago
/r/bestof would disagree with you.
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by npizzolato 11y ago
That's not what you were complaining about earlier. Shifting the goalposts is always fun.

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