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by roc 12y ago
> "Unlike the cleaning staff, who can "be shown the door if that's how they feel about it."" Cleaning staff are (overwhelmingly) entitled to overtime pay, by law.
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by roc 12y ago
"doing it wrong" sums up how most people use most software.
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by roc 12y ago
I wonder to what degree navigation is a fundamentally different case. A given driver on a given trip is well-shown to be more attentive to traffic and less disruptive if you deny them distractions. (conversation, radio, food, etc) But it se
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by roc 12y ago
> "It's a worrying meme that you shouldn't even expect your internet-connectible devices to survive the internet, and when they break its your fault." This has been the go-to techie reaction to security problems sin
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by roc 12y ago
If the point is to attract users who haven't joined Google+ (likely because they don't want another Facebook-shaped social network), why in the world would they keep "Google+" in the name? I'd be surprised if this w
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by roc 12y ago
You're absolutely right. I was wrong to carelessly specify fault in the journalist, rather than simply faulting the piece. However: If I had correctly identified that the piece was shoddy, rather than the journalist, wouldn't m
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by roc 12y ago
How about noticing that the article tossed the tepid Ed Norton HULK film (Marvel film #2) down the memory hole altogether? It does reference The Hulk in the context of the license to Universal. But Marvel regained the film rights in 2006 an
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by roc 12y ago
> "self-driving cars will make the controversy over the EU's "right to be forgotten" law look like a polite discussion over a beer." You misunderstand me. Of course self-driving cars will generate many and e
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by roc 12y ago
And which/how many of those would it take to justify a special trip to a special-purpose building to introduce people to it? Their more-interesting projects would make a particularly-popular exhibition in an interactive museum. And tha
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by roc 12y ago
> " The question is where that line will be in the myriad of situations that will be more complex due to the the introduction of automation." It will be determined via litigation, as it is now. Technological complexity of sub
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by roc 12y ago
If that was the fundamental issue, ISPs would be talking about provider-agnostic throttling of usage to protect network stability and performance during periods of high utilization. Which is something they already do . What they're a
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by roc 12y ago
It certainly feels like it came from a company that would buy the Dre/Beats team. That is: historically Apple has emphasized the emotional pitch to the things that you (can) do with their gear, and the expression of personality thro
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by roc 12y ago
Surely they can distinguish between one-time IAPs and "consumable" IAPs.
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by roc 12y ago
Net Neutrality isn't about usage , it's about destinations. Even with Net Neutrality it's fully within an ISPs right to say X GB/mo for $Y and throttle or block over-use. The problem is an ISP deciding that, regardless
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by roc 12y ago
Waggle for gaming certainly seems "done" as a trend. But Kinect, as technology, has huge potential in the robotics and connected home spaces. Also, if they can cram it into Windows Phone, they could easily out-pace Google's T
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by roc 12y ago
> "it's also one of the single biggest proofs that Wall Street analysts have no idea how to run a real business." While it sounds like your friend definitely knows how to run a real business, he/you may want to re-a
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by roc 12y ago
Political tap-dancing has been parodied for generations and that still happens. Heck, Cheney all but quoted Reagan's "I don't recall"-defense as a 20th anniversary tribute and that had been lampooned specifically .
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by roc 12y ago
I'm sure Nokia itself knew these layoffs were likely-to-inevitable whether that deal happened or not.
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by roc 12y ago
> "What is the end game?" It appears to be: force the industry to move somewhere else. Whether that's a good plan or not is moot. Decades of votes have underscored it repeatedly. That the situation is unsustainable see
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by roc 12y ago
> "i prefer universal essential services (healthcare, education, etc.) over a guaranteed basic income." If we believe in the market's ability to efficiently find the path forward, identifying "essential services&quo
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by roc 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there were. There are plenty of up-and-coming cities with relatively low car ownership (and lots of growth) today. An autonomous-zip-car-ish offering wouldn't have to displace existing motorists to beco
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by roc 12y ago
It became somewhat about money, but that's a fairly recent development in policing in general -- it's not much different from allowing the executive branch to keep all or part of other various fines. But there's nowhere nea
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by roc 12y ago
> "Now the world is worried about what we put in our systems that we export." That's not remotely a new state of affairs. Nor is it new for them -- Russia in particular -- to have very good reasons: http://e
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by roc 12y ago
To be fair: they don't want short, small videos any more than they specifically wanted gifs. They want moving images that load quickly. Which has meant short/small/gifs, because most US bandwidth still sucks. And thanks to
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by roc 12y ago
You have to consider price, particularly in the American West, as desalination can make as much fresh water as you can afford. The only thing stopping California from building massive solar-powered desalination plants is that bullying the s
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by roc 12y ago
There's no constitutional concern here. Tenure would provide no protection for a teacher who was using their position to preach. Any talk of creationism or reading from a holy text would have to be part of a lesson that didn't r
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by roc 12y ago
> "I imagine you would want to fire teachers who teach their students that the Earth is 6000 years old" The funny thing about that, is that public school science education isn't politicized in that "both sides do it
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by roc 12y ago
> "On the flipside, doesn't tenure allow teachers to defy a progressive administration and teach Creationism just as easily?" Teaching creationism (as opposed to not teaching evolution) is a funny edge case that runs,
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by roc 12y ago
Wrongful termination only applies if the employment contract, or some statute of employment law, was violated. The law has little-to-nothing to say about this topic, which is why educators fought for these protections in the first place. A
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by roc 12y ago
The problem isn't rogue administrators, it's an abusive majority deciding en masse to harm/under-serve a minority. You don't get an administrator seeking to ban the teaching of evolution without a majority of voters in

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