s73ver

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by s73ver 9y ago
The circumstances don't matter. If it's unethical when you're rolling in dough, it's unethical when you're poor. You say no, period.
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by s73ver 9y ago
What you described is rationalization. That doesn't make the act of stealing a car any more moral. It's still incredibly immoral.
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by s73ver 9y ago
I don't know why we don't hear "sleazy programmer" more often. It's pretty apt. If you're going to write stuff to track people online, that's pretty sleazy. If you're writing stuff for governments to
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by s73ver 9y ago
I'd see it more like the Writer's Guild, Director's Guild, or Screen Actor's Guild. They don't stop you from entering the field, or from doing smaller work, but once you start doing professional work, you would need
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by s73ver 9y ago
And the flat tax proposal is the same.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Complete with "startup" wages.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Isn't this similar to Walmart not paying their workers enough, and encouraging them to go on welfare and food stamps?
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by s73ver 10y ago
Call your Congressional representation, for starters. Another thing you can do is pressure your state legislature to reinstate the rules, similar to what some states did after Congress voted to remove ISP privacy rules.
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by s73ver 10y ago
So DC doesn't have 3 different broadband options. Select parts of DC do. Go to the middle or upper class areas and you might be spoiled for choice, but how much choice is there in the lower income areas, where it probably matters more?
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by s73ver 10y ago
Even if the free market choice could do it, I would still want regulation. Because there's no reason to allow them to act in this manner, so just bar them from doing so altogether.
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by s73ver 10y ago
No, it's not. But being against Silk Road selling it doesn't mean we also don't want Rx sales to be more closely scrutinized. Saying, "But what about Big Pharma, huh?" isn't an effective argument, as many of us
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by s73ver 10y ago
That's usually called "standby"
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by s73ver 10y ago
How many times have we seen a company get acquired for a kingly sum, and right before the acquisition, the company plays tricks with the stock so the employees get jack shit?
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by s73ver 10y ago
Well, both Uber and Lyft have some pretty predatory car renting programs. And with this move, Juno has shown that they're pretty crappy to their drivers, just like Uber. I guess we haven't heard of Lyft or Juno having a toxic cult
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by s73ver 10y ago
Here's the thing I really don't get: This is going to get out. This is going to taint the brand. Why do something as shitty as this? Why do startups do this? Is it honestly that hard to be ethical, and pay out what you promised?
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by s73ver 10y ago
It's still pretty insulting.
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by s73ver 10y ago
Because the market itself cannot provide decent competition. Even if you got rid of most regulations, you'd still have barriers in the forms of having to tear up roads, and the massive investment in equipment you have to buy up front.
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by s73ver 10y ago
History. History is the reason why they would not go for business model 2.
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by s73ver 10y ago
Uber and Lyft have competition. UPS has competition. Most ISPs do not. And while you might say that it allows them to fund things faster, it also allows them to simply give more money to executives and shareholders. Please don't also p
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by s73ver 10y ago
Why do you think simply leaving that in the hands of the ISPs, who have demonstrated in the past that they are more than willing to screw over consumers, is better?
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by s73ver 10y ago
"Ok, so you're saying there is no substance to "radio on the internet"" That's not what they said. They said that there was no substance to Broadcast.com specifically.
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by s73ver 10y ago
Not in the least.
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by s73ver 10y ago
I can easily find a dozen or so people who work just as hard, and are nowhere near as successful. While I won't discount what he achieved, privilege is definitely the right word.
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by s73ver 10y ago
"except in the case of at least Trump, there is at least a mandate of government granted by the people that voted for him." More people voted for Not Trump than voted for Trump.
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by s73ver 10y ago
The vast majority of the products we'd associate with those companies were made long after they could be considered startups.
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by s73ver 10y ago
Well, Russ Hanneman is already in the Three Comma club, so he doesn't need to that much.
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by s73ver 10y ago
So to you, money trumps all? What if those with more money simply wish to buy the house as an investment, so the people who live there not only get chased out, but the house sits idle?
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by s73ver 10y ago
They do, but detractors of Prop 13 also need to remember why it was enacted. Property taxes were skyrocketing, and causing people to lose their homes. Homes they had lived in for most of their lives. These people had done absolutely nothing
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by s73ver 10y ago
That's the economically rational thing to do if things are all equal. However, the reason many people are moving to SF is because that's where the VC money is, and therefore that's where the tech jobs are (yes, I know there a
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by s73ver 10y ago
Brett Favre and Peyton Manning are the only quarterbacks to have beaten all 32 NFL teams.

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