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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"Yes, it keeps NN agreements fair, but it also prevents expansion." I've not seen any reason why this is, other than ISP greed. Phone companies were regulated under Title II, but I've not heard anyone complain about that
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"Welcome to the free market, where private companies are free to hire or not hire at will based on criteria that works for them. Writing OSS doesn’t entitle you to any job." Nobody is saying anything other than that. They're
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
The problem with your view is that you're basically expecting everyone to be robots. I entirely can understand needing to vent like that after not getting a job for a very, very stupid reason.
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Are they? Usually unless you're known, they bring in next to nothing.
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The problem is, there's a contingent of people on Twitch that will call any woman who's not completely flat chested or not all covered up a "booby streamer".
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I would say it's more useful than discussing the ad. Which is still to say, not very.
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It seems like most people are more interested in discussing the question posed by the title than discussing the product the article is advertising.
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"But you're not undercompensating them if you can find the people." That statement ignores so much of reality today that it isn't really applicable. It ignores the fact that people must work in order to survive, and as s
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The environment, if the reports of the electricity usage of BTC are accurate.
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"And if you have security patch level of 2017-12-01 or newer, you are safe from this vulnerability." So, not most people.
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They've done some work on some parts. There are still large chunks of the OS that can't do that. And the core OS was never that difficult to update, it's more that the OEMs had no incentive, and still have no incentive, to do
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But most people don't get access to that work, because their phones don't get updated.
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Except don't most crypto currencies have transaction fees as well? Ones which can be far, far more than credit card ones (See: Valve dropping BTC from Steam).
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There's Librepay, and FOSSPay, I believe.
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Me too, but there are some incredibly shitty people out there.
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Wrong. They get paid the amount of money they do because they are supposed to be in charge. Because they are "taking responsibility." If they are not responsible, then they should not get those amounts of money. If they are respon
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Those people benefitted from the illegal goings on as well.
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"So the goal must be to discourage others from committing similar offenses. Fair enough, but there must be a better and more efficient way to accomplish that than locking people in a compound for several years." I mean, if you&#x2
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What's your definition of "force"? Purely physical force? Or are you including brainwashing, emotional abuse, and economic/financial force as well?
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The price of BTC went up by $2k USD in 2 hours this morning. Why would anyone want to use it to buy something when there's a good chance it'll be worth more in a day or so?
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They likely also have gold, but they already bought it long ago.
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I did read with good faith. Regardless of where you are, "Don't be in that situation" is not, nor never will be an appropriate response. "There is little point answering the question - it has no good outcomes." That
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Well, as it says, there's no national law. However, the law followed is not the law where the borrower resides, but the law where the lender is headquartered. Which is why so many of the payday lenders are headquartered in New Jersey a
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The mods tend to ding me when I do that.
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Humans are not machines, so trying to look at them that way is going to be flawed. Furthermore, there is no excuse for what they did. They knew it was wrong. They knew it was against the law. It was not an accident; it was a deliberate act.
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I honestly don't know what you're on about. This person willfully engaged in fraud; they instructed their engineers to engage in a project to deliberately mislead regulators, and throw much, much more pollution in the air than the
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Unfortunately, I really believe that jail is the only deterrent for these people. Fines aren't going to do anything; they already have enough money that they never have to work, and you're never going to fine them enough for that
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Payday lending itself isn't the problem. It's the usury that's the problem. Unfortunately, that was deregulated, so states are unable to enforce their own anti-usury laws.
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That's not really good advice in this situation. There's a decent chance that the collectors would then ding their credit report or possibly sue.
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I believe directing ire at the SCOTUS for being that bone headedly idiotic in that decision, especially in a political environment where they had to have known there would not be a legislative solution anytime soon is also warranted.

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