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seemslegit
7y ago
" Seismic ia San Diego-based maker of B2B sales software that's raised over $180 million in VC funding, most recently at a $1 billion valuation, from firms like General Atlantic, Jackson Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partner
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7y ago
In that case the npm ecosystem has some serious bovine spongiform encephalopathy risks to manage
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By "weird" here I actually meant those deemed socially or economically harmful or untenable, such as slavery, mandatory periodic absolution of debts or polygamy - laws that are just weird but without direct adverse impact are bein
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basically Rabbis as early as 1700 years ago are on record as implying: "off-the-record, God is an entirely fictional entity, we get it, we really do, but it's a useful fictional entity to ground the foundations of morals, law and
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7y ago
There is no fooling going on because God is said to have promised to respect and validate these kinds of hacks, a form of devolved governance to the rabbinical law if you will. And a more conservative approach indeed does not distinguish be
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7y ago
It's been long accepted that a sufficient rabbinical consensus can out-lawyer God itself, it's like the SCOTUS mandate to decide what the wording of the constitution really means or the Catholic papal infallibility doctrine - can&
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7y ago
Oh well, maybe when the cleaning staff unionizes
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7y ago
Pretty sure Bernie Sanders is not running on the platform of encouraging shoplifting or sabotaging your workplace.
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7y ago
I'll take it as 'probably not'
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Curiously - half of this comment was copy-pasted as a comment to the medium article and not by me.
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I wonder if they can now help people who lost access to their gmail accounts because they wouldn't give google their phone number
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For causality to be reversed unions and collective bargaining would have had to exist and be the norm prior to at-will employment. More like unions and collective bargaining were successfully discredited by engaging in excesses of their ow
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You are literally advocating for at-will employment here, which says noone cares if you're genuinely or politically incompetent and will be fired all the same.
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Of course it doesn't excuse secret prisons ("communication management unit" is a very nice euphemism), there was probably a lot of wrong with the treatment of Justina Pelletier, and the morally and normatively bankrupt state
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7y ago
I'm not under the impression that either Obama or Biden were or are friends of the cryptoanarchic hacktivist - this is just not the business that politicians or governments are in. But it's fairly clear whose voter base has a high
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7y ago
Do you really need an argument in favor of Boston Children’s Hospital to realize that DoSing a hospital is nowhere near the scope of either a legally or morally acceptable course of action to deal with something like this even if his take o
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7y ago
He is kinda doing that already: https://www.thedailybeast.com/julian-assange-went-after-a-fo...
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7y ago
Airbnb controlls zero real-estate, it's a coordination and payment mechanism, that's all.
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I'd suggest lawyering up but even banks in the US routinely close peoples accounts without offering any explanation or recourse so it would be surprising if such arbitrariness could be successfully fought in court.
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7y ago
And the guy himself is a think thank fellow... which estate do the think tanks fall under ?
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I wondered why something like this would be published by the nypost but that was clarified when the author proceeded to elaborate at length why it is actually the left academic and cultural establishments that are to blame for the concentra