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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
The parent may agree with you, but they said that in a somewhat obscure way. I believe their point is that companies have many distinct contracts with other companies (good) that contain arbitration clauses, and that employers have a smalle
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
I think productivity is better conceived as the first derivative of value wrt. time. So productivity growth is the second derivative. It’s good news if that number is positive at all.
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
In the context of this particular case, it sounds like the ruling by the majority protects non-citizens from having their property taken by the police, while Justice Thomas’s concurrence would not. In my opinion, not having your property ta
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
Wonder what happened with that profit in Q1 2018. Odd that the article didn’t mention it. Was that Uber proving to investors that they can turn the spigot and generate cash? Or some one-time factor?
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
And to expand on that a bit: It seems that transit in the Bay Area serves multiple purposes. 1) Getting you from point A to point B. 2) Mobile climate-controlled shelter for homeless people. My claim is that purpose 1 is at odds with purpos
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
After being assaulted by that stranger I thought about him a lot: 1) He probably has been abused and harmed many times, perhaps in his childhood. 2) He probably expects the worst from people, and thinks that everyone is out to get him. 3) H
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
I’m just describing an event that happened to me. There are a lot of problems with Uber, but one thing it’s not is the cheapest and most convenient climate-controlled shelter for the city’s destitute mentally ill.
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
UberPool Express has some things in common with the bus, although I’ve still never been slapped in the face by a homeless man in an Uber.
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
The service Plastiq will send a check to your landlord funded with a credit card for a 2.5% fee. It’s not worth it to buy miles, but definitely worth it to earn a signup bonus where the rewards are worth 10%+ of the minimum spend requiremen
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
Wow, sounds like a clearly anti-growth policy. I wonder if they have some expensive accounting in the backend or something.
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
It seems relevant - if company leadership is attempting to act in the best interests of the shareholders, the fact that the shareholders also own their competitors would tend to bias them against engaging in a price war (even one that they
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
Sure, if you can go once in a while, having a good understanding about how much money you will lose and can keep yourself from losing more trying to get it back, good for you. But the casino’s bread & butter are the people who show up e
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
The whole gambling industry is a really a utility black hole. Human risk-taking impulses evolved so that we could decide to look around that corner, explore that dense underbrush, see what happens if we rub some sticks together. Instead of
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
I responded to a particular comment in the thread.
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
Attorneys who work in civil and criminal law can be defending the powerless, keeping the powerful from facing justice, or somewhere in between. It depends on the particular case.
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
Civil suits are the main route regular people have to get compensation when abused by corporations. Or just small companies that get abused by big ones. Citizens almost always lose against companies in the executive or legislative branch -
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
I think the way git supports this workflow currently is to have a super-repo containing all the other repos as submodules. You can bundle all those changes together as updates to the submodule references in a single PR.
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
Why would they care about getting a good bargain in “COL adjusted wages”? Even in NYC there is not a currency exchange Google can go to to turn $100k Florida dollars into $200k New York dollars.
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
It seems like McFarland had an incredible ability to make people think he could overcome the issues with the festival and make it a success, which is why so many people worked day and night to try to pull it off. Are we supposed to believe
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
> and I can guarantee you that 22 year old compsci grads and 50 year old product management vice presidents who think the glossiness of the building is important are much bigger shitbags than 18 year old college applicants and 70 year ol
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
I disagree, it’s extremely common for lawyers to make strong denials to the press. Even if there’s nothing to back it up, it looks better from a PR standpoint than a “no comment” which puts the lawyer in a slightly better position when nego
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
I think the key question is: would any other marketing company have done the same as FuckJerry, attempting to do the job they were hired for given McFarland’s ability to trick people into thinking the festival was going to be a good experie
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
Is a used a Lexus a good hack for getting a higher-end car that will also be cheap to fix, because it uses the same parts as a Toyota?
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
I think responding to this requires giving a summary of the effects of different drugs, to build a simple mental model of how they could cause addiction. Group A: Drugs like benzos, alcohol, and opioids provide pleasant sensations upfront,
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
Ketamine is plentiful on the street and you can legally buy ketamine analogs online. I don’t see this new route of getting it from a psychiatrist as a huge abuse risk. Subjectively, it’s not as good a “take the pill and forget your problems
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
I agree, it’s important to consider the possible harms. When we come up with specific tangible harms, it’s worth writing legislation targeted to address those issues. However, I’d also consider that there is an infite array of possible risk
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
These seem like complete non-sequiters, what does ad tracking have to do with mispriced insurance on mortgage-backed securities? How will ad tracking cause the economy to collapse? It seems like you are just bringing up an unrelated traumat
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
Advertisement improves economic efficiency, resulting in increased prosperity. It’s part of the desperately needed decoupling of economic growth and energy consumption. Whether the parameters of some neural net are trained on the Facebook
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
I don’t have a problem with installing ad blockers. That’s not what the article or my response to it is about at all.
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by sjjshvuiajhz 8y ago
The problem is not the web tracking, the problem is your obsession about it. Stop worrying about it and your mental health will improve. Are you going to raise your kid to be afraid of the shadows around every corner?

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