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2911.
by slg 6y ago
The article is paywalled, so I'm not sure if they cover this. I don't love a company owning two competing verticals when those verticals are impacted by network effects. Shell's gas business becomes less valuable the more th
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by slg 6y ago
Seriously, it has been a while since I have seen a comment as uncharitable as that one at the top of the HN comments. This move is simply a recognition that many of these stories about minor crimes can have a long lasting impact because of
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by slg 6y ago
>Spare time is becoming ever more precious these days. I feel like this is something that everyone has been saying for decades and I don't really know what it means in practice. There are countless businesses that are successful soa
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by slg 6y ago
Many of those side businesses might be even more profitable with EV chargers as the main attraction rather than gas stations. EV charging doesn't require you to stay by the vehicle like gas fueling does (or at least is supposed to).
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by slg 6y ago
The funniest part is that this is paired with a lack of belief in the free market. Think of all the real estate that is taken up with gas stations. Do we think those are all going to exist forever despite a shrinking customer base? As so
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by slg 6y ago
I have used Hover for years. I don't really do anything too complex with them, but I have no complaints which is basically the best endorsement I can giver for a domain registrar.
2917.
by slg 6y ago
Not sure about all of Southern California, but LA County is down to 65+.
2918.
by slg 6y ago
The very next sentence of that comment referred to the previously linked Wikipedia article with its own citations. You were one click away from being able to answer your own snarky comment.
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by slg 6y ago
Ok, let's try an example in which this issue is further heightened. Would you be comfortable displaying a swastika in the western world today? That symbol didn't originate with the Nazis. Most people simply don't care about
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by slg 6y ago
These are such weird arguments. The origins are irrelevant because it wasn't just a trick pulled on normies; white supremacists also fell for the joke. Once they started genuinely using the gesture it did become a symbol of hate. Th
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by slg 6y ago
I'm confused by this comment. It isn't an "or" situation. Thiel is a billionaire and Luckey is pretty close. Those two are powerful primarily because they are rich and they aren't the only two on that list with at
2922.
by slg 6y ago
It is honorable to pardon or commute the sentence of people in this situation. It seems Trump has only done it for a few dozen people. I can't help wonder why specifically these people deserve this and the hundreds of thousands of ot
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by slg 6y ago
>This pardon is strongly supported by James Ramsey, Peter Thiel, Miles Ehrlich, Amy Craig, Michael Ovitz, Palmer Luckey, Ryan Petersen, Ken Goldberg, Mike Jensen, Nate Schimmel, Trae Stephens, Blake Masters, and James Proud, among others
2924.
by slg 6y ago
>Correct, I was comparing the violence in general. This is different than your original claim that I was comparing BLM property damage to the Capitol Hill murder. I guess I simply don't like the "in general" part as it inh
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by slg 6y ago
>Right, thankfully no one is doing that You seemed to do that further up this thread. When confronted with questions about the violence on 1/6 you responded with references to the violence perpetuated by BLM protesters. However I
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by slg 6y ago
The downside is that the safe harbor protections apply to the entire site. Even if this content is fine, there is certainly some content on GitHub that violates copyright and Microsoft would want safe harbor protections in those instances.
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by slg 6y ago
IANAL, but I am pretty sure Microsoft has little recourse here. The requests would need to be knowingly fraudulent for recourse and that is a huge hurdle to prove that the MPA is knowingly acting in bad faith rather than just being overagg
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by slg 6y ago
>Over the summer, some were waxing poetic about how "riots are the language of the oppressed" and arguing that burning someone's business to the ground isn't violence but rather "just property damage". When
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by slg 6y ago
> Restricting advertising isn't restricting speech, it's restricting the ability to pay for special treatment for your own speech. That isn't the way it works in the US. There are some restrictions on advertising, but is
2930.
by slg 6y ago
The US also has an apolitical civil service infrastructure, just not at the top of these agencies. And it is the leadership that people refer to when they worry about the revolving door. No one cares when some low or midlevel USPS worker
2931.
by slg 6y ago
> If we instead built long term competence within public institutions, including competitive remuneration and career development like training programmes, there wouldn't be a need to have a door between the private and public sector
2932.
by slg 6y ago
Here are some questions based entirely on the procedural process of electing a president. We don't even have to get into any potential illegal actions by Trump. The vice president presides over the counting of electoral college votes.
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by slg 6y ago
The question is how do you fix that? We should want domain experts in a lot of these government roles, but the primary way you become an expert in an industry is working in that industry. Let's image we put a ban in place to prevent t
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by slg 6y ago
>The danger is unreal not because it failed, but because it was obviously going to fail. We're talking about a bunch of delusional LARPers. If some foreign intelligence unit tries and fails to overthrow your country's governmen
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by slg 6y ago
I can't believe this needs to be said, but the fact it failed doesn't mean the danger wasn't real. Some members of the mob were actively looking to kill the people who were 2nd and 3rd in line for the presidency. Let's
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by slg 6y ago
Corporations aren't the only ones that advertise. Completely eliminating advertising would restrict speech for both corporations and individuals. Maybe I want to create a charity and am looking to raise awareness for a fundraising even
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by slg 6y ago
>I think banning online advertising So you want to limit speech in the name of protecting free speech?
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by slg 6y ago
Furthermore these laws almost exclusively apply when speaking about specific people. QAnon people can be sued if they say "Hillary Clinton drinks the blood of children". However they are safe saying "Democrats drink the blo
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by slg 6y ago
You still aren't delaminating the differences between opinion and reporting. This would have been an egregious column to post as part of NYT's news coverage. It isn't among the worst columns the NYT has published as part of
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by slg 6y ago
My point is the '"Anonymous" op-ed' was in fact an op-ed which comes with a different set of publishing standards than reporting. Most people either are ignorant of or refuse the recognize the differences between the tw

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