sol_remmy

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by sol_remmy 9y ago
You're still giving market share to the "open source winners". Linus and RedHat have both made piles of money.
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Everyone in this thread directly supports inequality through their buying decisions and I'm callin' them out. Anytime you use Netflix, Google, HackerNews is supporting inequality. Every time you bought a Harry Potter book as a kid
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Your sarcasm is showing your ignorance of the law. The level of monetary damages are absolutely considered when sentencing. That is why Bernie Madoff, who caused billions in damages, got a very harsh sentence.
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Because the sentence was WAY harsher than normal because of 1,2 and 4. It was a white collar crime. NO monetary damages. And 8 years?? Clearly they sentenced him for 8 years for political reasons
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
> I don't think the outcome should matter. According to the article, "prosecutors had pushed for at least 15 years, saying Shkreli had not shown remorse for his actions" How come the jury is allow to consider his alleged l
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Would you prefer earning $10 with uber where you set your hours and have freedom or earning $10 at Walmart when you still have to work when your kid is sick
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Absolutely. Automated trucks will allow shipping costs to be much cheaper which will stimulate the economy in 1000 different ways
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Are you going to cite a source that substantiates this? CO2 emissions are a politically charged topic so there's an extra-strong reason to only believe a reliable source
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
For an ongoing discussion of this topic see: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/81aw5u/google_a...
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
For an ongoing discussion of this topic see: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/81aw5u/google_a...
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Female Google engineer says she faced “frequent sexual harassment”(arstechnica.com)
8 points by sol_remmy 9y ago|2 comments
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Do you know of an uncensored forum that is better for discussing these issues? Is Slashdot better?
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Duplicate. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498551
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
This is a duplicate. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498551
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501330
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
That violates that "Equal Opportunity" clause if you exclusively reach out only to certain groups
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
> White high school dropouts are wealthier than Hispanic college graduates. What I'm seeing is "people who have lived in America for a long time (European heritage) are on average wealthier than people who arrived fairly recent
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Problem is that leaving companies open to lawsuits from individuals, organizations like the NAACP, and even from the DoJ. Whenever the demographics of a company do not match the demographics makeup of society at large, then the company is l
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AWS Direct Connect down in us-east-1
11 points by sol_remmy 9y ago|5 comments
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
If you get univeral health care then your light-years ahead of Americans. Even if Americans are getting paid twice as much as you, they have the risk of going bankrupt during old age because of extremely high medical expenses You have to
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Inherited wealth should count, don't you think
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
But computers are also very simple and very regimented systems where everyone makes the assumption that their state will never accidentally change and yet they still age
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
Do you remember the news that insurers found Hotmail users are more likely to get into auto accidents and raised their rates? Hotmail users are people who haven't bothered to a superior service for over 10 years. I would not be surpris
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
"IMO, aging is just a way to ensure that dying occurs" The research 100% disagrees with you. Aging even occurs in computers: every computer will eventually get in an unexpected state that it cannot recover from. This could even be
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
I feel like media has become more monopolistic than tech and needs to be dealt with first. I'm personally worried about the dominance of big newspapers. It seems that the field of "trusted online newspapers" has narrowed down
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
"predatory pricing" So they're offering prices below cost and that is considered "predatory"? Last time I checked low prices are good for consumers
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
> It is clear from a slew of radical movements by the new US administration that it has contempt for consumers and has zero interest in enforcing existing laws against big corporations. It's all about growth at all costs, and govern
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
> It's definitely a problem that pricing is opaque and disconnected, but have you considered that maybe healthcare isn't a good candidate for a market solution? Do you really think all healthcare - supplements, eye drops, famil
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
> And Chile is always a special case, the combination of natural resources, small population and good public systems does wonder for the country. Despite the extreme differences, I tend to compare Chile to the Nordic countries more than
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by sol_remmy 9y ago
> Universal healthcare is cast as a 'populist' measure in the US. But if you look at data of cost of healthcare for nations applying universal healthcare vs those who do not in developed nations, India might rationally look at

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