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by spaced-out 4y ago
I'm all for more transparency around money in politics, but unfortunately there's one political party that has consistently blocked efforts address this issue. What do you mean by "efforts to influence"? You mean callin
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by spaced-out 4y ago
> A powerful unaccountable shadow organization that threatens social media networks to control speech and political conversations online should concern more than just Musk. WTF is a "shadow organization", can you please define
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by spaced-out 4y ago
> Divorcing an employee from prior company culture is all about shock therapy. When you transplant a team from one company to another then breaking past culture is your number one priority or you will never get the loyalty of those emplo
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>Most customers don't care How much is "most"? What data do you have? Plus, even if ~20% of customers care and only half will boycott, that's still going to have an impact on the company's bottom line.
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by spaced-out 4y ago
Maybe you might like that, but I personally don't want to wade through dozens of "MAKE BIG $$$$ WORKING FROM HOME!!!" every morning on my feed.
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by spaced-out 4y ago
> Rant about "Free market" until you lose the competition. Then its all out, hypocritical, double-standard protectionism, even economic warfare. Not sure who you're talking about, the Biden administration has definitely no
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by spaced-out 4y ago
The WARN act for one, which Musk may have violated. California also mandates sick leave and family leave for both parents of a newborn child. When California says you can fire an employee for any reason, what they really mean is any reason
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>The downside of employee protections is that it makes companies more reluctant to hire. And also once hired, the salary to be offered is reduced to cover the estimated current value of the future employee protections. Yep, that why soft
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by spaced-out 4y ago
I wonder how this jives with his stated plan to lay off a lot of people? If he wants to implement that he'll need a lot more engineers and related support staff.
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by spaced-out 4y ago
Sounds like a bad deal for the developer to promise they'll "fix" any issue for a flat rate of $5000 (minus whatever Github takes). What if there's a dispute about whether it's fixed or not, who decides who gets the
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by spaced-out 4y ago
Another great example is the end of the third episode, start of the fourth. Arondir and the other elves make an escape attempt. They fail, Arondir is about to be killed, but for some reason he wasn't. They took him to their leader i
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>They won’t get any more buyers while it’s happening and it’s a massive distraction. No one is going to buy Twitter at anything close to what Musk offered. >I’ve worked at companies like this and it brutal on employee morale. People j
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by spaced-out 4y ago
The only people I see "opposing" Musk are randos on Twitter he gets into arguments with. I wouldn't exactly call that a "great deal of pressure".
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by spaced-out 4y ago
You think the EPA is blocking nuclear power?
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by spaced-out 4y ago
Great for the voters living today, sure. Unfortunately the climate isn't going to wait for us to work through our political issues.
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>Or its dominated by legal conservatives who have different ideas about constitutional interpretation than the Warren Court, put there by politicians whose constituents oppose abortion. Exactly, those judges were determined to stop abort
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>its legal reasoning left it vulnerable, which is another way of saying it was weak As if any of that mattered in the end. The Supreme Court ruled how it did because it's dominated by religious conservatives that don't like ab
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by spaced-out 4y ago
No she didn't and no it wasn't. RvW ruled that in order to be free, people have an implicit right to privacy when making personal medical decisions. Obviously moral busybodies don't like that so they're calling it &quo
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by spaced-out 4y ago
The counter-argument people will make, which I'm not sure if I agree with or not, is that regardless of what Apple's customers want, one company having that much power over its own ecosystem is bad for the market as a whole.
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by spaced-out 4y ago
AWS has 33% of the cloud market share, I wouldn't exactly call that a monopoly. https://www.channele2e.com/news/cloud-market-share-amazon-aw...
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by spaced-out 4y ago
Exactly this. One of the best things governments could do to help lower greenhouse gasses is incentivize people to get their goods delivered instead of going to the store. So much fuel is wasted moving a ~2 ton vehicle and a >100 lbs p
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by spaced-out 4y ago
Amazon still has competition, both from brick and mortar stores that will let you actually touch the product and go home with it the same day, and from other online stores that can also ship stuff to you within a few days. What does Amazon
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by spaced-out 4y ago
What revolution was the 1917 woman's grandfather apart of?
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>The good news is the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline in May 2021 probably marks the beginning of the end. Comforting as that might sound, it tells us very little about how that ending will turn out. I wonder what level of liabili
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by spaced-out 4y ago
He's just trying to weasel out of it because the high from all the media attention wore off and he's now realized that Twitter always was a terrible investment which he offered way too much money for. He should have figured this o
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by spaced-out 4y ago
I guess we could just throw our hands up and say nothing will ever change, but I think things could change, and a great first step would be a grassroots push to adopt voting systems which make it easier for 3rd parties to break in.
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by spaced-out 4y ago
> Enshrining the two party system in law is something that even the current power system in the US hasn't managed. By doing "top two to general" you'd be converting a de-facto duopoly into an actual duopoly. Just the
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by spaced-out 4y ago
>The first case has clients outlined, a good estimation of revenue, competition, etc... The second is more abstract but aims higher. Success (albeit highly unlikely) means billions in revenues. It's a stereotype that startups don&#x
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by spaced-out 4y ago
Because, in this instance, the lion is not the one that launched an invasion. Particularly egregious, launching a pre-emptive war based on a flimsy premise of what Ukraine might do in the future.
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by spaced-out 5y ago
Can someone help me understand what caused Doordash to block the account? The title says "cross platform surveillance" but the ban message says they noticed issues on their own account.

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