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by terminous 3y ago
That was back in March, which is pretty much 100 years ago
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by terminous 3y ago
Delaware Court of Chancery also holds the doctrine of shareholder supremacy, where execs actually have an obligation to maximize shareholder interests. Other states don't recognize it or allow balancing other stakeholder priorities.
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by terminous 3y ago
> people's interests aren't fungible But financial capital, political capital, and public attention are fungible and directly trade off. Want a space program at the top of a national political party platform? What are prioritie
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by terminous 3y ago
How about this: We have celebrities share their political views on a range of topics. The media will cover which celebrities say what positions, perhaps moderate a debate among them. The people then vote on their favorite celebrities, and t
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by terminous 3y ago
> Nepal has banned all pornographic sites in 2018.
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by terminous 3y ago
>It's a minor issue, but it's annoying in language. Call it what it is: clickbait, an intentionally deceptive headline meant to get you to click.
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by terminous 3y ago
> who is going to watch all of this older content? Historians, archivists, and everyone who is interested in having access to the past.
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by terminous 3y ago
Maybe you don't value history, but many people do. The point isn't entertainment, or the kind of entertainment you're imagining. Of course this won't compete on the streaming market. The point is that it is a time capsul
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by terminous 3y ago
People don't seem to understand that matplotlib is the lower-level backend/API and not really intended to be a visualization interface for the average user. It's a power tool. Matplotlib's users are other python develope
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by terminous 3y ago
How is this relevant? Pgfplots isn't even a matplotlib competitor really, they're completely different in terms of use cases and ecosystems.
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by terminous 3y ago
It sounds like you're not addicted to Wikipedia, you're addicted to imposing your particular point of view on everyone else, and all the messy Internet drama that results from that. Things don't go your way in a collaboration
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by terminous 3y ago
Since 1914, there has been a US law on the books that empowers the current Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to make broad enforcement of unfair or deceptive business practices: "(a) prevent unfair methods of competition and unfair or dec
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by terminous 3y ago
No, you're not missing anything. HNers and techies in general lean to the right-libertarian corner, and with that comes a common belief that when the government gets involved in something, they'll mess it up. It is against HN rule
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> analyzing the data they did not provide to you directly for that purpose is something to be removed like cancer For the record, cancer is an appropriate metaphor to describe the data broker industry
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by terminous 3y ago
> I'm not sure if this is a stupid attempt at a rebuttal, or if you've accidentally made a rather good point as well. How about you stop making personal attacks?
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by terminous 3y ago
> biz users are email and a few small spreadsheets. I don't get why biz users need multicore anything. Have you opened a Chrome or Electron app recently? And many biz users need to run those apps while on Zoom with a virtual backgr
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by terminous 3y ago
> Everywhere you look, in nature and in society, you will find inequality, and some people always present it as a moral wrong. Everywhere you look, in nature and society, you will find violence, and some people always present it as a mor
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by terminous 3y ago
This whole "shut up about your intellectual property rights and your ability to make a living being a creator, you greedy self-centered idiot, because your livelihood is getting in the way of my vision of the future" is not convin
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by terminous 3y ago
> All the major Internet properties are falling to pieces. I’ve encountered more hung GMail loading screens and empty IG story trays (which should be impossible if feed loads at all) in the last week than in the decade starting at 2012.
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by terminous 3y ago
> it's just some code that can be thrown away at any time for something better. That's exactly what the author is arguing against. Decisions about foundational infrastructure (frameworks, databases, programming languages) have
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by terminous 3y ago
> Would you consider a different pattern, woven on a old loom a new technology? A app is not a "new technology". A microprocessor is a technology and the code you run on it is just another pattern on the loom. It's not use
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by terminous 3y ago
The "competitors" who would benefit the most from this article are the individual independent hotels who have to eat the cost of stays booked through booking.com and aren't part of a big chain network that has a big enough le
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by terminous 3y ago
> "I deal only with my regulars … I refuse strangers." > ‘They are mostly strangers to us, and we just have to play it by ear in deciding whether to accept a cheque’, said an official.” Sounds like a recipe for discriminatio
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by terminous 3y ago
it's a typical reddit creative fiction
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> we may unintentionally consume other developers' time by using their libraries without giving back Absolutely incorrect, and I have given away much code as open source for free. Nobody who uses my software consumes more of my time
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by terminous 3y ago
I'm going to trust the recommendations of a professional association with dozens of named authors written after an extensive public notice-and-comment period, rather than what seems like a bespoke equation from some pseudonymous blogge
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by terminous 3y ago
The lengths people these days will go to in order to not make a phone call...
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by terminous 3y ago
This is an audio only recording app. I do not see how the creator can reasonably call it a dashCAM when it is really just a dashMIC.
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by terminous 3y ago
Sure, I agree with you on that. But that's a different argument than "It's crazy that we have stuck with either binary or 5 star ratings this whole time across the internet." We haven't.
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> Honestly, all review aggregates are kind of trash. It's crazy that we have stuck with either binary or 5 star ratings this whole time across the internet. Are you aware of metacritic? They take all kinds of ratings, scales, stars

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