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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
This reminds me of Carl Sagan, who basically said while people believe the beautiful math and wave functions are the fundamental reality and a universal language, he didn’t actually believe this and thought there was something more and very
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
Liability. Someone slips and falls, someone is (sexually) assaulted in the dorm, etc... It would probably be exceptionally helpful for a lot of YC founders I imagine, but in addition to the liability, the optics are kind of creepy in that
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
> nothing wrong with challenging the law if you think its unjust. That’s a straw man...the CEO fired people who didn’t break the law at his direction. He didn’t give a damn if the employees felt the law was just or not. Forcing employe
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
> Advertising is one of the first things companies cut during a downturn. Their revenues are down and they need to shave some costs. Ok but did they cut advertising across the board or just Facebook? You can’t have you’re cake and eat it
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
> Am I the only one who thinks that the author is showing off here. It is a little unusual to criticize someone who donated to the needy, just to say the donor was showing off and to point out what they could have donated instead to make
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
>Sounds like Verizon’s Facebook advertising spend is losing value because if COVId-19 “We’re pausing our advertising until Facebook can create an acceptable solution that makes us comfortable,” Doesn’t sound like it has anything to do wi
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
We can get access to the DVR system easy enough. I suppose your recommendation is identify the drives (as in hard drives?) as opposed to the DVR make/model itself? And then look for file recovery software they seems to work well with
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Ask HN: Any way to recover deleted surveillance video from DVR
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
“ All new Tesla cars come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features today, and full self-driving capabilities in the future...” https://www.tesla.com/autopilot You’re right Tesla is guilty of m
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
Well when Tesla gets sued and settles, they will never have to admit liability, so we will never know. And it’s not about musk breaking the law...it’s about him telling his employees to break the law and firing those that didn’t...did musks
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
I didn’t know property bleeds. And either way I’m not advocating rioting/looting and certainly not arson, just saying maybe it will happen and it would be ironic if Musk’s “not a flamethrower” was used. I’d be the first person to advoc
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
Maybe the protestors that riot and loot will burn Tesla down using Musk’s “not a flame thrower” the ultimate of ironies.
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
Debatable when the CEO publicly makes a statement to that effect that you “detrimentally relied on”. Not to mention the CEO was actually breaking the law by reopening, in practice this worked out to violate the law by coming to work or get
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
> I suspect it's not entirely a mistake. Like Tesla calling their driving assistance “auto-pilot”.
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
I like your optimism and I hope true change happens For the better, I’m more than a little jaded and in my experience things only get worse. Take “Poletown” where GM got the government to seize 1,500 homes, 144 businesses and 16 churches an
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
No that I believe is an aquaslide case from the 70’s. I was looking myself for the case I am referencing and kept getting this case too (and some inflatable slide cases). Very similar factually...someone bought a aquaslide, slide was delive
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
> but that's not a solution to the housing problem at all and strongly disincentivizes investment in housing. It would strongly support homeownership. If “owners” couldn’t buy up multiple properties and become landlords but could on
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
>Should contracts be enforceable? Sometimes yes, other times no they should be void or unenforceable. Quick example: an employee non-compete clause in California (which are illegal in California but employers include them regularly) &gt
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
Not sure if i’m picking up what you’re putting down. I’m guessing maybe you register mymark.com, I get the Whois record and it’s not your legit business info but some made up business name and fake contact info. Well if that’s the case, eit
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
I recall stories of counterfeit child car seats that failed safety standards (don’t think there was a lawsuit) just “undercover purchases” and actual safety testing of the fakes. As I understand it Amazon isn’t liable which to me makes no s
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
FWIW I think your comment was in good faith and at minimum intellectually curious. I asked my colleague similar questions when hearing about the case.
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
It’s a jurisdictional question so it really depends (I couldn’t tell you in this case, I didn’t work on it personally). In my opinion it’s even more odd they defended (in at least some jurisdictions a dissolved entity has no standing to bri
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
> I have a simpler explanation for that. Someone bought the tooling (injection moulds?), in an auction maybe But the company never sold them, so even they from the beginning reasonably believed they had in fact manufactured the slide. H
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
Here is one (plus the story of a defective product lawsuit behind it). A water slide. The type that bolts down into concrete for use with pools. If the first thing in your mind is...isn’t that something from the 70’s/80’s...yes it is
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
They certainly should be...but they lobbied for laws that say they aren’t liable. That is why there is a major effort to repeal those laws.
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
> There's no requirement that the domain owner's contact be a "registered agent." That’s not what I said, or the point. Example: If I launch fortran77.com and am infringing on your registered trademark, step 1 is for
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
> I am really scared that a real devastating collapse is still looming, Eventually it will because businesses will never recover without consumers recovering. That said I don’t think it’s looming...again congress gave over $4T to the FE
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
It seems the pandemic and unemployment is finally causing voodoo economics (trickle down economics) to reverse course and perhaps cause trickle up economics, where the multi-billion dollar corporations and rich alike will begin to feel the
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
I have accomplished anonymity in this respect (payment tracking) by purchasing visa gift cards with cash and registering a domain with said gift card. I’m still sure I could be identified somehow. Funny enough I was planning to do something
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by throwaway_jobs 6y ago
No if you are filing a lawsuit you can’t just “contact them” the same way a customer can. You have to serve them pursuant to the law, which generally for businesses means serving their registered agent. In order to find the registered agen

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