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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>puts democracy above profits In fairness Twitter has been public since 2013 and in that time only turned a profit in 1 year. These ads wouldn't make or break them, and its far more valuable to get the PR while FB is in the media fo
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>The homeowner claims he's out $400k total for various reasons, beyond what insurance covered. That is not what the homeowner claimed. He claimed his damages were $400k total, and the house was covered. What wasn't covered wer
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
If the gunman kept the boy the Police would not have been so indiscriminate in their use of force. However, the gunman being alone in the home permitted them to be as indiscriminate as they were, presumably to keep the police out of harms
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Before the police used force the gunman opened fire on the police.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>issue is that he ran from cops, which is a pretty serious crime. That isn't the issue either (that he ran from cops), the issue is that he began shooting his gun at the cops.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>All for what, maybe $40-60 in 1 shirt and 1 belt? No the use of force was in response to the guy opening fire on the police.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Plus down voting to censor truth rather responding or acknowledging the fact the home was insured and the Police paid the insurance deductible.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>The homeowner deserves to be made whole and I think that should be the police departments responsibility... It sounds like the homeowner was likely made whole by their insurance company, the article hints that the home was insured and t
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Its certainly the norm for industry leaders to lobby and even propose draft rules/legislation to regulators/legislators...however, it is not normal for the government to willfully hide communications from the industry to governmen
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Obviously if a guy sells a gun to someone without doing the proper checks they will be liable. It has nothing to do with "proper checks", the background checks were all completed properly and the buyer passed them, but there w
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>If you leave the dealership with your new vehicle, and decide to go run over 10 people, the dealer is not on the hook for your actions. Same with gun stores not being held liable for gun owners. That is not true of the law. If a gun s
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>can actually handle the rain and sweat without breaking down That is my biggest issue, as a distance runner I have never had a pair of headphones last >6 months before they stop work (likely due to salt from my sweat). Its one thing
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Most people I know just buy the cheapest Android they can find; those are definitely throwaways Well there are 100 Million iPhone users in the US (45% of the market). And the Representative that killed the Bill by requesting a year lon
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Cannabis has been widely recognized among stoners Well lets also not forget the medical and scientific community has also widely recognized the Endocannabinoid system/Cannabinoid Receptors in the human body. And although they have
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
The Attorney's General Offices are government institutions their budgets and their salaries are set by the legislatures. They don't get bigger budgets and employ more attorneys because they are investigating Facebook. Its the sa
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Or consider Facebook has a long history of anticompetitive behavior and the Government attorneys are doing their job by investigating. If anything it creates employment for Facebook attorneys not the other way around.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Its funny when I type "Pizza" into Google, the first organic result is Pizzahut.com, not bad for a bunch of lazy developers who don't take Google SEO into account.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Pizza Hut’s and Domino’s pages from the mid-90s are more blind-accessible than the meth-addled versions of today. We’ve somehow regressed. Google wasn't dictating how websites are developed/optimized back then.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Expired food is generally perfectly safe. The dates are quality indicators, not safety indicators. It’s just being wasteful. It's my hard earned money...whether Amazon is selling me expired food that is a safety concern or just a
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>How can we get coverage to the poorest people effectively? Reform the entire economy so there aren't 10s of millions of people who can't afford health care insurance. The current medicaid solution for the poor is a joke like
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Getting a technical job is like dating: The author said something very similar in her blog. Maybe interviewing and hiring isn't anything like dating, and the people in power who treat it as such should reflect on that. >It'
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>I should point out that the photos appear to be a metaphor for the hiring process I took it more along the lines of a metaphor of the power dynamic of the interviewee/hiring manager. Whereas the interviewee may be stressed and con
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Facebook’s own self interest is aligned with societies if they promote free speech. Facebook's interest is in capturing more market share and maximizing their profits...not sure how that aligns with the interest of society, but I g
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Its been beat to death but Freedom of Speech is a limit on Governmental Power to silence citizens. What is often missed in the Free Speech discussion is the concept of the "marketplace of ideas", that is the importance of Free Spe
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Clinton lied under oath, he was impeached for lying under oath, he even lost his license to practice law as a result of his lies.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
For starters your health insurance is a contract between the insurer and the insured. Obama is a lawyer, he knew or should have known he has no right to make such a statement to the public. At anytime the insurer had the right to disconti
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Read my lips: no new Taxes - Bush Sr. I did not have sexual relations with that woman - Clinton We found the weapons of mass destruction. - G.W. Bush If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it. - Obama
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
> That doesn’t mean that free fillable forms need to be unnecessarily more difficult to use than commercial solutions. They aren't. The IRS form is the exact for completed by TurboTax or any other accountant/service provider.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
There are...you can download any tax form for free and fill it in by hand or in a PDF program. You will see articles regularly attacking TurboTax because SV has been wildly unsuccessful in producing a startup that can compete with TurboTax,
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>the word "illegal" is used to refer to civil matters all the time (e.g. illegally parked car) That's referring to a thing not a person. You would not label the owner of that illegally parked vehicle as an "illegal&q

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