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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
It should be noted the unpaid taxes are from the period of 2010-2016. >“Facebook Ireland and Facebook’s other foreign affiliates - not Facebook US - led the high-risk, and ultimately successful, international effort to sell Facebook ads,
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>What do you think actually makes the most difference: a) Donating $10B b) Reducing his personal environmental impact to zero How does that Gandhi quote go: Be the change you want to see in the World... or was it pay for the change you w
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
Your comment highlights the very real and interesting problems of democracy...simply turning over this issue to voters (the vast majority of which have no first hand knowledge of the issue).
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>How times have changed. I think a major part of this, as applied to SpaceX and Boeing, is historically NASA micromanaged their contractors on cost+ based contracts. That is where companies like Boeing thrived, tell Boeing exactly what
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>The thing you are missing is that every action like that carries a risk of causing a war much larger than the original action. I fully understand that. The thing you are missing is that by ignoring act of cyber warfare from a foreign m
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>> No one said anything about "go to war", the Use of armed force is not "going to war". ??? Consider the US Seal Team military operating in Pakistan where Bin Laden was killed. That was use of armed force, we inf
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
It seems your position is that the response is the trigger not the initial aggression. How did WW2 start? With Hitler invading Poland or was that fine, and UK/France bear the blame of the WW2 by declaring war on hitler in response?
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Considering how much crap the NSA has pulled over the years, I wouldn't consider this an "act of war". It may not seem like a distinction to some, but I think there is a difference from hacking by an intelligence agency a
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>By that token, Europe should have gone to war with the US for spying on its very leaders Well not exactly. One was a state sponsored military act of cyber warfare that indiscriminately targeted an entire populace and infrastructure (i.
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Wasn't this more intelligence gathering? I believe it raised to a level above spying and intelligence gathering. It was a state sponsored military act of cyber warfare that infringed on the US' territorial sovereignty. >Th
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
Who said the "end of human civilization"? I specifically said "respond with the use of force as permitted by the UN Charter and international laws and norms." It seems clear the people responding talking about all out wa
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Techthroway's that have never experienced war and don't study international relations and geopolitics should stop suggesting bullshit like this. I would venture to guess I have significantly more experience and knowledge with
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>A "hot" war between two powers would be of such a great cost in human life, you would want to avoid it at all costs. I was very careful to specify "respond with the use of force as permitted by the UN Charter and internat
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
The US needs to treat this as an act of war by a foreign military/government, not as a criminal act by people acting in an individual capacity. If the US can identify the individual hackers, then they should be able to identify the phy
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Apple implemented this to help users extend life of older devices. Or to encourage users spending $500-$1,000 to upgrade their slowing devices. >Apple should just have phones in France run full clock at all times to comply with this
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
I've never had car purposely park (or park period) on the sidewalks and bike paths where I am running. These scooter companies, at least in my city, will collect and dump their scooters on the busiest sidewalks and bike paths (blocking
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
A lot of the comments are crediting the immigrant parents as being "motivated" parents...maybe, but in this modern economy I think there is a more economic reason: US born children have parents that more likely than not are indebt
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
That happened to me about 20 years ago on a gas powered goped from a sidewalk crack where one slab was slightly raised due to some tree roots. I had a serious helmet which cracked on impact, to this day I swear I would be dead from that im
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
I will add credit unions are chartered banks...but unlike "banks" they are not owned by shareholders, they are non-profits made up of the members (account holders). Ideally in 2008 all the "banks" should have gone bankru
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
Did your professor explain why an electron moves from one atom to another within a crystal to fill a hole? As in what triggers that "move" or is it a constant reshuffling of electrons within a crystal trying to fill holes in vain
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
I think its a general reference to losing the popular vote but winning the electoral college and otherwise having nothing to do with the electoral college margins.
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>+ invests. Right? Just offering an unregistered security to the public (without any exceptions applying) is a violation.
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Samsung deliberately produced a 132-page report comparing the iPhone to their current phones at the time and pointed out hundreds of features and design elements they should steal from the iPhone user interface But that doesn't rea
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
Its because its not a police movie, and these group didn't refer to themselves as Mafia...they referred to themselves as family (in Sicilian "Cosa Nostra" meaning "our thing" or "thing of ours"). You will
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Did CalTech's filing of this patent help Apple or Broadcom's engineers create their devices? No but Apple's patent for rounded corners didn't help Samsung engineers from creating their devices...and yet Apple filed t
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Even still it's not clear why that's an issue. As in you don't understand the need for the anti-kickback statute? I am not hear to defend it, but I happened to be an attorney on a Qui Tam case (i.e. whistle blower case, w
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>The very existence of the pop-up is the problem. Ethically yes, but legally, the issue may be more related to the payment, which I am guessing is a violation of the anti-kickback statute.
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>As a non-American I'm also curious about the mass necessity of opioid painkillers to begin with. The necessity is a result of big pharma lobbying activity, there is generally no medical necessity for opioids. Big pharma money ensur
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>Such a patient isn't going to correctly take their medication either, 30 days or not. Exactly that is why the doctor specifically writes a 30 day so they come back in and can check their numbers. >Insurance companies do a lot of
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by throwaway_tech 7y ago
>There are some cases where the relationship between insurers and patients is adversarial. Well imagine your doctor gives you a Rx, you go to fill and the insurer tells the pharmacist to ask doctor to change it. If the doctor disagrees

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