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by valuearb 6y ago
You need to do a better job documenting test logins and instructions for reviewers. Not defending Apple, but don’t half-ass the things you control when you go to review.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Yes, and you aren’t required to host other people’s free speech in your home, property or business.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Why didn’t the manager just fire this person, they could have at any time?
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by valuearb 6y ago
Maybe because after every paragraph you ask yourself, why didn’t they just fire them? They could have done it at any point.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Your story sounds believable (and sadly common). The posted story sounds incredible, ie it strains credibility.
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by valuearb 6y ago
I was getting on a bus at 5 am to pick strawberries all day when I was 13, what’s the harm?
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by valuearb 6y ago
The FDA first slows down the distribution of desperately needed hand sanitizer by forcing distilleries to denature the alcohol. Then it hits those trying to help with large surprise fees. Sure glad we have those regulators protecting us fro
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by valuearb 6y ago
Imagine being a cop trying to do your best to treat honest citizens fairly and honestly, and show them that you are there to protect them, and need their help and cooperation to find criminals. Then another cop goes into your neighborhood b
519.
by valuearb 6y ago
Profit is the net result of investing capital. Revenues don’t matter. If your startup turns a profit but still wants or needs to reinvest those profits in hiring more or more equipment, they still have to pay taxes on those earnings and onl
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by valuearb 6y ago
Let me educate you on causative factors. Many homicides are the byproduct of the war on drugs. Drug use itself is a victimless crime. During prohibition the national murder rate was incredibly high. When alcohol was legalized suddenly the m
521.
by valuearb 6y ago
I was referring to this article about the Baltimore cop arrested for 32 counts of false arrest and imprisonment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/12/12/an-office... Every bystander he harasse
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by valuearb 6y ago
Instead of “defund the police” how bout “legalize victimless behaviors”? If cops weren’t tasked to police what you put in your body and what you do with other consenting adults, we’d need far fewer of them and we’d probably appreciate the r
523.
by valuearb 6y ago
You aren’t totally wrong, but your view is a recipe for disaster because sooner or later most cops are thrust into that 1% scenario, and they need the ability to defend themselves and you. The better solution is to eliminate the drivers of
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by valuearb 6y ago
It’s not “exactly” true, there are plenty of cases where departments have fired individual officers for the singular act of lying in investigations. A better way to say it is that there aren’t enough honorable police departments firing enou
525.
by valuearb 6y ago
It’s hard to reduce crime rates when you constantly manufacture new types of victimless crimes and create lucrative black markets to incentivize participants to use assault, intimidation and murder in the course of business.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Allowing cops to commit crimes doesn’t help victim-rights, it creates more victims and more citizens unwilling to assist police. Did you read the article? Prosecutors didn’t make up the charges against this officer, they have documented vid
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by valuearb 6y ago
Your apparently in favor of making it permanent. Jobs like the ones Apple provides in China are a huge part of lifting their workers out of poverty. Without globalization those same workers would be back on the farms going brutal manual lab
528.
by valuearb 6y ago
It’s not a race to the bottom. Taxes on reinvested capital should be zero, you don’t eat your seed corn. Eating less of it than another country doesn’t hurt them or you. We should tax distributions that aren’t reinvested, and do it progress
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by valuearb 6y ago
Dollars aren’t capital. The fed can double the dollars in circulation tomorrow, but that doesn’t change the amount of manufacturing machinery in the country.
530.
by valuearb 6y ago
We did have Amazon subscriptions, and it was a nightmare, esp. given how little contact Amazon allows with your customers.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Manufacturing requires capital. We’ve had some of the highest effective tax rates on capital in the world for a while, and the Trump tax cuts didn’t help that much. A California corporation has to pay roughly 30% of its profits to the state
532.
by valuearb 6y ago
Yes, the stock market is being pumped up by government fiat. What’s the point?
533.
by valuearb 6y ago
We couldn’t. It’s been a year and Amazon wasn’t my primary responsibility so I can’t remember the details out Amazon manager laid out, but we were forced to go through this time consuming and painful process.
534.
by valuearb 6y ago
> I have listened to plenty of pro-globalist/pro-free-traders talk about how America and other first world countries are just going to have to get used to the idea that their wealth is going to decrease as it equalizes out globally
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by valuearb 6y ago
Third world workers don’t have to work for first world manufacturers like Apple, they can keep doing the jobs they already have. The reason they don’t is their existing jobs are far worse, typically far more difficult and dangerous farm job
536.
by valuearb 6y ago
I was being sarcastic, iOS is clearly based on MacOS/OSX, which was derived from NextStep. OP was implying that was a myth.
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by valuearb 6y ago
I worked for a startup that sold a food product direct, with a significant part of sales on Amazon. We decided to switch our standard size from 12 packs to 8 packs to better fit our customers consumption habits. But on Amazon that meant cre
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by valuearb 6y ago
Free trade increases the standard of living of all participants, including both the third and first world, so I’m having trouble understanding your point. Go read up about comparative advantage to understand the true benefits of free trade.
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by valuearb 6y ago
iOS was based off NextStep, just like OSX.
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by valuearb 6y ago
You seem to want to kill flies with nuclear weapons. The vast majority of third world workers benefit from free trade and freely choose the jobs it produces. Protectionism sentences people far poorer than you to far worse economic lives. Ta

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