towelrod
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 3 years ago
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/i...
The most interesting part of this article to me was the end, where the author argues about how important High School Debate is and how Kritiks are the ruin of this important tradition. I was a HS debator in the early 90s, before K's were popular, and from my experience debate was already a fun but ultimately harmful activity. The whole idea was to spew a constant stream of arguments that didn't have any merit as quickly as possible, hoping the opposing team would forget to respond to just one out of 100, and then you win.
HS Debate already trained a generation of win-at-all-costs, who cares if you are right folks like Karl Rove. I don't see how the current generation of kritik based debate could possibly be any worse
Comment · 4 years ago
I should not have to opt out. GitHub should have to respect my license. I already said they can use my code, as long as they keep an attribution intact (via a BSD license, for example)
GitHub is taking my code and ignoring the license. I don’t understand why anyone would think that is ok.
Comment · 4 years ago
The linked article directly talks about this, at this level of downtime customers are promised a 50% discount. That's what the SLA means, effectively
Comment · 7 years ago
FIFA hasn't done anything like this, have they? Only thing I can remember recently is when Shaqiri and Xhaka had political celebrations after a World Cup game, and they both escaped punishment:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/25/swiss-xhaka...
Even then, the potential punishment was a 2-match ban. They wouldn't have stripped Switzerland of the victory,banned them for a year, and taken away all the money they earned throughout the entire season (all things that Blizzard did)
Comment · 7 years ago
Most companies have been trying the "seat at the table" approach for the last ~10 years and this is where it got us.
Comment · 7 years ago
That post, like everything else I can find about this news, is a year old. Did this really happen?
Comment · 8 years ago
Isn't there a fairly toxic political question buried in this paper as well? Who is going to decide which behaviors are rent-seeking and which are productive?
Comment · 9 years ago
This article is based on a naked capitalism article [1] from 2016. That article adresses the China criticism under the section:
"Uber Losses Not explained by Uber China and No One Can Explain How Profitability Can Be Achieved"
The losses covered in that article don't include anything from China.
[1] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-delive...
Comment · 9 years ago
> They weren't buying it for portability, like Japanese customers usually did; they were buying it because it was the cheapest way to play videogames
That's not true, they are buying a 3ds so they can play Pokemon. Without Pokemon every kid I know would rather have an iphone/ipad than a 3ds. (I'm talking about Pokemon Omega Ruby style games, not Pokemon Go).
Comment · 9 years ago
Interesting and I might have a use for this professionally. But there is no indication on the main page about how it works (web service? code library?). And it forced me to login on the second page, so I closed the tab.
Comment · 10 years ago
Or... what? It says "Do not access or use the Site..." but what would be the penalty for using a site like this outside of the terms of service?
Comment · 10 years ago
Wait, you revoked access from within google, and then the pokemon app was able to give itself access again without asking for permission?
Comment · 10 years ago
More to the point: Airbnb shifts regular, tax paying renters into a grey market -- non-renting, non-tax paying economy.
If a city/country wants to base its rental units on a day-by-day, airbnb model, then fine. The problem is when airbnb comes into a regular market and "disrupts" that market by not paying hotel taxes or following local subletting laws.
I say that as someone who very recently used airbnb for a great deal in NYC, and was admonished by the host not to talk about our situation in the lobby, the elevators, or anywhere else someone might overhear.
Comment · 10 years ago
The person you are responding to never said "because we can't catch their wrong doing all the time"
You aren't gonna to need it[1]
Do the simplest thing that can possibly work[2]
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it 2. https://www.ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/practices/pracsim...