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differentView··on Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
All I know at this point is that I'll keep using Hangouts and when Google eventually kills it, I'll never use another Google messenger again.
differentView··on Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started
> I'm going to start looking for another e-tailer to use.

What alternatives are there that don't have the same problem?

differentView··on Some Saudi women are secretly deserting their country
> male counterparts (who are generally guaranteed government sinecures) > These countries risk not only of losing their women; if they do not mend their ways, they will lose the most productive half of their populations.

Sounds like they're also losing the potentials of many of their male population with such guaranteed government sinecures.

differentView··on Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex
Does the term exclude all non-whites/Asians, regardless of upbringing, education, and background?
differentView··on Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever
It's one thing to support laws and regulations that happen to benefit Trump, it's another to want him to be the leader of your country.
differentView··on Red-light camera grace period goes from 0.1 to 0.3 seconds, Chicago to lose $17M
There needs to be countdown timers on all traffic lights.
differentView··on How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness
I suspect many people who claim to be libertarians just haven't discovered classical liberalism.
differentView··on Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes
> Police are not asking for the entire search history of everyone in the town, then combing through it to see what they've searched for. Rather, police are asking Google who, in a narrow amount of time, searched for the name of a relatively unknown person who had $28K stolen from him.

Where would you draw the line?

Suppose they don't find what they're looking for in that request. Would you be okay with them expanding the time little by little? Perhaps adding other search terms? What about for other crimes? Other services (Facebook, Bing, Yahoo!, etc...)?

Wouldn't capable prosecutors for future cases simply use this as precedent and expand the parameters little by little?

There is no clear line to draw after you cross this line.

differentView··on Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice (2016)
I prefer Bill Cosby having no access to any drugs.

Him being an asshole would be a lot better than what his real self turned out to be.

differentView··on Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Happiness [pdf]
Even if not random, there's an argument that Alice would bring happiness to more people.
differentView··on Facebook’s code quality problem (2015)
>As an easy example, there are many that are more overweight than I am that know nutrition better than I do. That said, it is does seem somewhat logical to question health advice from clearly unhealthy people.

Using your easy example with OP's logic, a 100-pound overweight person trying to lose 100 pounds by throwing up and taking dangerous diet pills should also discount the advice of a physician who've never lost 100 pounds themselves or successfully helped a patient lose at least 100 pounds.

differentView··on Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
Should artists be exempted from the basic requirement of being able to support themselves that we expect from people of other professions?
differentView··on Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
>No one is trying to stop legal immigration.

I'll give you the benefit of doubt and believe that YOU are not trying to stop legal immigration. However, many are trying to stop immigration, some are against all immigration, some are against only those of a certain religion.

differentView··on FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public Surveillance
Don't most people just go along with it and say "I have nothing to hide".
differentView··on FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public Surveillance
How would you know if it's cp?
differentView··on ‘I must fundamentally change and grow up’: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s apology
But I enjoy going to Costco.
differentView··on Warren Buffett's Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders [pdf]
What's the worst he's done?
differentView··on An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors
> this is a deep breech of trust in a non-public company

How so? Senior leaders at Uber seeking "advice on a variety of issues, mostly pertaining to diversity and inclusion" isn't a bad thing.

Clarifying that Travis Kalanick, the CEO, wasn't one of those senior leaders, doesn't breach anyone's trust.

differentView··on Why Are Shootings Deadlier in Some Cities Than Others?
From the article:

>In 1996, Republican Rep. Jay Dickey removed $2.6 million from the CDC budget — the precise amount the CDC spent on gun research in 1995 — at a time when the center was conducting more studies into gun-related deaths as a "public health phenomenon," according to The New York Times. The NRA and some pro-gun Congressmen perceived this as more of an attack.

differentView··on Cafe overwhelmed with customers after it is accidentally awarded a Michelin star
This isn't fake news.
differentView··on Warren Buffett’s Best Investment
Smart people, and people in general, are more productive doing what they're passionate about. Buffett on investing, Musk on space, and Gates on curing childhood diseases.
differentView··on No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children
Are these people without jobs that eat dinner at 5pm? Most people I know are still at work at 5pm.
differentView··on Passwords for social media accounts could be required for some to enter country
Depends how much the border officer likes you.
differentView··on Passwords for social media accounts could be required for some to enter country
Yes, those people will simply be denied entry.
differentView··on Passwords for social media accounts could be required for some to enter country
First, you and your devices will be held for hours while they go through your accounts and devices. Then they'll require you to disable 2FA.
differentView··on Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers
It absolutely is not ridiculous on Google's part.

You're making some other point.

differentView··on Wall Street Is Giving Up On Twitter
When a tweet is reported on the TV news, people only see a screenshot. People aren't going to know if it was edited, when it was edited, or what was edited.

Many would also be pissed if after they retweet something, the original tweet changes in a meaningful way.

differentView··on Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers
Source?
differentView··on Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers
It's not ridiculous as long as there are Geographers with masters degrees willing to take those jobs.
differentView··on Uber C.E.O. To Leave Trump Advisory Council After Criticism
Why does Elon Musk get a pass but not Uber's CEO?
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