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>> who enabled HR

please tell me this is a joke right? you can't possibly be asking that question seriously..

dunno where this is coming from...my kids both went and got jobs immediately after getting thier DL's on thier own. And they both have/had heavy academic and extracurricular scheds.

they just wanted to make their own dough. both already have retirement accounts running too...even the 16 year-old...we had bank accounts for them starting in 6th grade and forced them to balance, etc...

get 'em going early then they get on autopilot. gotta get the good feedback loop going asap...

that's because you can't short the issue in the private secondary markets. if this was in the public markets, the hit would be significantly higher, and the short-squeeze would be happening.

scaling (x) at (x)....snore......

ahhh yes, down-voted due to what, the pain of a reality check? interesting...

we've already been de-seleceted. now it's just a matter of time....

golf clap....

lol.... i believe the proper phrase here is "chickens coming home to roost"

geeeez, how long is Cali going to foist Feinstein on the rest of the country. The level of idiocy is just beyond painful...

Edit to add: of course the same could be said about the remaining 49 states and their reps/sens as well...

Totally unsurprising. I mean, people don't actually think FB is a positive force in the world do they?

The science is clear on human's capacity for meaningful/real realtionships (it's a pretty small number), the anecdotal evidence is also fairly clear on FB's real contributions to society (it's not positive).

FB really is the poster child for just how willing we are as a species to roll around in our own feces. It's most definetly a sad commentary on where we are at in general as a society and the contribution it made to the last electoral shitshow is just icing on the cake.

Hell, it's also sigularly unsurprising that Zuck is headed to politics, in fact that morass of crap is just about a perfect fit for him.

would be really interrsting to do a deep dive on Pai's personal finances. He's not even trying to hide how much he's in the bag for the telecom/ISPs.

+ 100000000000

With traffic fatalities back up at levels not seen in something like a decade due to inattentive drivers, the last thing we need is more speed.

What we need is autonomous vehicles, because the sad truth is that a very large portion of the driving population should never have been issued a license in the first place.

Don't even get me started on the 85th percentile thing. That is a poster child for lazy engineering and government.

in response to your first question, yes of course. it's thier job.

w.r.t. your second question, this is where things start to get grippy. see my response to another question referencing "realpolitik". in this context, then whether or not they should becomes a secondary consideration at the policy level.

Which European state do you live in? Because, UK, France and Germany are knee deep in this as participants. Hell, France has the most invasive internal surveillance of any country at last check.

I continue to find it odd that folks in the EU have some reality distortion mechanism when it comes to what's going on in thier home countires..and yes it's not all that are wired into the 5-Eye's thing, but its most.

+1

edit to add:

I re-read this piece by Scneier every now and then....

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surv...

NSA's charter is explicit in it's scope, that much is obvious and clear. If you are a US citizen sending money abroad via SWIFT, well then you place yourself into that purview, that's just a thing.

The definition of an "ally" is a curious thing. I prefer to think of the ME as more of a realpolitik scenario. The countries you name lack any real connection to the US beyond the realpolitik at the end of the day.

so two things:

1) yes of course I know about HN demographics

2) you should care about that distinciton because this is true for any nation/state.

until such time as we evolve dramtically as a species these types of organizations have a place. it's distasteful perhaps, but a necessary thing.

getting emotional about it impedes a rational consideration.

the best thing that could happen for us as a culture and really as a species, is for FB to disappear off the planet. does little beyond lowering IQ's of broader society.

As a US citizen, and given how things like 9/11 were funded, this is exactly what I want NSA to be doing. This is thier job.

What I don't want them doing is hoovering up internal comms traffic without a warrant and passing it to people like DEA. That is exactly not thier job.

Frankly, it's a bit bizarre to me that US citizens don't understand how to draw the distinction between those two sceanrios...

i'm shocked....shocked to find out there's gambling going on in here...

this seems ilke a re-hash of Schneier's piece from 2013...

http://us.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surve...

this is where we find out how badly the SEC f-ed up in allowing these markets to exists...

sigh....sure there's a "10%" on the bike side. but the scale of that "10%" is infinitesimally small in comparison to the level of incompetence in motor vehicles, and moreover a bike isn't an (n) thousand pound kinetic energy weapon.

this is a tired argument that lacks any basis in fact. what is supported by fact is that we annually kill tens of thousands of people each year in this country (USA) as a result of driver incompetence, i.e. distracted, drunk, etc, etc.......

if you spend any real amount of time on a bike interacting with traffic you quickly come to realize that 99.5% of the humans behind the wheel shouldn't be driving, so it's hard to see where there would be any noticeable difference in quality of operations between human and autonomous.......

bought one of the new session cameras to put on the bike for rear-view capture of douchebag drivers. it flat out did not work. tried several approved microsd cards, etc, etc..

big disappointment as I really need a decent solution that will run for many hours at a time...

not trying to be snarky, but you do understand who posted the response above(i.e. mitchellh) right??

i cannot give this enough up-votes.

if a tree falls in the forest.....

as someone who lived through/participated in phase one of the "ticket disruption" to include secondary markets, i'm skeptical this is relevant and really i think the vc dudes just flushed a bunch of money down the toilet. TM owns this market and frankly, the issue has nothing to do with tech, and everything to do with the way professional sports and concert marketing works from a biz perspective. then there's the whole regulatory issue.

wish them good luck, but this is one of those domains that just sucks...