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exw

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    Comment #36412651

    > It's always curious to see someone with such strong conviction that somehow they have an insight, without access to any of the information involved in negotiating this partnershi…

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    Comment #26766845

    This comment is either neither a constructive criticism of him, nor does contribute anything substantive to the discussion. Please review the site guidelines against name calling: …

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    Comment #16725295

    This is by far the most important point in this discussion. According to this article ( https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107109_teslas-own-numb... ), Tesla's statistics are de…

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    Comment #11159657

    > That's actually exactly what we are talking about. The police's job is to enforce the law, and as technology changes, they need to adapt, the same way firearms now have serial nu…

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    Comment #11159597

    > Regardless of the merit of the case, I think it's pretty inappropriate that you are calling BillG naive. You really think that somehow you have more insight into the situation th…

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    Comment #11141403

    > Besides the legal precedents and other associated drama, I think is one of Apple's major concerns, and one of the reasons they implemented the "we don't have the keys" approach t…

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    Comment #11139168

    I think you are mixing up the law enforcement and intelligence community. These request are coming from the law enforcement side of the government, not the intelligence community. …

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    Comment #11137249

    I did not downvote you, but I think people might feel that you seem to let your personal disdain for Apple color your response regardless of the facts of the case vs. having a real…

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    Comment #11136460

    Regardless of the merit of the FBI's request and Apple's refusal, this is rather hypocritical response from the FBI, since their insistence to make the request public is what trigg…

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    Comment #11129068

    > Yes, This this is completely disingenuous... They did not only start out like this in the US, but this is the ONLY way they were able to buy their way into China. When Uber start…

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    Comment #11128479

    > I have added some additional information to the parent comment (i.e., only bricked updates via iTunes, not OTA) that further undermine the theory that this was a deliberate chang…

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    Comment #11128315

    Anybody with common sense. Do you really think that Apple, who prides themselves on having outstanding customer satisfaction, would deliberately try to brick their customers phones…

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    Comment #11114688

    No, that information was already mentioned in the second BuzzFeed article: > http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/zenefits-program-let-in...

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    Comment #11085028

    I understand your concern, but depending on what product(s) you are selling, startups (and by startups I am referring to the PG definition of startups) are actually great customers…

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    Comment #11084286

    > How did you find these buyers? Are these just auto brokers (e.g., these guys are popular in SV: http://www.hammerauto.com/ ) or is this something different?

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    Comment #11084216

    According to the article, Sacks discovered the issue in January, and then forced the company to report it to the California regulator - if you believe that sequence of events, he c…

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    Comment #11084095

    While there may or may not be a darker side to having an entire engineering team in the 25-30 age range, according to the reporter that wrote the article, this hacking came straigh…

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    Comment #11075574

    I both appreciate and agree with your point, but in this case I think the issues was that their new CEO had to assume that, given the high visibility of the company, whatever messa…

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    Comment #11075521

    > I understand your concern, but this seems to contradict reality... According to this article, only a small percentage of your followers actually see your Tweets: http://marketing…

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    Comment #11069094

    > You are quite wrong, if anything, employees appreciate openness and decisiveness, vs. sweeping changes under the rug with generic language. There is actually a ton of upside to c…

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    Comment #11063316

    We ended up going with Trinet as well after looking at them. If you look what Zenefits is really doing, they appear to be just another rent seeker - their entire goal seemed to be …

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    Comment #11063290

    > This is complete nonsense. It's not hard to become a licensed commercial insurance agent, and the rules around selling commercial insurance are very clear - you have to be licens…

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    Comment #11062957

    Looks like the WSJ article has some additional information, including this rather telling quote about the current company values, which seem rather different than the set of values…

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    Comment #11062653

    I don't know that this is even a particularly strong conspiracy theory - when Sacks joined, A LOT of people were predicting that he would be the CEO within 12-18 months. Parker alw…

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    Comment #11062630

    This is a great question, especially since it seems like he would have been in charge of the salesforce (where a lot of these issues happened). So unless he wanted to change these …