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thorough

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    Comment #27356114

    Every so often in the US you’ll hear of people with neuroses that stem from the Great Depression (quite frequently, with hoarding among the elderly population). I think COVID will …

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    Comment #27001734

    You are leaving something out that seems quite relevant to me, which is that the list wasn’t just objected to as unprofessional but that the conversation was escalated to the highe…

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    Comment #27001719

    DHH says the trouble didn’t come from objecting to the list. In fact, he’s disavowed it repeatedly. He said the trouble was that the employee said that the list was not merely unpr…

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    Comment #25421817

    So this "good faith" requirement seems like a huge gaping loophole, just a wonderfully easy way to dismiss and even censor a ton of people you merely disagree with. Whether or not …

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    Comment #25421045

    Yeah, I've definitely grasped their argument, which became clear once they clarified that "allowing people to make up their minds" doesn't mean "allowing content the owners disagre…

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    Comment #25394815

    Right. The actor matters a huge amount. We all agree on that. But if you run a forum and say you will not allow any view to be expressed therein that you don't agree with, you aren…

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    Comment #25394705

    I think the conversation is just a little more sophisticated than you imagine it to be. And you can be generally in favor of free speech (!= the First Amendment) without accepting …

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    Comment #25394299

    How would you suggest a company like YT can "allow people to make up their own minds" about an issue if they do not "provide a platform for views" of that issue that they "don't sh…

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    Comment #25387465

    I think if you’ve decided that there is something wrong with the employer/employee relationship where hundreds spend their professional life working at someone else’s company, push…

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    Comment #25338691

    Hmm... the Bay Area in my experience is one of the less walkable parts of the United States I’ve visited.

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    Comment #25313101

    I sincerely think that your CEOs of large companies are much less powerful than one would naturally think. They have money and power, but much of it is based on a group of people s…

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    Comment #25304529

    I’m working at my job doing just fine. My employer is pretty happy and so am I. Then a new guy comes along and says, “I can do thorough’s job better than he can.” My boss hires him…

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    Comment #25304349

    Hypothetical question: I have little money but I write an amazing book and it sells to millions. Each books takes, say, $5 to print, and yet I sell it for $15. Therefore I end up w…

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    Comment #25297544

    I think the article states and it has been repeated several times in the comments here that the author already did so and that a lawyer is now required because the offender dispute…

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    Comment #25292877

    All right, you've stated that you think that having to remedy such an obvious abuse by hiring a lawyer is not a problem. But the question is, why don't you think it's a problem?

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    Comment #25292811

    If you were "looking for a sensational headline" and GitHub intentionally took your copyrighted code and was running it, wouldn't you come up with a more direct statement than "Git…

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    Comment #25292517

    If someone posted copyright information in say, the forum area of your personal website, and someone from the website containing that information emails you about it, you might act…

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    Comment #25292290

    How is the title misleading? It's "My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub has My Stolen Code." If a website, even one like GitHub that posts others' submissions, had s…

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    Comment #25072841

    As the article progresses, the more and more apparent it becomes how full of himself the author is. In an article that is ostensibly designed to honor his aging father, the author …