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throwaway_law

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    Comment #21474949

    The pension are presumably insured to cover their negligence and liabilities...including failure to properly notice employers/members of the fund in breach of their duty to do so, …

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    Comment #21474927

    >If the pension didn't do their duty to warn businesses of the deficit in 2005, it should be on their heads to fund the deficit The irony is the Pension claimed they couldn't notic…

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    Comment #21474675

    a Job isn't the only benefit of an education...an education is a benefit in and of itself. Society benefits from having an educated public. Society does not benefit from being in d…

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    Comment #21474631

    >Even if you forgive all of the student loans and make college free, people still won't find jobs based on college. Having educated unemployed people is bad yes, but its an infinit…

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    Comment #21474232

    I know its unfair and maybe even disparaging, especially my suggestion they would seed their own thing with bots...but the reality is the social network/SV startup well has been po…

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    Comment #21474086

    >They're selling people a solution to loneliness. I'll one up you, they are selling hope. Odds are this will be seeded with a bunch of bots, and these lonely people may or maynot g…

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    Comment #21473791

    >OK, so when the reporter specifically asks him if he'd drink the water in front of him, what's his least bad option? Probably to laugh and say instead of "trying the water" he wil…

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    Comment #21465697

    >If your best answer is "We are adding diversity to the marketplace", then you're probably doomed. If you aren't better in some way (faster, cheaper, better tech, etc...) We have s…

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    Comment #21463897

    >still the largest and most successful company to come out of SF this decade. That's a lot less reflective of UBER and more reflective of the type of startups SV is trying to take …

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    Comment #21462725

    >This makes them _de facto_ nondischargable. I have gotten student loans ($100k+) discharged for clients. My experience is most people who say student loans are not dischargable ha…

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    Comment #21462668

    Yes, that is the big tech talking point. However, the reality is big tech needs customer data, customer data does not need big tech.

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    Comment #21462650

    Generating wealth from employees, has nothing to do with generating wealth from customer data. If what is of value is customer data, customers can and should own and control the en…

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    Comment #21457479

    Although a tangent, its impossible to read this and not ask: Why aren't all the big tech companies generating revenue from customer data...customer owned?

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    Comment #21456114

    >In classical education if you don't get a high paying job it's your problem not the university's because they've already been paid. I don't think that "classical education", in cl…

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    Comment #21456059

    >I'm more interested in whether the broad coalition in congress exists Seeing as no "mainstream" political party candidate is running on this platform, I think the answer is no. Of…

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    Comment #21455020

    I don't want to make it about politics or a politician, but you can search for their campaign platform proposal for additional details. As far as I know there is only one candidate…

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    Comment #21454956

    >Just realize going in what's actually possible and what's political marketing. Fixing this is going to take a lot more work on everyone's part than simply casting a vote. You're n…

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    Comment #21454542

    >I don't disagree with you, but I'll note that the non-dischargeable terms of medical and student loan debt in the USA essentially do that already As a preliminary matter this is f…

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    Comment #21454503

    It used to be society wanted people to have an education and that people with degrees would get higher paying jobs which resulted in a net benefit to society through higher taxes. …

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    Comment #21453341

    The Green Bay Packers are a not for profit...its the only team not privately owned by billionaires.

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    Comment #21446823

    Yes the human microbiome consists of fungus in addition to bacteria, protozoa and viruses.

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    Comment #21445162

    >A PR person hired to promote ULA promoting ULA on reddit under 10 different pseudonyms: Completely unacceptable, this should probably be made outright illegal. The only purpose of…

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    Comment #21423658

    >Children growing up in this sort of environment will come to expect it from their government. Public school systems and employees are the government.

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    Comment #21421727

    >Right, and by requiring a warrant to dig though my shit, at least there's one person with legal training who's ostensibly concerned about my constitutionally protected rights invo…

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    Comment #21420045

    Sorry to hear all this, but glad it seems to be improving now. I had a similar issue (and like you I was engaged in serious endurance training). I would also go to sleep early, wak…