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I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money

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Re: I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

MaxBarraclough wrote: post #110
moviuro wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

private browsing with no cookies allowed = same issue :( The "web" is so much broken with cookies disabled... (techcrunch, any 'large' news site - except the Guardian!)

Sure, but I feel you're ignoring my point. Enable cookies and use a private browsing session. The cookies disappear when you're done reading. What's lost?

Users working around major internet sites who can't be bothered to comply with EU law, what's lost is convenience and Rule of Law. Sure I can put ear plugs in when every $carBrand goes past, but what's better is making cars with proper exhaust baffles.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

Fradow wrote: post #46
zeta0134 wrote: post #43

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Since the data collection management would traditionally be stored as a cookie... It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Without tracking, how do you track that consent was revoked? The cookie law bugs me because it's feels like it's being applied in completely the wrong place. Isn't the browser perfectly capable of restricting third party cookies and presenting the necessary legal warnings?

The cookie law has exemptions for cookies that are there for technical reasons. For example, your locale, and which cookies you agreed to. The browser cannot differentiate first party cookies that are technical or for tracking.

Maybe we need done standardised cookies for chosen locale, and such.

Re: I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money

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Post by wafflesraccoon »

rorykoehler wrote: post #79
carlmr wrote: post #77

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This is one of things I always wonder about. Libertarians and other free-market enthusiasts should actually be for collective bargaining and unions. Because in an actual free market it's legal to form unions, just like it's legal to form a corporation. Collective bargaining is a feature of a free market. If you don't like the idea of unions and collective bargaining, you don't like free markets.

Actual libertarians rather than the confused type so popular in the US are all for it. Look at anarcho-syndacilists for example

Gatekeeping who is and isn't an "Actual libertarian"

Re: I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money

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Post by petecooper »

hyperpape wrote: post #124

I can't find the story, but several years ago, an NBA player bought a bunch of fast food franchises, and there was collective head-scratching about why he'd do that. Matthew Yglesias pointed out that it was brilliant: the value of the franchises was that they were illiquid, so that he had a backstop against overspending or family members asking for money. About that last point: for those of us who come from middle cl…

Junior Bridgeman, most likely:

https://www.themaven.net/blackwealthchannel/investing/how-a-...

Re: I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money

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Post by ambicapter »

> It is easy to become enmeshed in clients’ lives. I had one client who was young and impressionable and became very successful very quickly, and he was getting pulled in different directions by the people around him. He and I clicked and became very close. He bought a house and was away a lot, so I was at his house every single day, helping to oversee contractors, pick out windows, pick out drapes. I was a big part of his life. He died suddenly, and it crushed me. I felt like I had failed him, or could have done more.

Pure speculation, but Anton Yelchin?

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Post by dljsjr »

ambicapter wrote: post #136

> It is easy to become enmeshed in clients’ lives. I had one client who was young and impressionable and became very successful very quickly, and he was getting pulled in different directions by the people around him. He and I clicked and became very close. He bought a house and was away a lot, so I was at his house every single day, helping to oversee contractors, pick out windows, pick out drapes. I was a big part…

Contextually I wouldn't think so, his death was an accident caused by what ended up being deemed really poor design of the shift interface of his vehicle; the guilt implication from the author sounds more like maybe drugs or falling in with the wrong crowd or something.

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Post by charlieflowers »

knuththetruth wrote: post #100
weeksie wrote: post #91

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I can assure you that the majority of SAG actors are working service jobs, living hand to mouth. This isn't an example of the rich lording over the plebs, this is an example of a union doing right by its members.

Yeah. All tech workers could have similar benefits if they unionized en masse using a structure similar to that of actors.

Ok, let's do it. healthcare premiums and coverage suck. i actually started googling how to join SAG.

Re: I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money

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Post by hyperpape »

petecooper wrote: post #134
hyperpape wrote: post #124

I can't find the story, but several years ago, an NBA player bought a bunch of fast food franchises, and there was collective head-scratching about why he'd do that. Matthew Yglesias pointed out that it was brilliant: the value of the franchises was that they were illiquid, so that he had a backstop against overspending or family members asking for money. About that last point: for those of us who come from middle cl…

Junior Bridgeman, most likely: https://www.themaven.net/blackwealthchannel/investing/how-a-...

I found it. It was Caron Butler. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/01/30/why_burger_ki...

Bridgeman's story is really impressive, but is the opposite of the one Yglesias was proposing about Butler.

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