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While the unemployment rate may have "improved" it doesn't track people "leaving the workforce " due to giving up or running out of benefits. It was a considered a somewhat jobless recovery actually. With regards to smartphones "correlation does not imply causation." Needless to say I only read the first few paragraphs before determining this wasn't a well reasoned article.


It doesn't necessarily follow that the most profitable path will be taken by middle managers, they often have perverse incentives, real or imagined, to cut costs short term even when the company would be better off if the insured stay healthy!


well, safari, chrome, osx, iphone, iPad, amazon, android, appletv, and a large number of routers and car systems all use gpl under that license singly. the fact that it's mostly due to linux and khtml seem unimportant when you say so much gpl is dual licensed ( all of those contain software that is gpl only) but, yes, dual licensing is popular too, ie the immense popularity of qt


Eh, what? Safari and Chrome are not GPL - they're Apple / Google freeware built on BSD and LGPL. OSX is proprietary based on BSD. Android is notable for refusing to include GPL components other than Linux. Not sure what you're trying to say here.


While working at a pharmaceutical co I was backing up a drive onto the os drive of our local pc for general it support / utilities when I got a call from the user. She forgot to tell me she was on legal hold. I stopped the backup, went through the e-discovery process on her drive, rebuilt the pc and did e-discovery on our pc as well, because it was now also covered by her legal hold. You don't want to involve yourself in a case by ignoring those discovery laws, they are very serious about enforcement in court.


Dan Rather, one of the last anchors doing his own reporting, got fired after reporting a bogus GWB story. A staffer was somewhat responsible for airing it, but that was the price of letting the staffer vet the story. I could probably think of some others that did make the news, but overall you're right. Typically The misinformation is front page and the retraction is weeks later, if at al, and as far from prominent as they can make it.


robin hood didn't steal from tax collectors only, and it's an interesting but unsupported claim that the ultimate accumulators of the wealth in his day stole less than the perpetrators of pyramid schemes, pump and dump stock schemes, or their opposite ; devaluation of a valuable stock before the release of say a new iphone -- ie jim Kramer. I'll axmit that while I am not aware of groups considering tax-the-rich politicians as "robin hood" types it's believeable, not necessarily a straw man argument. robinhood brokd the law to do something people liked, the Arthurian legends were similar in not promoting an obvious moral purity in their tales, but i think robinhood would have been just fine stealing from comcast and the linked article seems to imply something different, and is also comically absurd in its claims


I use ff on my galaxy s5 and the ui isn't noticibly slow, but I'm on lineageos (cyanogen) and keep apps from running when not needed so ymmv


come on , this isn't complicated, don't over think it-- a woman (or man) meets someone and sends a nude; regrets the next morning; fb im the image to themselves and flags it their partner uploads it, a fb employee sees a nude that matched a hash, the only reason they see it is the hash matched, you're trusting fb not to do anything but hash the image and if your partner alters it maybe the hash doesn't match, but typically the upload is the same and when it's clear it's revenge porn the account is banned-- it'll probably catch a boatload of bags of dicks if people trust fb, but maybe they shouldn't


can we set experiments.enabled to false? if so that's a severe difference, albeit a questionable default, there should be a popup on install, or at least a message on install


Your use of 'free' here is correct from the perspective of a developer working for intel, but as a user with a cpu running modified and previously opensource, but now closedsource, software it isn't applicable to me. GPL would have protected more of my freedom, provided they didn't just violate the GPL.


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