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Re:Open Salaries: Outcomes on Thursday October 27, 2016 @12:11PM (#12806351)
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't government positions paid the same across the board? Financial compensation is companies (particularly in tech) isn't standard across the board for a particular position, each employee can garner a different salary.

There's a complex social dynamic related to that feature in companies.

Re:Shame on Y Combinator on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:38PM (#12736180)
Oppression of expression of opinion is more harmful to American society than Trump is.

Firing someone for supporting Trump is oppression of expression of opinion.

This is a great example of how "progressives" are often just as bigoted as the "bigoted" conservatives they oppose.

Re:Facebook 'blocks accounts' of Palestinian journalists on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:18AM (#12582530)
What's the point of posting a 'random guess' and then writing out a conspiracy theory involving Israel and Facebook? Pure BS.
Re:Tesla Model S adaptive cruise control crashes into van on Thursday May 26, 2016 @12:05PM (#11779042)
if you have to stay aware of road conditions with a risk of serious injury/death for not doing so, what is the purpose of using an auto-pilot feature?

I suppose you could go hands free because in the event of a road hazard you might just have to brake (although coming to a stop on a highway is dangerous - the person behind you might not stop).

For me the value of an auto-pilot feature is the gain of time. One can respond to emails, read, field a call w/out risking the safety of themselves or others, etc.

" Before iTunes, I believe there simply wasn't any viable (non-illegal) alternative to get an individual song. Whereas Blendle competes with, as mentioned before, loads of other free alternatives online."

True, but these publishers can, at some point, start making their content accessible only through Blendle.

Curious loophole though - on platforms such as Pocket, one can go on Pocket's 'recommended' feed, save an NYT article straight to their own Pocket, and read the article on the Pocket platform, without every going to NYT.com (circumventing the paywall).

How is that legal? And if it remains legal, will this loophole be a major concern to Blendle and publishers?

Posted above by JeanMertz - "... in The Netherlands, there's already a collective of journalists who created a non-profit umbrella organisation to represent freelance writers, who have been onboarded into our system."

Seems like a good case study is in the making.