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neuralFatigueon Announcing unlimited free private repos

Is `git clone <private repo SSH url>` for private repos broken for anyone else ?

neuralFatigueon How Does MoviePass Make Money?

They also now take cuts from ticket prices and upto a 20% cut from concessions.

More information here: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/26/moviepass-pulls-out-of-amc...

The article makes it sound like Moviepass now has more leverage than the theatres themselves, which is super interesting.

neuralFatigueon Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks

Well no one is forced used SV services, people are free not to use them. Also my point was not from a consumer standpoint but more from an employee/media standpoint.

neuralFatigueon Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks

I don't disagree with there being a liberal bias in SV companies, I think that's pretty damn obvious.

I'm curious though why such observations are made for SV only, why don't publicly social conservative organizations e.g Hobby Lobby, Chic-fil-a etc get asked similar questions? It would be safe to assume that things like same sex marriage, contraception would be considered out of bounds there.

Is it just because of the size/reach of the tech industry ?

neuralFatigueon Save Net Neutrality

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15610744/anti-net-neutral...

neuralFatigueon Save Net Neutrality

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=17-...

Bots flooding the FCC comment section with the same text, different addresses. e.g all 'Brittany' posts

neuralFatigueon Root – Programmable bank account for software developers

I wonder if they'll get a C & D over 'Erlich Bachman' .

neuralFatigueon Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation

Robinhood is SPIC insured upto $250,000. So you can get upto 250,000 worth of securities value back if company goes under. Scroll down on the link https://www.robinhood.com/

neuralFatigueon Corporate Monopoly in America

Slightly tangential but, to your point about UAE airlines this is a good read to clear up some stuff coming from US airlines: Link: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2017/03/22/campaign-a...

I'll admit there is no perfect solution to issues like these. We mostly don't want government to pick winners or losers, but being completely free market based and no monopoly protections is great for companies since it is a race to the bottom line and they get to go to town on consumers with an array of fees in the airline context. I don't think preventing consolidation however results in any of those things that you mentioned, airlines are free to do what they want and what the market will let them. I'd recommend reading that article since I feel like we are not on the same page when we talk about 'playing by the rules' airlines. +1 on infra investment though.

neuralFatigueon Corporate Monopoly in America

While that might be true for some organizations, it is not 'the' issue. Most mergers and consolidations that have the potential to be most damaging aren't necessarily global businesses. e.g ISP's consolidating, Health Insurance companies in the US.

And I'd argue even companies that have a global presence, example US airlines, might benefit from consolidation but it does harm their local market, in this case US domestic travellers since they inevitably end up paying more due to a lack of choice.

neuralFatigueon People Are Paying to Work in Bars and Restaurants

At $95 per month, it actually works out to be cheaper to just get this for coffee alone,rather than spending money at Starbucks. Assuming of course one buys coffee everyday. Cool idea though, helps entrepreneurs and local establishments.

neuralFatigueon Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/03/ford-tops-the-list-of-auto...

neuralFatigueon Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tracking data

I think Google removed it from the Chrome Web Store recently. Bummer.