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    Seattle Considers Allowing Uber And Lyft Drivers To Unionize

    If Uber was still the same price as a taxi I would defer to Uber. Better cars, nicer drivers, overall improved experience. The fact that it is cheaper? That just makes it a no brainer. Legislation / Unionization should increase prices. Ideally it would distribute the wealth (yeah, I said it)...
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    States Pass Laws Backing Uber's View Of Drivers As Contractors

    Employees fill out a W4 to receive a W2 at the end of the year. Service jobs are a-ok. It is a great avenue for more extroverted people to work in. Not everybody wants to be a programmer or mechanic.
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    States Pass Laws Backing Uber's View Of Drivers As Contractors

    Thanks to a vague rating system , Uber has full control over their drivers. This is not by mistake either. Drivers are way closer to W2 than employees with the level of control Uber exerts over it's drivers. Have you driven for or read about the experiences these drivers have? They have no...
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    Jack of all servers

    Hosting e-mail is mostly a privacy concern at the cost of performance and reliability. With these routing methods will I lose some of the privacy I seek to gain?
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    Four NSA Reform Initiatives Outlined

    Im mobile right now, thanks for saving the typing.
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    Jack of all servers

    Working to build a server for Owncloud (CalDAV too) Host my own e-mail Minecraft Web server for a few simple web pages. is this going to be too hard or just a matter of routing all the ports around each other building in Ubuntu any experience with this?
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    Chromecast Getting Hulu, HBO Go Support

    Does google track/collaborate your viewing on Chromecast? If not it seems like the end of Roku as we know it.
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    Samsung Ban on Apple iPhones, iPads Vetoed

    The law distortion field strikes again.
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    GameStop Exploiting Devs And Consumers

    Easy, start your own used game store. Good luck.
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    Microsoft Claims Constitutional Right to Reveal Data

    Sounds like damage control for Public Relations.
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    Microsoft Responds To NSA Data Sharing Allegations

    Microsoft is a lying sack of shit.
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    Thinking about buying myself a Mac with retina...

    My experience has been that Apple will release a 2nd gen Haswell MBP roughly 6 months after releasing the first. If you can holdout for that one, it is usually the best. I bought within the first two months of my 2011 MBP and I was burned on the SATA ports. One is Sata 2 the second is sata 3...
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    Facebook CEO Repeats PRISM Denial

    Mark, what about indirect? Define Direct and indirect for us.
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    30 Day Update on my Temps after Lapping 2011 MBP Heatsink

    I'm assuming this voids Applecare?
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