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by ForrestN 8y ago
To a great extent our broken healthcare crisis is largely kept as it is by other billionaires, like the Koch’s for example.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
The concept of “personhood” for corporations has really done a number in the collective consciousness.
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We're talking about politics, and I'm saying that Stripe should be ashamed of themselves. That's an inherently subjective and political claim. If you want to structure society and government according to empirics, well, good
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by ForrestN 8y ago
In common English, rather than mathematics, proportionate merely implies that these things are related in size or amount. There is no implication of a fixed ratio. Replace "proportionate" with "appropriately related" if
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by ForrestN 8y ago
I may not have expressed my position clearly. Because most costs of living are fixed and not proportionate to income, taking 20% of the income of a poor person will have a disproportionate affect on them, as opposed to someone with a very h
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by ForrestN 8y ago
No—but we should probably do what we can to make each person and company's tax burden proportionate to their size and income. And we probably shouldn't frame efforts to do so as "taking money from the rich" as if wealthy
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by ForrestN 8y ago
I think the question is whether or not "the rich" are part of "we" or not. Businesses are built using public infrastructure and in some cases (like Twitter) direct, massively valuable government subsidy. In my opinion, &
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Source? I found an article from 2012 saying that he donated a measly $10,000 before Ryan was fully revealed to most as the craven monster we know him as today. Not saying you're wrong, just curious to know exact details.
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'Benioff also criticized Stripe, a payment platform and another major San Francisco tech firm opposing Prop C. The company claimed the measure lacked a “comprehensive plan” for spending in a recent op-ed and has also given more than $4
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by ForrestN 8y ago
California has been especially committed to challenging some of the administration's various injustices. Trump has made California one of his symbolic, non-white boogeymen in order to manipulate his "base." https:/&#x2F
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Your argument is fundamentally unconvincing because you're using unsubstantiated, subjective claims that anyone can disagree with and thereby nullify. While you say that Jobs curbed "bad" decisions, and that now the company i
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by ForrestN 8y ago
To answer your question without expressing an opinion myself: the people protesting Google's decision would probably cite the company's longstanding "Don't Be Evil" marketing, and the good publicity the company has
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Basecamp. The level of care that goes into how it feels to use the product is extraordinary and has made my life much better.
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I don’t think anti-monopoly laws were intended to prevent the physical enslavement of customers who are begging to stop using a certain project but are forced to continue. It’s common sense. Sometimes profit-seeking companies amass an amoun
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by ForrestN 8y ago
I’m not saying it is likely, but you really can’t see a path? A company that clearly aspires to control the communications system that global society increasingly relies on for everything, that spends massive amounts to influence government
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Disclaimer: I come more from the contemporary art world even than from the tech world. (Much of my job is looking at thousands of art exhibitions from around the world each month. My little non-profit publishes the ones we think are most im
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Why pretend to be making a disinterested comment about how "kind and courteous" employees are (which is totally irrelevant) when you're actually motivated by sympathy to the company on the basis of their regressive, hate-fuel
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by ForrestN 8y ago
This is absurd. There is no scientific controversy regarding natural selection—there are only religious communities who willfully ignore the scientific method because it contradicts their foregone conclusions.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
My marriage is just as valid as anyone else’s. And it’s incredily offensive to suggest that my marriage is somehow an attack on marriage itself. Your view is bigotry in an old, familiar form, and can only be defended based on religion, whic
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by ForrestN 8y ago
That's irrelevant. Their work generates profits which are used to actively undermine my civil rights.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
https://thinkprogress.org/sorry-marco-rubio-chick-fil-still-...
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by ForrestN 8y ago
It's painful to scroll to the bottom and see all the suppressed comments about Chic-Fil-A's ethics. Hackers are powerful. Don't give yourselves over to people who would harm your society. If you make a business like this more
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by ForrestN 8y ago
This whole post and thread are an effort to recruit engineers and accumulate good will within the HN community. Pointing out that the company is rotten is extremely important, as is anything else that can undermine the project of manipulati
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Sorry to interrupt the eager participation in this engineer recruiting effort (wow, iPads, cool!) Don't forget that the people who run Chic-Fil-A support a toxic version of Christianity that, among other things, holds that God himself
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by ForrestN 8y ago
As much as I wish for incremental reform of prison conditions for prisoners, it's important never to forget the fundamentally unethical premise of prisons and state punishment, which derives from religious fantasies about good and evil
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The key is in your last sentence—you're extrapolating outward from "once interacted," but I think if you actually spoke to people who work in these restaurants, you'd learn that, in fact, the situation is "constantl
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Apologies for confusing you with the other person. I don't know if reading between the lines is the same as changing the story—maybe it's "cultural" but I would never push a server about a food preference to such a stron
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Have you had much experience working in food service? The iteration happens incredibly quickly. Any kind of cultural factor (like, say, a predisposition to underestimate the tolerances of white people) will quickly be erased by dozens and d
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I think you're looking at this from the wrong direction. Instead of starting from "what is my ideal experience, and why are people failing to deliver that to me," try thinking "what does the existing equilibrium have to
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Did you pause to think about why you were asked that series of questions so often? Your experience suggests that the case of a guest overestimating their own tolerance is vastly more common than the case of the restaurant underestimating

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