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by facetube 8y ago
Gandi
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by facetube 8y ago
Then find a way to do it that's legal. The scheme described in the article is illegal, and illegal activity is the most short-sighted way possible to economic growth. The area is prima facie not blighted as described by Wisconsin statu
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by facetube 8y ago
It's not automated, it's because the article specifically details how a type of blight designation is being misused as an attempted end-run around a state law that specifically prohibits use of eminent domain for this purpose. The
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by facetube 8y ago
Is filling Foxconn's temp worker quota a US government project now?
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by facetube 8y ago
Who will be held accountable if the predicted return on investment is not seen?
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by facetube 8y ago
This is all very easy when it's "them". An HN user looks from afar and decide what's better for those rural folk. Those undeveloped types. The basket. The reality: the government is attempting to take these peoples'
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by facetube 9y ago
Sounds more like an antitrust issue than a censorship issue to me. My local grocery store doesn't carry Daily Stormer magazine, but I doubt that'd be cast as "corporate censorship" by anyone.
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by facetube 9y ago
How to jump the shark on Hacker News: compare a private US corporation who has ample competition to communist China, where people are literally imprisoned for posting "politically-unacceptable ideas".
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by facetube 9y ago
Twitter is under no obligation to distribute your content for you for free.
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by facetube 9y ago
Yes: self-employment tax.
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by facetube 9y ago
Black Mirror already did it, with a bonus extortion angle. It was called "Shut Up And Dance".
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by facetube 9y ago
I tried to warn you. We all tried to warn you.
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by facetube 9y ago
They flat-out have evidence of offers of bribery in exchange for fake news site takedowns – right now, along with the Senate intelligence committee – and have failed to act. They're knowingly turning a bling eye to criminal activity be
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by facetube 10y ago
Absolutely. Paypal attempted to direct the funds to the United Way, a high-overhead charity that they had an existing relationship with. [1] 1: http://www.somethingawful.com/news/paypal-fiasco-summary/
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by facetube 10y ago
> Average is different than the median. I'd love to see some public works and upper-bracket tax increases aimed at bringing that median closer to the average. I just don't want the incompetence, nuclear saber-rattling, risk, an
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by facetube 10y ago
Their view point and reality are incompatible. For instance, Breitbart repeatedly claimed that the airport protests were "terrorist-funded" by CAIR. There is no factual evidence that the airport travel ban protests were funded by
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by facetube 10y ago
I grew up there. It's relatively easy for me to understand why Hillary Clinton didn't get elected, and why there's disappointment in Obama: while we're still incredibly well-off in a global sense, the post-Bush 2009-2010
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by facetube 10y ago
One way it's different: Donald Trump has openly discussed a desire to deploy nuclear weapons. He has repeatedly wondered why we make them "if we can't use them", aloud, to the press. The pattern is the same (war-mongerin
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by facetube 10y ago
Yes. And middleman capitalism, as always, is right there to skim some money off the top: https://www.gofundme.com/medical-fundraising .
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by facetube 10y ago
There is no American carnage. That's the problem. We are, on average, the safest and securest we've ever been. Issuing travel bans fails to recognize economic interdependence, thereby drawing us into conflict. Putting Iran "o
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by facetube 10y ago
Unfortunately, a objective retrospective comparison of the most recent two nuclear-weapons-controlling administrations isn't possible; we're fully aboard the train. We're forced to predict based upon the words and vision the
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by facetube 10y ago
Whataboutism at its finest. These guys will go full nuclear.
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by facetube 10y ago
I agree, that headline is sensational. What the pope actually said was little more than a restatement of Matthew 7. I'd argue, however, that the potential impact of a sensational headline like this – i.e. the foreseeable consequences o
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by facetube 10y ago
Which one of those runs stories that argue against observed scientific fact? Which one of those repeatedly stokes religious intolerance and anti-immigrant sentiments, to the detriment of a nation built on immigration and tolerance? There is
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by facetube 10y ago
There is no comprehensible moral equivalence between outfits like Breitbart News (N.B. Steve Bannon is on the board of Cambridge Analytica) and the Obama campaign. What people use their tools for matters.
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by facetube 10y ago
Steve Bannon (the Breitbart News figurehead) is on Cambridge Analytica's board. Yes, that Steve Bannon, chief strategist for President Trump: a guy who – completely coincidentally – has already started his campaign for 2020. Big data,
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by facetube 10y ago
Recall: this is a populist campaign that sustained itself on a "deplorable" sad frog meme. Symbolism in politics is not irrelevant, especially when the symbols belong to groups that consider themselves to be marginalized (N.B. man
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by facetube 10y ago
I was recently detained and made to miss my flight during preclearance (I arrived three hours early). They joked about me not making my flight, and locked me in a room with no one present and no explanation (under threat of strip search, or
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by facetube 10y ago
How about showing the country of record from WHOIS? Most of the severe offenders I saw in 2016 were e.g. Washington Post knockoffs using a Panama "WHOIS guard" mailing address, or sites that were literally registered to a street a
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by facetube 10y ago
Nobody accused him of white supremacy. The accusation is that he used symbols of white supremacisy to rouse and inflame a base of real white supremacists into action (presumably in a way that supports trump). It's a cynical enemy-of-my

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