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by hcg 8y ago
How is that disingenuous? Amazon is as aggressively anti-union as any company out there. This is exactly in line with the platform she was elected on and the things she is saying are exactly what the people in her district voted for. The NL
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by hcg 8y ago
Amazon doesn't give out jobs out of the goodness of their heart. Every person they employ they do so with the goal of making more than it costs to employ that person. So why should they get so much as 1 cent to help with that? It'
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by hcg 8y ago
As a taxpayer I would prefer we didn't give any for profit business so much as a nickel. Part of what's so ridiculous about all this is if you picked 2 places for Amazon to go then NYC and DC would be right near the top. They want
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by hcg 8y ago
A yes, it's the NIMBY's. Got nothing to do with billion dollar giveaways to trillion dollar corporations. Amazon is just such a benevolent force that they deserve, and Jeff is a philanthropist now. Got nothing to do with the corpo
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by hcg 8y ago
> So marketing to law enforcement is unethical? Yes. The police state is unethical and doing anything to further it is unethical.
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by hcg 8y ago
> We really need center of the aisle, common sense to be popular again in this country Okay, so left of the democrats. I'd be fine with that. I don't think you know what intersectionality is. Not giving law enforcement broad su
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by hcg 8y ago
ICE is as good an example of the police state as anything else.
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by hcg 8y ago
First off, I disagree. Any scientist should be aware of what they are building. Second, they actively market to law enforcement.
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by hcg 8y ago
Well now that's the real problem, they don't. They will face no real consequences for this. In fact they will probably fight hard to ensure they can keep making money, no matter the problems, right up until the day their own math
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by hcg 8y ago
> He added that he thought it was the government’s responsibility to help specify regulations around the technology. That's true but it doesn't absolve them of responsibility. They are choosing their actions willingly, and with
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by hcg 8y ago
If the airbags have a problem which causes them to hurt shrapnel into peoples faces you can't fix that with a software update. and why is being able to push updates to heavy machinery that we routinely have moving at speeds of 60+ MPH
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by hcg 8y ago
I was hoping this would be much a critique of the tendency of people to place too much faith in technology, to ignore the human element of solutions, and (among SV types especially) to prize their own goals above all else. To try and come u
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by hcg 8y ago
They should really just have anyone who asks if they can control the car using an app tossed out.
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by hcg 8y ago
> Tesla turned the car into a software problem No, they convinced fanboys that they turned it into a software problem. The reality is they are no different than any other auto manufacturer. Being in Silicon Valley doesn't change tha
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by hcg 8y ago
New York is also really bad about registering people. It's absolutely about a failure to install proper checks on entrenched power.
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by hcg 8y ago
Except the US was founded on the idea of a limited franchise.
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by hcg 8y ago
But you should right?
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by hcg 8y ago
A republic which partially uses representative democracy, but mostly exists to ensure power to the landowning minority. Nowadays it's not about land of course, but it still exists to serve the wants of the powerful and only the powerfu
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by hcg 8y ago
Forcing people ot wait hours for voting is a tactic used to discourage voters and more effectively disenfranchise groups you don't want voting. White majority area has 15 minute lines, black majority has 2 hours.
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by hcg 8y ago
> my state had early voting for weeks so there really isn't a "voting day" issue here. (Georgia). Except for the massive campaigns to disenfranchise voters. Which you didn't bother to mention as a problem. You did m
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by hcg 8y ago
If any sort of monitors were looking at this election it wouldn't be considered legitimate. Brian Kemp should be in jail for his actions. Actually he never should have been in a position to take these actions. Instead he's going t
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by hcg 8y ago
No part of the US federal government is representative at this point. The Senate isn't by design, the house isn't because it's been capped, the presidency isn't by design.
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by hcg 8y ago
Because a democracy and a republic are not mutually exclusive, unless you are talking about direct democracy specifically. China is a republic but not a democracy. Canada is a democracy and not a republic.
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by hcg 8y ago
> specifically tried to create a democratic republic restrained by a written set of rules protecting citizens from arbitrary exercise of power by a majority to avoid some of the worst They tried to create one with no power for anyone but
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by hcg 8y ago
Look at what those militias have actually been used for.
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by hcg 8y ago
I swear every time I read things written by people at Google my opinion of the company drops. Mostly I just can't picture people from companies like Amazon or MS posting such stuff.
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by hcg 8y ago
They are criticizing through collective action. That is a news worthy thing.
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by hcg 8y ago
Bye Felicia. /s This sounds bad, but I question if their political views would have really mattered as much if Texas wasn't much cheaper. Being able to buy a house instead of forever renting a tiny place sounds like the real inc
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by hcg 8y ago
So is he working for Triplebyte or interviewing.io?
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by hcg 8y ago
Tech companies are serious about liberal politics. Part of that is ensuring they keep things as center to slightly right as possible and toss some money at social causes to keep their rep. If the democrats actually won consistently they mig

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