ifhd

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by ifhd 9y ago
Trump is 100% GOP. You don't vote for him in the primary and general elections then get to claim "oh, he doesn't represent us really".
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by ifhd 9y ago
So I buy some land. I plop an apartment building down on it. I pay "land tax" on the land. Why would I not just raise rents to preserve my profits?
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by ifhd 9y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group They have been buying up local stations for years. They then use that influence to push conservative ideas.
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by ifhd 9y ago
"Fake" doesn't mean fake. It's just signalling to his followers.
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by ifhd 9y ago
It will actually make them far more effective at what the republicans want. More consolidation, more takeover by conservative news agencies. This is a calculated and malicious move.
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by ifhd 9y ago
- Seize the means of production wait no, you aren't suggesting communism. I don't think switching to a property tax system is the way to go. Wouldn't it end up hurting people as you just see rents rise?
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by ifhd 9y ago
Thats a pretty arbitrary line. Why wouldn't they want to ask about hte projects you poured thousands of hours of paid time into?
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by ifhd 9y ago
I work on internal tools for a major company. You can't see them, some I probably shouldn't even tell you about. When I get home I play video games and watch tv and play with my dog. sometimes I'll screw around with a new lan
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by ifhd 9y ago
yeah, but I'm referring to unix as much as anything else.
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by ifhd 9y ago
3.1 billion is wealthy.
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by ifhd 9y ago
How much did Oprah have when he said that?
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by ifhd 9y ago
man, I have to respect the guy's PR team.
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by ifhd 9y ago
When MS fired people for performance every year people hated them for it, and their culture was considered notoriously awful.
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by ifhd 9y ago
> The Linux Foundation reports that Linux runs 90 percent of the public cloud workload, 82 percent of the world's smartphones, 62 percent of the embedded market, oh and a mere 99 percent of the supercomputer market anyone ever worry
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by ifhd 9y ago
But at some point shouldn't someone stop to question how valuable the space really is? I suppose at least the data is worth a lot towards better voice control efforts.
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by ifhd 9y ago
Wasn't nintendo making money on the Wii pretty much the entire time?
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by ifhd 9y ago
> they seem mostly resigned to following trends The speaker thing was Amazon creating a trend (or fad if you really see it that way).
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by ifhd 9y ago
> It is extremely difficult to smear a neo-nazi misogynist more than he already does by his own words. I think Assange is a self-serving hypocrite, but calling him that seems pretty extreme.
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by ifhd 9y ago
This idea that you can shield companies from any and all morality by crying about investors needs to die. It's absurd.
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by ifhd 9y ago
> I've argued before, though, that I can't fault companies for using them. You can and should. So should I. If consumers refused to sign they wouldn't put them in. Unfortunately we don't live in a world that allows us
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by ifhd 9y ago
Even if you argue that both sides are bad, the GOP is still seems clearly worse given that the they are rolling back the (little) things the democrats did.
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by ifhd 9y ago
Except the democrats were the ones who put in these rules in the first place.
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by ifhd 9y ago
> But please don't pretend the Dems are a whole lot better on most of these issues They are, and people can demand they be better still.
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by ifhd 9y ago
> People 0 Not quite, but give them a few more years in power.
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by ifhd 9y ago
They have examined it and found it's fine.
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by ifhd 9y ago
> Does it make sense for the patrons of that bank to be able to sue the bank? If they left the doors unlocked and didn't bother to hire security then sure.
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by ifhd 9y ago
How do you do that when it's the install EULA after you've already purchased the product? How do you do that when the contracts are fundamentally entirely one sided (we can change it whenever we want).
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by ifhd 9y ago
> creating rules that clearly benefit I think you mean removing rules that clearly constrain?
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by ifhd 9y ago
Arbitration clauses with dealers seem decidedly less evil though. The loss of class action status is terrible and enabled atrocious corporate behavior.
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by ifhd 9y ago
> meaning, it is neither unjust, unfair It's absolutely both of those. > but it does uphold the rules of law favoring the electorally-accountable legislative branch over the authority of an unaccountable bureau chief. Who gave th

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