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by kevmo 6y ago
Chuck Feeney sounds like a great guy (I don't know anything about how his empire treated its employees), but I'd really rather the government take and distribute those billions.
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by kevmo 6y ago
No other library has filled a huge gap in JavaScript like Moment.js did for so many years. I might say jQuery... which is mighty fine company to be included with!
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by kevmo 6y ago
Time for Silver Springs, FL to shine: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/30/florida-...
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America Is Facing a Monkey Shortage(theatlantic.com)
25 points by kevmo 6y ago|10 comments
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100s of astronomers warn SpaceX Starlink satellites could block future science(independent.co.uk)
26 points by kevmo 6y ago|10 comments
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by kevmo 6y ago
It's a digital protection racket.
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by kevmo 6y ago
Ha! I recently picked up a old gift someone made to me of a book of Hemingway short stories -- this is quite a good approximation.
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by kevmo 6y ago
That's significantly different content that completely omits the Ted Williams quote.
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by kevmo 6y ago
Why wouldn't a teacher quit if they possibly could? The pay is peanuts, certainly not worth any serious immediate risk to your health.
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Why Idaho Hasn't Stopped Shaking Since March 31(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by kevmo 6y ago|0 comments
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by kevmo 6y ago
It's almost like it isn't a rebellion and that this is just an advertisement.
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by kevmo 6y ago
Bernie Sanders would have been so good for the American capitalist economy. He is the only one who would have after the monopolies, which would help level the playing field that is currently just consolidating into big companies. The social
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by kevmo 7y ago
This was also my experience. Took me a few days to get used to something new; now I actively prefer it.
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by kevmo 7y ago
Life isn't getting easier for the majority of Americans. Life expectancy is literally going down.
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by kevmo 7y ago
Many corporations pay 0 tax as well. So in many instances, double taxation is not occurring. This is just another example of the rich getting richer, leading to the massive income inequality that is destabilizing America.
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by kevmo 7y ago
$1.6 million is a rounding error for a company making billions off of improper sharing of user data. Nothing will change.
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by kevmo 7y ago
I'm being downvoted and flagged because many folks reading the comment make their money off the described status quo.
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by kevmo 7y ago
This is a common tactic in America's industrial products.
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by kevmo 7y ago
They'll get hit with some small monetary penalty. Nothing is going to change until we replace our anti-worker government with pro-worker government.
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by kevmo 7y ago
Amazon needs to be broken up.
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Google faces a new antitrust probe by 50 attorneys general(cnbc.com)
11 points by kevmo 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevmo 7y ago
Another check in the "Amazon should be broken up" category.
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Peter Thiel Says FBI, CIA Should Probe Google(axios.com)
53 points by kevmo 7y ago|28 comments
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by kevmo 7y ago
All research done with public money should be publicly available. Full stop.
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by kevmo 7y ago
The Chicago Tribune is not a good newspaper.
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by kevmo 7y ago
Good.
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by kevmo 7y ago
This has been coming for decades. A functioning democracy was never going to let the debt slavery that student debt represents stand. It's been hard to talk about it on this forum, though. Conversations invoked by Bernie Sanders are ge
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by kevmo 7y ago
Sanders is a movement candidate. People who want real change should support him
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by kevmo 7y ago
Bernie Sanders has been swinging hard on this issue the last 4 years. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xzqmp/bernie-sanders-cal...
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Google is giving some presidential candidate ads different treatment than others(qz.com)
6 points by kevmo 7y ago|1 comments

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