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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Do you have any evidence that editorial independence even exists in the face of a complete capital controlled environment? Sinclair made a blunder and showed the world that there was no independence, at least in their company. It was even s
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
You don't think it already isn't purchased and hasn't been for a very long time? There are only a handful of media companies, at least in the USA.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Not the greatest source.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Even after reading the previous comments in this thread? I'm really not seeing any benefit, just a shifting of company shares and maybe the benefit of all transactions publicly available on the blockchain, but some anonymity would make
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
I have no issues with it. Macs may have a better trackpad, but there's absoultely nothing wrong with it. I'm using Arch w/i3 and use whatever stock settings there are.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
>and that you should always comply with orders. IANAL, but that seems to set a dangerous precedent to our rights as Americans, especially if they're just asking for ID and you absolutely haven't committed any crimes.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
The thing is, it wasn't taxing workers. It was taxing businesses. This was _not_ coming out of workers paychecks. Income tax is illegal per the WA state constitution.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Why would you put the taxes on the people instead of the businesses over $20 mil in revenue making record profits? It makes no sense. We have enough regressive taxes.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
The signatures would've created a referendum to vote on it in November. Now there is no chance to vote on it. Also, the city council is voted in by the people as representatives -- it's literally how our "democracy" work
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Without the backing of the people? Can you cite evidence of this? Also, why was it a terrible choice? I keep hearing this same exact argument parroted everywhere from Twitter, Facebook, to now HN.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Absolutely depressing. It sets a precedent that businesses own this city and can control everything. This was a tax of something like 0.2% on Uwajimaya and Dicks Burgers and only effected companies making $20mil+ in revenue and only impacte
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
I don't see that at all. It's very right wing economically and anti-labor. I'm guessing most of HN is Engineers making loads of money who don't have to think about struggling in any sense when it's a reality that 78
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Socialism, Communism? The workers owning the means of production and abolition of private property? Cuba is doing fairly fine despite decades of American propaganda & the embargo. It has its problems, but so does USA or any country for
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Why would charter schools solve anything? Serious question. Letting rich people decide where to best educate their children already happens.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
I find HN fairly right wing economically & willing to dismiss that a large portion of the country isn't so well off right now, and has been steadily declining since the 90's. 78% currently live paycheck to paycheck, with this
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Translates to "slow erosion of labour rights".
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
>You have to wonder if they ever should have privatized them at all since they’re in a kind of limbo. There are already private options, USPS just isn't correctly funded and government keeps trying to gut it. The requirement to pre-
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
It already is passed on to the customer, in your taxes.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
It's not the invisible hand when the USPS loses $1.50 per shipment at the benefit of Amazon while USPS -- a federal service to all Americans -- struggles to stay afloat.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
CONSUME!!
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Will someone please think of these poor & suffering record profit breaking Fortune 100 companies?
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
I went 2 weeks without a phone, gps, & online capabilities away from home due to breaking my old Moto X Pure and not having enough money to buy a phone. It was a great experience and now I'm trying to shift everything over to a dum
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
It already is shit? Web 1.0 was peak internet, when creativity was alive before normies and corporations started making every website 200MB of ad-loading javascript.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
>Ironically, their country was built on addressing that fundamental problem but now have fallen into the same dirty form of capatalism everyone else has. I laugh when people call it Communist. Do workers own the means of production? No.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
I wish I could work 20-24 hours/week. I'd be so much more productive. I'm at 65 now if I calculate in my unpaid commute. It's a total drain on life. I see China's system making it's way to USA soon, in my opini
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
The free market is what allows this to happen in the first place. The free market's goal is to abuse workers and push them to just near their breaking point for profits.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Is any of that money ever going to come back to American citizens or are we going to keep wasting it on military toys used to evade the laws of the USA?
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Nobody has even figured out how to get cryptocurrency into the hands of the masses and make it easily obtainable. If I want to buy cryptocurrency, I have to use Coinbase and pay enormous fees, waiting 7 days to even get it, probably losing
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
Google is partly an advertisement company. Google is not going to allow an ad-blocking browser to be included by default in stock Android images. Ublock has been fantastic on Firefox for me, even though Firefox isn't as good as Chrome.
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by prolikewhoa 8y ago
It's exactly what was asked for. There's no profit margin, yet they were the first in the world to come up with a vaccine. Sounds like a good example of innovation to me?

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