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by s2g 8y ago
I would have downvoted for the "general national security" bit. Everything else, sure. But national security, especially expressed like that, is just another "WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN".
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by s2g 8y ago
> general national security by not outsourcing knowledge and infrastructure critical to national security to save a few bucks. That's the best argument? ZTE was literally being used to spy en masse. maybe start there instead of &quo
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by s2g 8y ago
> Canada too late.
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by s2g 8y ago
and then they talk about all that and go out and vote for people who support none of those things. Actions speak a lot louder than words. If you vote republican you absolutely stand behind those things.
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by s2g 8y ago
Republicans actively try to destroy any sort of reasonable social safety net. I really don't care how partisan you think I'm being, the republican viewpoint on this is cruel and wrong and I think extremely low of anyone who suppor
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by s2g 8y ago
Or we could quit making excuses given that Elon consistently over-promises.
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by s2g 8y ago
Or fuck you, it's my phone.
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by s2g 8y ago
0.9% increase on a minimum wage salary. Just salary, not even the full cost of having an employee on staff. I just refuse to believe this is a massive burden on these businesses without numbers. People said the same stuff about the minimum
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by s2g 8y ago
> The tax did far more damage than impair Amazon's bottom line It really didn't though.
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by s2g 8y ago
Amazon can't afford to fire or force relocation on 45k employees. That would end up costing them millions.
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by s2g 8y ago
Not if they get pushed from barely being able to afford it to not being able to afford it in the span of a month or two.
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by s2g 8y ago
It raises the cost (excluding everything but salary, which is unrealistic) of a full time minimum wage worker by 0.9% per year. Add in the additional costs of an employee and that percentage drops even further. It was also targeted at the t
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by s2g 8y ago
Actually it was thought out and picked as the only progressive option they had. Now it’s property or sales tax. Hurray.
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by s2g 8y ago
There is lots of discussion of that and to suggest otherwise is ridiculous. A years long process won’t do anything to help thousands of homeless now.
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by s2g 8y ago
They did pass it, after months of review. They repealed it a day after the announcement that they were doing so. Seattle is a company town now.
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by s2g 8y ago
What blackmail? If anyone was engaging in extortion it was Amazon.
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by s2g 8y ago
Huh, I gues the documents they put on were just gibberish. I’m looking forward to watching this same short of bootlicking and idiocy when Jeff comes around to extort tax breaks with the threat of HQ2.
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by s2g 8y ago
This is a major net neutrality issue. AT&T can now say all of time warner's content is free for mobile devices. Major blow to their competitors.
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by s2g 8y ago
AT&T is a major telecom and provider of mobile internet access.
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by s2g 8y ago
> Same goes for whatever ends up happening to Amazon/WaPo. Pretty sure Bezos bought it, not Amazon.
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by s2g 8y ago
We can still pull out the pitchforks based on the notion that he didn't understand the "expert" opinion presented and just decided not bother?
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by s2g 8y ago
> Their size makes them an attractive target for nationalization Sure, except this is America.
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by s2g 8y ago
> in expectation earn at least the same as they would at a public company No, it should be multiples. Otherwise why is the employee taking on that risk?
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by s2g 8y ago
They aren't treated as founders of any sort. They get paltry equity and then don't get raises.
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by s2g 8y ago
So anyone who is good enough to work for a big company you have no interest in?
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by s2g 8y ago
Con of startups, these are the people you might end up working for. What's good for your personal growth was other people trying to make a living at a company being run by people who don't know what they are doing. Maybe it's
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by s2g 8y ago
Why wouldn't you have beef with the founders? Their decisions left them rich and you with nothing in exchange for years of your life lived with excessive risk and a lower standard of living.
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by s2g 8y ago
Yeah okay. You see, after the part your put in quotation marks I added on "at least to the company". This was meant to mean that the work you are doing is meaningful, but perhaps only to the company. Rather than working on a small
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by s2g 8y ago
> How much would it cost Amazon to assess the value of each book uploaded to Kindle? Some AI process could be trained on "real" vs "scam" books and attach a score, then humans could review the worst scores and then m
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by s2g 8y ago
Has anyone ever referenced that work and not been a complete racist piece of crap?

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