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by s2g 8y ago
Because of the rocket equation.
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by s2g 8y ago
As a Canadian I'm fine with my country being behind too. Would like more spending to make sure soldiers don't die due to shitty equipment, but still largely fine.
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by s2g 8y ago
Call a rather obvious bluff and put political pressure on American leaders over it. They have a pretty easy to defend position.
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by s2g 8y ago
Regulation is essential to avoid having corporations run a country into the ground.
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by s2g 8y ago
I don't see how you can possibly say that. If I'm serving a german an ad in german, for a german business, then how the hell am I not clearly doing business in germany?
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by s2g 8y ago
I hope not. They really need to tell the US to go to hell on that front. Pissing away a deal that is seemingly working because Trump got made fun of by Obama.
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by s2g 8y ago
My fantasy is for Google to finally have to face anti-trust regulations. But I think yours is more realistic. and depressing.
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by s2g 8y ago
Chicago promised to give the taxes paid by employees back to Amazon. It's disgusting.
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by s2g 8y ago
If the public balks at giving out a massive tax break to one of the worlds biggest companies, run by the (publicly) richest man, then Amazon can just point at the city next door and say "Well they promised us X, but we really like you
190.
by s2g 8y ago
But then how will apple extort cities for massive tax breaks?
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by s2g 8y ago
> Although I'm always led to wonder to what extent the facts in articles like this are exaggerated in order to portray one of the US's main global competitors in a negative light. What you should be wondering is how much is glo
192.
by s2g 8y ago
Stating lies as fact isn't spreading ideas.
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by s2g 8y ago
> - Batteries being the primary constraint in progress in volumes of electric cars for automakers (which positions Tesla and vertically integrated companies like BYD well, but traditional automakers without a tight grip on battery produc
194.
by s2g 8y ago
Absolutely. The 7th amendment is dead.
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by s2g 8y ago
Kind of sad that if it's fucking people over in favor of corportations, you can always guess the 4.
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by s2g 8y ago
Time for the big tech companies to double down on their no poaching/wage fixing agreements.
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by s2g 8y ago
Would the patriot act be anywhere near as infamous if it was just some generic hard to remember number?
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by s2g 8y ago
BRB switching to Mercurial
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by s2g 8y ago
oh neat, and it's on a google blog. That's great. Another subtle reminder that this ad company has way too much control.
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by s2g 8y ago
ehhhh AMC can be kind of awful.
201.
by s2g 8y ago
shhh, any excuse to deny a black man his rights is fine.
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by s2g 8y ago
> really could have used some time in the military So long as the US continues to engage int he current state of endless war, hell no. Then again, a system that actually results in the 20 year old children of the old men in power dying,
203.
by s2g 8y ago
But smart is relative. The article is about people too dumb to be effective.
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by s2g 8y ago
> For example, it was just 6 months between Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, where 4 Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk and hundreds of planes / pilots destroyed. Part of that was that Pearl Harbour didn't really accomp
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by s2g 8y ago
I'm curious how this problem has aged a decade on, when these soldiers (and their fellows) should be taking up more and more leadership positions. Are they up to it? Does having to put up with incompetence lead good soldiers to bail on
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by s2g 8y ago
Sounds like capitalism to me. Corporations have just managed to leverage it for long enough to create what we have now.
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by s2g 8y ago
> This is propaganda for the middle and upper class uh, how would this not be propaganda against the middle and upper classes?
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by s2g 8y ago
OH god no. Democracy is a system which can easily trample on the freedoms of the vulnerable. It's why you need to engineer your actual system of government to give representation to the vulnerable that is hard to ignore.
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by s2g 8y ago
It's absolutely true.
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by s2g 8y ago
How is that not capitalism? Businesses paying government to achieve their ends. It's both, I suppose. That's an argument for checks on capitalism and corruption. Your way is just unchecked harmful capitalism without any government

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