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by walkedaway 5y ago
> Actual socialist politics are not permitted in US discourse We have multiple socialists elected to US Congress.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Ads still exist. Advertising has existed for a long time, effectively, without personal tracking. This will weed out the players from the wannabes.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
That makes absolutely no sense. Of course minimum wage expands to mean "the minimum wage that some entry-level person should be required to receive." Entry level means young. That's exactly who the law should be for. After
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Unfortunately this approach has served the media well. As a whole they aren't held accountable for their lies or, at best, wrong predictions. People still watch/read them, which generates significant ad revenue. We the people ha
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by walkedaway 5y ago
> Their only winning move was to stay neutral and do nothing but comply with legal requests They could have enforced their policies consistently across all accounts instead of their strong anti-right/anti-conservative bias. It&#x27
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by walkedaway 5y ago
The late 70s were brutal. Worse than the late 2000s IMHO. It was so bad, that there was a recession in 1983, and the incumbent President that oversaw that recession - Reagan - won the 1984 election by a landslide because it was way better
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California to require all K-12 students to wear masks on campus(foxnews.com)
3 points by walkedaway 5y ago|0 comments
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Biden is doing a fine job raising gas prices - and prices of everything else - without adding new taxes.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Non-paywalled source: https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/california-paying-victims-of-f...
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by walkedaway 5y ago
I don't think the data backs your claim. Sure, maybe in the 2000s after the internet began to dent its model it became a hotel paper, but in its heyday (the 80s and 90s) it was very popular option from newsstands (I'm old enough
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by walkedaway 5y ago
> do not exist because of regulatory capture It's reasonable to conclude that Facebook and Twitter have benefitted greatly by not having expenses to properly monitor their platform due to section 230 safe harbor exemption. They are
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by walkedaway 5y ago
> It is almost as if these "tech" companies are trying to sow divisiveness It's worked in their business model for over a decade. Their actions over the last five years have shown they have built up operations as core comp
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Exactly this. I find it interesting that most people seem to forget that we have immune systems that have served us well for our entire evolution and human history, and all of sudden we ignore that same system that was built exactly for th
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by walkedaway 5y ago
I worked in patents about 15-20 years ago. What I remember in this golden era of patent proliferation was that the US patent office, if in doubt or just by default, just issued the patent and waited for people with prior art to object. Not
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by walkedaway 5y ago
> the vast majority of the time it is simply a combination of selection bias and the human tendency to want to believe things that support your own worldview Citation needed. Given Jeff Bezos success in growing a business from scratch, t
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by walkedaway 5y ago
What I don't understand is HN readers who downvote statements like yours which should be common sense to intellects. Or maybe I do understand and am saddened by the way everything has been politicized here.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
You're getting downvotes because you are posting facts. That's a pattern on HN. People don't like your facts, so they downvote to try and get it to disappear.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
No, it doesn't give you right of way in any state in the US. But it doesn't stop drivers in the Bay Area from thinking it does.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
I find it interesting that there seems to be a self-selection process here. Irresponsible people seem to be attracted to "hey I can just put a car in autopilot and ignore the requirement that I have to be attentive." Unfortunate
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by walkedaway 5y ago
This article is disingenuous. 60 years ago, scientists were predicting global cooling, not global warming. Not to cover all avenues, its been changed to just "climate change." http://www.populartechnology.net/201
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by walkedaway 5y ago
The entire reason SF is having this problem is that the majority of the city believe shoplifting is fine based on their voting patterns the last few decades. https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-anchor-muses-if-famed-wal.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Wikipedia has been on this slippery slope since the late 2000s, and its inability to maintain objective/neutral articles is the reason I stopped my large contributions back then. Just look at wikipedia's one-sidedness relative to
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by walkedaway 5y ago
By definition there's a new 1% when you take the top 1% and make it 0. Then you take the new 1%. And so on. Simple math. Everyone ends up with zero.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Exactly this.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Got it. Make everyone poor and suffer. Great plan.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Why do you think you're entitled to 100% of my wealth?
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by walkedaway 5y ago
The data here doesn't seem to align with your claim, at least in the US. Perhaps its happening in other places? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_tempe...
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CA verifies 1.7M Newsom recall sigs(foxnews.com)
4 points by walkedaway 5y ago|0 comments
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Thomas Sowell seems to have a solid grasp on economics. Too bad people don't study his work. Maybe if he wasn't black people in the US would listen to him.
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by walkedaway 5y ago
Not mind-boggling at all when you consider the source: NPR.

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