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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 set on a local level. It sets a very plausible model for other large media/news companies.

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.

Not the greatest source.

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 that seemingly useless.

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.

>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.

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.

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.

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" works.

Canvassers even lied to people to get them to sign. No surprise from scummy business owners like Saul Spady of Dicks Burgers who now enjoys a booming restaurant industry after campaigning AGAINST the $15 min wage. That guy is truly a dick.

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/06/06/27190451/audio-a...

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.

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 impacted their Seattle workers. It wasn't a tax on individuals, it wasn't coming out of individuals paychecks.

While I fully agree that the city should've had a detailed plan for where this money was going to effectively help the homeless/low income, do people really think these companies would have just been like "yeah, this looks good" and cut a check annually? No.

This is a sad outcome for the city of Seattle in my opinion. The sky didn't fall after the $15 minimum wage passed, and it didn't fall after the head tax was originally passed a month 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% of people in USA are living paycheck to paycheck.

Edit: I even see the HN anti-union comment flagged because again, HN is anti-union and anti-labor.

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 that matter.

Why would charter schools solve anything? Serious question. Letting rich people decide where to best educate their children already happens.

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 number rising year after year [0]. The endless consumerism that this type of unchecked capitalism needs to survive looks to have a pretty bleak future if we keep going down this path.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...

Translates to "slow erosion of labour rights".

>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-fund pensions and retiree healthcare so far in the future doesn't allow them to invest money into new research and development.

It already is passed on to the customer, in your taxes.

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.

CONSUME!!

Will someone please think of these poor & suffering record profit breaking Fortune 100 companies?

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 dumb phone or even just a hotspot.

I didn't need GPS, I just looked up where to go before I left home or work and caught busses/trains that run every 10-15 minutes. If I absolutely needed online access quick I would stand outside of a starbucks or another restaurant/store I knew had WiFi and use my tablet or laptop. I purchased a $25 original Zune for off the grid FM and music. I learned quickly how to find & create alternatives to my phone and those 2 weeks were some of the best of my life.

I really noticed how our population always has it's head down with a total addiction to our phones. I felt isolated at Reddit group meeting where everyone would take 5 minutes to just check their notifications and everyone would have their heads down while I was just sitting there watching everyone and eating.

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.

>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. Not Communist.

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 opinion they just lay the blueprints.

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.

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?

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 money in the end. There are no Bitcoin ATM's around me, what's my other option?

Also not to mention something like 85%+ of cryptocurrency is in exchanges, so "decentralization" is just a marketing word for cryptocurrency.

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.

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?