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How is that disingenuous? Amazon is as aggressively anti-union as any company out there. This is exactly in line with the platform she was elected on and the things she is saying are exactly what the people in her district voted for.

The NLRB is as much a corporate tool as anything else. Collective bargaining happens through unions and actual collective action. Not by hoping regulators do enough to keep the company at bay.

Amazon doesn't give out jobs out of the goodness of their heart. Every person they employ they do so with the goal of making more than it costs to employ that person.

So why should they get so much as 1 cent to help with that?

It's an awful broken system and the politicians who enable it should be tossed out of office.

As a taxpayer I would prefer we didn't give any for profit business so much as a nickel.

Part of what's so ridiculous about all this is if you picked 2 places for Amazon to go then NYC and DC would be right near the top. They want government money, they want access to talent. Obvious choices. If neither city gave them a cent they would still end up there.

A yes, it's the NIMBY's.

Got nothing to do with billion dollar giveaways to trillion dollar corporations. Amazon is just such a benevolent force that they deserve, and Jeff is a philanthropist now.

Got nothing to do with the corporate rule and oligarchy that controls America. That this is perhaps the most blatant example of the casual corruption that we accept, and to be fair it is just capitalism in action.

Got nothing to do with the absolute farce of a process. I'm sure that the biggest tech hub on the east coach and Washington DC put in the best bids. I'm extremely convinced of that.

It's all just a bunch of uptight people who don't want Amazon so close.

> So marketing to law enforcement is unethical?

Yes. The police state is unethical and doing anything to further it is unethical.

> We really need center of the aisle, common sense to be popular again in this country

Okay, so left of the democrats.

I'd be fine with that.

I don't think you know what intersectionality is.

Not giving law enforcement broad surveillance capabilities hardly seems like a position conservatives would oppose. As usual the ones who yell loudest about tyranny are also the ones who cheerfully fight for it.

ICE is as good an example of the police state as anything else.

First off, I disagree. Any scientist should be aware of what they are building.

Second, they actively market to law enforcement.

Well now that's the real problem, they don't. They will face no real consequences for this. In fact they will probably fight hard to ensure they can keep making money, no matter the problems, right up until the day their own math says they need to flip the script.

> He added that he thought it was the government’s responsibility to help specify regulations around the technology.

That's true but it doesn't absolve them of responsibility. They are choosing their actions willingly, and with full knowledge of the potential consequences.

This sort of behavior is inexcusable. It's just wrong.

If the airbags have a problem which causes them to hurt shrapnel into peoples faces you can't fix that with a software update.

and why is being able to push updates to heavy machinery that we routinely have moving at speeds of 60+ MPH a good thing?

If you can fix the brakes via software update you can break them too.

I'm fine with it if someone going to prison when a software update kills people.

I was hoping this would be much a critique of the tendency of people to place too much faith in technology, to ignore the human element of solutions, and (among SV types especially) to prize their own goals above all else. To try and come up with purely technical solutions to the problems of society, but to do so by trying to create an environment which lets their own capitalist goals succeed while tossing scraps to the rest.

Cause even when it's well meaning, I still can't stand it. Their (our I suppose) own conviction they they are right fuels a randian like commitment to individualism. But then they want to appear woke and smart and so they start talking about basic income and how it's fine to have half the population just sort of subsisting. Or we'll fix democracy with smartphones and blockchain.

Also the tendency towards not just being temporarily embarrassed millionaires, but temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires.

They should really just have anyone who asks if they can control the car using an app tossed out.

> Tesla turned the car into a software problem

No, they convinced fanboys that they turned it into a software problem. The reality is they are no different than any other auto manufacturer. Being in Silicon Valley doesn't change that.

An electric Camry would sell so much more than the model 3.

New York is also really bad about registering people.

It's absolutely about a failure to install proper checks on entrenched power.

Except the US was founded on the idea of a limited franchise.

But you should right?

A republic which partially uses representative democracy, but mostly exists to ensure power to the landowning minority. Nowadays it's not about land of course, but it still exists to serve the wants of the powerful and only the powerful.

Even the one part that was supposed to be actually representative isn't.

Start over. No more senate. Elected president. Representative parliament.

Forcing people ot wait hours for voting is a tactic used to discourage voters and more effectively disenfranchise groups you don't want voting. White majority area has 15 minute lines, black majority has 2 hours.

> my state had early voting for weeks so there really isn't a "voting day" issue here. (Georgia).

Except for the massive campaigns to disenfranchise voters.

Which you didn't bother to mention as a problem. You did mention the boogeyman of voter fraud though, good job.

If any sort of monitors were looking at this election it wouldn't be considered legitimate.

Brian Kemp should be in jail for his actions. Actually he never should have been in a position to take these actions. Instead he's going to be governor with no opposition.

No part of the US federal government is representative at this point. The Senate isn't by design, the house isn't because it's been capped, the presidency isn't by design.

Because a democracy and a republic are not mutually exclusive, unless you are talking about direct democracy specifically.

China is a republic but not a democracy. Canada is a democracy and not a republic.

> specifically tried to create a democratic republic restrained by a written set of rules protecting citizens from arbitrary exercise of power by a majority to avoid some of the worst

They tried to create one with no power for anyone but white male landowners and with provisions that made changing that extremely difficult.

Look at what those militias have actually been used for.

I swear every time I read things written by people at Google my opinion of the company drops.

Mostly I just can't picture people from companies like Amazon or MS posting such stuff.

They are criticizing through collective action. That is a news worthy thing.

Bye Felicia. /s

This sounds bad, but I question if their political views would have really mattered as much if Texas wasn't much cheaper. Being able to buy a house instead of forever renting a tiny place sounds like the real incentive. Regressive social policies are just a bonus.

So is he working for Triplebyte or interviewing.io?

Tech companies are serious about liberal politics.

Part of that is ensuring they keep things as center to slightly right as possible and toss some money at social causes to keep their rep.

If the democrats actually won consistently they might start to shift left. These companies do not want a strengthened left wing in the US.