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Uber and Lyft are vastly superior than the existing taxi system and better for everyone. It got rid of the medallian system that prevented many people from driving a cab and used technology to make it very convenient to find a ride at any time.

Good things won't last forever. The taxi cab unions are already fighting these companies back in many cities.

They kind of remind me of the record industry and file sharing in the 90s: fighting technology, so they can keep their outdated and expensive system in place.

Most unions are like this. As another example, they will fight automation and force companies to hire multiple, overpaid workers, for a job that can be done by a single person. This only holds companies back and puts them at a disadvantage.

So if an employee steals from their employer, is it the employers fault for hiring them?

Unions always enforce expensive, outdated work. The taxi cab unions fought Uber and Lyft, a vastly superior taxi system, all to prop up an existing outdated system.

I'm not responsible and will never feel responsible for a person risking their life and families life to come to the US illegally, when there are ways to come here legally.

It's a personal choice to put yourself and your family at such risk.

The GOP wants more funding for facilities, but The Democrats are using it for political gain because they want open borders (and can now point to horrible conditions and blame the current administration).

Many children are separated from parents because molesters and criminals were bringing children over and claiming them as their own, only to go through continued abuse later on.

This policy started during the Obama administration and makes sense.

As for your remark about 'cages'? It's this sort of hyperbole that doesn't help the situation.

I completely agree with this. I have been working remotely for different companies for about a decade.

A couple of years back, I had a year-long contract on a remote team and the team leader was a horrible communicator.

It got to the point where I had to almost beg him for information. He would leave things out (not sure if it was intentional) and then make snide, passive-aggressive comments.

The rest of the team (2 people) were also fairly passive and it was extremely difficult to feel any kind of team cohesion.

Daily standups were painful.

I finally gave up and quit.

Managers as well as non-managers need to be excellent communicators for a remote team to work.

During the US 2008 and 2012 elections, the amount of content manipulation and botting was ridiculous. Nobody seemed to care or even mention it after the fact.

Now that it could potentially push Trump to win, its a big problem.

I personally hope that this is still a big deal when a candidate that the media/owners of Reddit wants to win is using the exact same tactics.

I`m applying top down ideology because I've never seen a socialized government industry out-compete any private pharma company by coming up with new/innovative medicine.

The reason is because you need to risk lots of money for R&D well beyond "basic research" and historically, governments arent nearly efficient enough to accomplish this.

Private industry/the free market is the perfect way to do this and historically has proven itself over and over again.

Another problem is that FDA approval takes over a decade and many billions of dollars. We need to find a way to improve this, without sacrificing quality.

A couple of good examples of the free market working in the free market is LASIK eye surgery. 20 years ago it was thousands of dollars. Competition brought it down to less than $500.

You don't get this natural competition with the government monopolizing healthcare and price fixing.

We all win with more competition, and government-run healthcare is the exact opposite of this.

I don't look forward to this day.

What many people don't realize is that the majority of new medicine is patented and created in the US. Once it's released, governments that have socialized health care create generics and get around these costs, mostly because they don't have to put any money into R&D.

The world of medicine will be in trouble without our system, because govetnments are really not that good at innovation.

Socialized medicine is great for simple checkups, but breaks down as you get older and need major surgery.

I really don't want the government making these life or death decisions.

The direct result of Blue state regulations and taxes is rich and poor. The middle class is shrinking rapidly and will eventually be gone. This isn't an example I would use for the rest of the US.

How exactly do taxes and regulations enable these companies? Most of these companies outright ignore regulations and incorporate in Delaware to get around some of the ridiculous taxes.

Taxes and regulations only serve the rich and will keep out smaller companies that don't have the resources to compete or attorneys to get around regulations.

Left-leaning people usually dislike big corporations, yet ironically support everything that keeps them in power.

It's interesting because these expectations from consumers began with rampant illegal file sharing in the late 90s.

Many people made the claim that music (and now books) cost nothing to distribute, so they should get it for free.

The actual cost of creating the first copy is always ignored.

I always thought it was worse than theft because at least when you steal a TV, the value of the entire product line doesn't decrease.

It's always baffled me as to why Russia gets so much attention when it comes to election hacking, when they have a fraction of the resources and economy as China.

The workers are paid over minimum wage.

Working conditions might suck, but why is this any different than any small company with poor working conditions?

They are only investigating this company because they don't like the government cracking down on protestors in HK.

Tear gas is better than bullets.

Well,

Not everybody needs to go to an expensive college. You can get a great education for a fraction of the cost from a community college.

I'm a contractor and make more than I would as a full time employee. Companies also don’t tend to overwork me because they need to pay for every hour.

Creating a successful startup is proving an idea. That was my point.

Most 20 somethings are usually used by venture capital firms to prove an idea and then replaced with more experienced and trusted executives.

There are a few rare exceptions, like Facebook.

It will lead the world by ending the gig economy and many of these gig workers, which can at least make something now, will make nothing when these regulations pass.

I'm not relaxed about anyone interfering with our elections either a domestic private company or a foreign power.

Both subvert Democracy.

Russia is really a non-issue. They have a pittance in terms of economy and a handful of bots and phishing attacks didn't really do anything to change the election.

The stadiums of people that still come out for Trump supports this.

We should be worried about big tech. They are altering our elections through massive censorship of opposing views and search result tampering to change the definition of the 'truth'.

If the Ceos of these companies were Republicans, there would be endless lawsuits.

Both campaigns misused data in an attempt to win votes. They are equally bad.

At the end, it states that neither campaign were able to persuade many voters. If that's the case, why do we care?

I've always been curious why nobody cared when Obama misused Facebook data in 2012 to win the election.

I remember countless tech articles lauding him as a genius and talking about how this would be the new way to campaign.

Facebook knew about it and allowed it to happen. They then closed the door for other politicians.

This sort of election meddling is worse than the Russians.

The mainstream media doesn`t care because they supported the person that did it.

It really seems like it only matters because a Republican was involved. If Hillary had won, things would be business as usual and we wouldn't even know about election interference.

Wechat has no ads because the government uses it to spy on almost everything you are doing from paying a parking ticket to purchasing groceries. It has replaced cash in many areas of China.

It's also tightly controlled and censored.

I would much rather have advertisers trying to sell me something than a totalitarian government using it to control my life.

I feel sorry for you. You don't truly understand how you have the freedom for instance..To speak your mind here on HN.

Very few governments will just give away freedom and power. It needs to be take back by force.

If the HK citizens had access to weapons this entire time, the Chinese government would think twice before invading. Unfortunately, it's too late for that.

This is why the second amendment is so important in the US.

This has been my thought too. China is allowing these protests to go on. At any point, they can roll in the tanks, and they will be over.

Without meaningful ways to defend themselves, there really is no way to win against the Chinese government.

I do. I spend 3 months/year there.

Cops are very corrupt and most people won’t even report traffic accidents. If you are a foreigner/non-vietnamese, many hospitals won’t even treat you. Abject poverty, aside from a couple of big cities.

Some may like it because with a little money, you can get away with anything.