rfrank

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by rfrank 9y ago
Seems like you have a reason to be defensive, throwaway account. I'm suspicious of any billionaire who buys a newspaper, for reasons I've been arguing in this thread - the very real potential for bad behavior.
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by rfrank 9y ago
That's the evidence you've presented against my assertion, as neither of us would know the real answer. My links above could be perceived as control because a predominantly left wing paper is defensive of a company who runs afoul
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by rfrank 9y ago
To me, saying "Bezos doesn't influence Wapo's output" is like saying, "Oculus will remain an independent entity inside Facebook." Not something I'm inclined to believe. Why should one believe that the bill
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by rfrank 9y ago
Activism. I'm curious why downvoters think their acquisitions aren't a form of activism. For instance, their coverage of an Amazon monopoly is very sparse, even given the recent Democratic economic policy statements which mention
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by rfrank 9y ago
> I don't think we as a society or even humanity ever shared a vision. .... seriously? The American Dream.
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by rfrank 9y ago
Island, by Huxley "Will Farnaby is a cynical journalist shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala, a Buddhist paradise where modern science and technology is embraced only insofar as it can improve medicine and nutrition, not for ind
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by rfrank 9y ago
A basic primer is linked below for you. I'm sure you'll have wonderful, super duper insightful, and super smart commentary on it. Looking forward to it! http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/theory/marxism
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by rfrank 9y ago
It's not an idea that's worth taking seriously, like everything else from Marx.
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by rfrank 9y ago
It's a made up phrase that's being aggressively astroturfed on misc. parts of the net. reddit.com/r/latestagecapitalism
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by rfrank 9y ago
There are, example: http://charliebarnhart.com/
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by rfrank 9y ago
Man, this sentiment is so disturbing. Is this something people find desirable? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR3lXEH80Nw
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by rfrank 9y ago
(I work at an EMS provider) Yes, that tends to be how startups come off - even the "sophisticated" ones. They tend to have minimal knowledge of the steps necessary to turn their prototype into a mass produced thing: DFM/DFF,
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by rfrank 9y ago
>That also implies that people desire fear and that fear is produced with industrial efficiency. Or, that what people consume and what they desire aren't always the same things.
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by rfrank 9y ago
Is that why the reality of 2016 election results was such a surprise?
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by rfrank 9y ago
Hugo with a theme like docdock is pretty neat ( http://gohugo.io/ & http://docdock.netlify.com/ )
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by rfrank 9y ago
Eh whatever, the way they act is neutering the left for years to come and they don't even see it. It's pretty funny to watch at this point. Don't worry 2018 will be great!!! Referendum!!!
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by rfrank 9y ago
I didn't complain about anything, I provided links when someone asked why Snopes is perceived as liberally biased. I get why that's confusing for you though. That's why I included the 3rd link, which addresses, and confirms,
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by rfrank 9y ago
1. Fact-Checking Snopes: Website’s Political ‘Fact-Checker’ Is Just A Failed Liberal Blogger: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/17/fact-checking-snopes-websi... 2. Snopes, Which Will Be Fact-Checking For Faceboo
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by rfrank 9y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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by rfrank 9y ago
> True and nobody is really arguing that point. Or providing solutions, just automating their jobs away. Ignore the social repercussions or try and shift responsibility for who should help them all you want, I suggest it is a very unwise
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by rfrank 9y ago
Dell XPS 15" maybe.
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by rfrank 9y ago
Automating people's jobs away without meaningful replacements is how regions get decimated, and you end up with very large swaths of very angry people without much to lose.
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by rfrank 9y ago
> We're talking about how difficult it is to find people to do this work. * in California. So farmers don't matter, just like other workers who lose their jobs to automation. Got it, thanks for the help.
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by rfrank 9y ago
Okay, what's your proposition for the displaced workers?
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by rfrank 9y ago
People already push that narrative, just with factory farming. Ascribing some moral position to strangers' diets is a pretty gross thing to do.
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by rfrank 9y ago
Farm labor in other states earn $15-20 an hour [1], and will enjoy much higher purchasing power, and (almost certainly) a political climate they'll find less actively hostile than the one they'll find in California. Why would farm
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by rfrank 9y ago
> MEMETICS—A GROWTH INDUSTRY IN US MILITARY OPERATIONS - United States Marine Corps, School of Advanced Warfighting http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a507172.pdf
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by rfrank 9y ago
Extortion, money laundering, racketeering, human trafficking, illicit organ selling, slavery, gun running, piracy (Somalia not Napster), poaching, assassinations, political violence for hire, etc. are all independently profitable. There wil
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by rfrank 9y ago
> You legalize drugs, you take away their massive cash flies and cripple their organizations. I'm not convinced this is true, there's lots of ways to make a big profit illegally, drugs are just comparatively easy. I'm a pr
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by rfrank 9y ago
I think you underestimate the frequency pretty dramatically.

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