colinyoung

I read it too. Made me think how ethical it is to continue using Facebook (and its other major product, Instagram).

This comment is wildly out of touch with how power works and change happens in this world

Good, I did too

Backlash was certainly loud, but Amazon could have made things work even without all of the subsidies they received. This is entirely me speculating, but I wonder if Amazon feared that NYC workers might eventually organize or be organized, given the political rhetoric and the framing of the backlash. Amazon has a legendary fear of unionization.

The distinction is that those types of areas in the US are generally unaffordable to many, and are probably far less safe due to increased car traffic.

You're dead too, buddy.

> If you use drugs

> If you are gay/religious

Uh, neither of these can be inferred definitively from location data.

He says he wants a new narrative, but makes no suggestion of how we can curb inequality other than the standard Valley tech-bro "government is hella inefficient" statement.

I think OP was probably referring to the 'dead Main Streets' and 'neighborhood near the plant that closed is totally struggling' phenomenon. I've been around the same areas and see seriously struggling places. When I was growing up, the Main Street was a little better but still bad, but the new strip mall stores/outlets/Walmart out by the highway were doing great. Now, the stores around the Walmart aren't even alive.

Your premise forgets that the Muni and all other public transit is not funded directly by its citizenry or riders. It's funded thru a mix of fare income, city and state taxes, federal appropriations. This is obviously different from something that is "locally owned and operated" since it is owned, operated, and funded by an organ of the city and/or state government.

Meshnet type stuff is comparable (in terms of the economic system it might "ideally" thrive within) to leftist ones like anarchism. (Any connotations a reader might be applying, like black masks or throwing shit, are simply connotations - I'm not advocating for anything political, either - I'm referring mostly to the anarchist concept of "just building things you want without asking anyone"). But you are missing the point if you are asking "do you really want your internet run by the same people who run the Muni?" without acknowledging the fact that publicly-owned transit authorities in the US are 'extra-ordinary' structures within the free-market capitalism they inhabit, and are therefore limited by it. In other words, there's no reason one couldn't have a great Muni, but you're pretending Muni exists in a vacuum when it doesn't.

As both a Chicagoan and (obviously) an Illinois resident, this means my voter info has been exposed twice this year alone.

Amazon sent out warning emails for owners of misconfigured boxes about 60 days ago. Why didn't the firm in question take action? I am an engineer and literally had to do that same task at work at that time. Easy as 2 clicks.

> staunchly only in favor of one political party

This is empirically not true, especially if you look at the policies of and donations by Google, Twitter, and Facebook.

Google donates to both parties; Twitter obviously has a very laissez-faire to the Right's voices, including the POTUS, and its COO recently suggested that if Trump canceled briefings, he could take questions directly on Twitter. And the evidence and rumors continue to swirl about how multiple Republican Party candidates campaigns used Facebook's own incredibly specific ad targeting, which they did not revise until after the election. (cf. Cambridge Analytica, contracted by Cruz and then Trump to "manage" the election outcome.)

Believe the OP is suggesting it's on its way, not that the US is there quite yet. And the US certainly has our own questionable human rights issues.