Silicon Valley Cozies Up to Washington, Outspending Wall Street 2-1

Re:Silicon Valley Cozies Up to Washington, Outspending Wall ... by mslkmdf on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:36PM (#12736836)

I'm not sure you know what Occupy Wall Street was about.

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Re:Silicon Valley Cozies Up to Washington, Outspending Wall ... by sctb on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:33PM (#12738388)

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12736324 and marked it off-topic.

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Re:Silicon Valley Cozies Up to Washington, Outspending Wall ... by mslkmdf on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @09:20AM (#12743492)

You have nothing better to do bud?

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Re:Silicon Valley Cozies Up to Washington, Outspending Wall ... by ComteDeLaFere on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @02:01PM (#12737056)

Since I live a few blocks from Zuccatti Park and was present for most of the Occupy rise and fall, I'm pretty sure I know what it was about, but feel free to share. And yes, I personally feel that a clear parallel is shaping up.

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Re:Silicon Valley Cozies Up to Washington, Outspending Wall ... by mslkmdf on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @02:48PM (#12737467)

What is the parallel between automation and gross negligence/corruption?

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Re:Silicon Valley Cozies Up to Washington, Outspending Wall ... by randall on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:14PM (#12737723)

Influence leading to gross negligence / corruption. Power corrupting all. Not the OP, but just a guess.

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Re:Silicon Valley Cozies Up to Washington, Outspending Wall ... by oldmanjay on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:45PM (#12736922)

To be fair, it's really hard to tell from the outside because the messages were all so muddled and the actions amounted to hanging out in a park. What's your take?

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Re:Silicon Valley Cozies Up to Washington, Outspending Wall ... by mslkmdf on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:55PM (#12737001)

Well the root cause was banks being bailed out and almost nobody being punished. Doesn't really relate to automation killing off jobs in any way.

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