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Please stop thinking about laws, and think about enforcement. If the cops don't care about something, it's defecto legal. We have all sorts of fancy laws on the

by cons0le 10mo ago

Please stop thinking about laws, and think about enforcement. If the cops don't care about something, it's defecto legal. We have all sorts of fancy laws on the books that aren't enforced. Environmental regs, animal welfare regs, anti trust laws, white collar anti fraud laws. Data laws fall into this bucket. Nobody that would actually enforce those laws gives a dam. We won't be able to solve any of our problems with new laws, until we can actually enforce the laws already on the books

DrScientist 10mo ago
There are lots of forms of 'don't care'. Don't care because: - they have limited resources and they are prioritising something else, - there is little realistic chance of getting a conviction. - it's not one of their politically set department targets - they fundamentally don't think it should be illegal - say historic blasphemy laws still on the books. Is your main concern resources or enforceability, lack of political focus or some combination of all of the above?
franktankbank 10mo ago
This really has me thinking I ought to just delete my Linkedin. I can't say I've ever got anything out of it except spam and fomo. I don't even like to keep it up-to-date because someone is just ripping that information off.
- nerdsniper 10mo ago
  I believe a LinkedIn profile is mandatory to apply to YC. I could assume you might not be interested in applying to YC, but it’s an interesting fact, and might generalize somewhat for many other applications.
  - franktankbank 10mo ago
    I think that is a mutually beneficial signal probably.
- sparrish 10mo ago
  FWIW - I deleted my linkedin about a year ago and I've received more spam since I deleted it than when it was active.
giardini 10mo ago
">If the cops don't care about something, it's defecto legal.<" Ahhhh! A new English expression, "defecto legal". I like it! It could be the name of a popular website. The proper term is "de facto": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20facto https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20facto A defect is a flaw, an error, and "defecto" is Spanish for the English "defect". The meaning of "defecto legal" (English) thus remains in the wind, TBD. But I look forward to it's landing.
- disqard 10mo ago
  s/it's/its/g You want the possessive ("its"), not the shortened form ("it is") which would make that sentence: "...look forward to it is landing" Thank you for sharing the Spanish interpretation, TIL :)
giardini 10mo ago
">* If the cops don't care about something, it's defecto legal. *<" Ahhhh! A new English expression, "defecto legal". I like it! It should be the name of a website, defectolegal.com, for purposes TBD later. The proper term is "de facto": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20facto https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20facto "Defecto" is Spanish for the English "defect", a flaw, an error. Don't get me started about "giving a dam".
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- dogemaster2032 10mo ago
  In English we don’t write commas or periods outside the quotes. The proper way is to write them inside the quotation. - “defect,” a flaw, an error. - about giving a dam.” Don’t get me started about “for purposes TBD later.”
  - guffins 10mo ago
    That’s only the case for American English. British English places periods and commas outside the quotes, unless part of a literal quotation.
  - ConspiracyFact 10mo ago
    The other person who replied to you noted that this is not true in British English, but beyond that, it appears to me that my generation (Millennials) essentially all came to the same conclusion, which is that punctuation should only be included in the quotation if it's literally part of the text being quoted. (This probably has something to do with the programming mindset.) If you write >The senator said that the bill was "bloated." your sentence itself doesn't have a period. In order to give it a period you'd have to write: >The senator said that the bill was "bloated.". But then you're saying that the senator described the bill using the (non-)word consisting of the nine characters 'b', 'l', 'o', 'a', 't', 'e', 'd', 'PERIOD'. We've decided that this doesn't make sense.
    - 10mo ago
AngryData 10mo ago
Follow the money, easy payouts for cops and courts is where 95% of enforcement goes. Drug possession is an instant $1000 profit for the local law enforcement, and possibly much more. And if they are poor and challenge it, the extra court fees and court lawyer are also profitable. Fighting private lawyers is what costs courts money and is why the wealthy get way less criminal punishment.

by cons0le 10mo ago

DrScientist 10mo ago

There are lots of forms of 'don't care'. Don't care because: - they have limited resources and they are prioritising something else, - there is little realistic chance of getting a conviction. - it's not one of their politically set department targets - they fundamentally don't think it should be illegal - say historic blasphemy laws still on the books. Is your main concern resources or enforceability, lack of political focus or some combination of all of the above?

franktankbank 10mo ago

This really has me thinking I ought to just delete my Linkedin. I can't say I've ever got anything out of it except spam and fomo. I don't even like to keep it up-to-date because someone is just ripping that information off.

nerdsniper 10mo ago
I believe a LinkedIn profile is mandatory to apply to YC. I could assume you might not be interested in applying to YC, but it’s an interesting fact, and might generalize somewhat for many other applications.
- franktankbank 10mo ago
  I think that is a mutually beneficial signal probably.
sparrish 10mo ago
FWIW - I deleted my linkedin about a year ago and I've received more spam since I deleted it than when it was active.

giardini 10mo ago

">If the cops don't care about something, it's defecto legal.<" Ahhhh! A new English expression, "defecto legal". I like it! It could be the name of a popular website. The proper term is "de facto": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20facto https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20facto A defect is a flaw, an error, and "defecto" is Spanish for the English "defect". The meaning of "defecto legal" (English) thus remains in the wind, TBD. But I look forward to it's landing.

disqard 10mo ago
s/it's/its/g You want the possessive ("its"), not the shortened form ("it is") which would make that sentence: "...look forward to it is landing" Thank you for sharing the Spanish interpretation, TIL :)

giardini 10mo ago

">* If the cops don't care about something, it's defecto legal. *<" Ahhhh! A new English expression, "defecto legal". I like it! It should be the name of a website, defectolegal.com, for purposes TBD later. The proper term is "de facto": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20facto https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20facto "Defecto" is Spanish for the English "defect", a flaw, an error. Don't get me started about "giving a dam".

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dogemaster2032 10mo ago
In English we don’t write commas or periods outside the quotes. The proper way is to write them inside the quotation. - “defect,” a flaw, an error. - about giving a dam.” Don’t get me started about “for purposes TBD later.”
- guffins 10mo ago
  That’s only the case for American English. British English places periods and commas outside the quotes, unless part of a literal quotation.
- ConspiracyFact 10mo ago
  The other person who replied to you noted that this is not true in British English, but beyond that, it appears to me that my generation (Millennials) essentially all came to the same conclusion, which is that punctuation should only be included in the quotation if it's literally part of the text being quoted. (This probably has something to do with the programming mindset.) If you write >The senator said that the bill was "bloated." your sentence itself doesn't have a period. In order to give it a period you'd have to write: >The senator said that the bill was "bloated.". But then you're saying that the senator described the bill using the (non-)word consisting of the nine characters 'b', 'l', 'o', 'a', 't', 'e', 'd', 'PERIOD'. We've decided that this doesn't make sense.
  - 10mo ago

AngryData 10mo ago

Follow the money, easy payouts for cops and courts is where 95% of enforcement goes. Drug possession is an instant $1000 profit for the local law enforcement, and possibly much more. And if they are poor and challenge it, the extra court fees and court lawyer are also profitable. Fighting private lawyers is what costs courts money and is why the wealthy get way less criminal punishment.