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You will just see the shift of the methods used in government corruption to circumvent such rules, e.g., your wife gets a wildly lucrative “book deal” right aft
by roysting 8mo ago
You will just see the shift of the methods used in government corruption to circumvent such rules, e.g., your wife gets a wildly lucrative “book deal” right after you do something, and then when time has passed, you also get a “book deal” or are hired to speak at exorbitant fees or get hired in some BS position or are made a member of a board, or your children are hired as executives or even made board members.
The problem with the direct approach, i.e., “ban advertising”, is that it is hung up on a specific term, not the underlying dynamic/system. It’s fighting a symptom, not the disease/cause.
- _qib3 8mo agoWell, yeah. There are always ways to get around laws. But this is like saying taxes are a bad idea because tax evasion exists.
- permo-w 8mo agoIt's the eternal hacker news debate: "let's regulate x" "but surely we can't regulate x because defining x is complicated" "plenty of things are complex and are regulated, also here is a definition that covers almost all cases and the rest can be left to judicial nous" "but people will just evade the law anyway" Honestly pick a post about the EU at random and you'll be able to find some variety of this chain of conversation. It's so general an argument that it could be made about literally any law that's ever existed, making it entirely null if you believe in any regulation whatsoever
- throwup238 8mo agoI once had the idea to create a HackerNews equivalent to tvtropes called hntropes that crowd sources all of these patterns.
- permo-w 8mo agoDo it
- Teever 8mo agoMy personal favourite hntrope is how any conversation about a geological feature outside of the US will inevitable turn into one about American geological features and then shortly after it will just descend generic American discussion. I conceptualize this as something like the Hamming Distance, where you can measure the number of replies the conversation will have before an inevitable pivot to generic American stuff. So the conversation could start with "Why back in 2013 I had a lovely time fishing in Scotland. The lakes there are remarkable." "Boy me too that fishing was just great caught such and such fish blah blah blah love those lakes" "Why that reminds me of the time I went fishing in Kentucky, boy the lakes there let me tell you..." "Kentucky you say? Why I was just in Kentucky the other day! Boy they sure have < difference in real estate prices | difference in crime rates | differnce in minimum wage... > and now it's a conversation about Kentucky real estate instead of a conversation about fishing in Scotland.
- rickydroll 8mo agodo it
- account42 8mo agoAnd you can also up penalties for people who are caught trying to work their way around laws in order to deter most from trying.
- int_19h 8mo agoNevertheless, if it takes a lot more effort to do, there will be less of it.