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by _heimdall 4mo ago
I miss the days when that was the argument. Maybe I'm getting old, but growing up the general categorization was that Democrats were for the working class, opposed to large corporations, and for individual freedoms and Republicans were
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
This extreme makes the question meaningless. A government isn't a government if it can't regulate and has no authority. Its fundamentally different to say governments or individuals should have no power or freedom. By design, gove
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
I have been surprised how few people seem to gave taken the lesson from Trump that creating federal authority today empowers all future leaders. Courts have slapped down some of Trump's actions thankfully, but a lot of what he has done
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
Sure, are you assuming I'm not similarly opposed to that authority? If I crash without a seatbelt on and die, my going through the windshield harms only myself. The government shouldn't have any mandating what we can and can'
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
By related to I assume you mean correlates with though. To be fair, we can't say there is a causal link (even if it does seem very likely).
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
The Biden administration absolutely wanted to mandate covid vaccines, they just didn't believe they would get it past the courts. Instead they leveraged their ability to drive a massive smear campaign against anyone in the public who c
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
Regardless of motivations for this case, I take this as a clear sign that we've reached the point where the federal government decides its within their authority to mandate this and its reasonable for them to do it. Governments don&#
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
There aren't many working on it though, definitely not enough given how many resources are going into building AI. AI safety at these labs are largely focused on surface level measures and aren't empowered to stop progress of the
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
I don't see any reason we should put weight behind their supposed fears today though. It's completely irrational to build the very thing you think could seriously harm or kill us all. Yes they may have had those fears before, but
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
I put very little weight behind any of those fearful statements made years ago. I assume leaders of those companies are fairly smart and rational, and there's no rational explanation for them running companies building the very thing t
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
Neither party in the US is opposed to overregulation, from my perspective that died a good twenty years ago. Both parties want regulation and a larger federal government. They disagree only on what regulations they want, and even then its l
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
That's an interesting choice as a source. It doesn't mention climate change or human impacts at all and describes El Niño as a naturally occurring event. > The El Nino is a phenomenon that occurs naturally
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
Sure, every action has reactions. I'm not saying the first response should be to shoot the dog in such a scenario, it should be the last resort least of all because it wasn't the dog creating the situation. It and to be handled th
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
It can, but I don't think we should assume it did. Innocent until proven guilty and all, and unfortunately most if not all laws come down to judgement calls by those in charge.
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
This is nothing new though. A small number of poor countries manufacture goods and mine materials in pretty terrible conditions that are illegal in the countries consuming those goods and resources.
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
What did I miss in the GP comment that points to the decisions being made on class, accent, or skin color?
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
> I think when you're threatening your neighbours and letting dangerous dogs loose on other people's land where there's kids or sheep then authoritarianism is called for. It doesn't have to require authoritarianism to
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
Given all the rules changes related to IPOs that also just went I to effect, I can only assume their hope is that the public is holding the bag when the music stops and that they think it is going to happen quick.
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
A philosophical difference for sure, I happen to find plenty of laws to be unjust, not right, and even unconstitutional. In this comment chain that seems a bit out of place though, I thought we were specifically talking about the laws at pl
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
Fair enough, and post scarcity should mean we have as many parks as we want.
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
I could see some kind of legal max duration of a deed restriction, but it seems totally reasonable as long as both parties know the agreement. If I can't write in a deed restriction then I also don't want the government writing ea
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
(Sorry, I don't have access to read the full article) Is the family suing a member of the city? If so they still seem like valid complainants in the case since its publicly owned land.
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
At today's rate in the US, executive immunity is going to extend to all elected or appointed officials in perpetuity.
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
Stipulating that such contract must expire after a period of time seems more reasonable than saying such a contract isn't valid at all.
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
How is this about old people ossifying things? The land owner chose to effectively give it to the city for free with a clear contract stipulating the use. The city took it knowing good and well what was in the contract. I see plenty of peop
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
I'm not advocating for the US legal/criminal system at all actually. The prior comment was pointing to crimes already being committed by people who make or made certain choices. My only point was that further regulation may not be
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
We already have laws for theft and similar crimes. You don't need a government creating more rules preventing entire categories of choices from being made, especially if they already can't enforce the laws on the books.
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
This question jumps past the more fundamental question of whether policymakers, and the government in general, should prevent people from making their own choices. Education is a very different story which ends with letting people make th
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
Homegrown ports of calendly or jira seem feasible, and arguably a good business decision. Homegrown versions of docker seem ridiculous as a starting point, even if its possible to do today there is much lower hanging fruit to go after first
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by _heimdall 4mo ago
That really depends on how you define alive and well. There are still stocks and there are still traders, but the market valuations are obscene and it sure appears that there must be collusion or corruption driving the industry to jam massi

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