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by ardy42 6y ago
> The federal government imposing nationwide lockdowns on each and every state is a gross overreach and completely unconstitutional. AFAIK, it did no such thing . The federal government advised certain measures, and state and local g
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The goals have fundamentally drifted on covid. In the beginning it was flatten the curve so that hospitals aren’t overwhelmed. The goal wasn’t to eradicate covid but to slow the growth to an acceptable level. It's kinda unreasonab
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The comment author does not advocate ignoring the world, he wants to separate his engineering work from politics and thus wants to look for employers who do not push a particular political program on him. Which seems a perfectly valid
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I'm confused why stories about Sweden's success keep popping up here. The country had TEN TIMES the per capita death rate of its neighbors and still has the highest unemployment of all the Nordic countries. Seems to me like t
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The disruption con: why big tech’s favourite buzzword is nonsense(theguardian.com)
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This is a super literal take. In the 80s/90s the expense-incurring activity was physical cartridge production. Today it’s bandwidth & delivery infrastructure, card processing, any myriad of things. Are the current-day costs of
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by ardy42 6y ago
> YAML has 22 ways to write booleans - no less! > I would argue that XML, in practice, has many more. Everything in XML is a string by default, and only an XSD can provide actual type information. Lots of things don't, and those
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Regional high speed rail is already in the works. Here's an overview of the Midwest plan, with a map: https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2010/01/16/midwest-high-... Those blog posts are from 10 yea
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by ardy42 6y ago
> So you are not concerned with protecting the “little guy”? Doesn’t that give Amazon more power in the marketplace? What do you mean? Sellers can always sell on other marketplaces, like eBay, where it's clearer to the buyers what t
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Your solution to anti-competitive behavior is to complete eliminate the competition? You'll note that I wasn't focusing on anti-competitive behavior at all. I personally don't like sites that commingle 1st party retail
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It’s McCarthyism all over again. This isn't McCarthyism, and to call it that shows a lack of understanding of what McCarthyism actually was.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Whenever i hear someone talking about "cyber" a large part of my brain switches off. Im sure that some people are told they simply have to use the term, but i find real experts shy away. If i have a choice between talks on &q
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by ardy42 6y ago
> What I was trying to say in my first post was that it's not the current enforcement. It's just an example of the government becoming too large and the robot police force of the future will use these dead laws to enforce. This
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Banning/setting up a firewall makes us no different than the CCP! [1] That's pretty clearly not the case. Context matters. For instance: if I shot someone in self defense, and you shot someone to murder them, we're n
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by ardy42 6y ago
> No doubt some Karen complaining. I have some doubt about that. > That's an example, but the reality is that laws are tremendously extensive. Yet generally unenforced. When the government can start enforcing. Government will gr
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Do you really think that’s the outcome any of the people who participate on the marketplace want - not to be integrated with Amazon.com? I'm sure the integration is desired by many sellers [1], but my sympathies lie with shoppers,
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by ardy42 6y ago
> And how does splitting the marketplace up alleviate that problem? That does just the opposite. Now Amazon corporate can shield itself even more. In this case, my hope would be that Amazon would shut down the 3rd party marketplace in fa
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The problem with governments is size and reach. Governments attempt and do usually keep growing. The government ends up with laws like: https://library.municode.com/ar/little_rock/codes/code_of_or... &gt
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by ardy42 6y ago
> What’s the practical difference? One is the liability is much clearer. At least in some jurisdictions, if the manufacturer can't be located to take responsibility for a defective product, the retailer can be sued instead. IIRC,
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by ardy42 6y ago
> A standard US credit score system may seem to be similar, but there are some important differences: Also: - it's limited in scope to financial accounts. The end goal of the Chinese system appears to be to rate you on nearly every
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Your argument boils down to: they can be banned, so because “national security,” it’s ok. China may be violating laws, but TikTok isn’t, so singling them out is a bill of attainder, which the Constitution explicitly prohibits.[a] If th
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Twitter is a popular information-sharing social platform, and there are Chinese actors on it, but this argument isn't extended to suggest that it be banned, either. But somehow, a platform that does both must not be allowed to exi
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by ardy42 6y ago
> if it's a clear threat, the government should have no problem explaining what exactly the threat is. It seems plausible to me that there is a national security threat, but i'm bothered by the government being able to invoke n
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It's funny that Americans on HN and reddit are trying to blame Boeing's technical incompetence on Indian suppliers and subcontractors. Why are Airbus planes not suffering similar problems and why is Airbus not blaming it on I
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I am confused about what it is that you're trying to achieve with this attitude. My point is that international law and international relations are at play, and that they matter. Taiwan is de facto an independent country in every
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You can't source content from sources like GT but do you trust CGTN, Xinhua? Interestingly enough, there were some official Wikipedia decisions on that very topic recently: CGTN and Global Times were given the lowest ranking short
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Your analogy is just bad. Closer would be banning all drivers between a certain age rubric because possibly, maybe, some of them will get drunk and drive. You know we already ban all drivers "between a certain age rubric"? T
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Are you advocating welding people in buildings? No, that's a straw man. It's like saying that someone who advocates for an effective police force is also advocating for that force to recklessly kill suspects. What I am advoc
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Indeed. And do we trust China’s numbers? I thought it was an unspoken fact that no one cites their data in legitimate media, since it is heavily manipulated. Not particularly, but even if China undercounted by 10x, it's still way
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by ardy42 6y ago
> There is no evidence that the measures slowed the spread as compared to the natural dynamics of an infectious disease as immunity builds. Compare Sweden’s curve to New York’s for example. Compare the US's curve to China's. I

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