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by bilbo0s 2y ago
More accurate to call it “alignment for plebes and not for the masters of the plebes”. Which I think we all kind of expect coming from the leaders of our society. That’s the way human societies have always worked. I’m sure access to militar
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I don't disagree. But that's a pretty good reason to make sure you're making something other than the obvious common apps if you want a big chunk of acquisition money.
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There already is a reasonable alternative for connecting with the people you know. Group chats. Your implication is correct in that there is no reasonable alternative for distracting oneself. At the same time, I'm not sure that if you
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
We'll see. The thing about the law in the US, it's slow and heavy. You'll need to be pretty mighty to move it if it catches up to you.
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He, is not in China. So what good does that do China?
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The worst is us not being here anymore. No real need for us to make economic or investment preparations for that eventuality. It does us no good in the life we do have to say, "Well, I can't invest in the US because in the worst c
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Everything you’ve listed here was a choice made ultimately via the process of following democratic procedures. Everything you listed can also be undone via democratic procedure. That we don’t use this democratic procedures to undo these str
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
If enough people believe it, then you failed in your democratic duty to create an educational system that produces citizens able to separate fact from non fact. Relevance from irrelevance. And so on. In a democracy, the educational system i
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Sigh. There are democratic procedures by which the people can go about changing citizens United. You apparently believe those procedures are not part of democracy, but they are. That the people won’t take the decision, and implement the pro
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I mean, just, Devil's Advocate, but it kind of was the consensus will of the people that voted. And we live in a democracy, so the people who didn't vote don't count. That's the beautiful thing about democracy, you get
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Because the resources and wealth are not going to China. He's reselling them to SE Asia and North America with the vast majority being routed from the US or Hong Kong. Especially right now, I'd imagine the CPC would be very intere
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
HN User Silexia will tell you of course.
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No. The DEVELOPERS are compelling the user. Which is what should happen. The user should be given options by the developers, not Apple.
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That's not how things should work. Apple should not be the arbiter of whether a business model you want to engage in is legal or not. That's what courts of law are for. I would strongly oppose Apple unilaterally deciding which a
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
For some reason, I am not bugged by cancel culture To someone whose formative years came before the internet, cancel culture looks a lot like plain old boring boycotts? So there would be a lot of confusion as to why it's so big a dea
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Sigh. Unfortunately, your implications are spot on. We, the people, are our own worst enemies.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I don't know that I'd rely too heavily on midterms in 26. Gerrymandering and all that.
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A reminder that in a democracy, it's probably best to make sure the gold is widely shared. Lest the poorly educated masses of people without access to the gold vote to kill the goose.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
What if a war erupts? I believe we should scale up manufacturing in the US for different reasons. But I'm also a realist. If war erupts between China and the US, then anyone in the US or China still alive 4 weeks after the start of h
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
By acting against China that means I applaud moving manufacturing to Vietnam and last time I brought up Africa someone from there said their country was an exception Making what are essentially strategic decisions in this "shoot fr
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This is the real problem, and the reason we never should have allowed access to sensitive government and societal data in this fashion.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Why is it any more necessary to fight "leftists and muslims" than it is to fight righties and MAGAs? That's the question that the Trump people never seem to acknowledge that the rest of America is asking itself? What's t
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
LOL I like the way you think!
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This is true, and they have likely been accelerating the arrangements they already had for a while now. At the same time however, getting 50 billion in assets into various European jurisdictions is not at all easy. I'd estimate Trump c
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
He still controls the congress, the white house and the supreme court. So he could potentially pull a completely illegal fast one and freeze their accounts. Since rule of law seems on fairly shaky ground right now in any case.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
The point of no return is Trump getting a third term That's a little alarmist. It's not going to happen. Things are close to going off the rails and people are understandably troubled with the direction in which the US governmen
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
In that case, does it mean you can't ban people from X anymore? If it's the official government communication channel?
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In fairness, the lawmakers themselves have no commitment to free speech. Isn't Krebs getting investigated by the secret services for saying unpopular things?
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Glad someone said it. A special election is a dumb idea.
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Reluctantly agree. Can't really count on more and more currencies these days. Including our own here in the US.

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