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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
My proposal is that there is a punishment for blatantly ignoring the 14th amendment. That’s the point, become an executive of the government comes with an affirmative obligation to actually enforce the law and a judicial review and cause of
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
We don’t have the tools. No senator is afraid of a $1m fine because they lied in a campaign. Yes it would need to be a high bar but to say we have tools when the basic incentives to behave this badly are t punishable makes it hard to suppor
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
I actually feel the opposite. The only thing that has slowed this chaos at all have been courts and separation of powers between the states and federal government. I also think the supreme court immunity decision that gives the executive es
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
I think they get a personal financial penalty with no insurance coverage. This has to stop.
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
When this administration is done we need to amend the constitution to hold politicians legally and financially responsible for intentionally lying and intentionally breaking the law. This was obviously illegal on its face and yet there is n
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
Apple isnt an analog though, in order to be a relevant analogy they would need to buy Intel, TSMC and ASML and "commit" to preserving access to other people chip manufacturing. As it is, they are guilty of reserving capacity so ot
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
And they may let you rot in a deportation facility for months “pending deportation proceedings” which they haven’t hired judges to handle? If we hired more judges with the money used to build and run the facilities we would work through the
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
The history of acquisitions mothballing the acquired assets or moving them off their original mission or letting them atrophy is too stark to support your optimism. Especially when nvidia has a direct incentive to to steer the ecosystem. Fo
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
This trend to vertical integration is very dangerous. We should not allow the people making tech to control the whole pipeline unless we want a permanent underclass.
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
Those are their neighborhoods
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
MASA: make America shitty again?
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
HN isn’t a monoculture. And the Luddites weren’t against tech. They were against the avoidable harm by thoughtless adoption of automated looms. Their argument was distorted and smeared much like is happening here. Hackers used to be counter
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
It’s not degrowth. It’s anti monopoly, anti wealth concentration. Anti tax avoidance. Anti price on water and electricity. Anti raising the ambient temperature of a community. Let’s put the data center in Palo alto or Atherton.
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
I totally agree I use containers through propelcode.app which means I can code on any device including my phone and the environment is the same as the server target. It’s even more important with agents that can delete files and change OS s
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
The community does generally document monkey patching and meta programming constructs. All other code tends to be self documenting. That’s all I am saying.
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
But that’s not what I argued. Someone else argued that there was so no need to simply complex concepts for a jury without explaining why that would be an exception to all the established best practices of writing and communication. Then eve
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
So I need to give a citation that the US uses dollars as its legal currency, cars generally have 4 wheels but not always, gravity causes things to fall on earth?
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
Just because people didn’t pay the top rate doesn’t mean they didn’t pay substantially higher percentages than today.
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
This is not remotely true. It can be traced to exactly one executive who knew the dangers. You yourself cite him. So why minimize that causal relationship? You are literally missing the entire point of my argument. Companies decisions are m
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
Again I beg you to wipe the tears from your eyes and look at the data. Wealth inequality was significantly lower from 1940 to 1980, the gap between CEO and worker pays was orders of magnitude lower. Taxe rates demonstrably reduced wealthy e
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
Except American was in a structural slump similar to but not quite as bad as japans lost decade which meant that interest rates were stuck as near 0% percent. The inflation caused by Covid actually broke that cycle and American was on a muc
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
Thank you for this. I am so tired of false equivalence. Democrats passed Obamacare, the chips act, the infrastructure bill and countless other large impactful pieces of legislation that people take for granted. And did that while reducing t
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
Most money is created by the private sector. Thats was fractional reserve banking is, creating money.
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
Clinton balanced the budget. There was a surplus. Go read Articles from the 90s there was fear that we would pay down the debt too fast and it would harm the economy. Obama was on tracy to reduce the deficit and likely would have had the fi
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
The window is still pretty large. Raising taxes at low to moderate levels would be sufficient to close the gap and restore confidence in debt without slowing the economy. The problem is that every time democrats make progress republicans pa
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
Seems like you’re just demanding proof for something that’s obvious on its face. Only someone that has never taken a writing, communication, debate or similar class would demand evidence for the proposition that effective communication to a
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
How about the whole discipline of rhetoric that has thousands of years of history. Or the fact that law schools specifically teach jury communication strategies that focus on the psychology of persuasion.
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
Except that you’re wrong: most of the articles shows broad overlap with ver few divergent rights. More importantly none of the divergence undermines my argument that the US has extended rights too far and has not extended punishment far eno
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
I am a lawyer not some random facebook troll. There are minor differences but my argument is clear. The asymmetric advantage accrue to the benefit of companies because their are perpetual and abstract so not punished in anything equal to hu
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by digitaltrees 1mo ago
But there are gaps. What CEO is jailed for knowingly leaking forever chemicals or putting lead in gasoline? They are long gone when the harm manifests. My point is the company should face consequences such as loss of the right to operate an

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