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by eschaton 2y ago
That’s true about things like tax policy. That’s not true when it comes to things like bigotry.
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by eschaton 2y ago
Thank you, I indeed meant _Dodge v Ford_. At the time it was decided it really did equate benefit with profit, but as you said there have been a bunch of subsequent decisions specifically declaring that they’re not the same thing. And as I
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by eschaton 2y ago
No, I actually do agree that lots of people are stuck in jobs they hate. The solution to that isn’t to cheer on layoffs. The solution is to establish a good social safety net—especially when it comes to housing and healthcare—so people don’
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by eschaton 2y ago
I’ll go ahead and say it then: The CEO shouldn’t have the right to arbitrarily lay off people. They should have to go through substantial formal procedures to do so, much more than the United States makes them go through now. Furthermore,
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by eschaton 2y ago
Wow, all that and you still promote hyper-capitalist bullshit like “they shouldn’t care.” Sounds more like you love the taste of their boot than that you’re any sort of good economist.
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by eschaton 2y ago
Enough don’t that this can be an effective means of voter suppression, otherwise the states doing it would not be doing it. It doesn’t actually improve election security at all, all it does is add expense and difficulty to voting even for t
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by eschaton 2y ago
Yeah, it’s not the bigots and ignoramuses and accelerationists who vote for fascists that are the problem, it’s “this attitude” of not treating bigots and ignoramuses with kid gloves that’s the problem.
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by eschaton 2y ago
I’m saying about 50% of the people who voted in the last three elections—not 50% of the population—are stupid, yes. And I think that’s borne out by the absolutely terrible and destructive policies articulated by the people they voted for. W
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by eschaton 2y ago
Almost like they know it’s wrong.
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They prove you right?
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by eschaton 2y ago
Because the entirety of the Trumpist response is “nuh-uh.” Watch the videos of people giving explanations of tariffs to attendees of Trump rallies. “That can’t be right, he wouldn’t be doing it then” is essentially all the deeper anyone wil
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by eschaton 2y ago
Yes, because it’s not “Democrats” that the far right wants to prevent from voting, it’s anyone poor or from an ethnic minority, who often happen not to have as much access to a DMV or other facility in which they can obtain an ID. Elsewhere
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by eschaton 2y ago
And you can be absolutely certain it won’t be, because the reason for Voter ID laws is to disenfranchise people that the people making the laws don’t want to vote.
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by eschaton 2y ago
Look at the demographics of those convicted felons. I suspect you’ll see certain trends in who tends to be targeted for arrest—given that rates of criminality are broadly equivalent across demographic groups—that align closely with who the
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by eschaton 2y ago
Way to ensure the real estate holding companies and their owners switch their lobbying dollars and campaign contributions to the other party.
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by eschaton 2y ago
The behavior of many CEOs engaging in mass layoffs certainly doesn’t demonstrate that they’re aware of it. That’s why requiring massive CEO pay cuts when they engage in mass layoffs would be a good thing. It would help remind them that layo
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by eschaton 2y ago
Hell, they’d probably be easier and less expensive to reassign than to hire anew for other roles because they’re already on the payroll, aware of policies, have their access provisioned, vetted for trustworthiness, etc.
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by eschaton 2y ago
The right against self-incrimination is about more than speech. The philosophical underpinning is that a person has the right not to be compelled to aid in their own prosecution. That’s why evidence is seized as a result of a warrant that c
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by eschaton 2y ago
I think it’s reasonable to argue that compelling speech that results in access to otherwise-private information that may be incriminating is _also_ a (potential) violation of self-incrimination.
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by eschaton 2y ago
His argument against being charged with a crime for refusing to provide access to his phone contents is actually reasonable. (Unlike virtually every other argument he has ever made, whether in court or out of it; he’s an idiot and a racist.
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by eschaton 2y ago
I hate to defend such a despicable human being, but it’s a legitimate point: Not only does he have a right not to self-incriminate, he also has a right to hide his defense strategy against the crimes with which the state has charged him fro
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by eschaton 2y ago
Do you honestly think this wouldn’t be taken into account? I’m sure even without reading the article this is exactly the sort of thing that will be accounted for in any serious proposal. It’s not as if our species doesn’t have millennia of
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by eschaton 2y ago
There’s a further wrinkle: Neither of the major parties at the time pushed the lie that government can do no good for society, and lobbyists weren’t the force they are today, so there was much more tendency for legislators to effectively le
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by eschaton 2y ago
It did cripple them in the sense that it took forever to actually fully implement the Algol-style syntax and the necessarily much more complex macro system that such a syntax requires. That one to two year delay absolutely destroyed any m
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by eschaton 2y ago
The Symbolics intellectual property wasn't a legal minefield until the past decade and change, where it was acquired from Andrew Topping's estate by a longtime MIT Lisp guy who has been a complete idiot for not opening it up to th
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by eschaton 2y ago
> not sustainable on its own Or it is something that provides a benefit to society as a whole and therefore deserves to be maintained by the institution established by society to do such things, government, without assuming economic effi
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by eschaton 2y ago
And yet it shouldn’t because it’s not and doesn’t need to be anywhere near that degree of complexity. This is exactly the sort of thing I mean when I said the previous respondent was reacting to the use of the term ‘macro’ rather than their
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by eschaton 2y ago
Since the different sizes are ultimately a platform thing, they need to support multiple variants on those platforms, or limit their support to a new enough base set of APIs that they can rely on 64-bit types being there.
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by eschaton 2y ago
This is a case where you’re seeing the word “macro” and reacting to that when it’s really not warranted. It’s not using macros for complicated code generation, just selecting from a couple alternatives based on one or two possible compiler
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These are very straightforward and do in fact serve as an elegant solution.

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