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   by hyper0perator 5y ago

   This is why all fast food needs to be heavily regulated by FDA and only available via prescription to limit abuse.
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   by hyper0perator 5y ago

   I agree. If alcohol were marketed for heart disease reduction, I'd have no problem with it. But it's marketed as a lifestyle product and a ton of young people with no history of drinking have started as a result.
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   by hyper0perator 6y ago

   Legality under US free speech laws. See first amendment law literature.
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   by hyper0perator 6y ago

   The phone company does unfortunately allow spam callers
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   by hyper0perator 6y ago

   Disagree. Platforms are immune to liability of their users. HN could become a platform and abide regulations like the phone company.
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   by hyper0perator 6y ago

   Disagree. Newspapers and ISP follow under this regulation. Social media networks have been able to skirt the issue. If newspapers can get sued for their content and the phone company can't, it only makes sense that this applies to soci
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   by hyper0perator 6y ago

   Companies profit but citizens lose out. Those two entities should not be conflated. This is akin to the outsourcing of many industries such as pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to countries that do not have the same worker or health regu
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   by hyper0perator 6y ago

   The shortage is false, a form of gaslighting, artificially created so that corporations and academic institutions can keep costs low and suppress wages by flooding the US market with cheap labor that also bypasses usual employment standards
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   by hyper0perator 7y ago

   Racket will never be a practical language, but not because it is a lisp. Clojure is a lisp and is plenty practical. Racket was designed to teach programming to young students, which unfortunately isn't a killer app for a language even
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    by hyper0perator 7y ago

    Thanks for all the great effort and progress. Better error messages would be awesome, but this composable multi-thread support makes Julia even more absurdly powerful and versatile! The priority makes complete sense. The Julia team and comm