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by pc86 3mo ago
Any argument that includes "they should just" isn't even worth typing or considering as a real policy. They won't just. Nobody will just.
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by pc86 3mo ago
You were using LLMs in 2012?
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by pc86 3mo ago
You seem to be arguing that government regulation, on its face, is default-good while the GP seems to be arguing that it is default-bad. I bet if you actually engage with the argument in good faith instead of dismissing your imaginary straw
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by pc86 3mo ago
Then why does this thread have 1800 comments when most HN threads have a small fraction of that? Half of them are just people virtue signaling that they're no longer paying for this VPN service.
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by pc86 3mo ago
It's just an add for the VPN
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by pc86 3mo ago
> What makes them far-right? Europe's Overton window being about a football field away from sanity.
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by pc86 3mo ago
Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. Believes that there are, at times, technical solutions to both technical and non-technical problems does not make someone a "technofascist."
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by pc86 3mo ago
You do not have to stop for a bus if there is a divided median and you're opposing traffic. For the team example, you don't know if someone from the team is going to cross the street so of course you still stop. "This is taki
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by pc86 3mo ago
If you've heard the phrase "it doesn't get easier, you just get stronger" in regards to the gym, I think it's similar for shipping products. I don't feel less nervous about shipping now than I did 15 years ago,
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by pc86 3mo ago
Courts are not solving math equations and despite the popular belief to the contrary, most lawyers and judges are not bumbling fools. But to use math as an example of why you don't need an "impractically high" number of witne
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by pc86 3mo ago
This just means that you can't insist someone is innocent despite overwhelming evidence just because they didn't leave any forensic evidence behind which is completely reasonable.
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by pc86 3mo ago
It's commonly forgotten that the bill of rights simply restricts the government. For nearly 100 years it didn't even apply to state governments but just the federal government.
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by pc86 3mo ago
Who decides whether or not someone is an immediate threat? Is "immediate threat" even the bar for a police officer to draw their weapon? Police can draw their weapons in situations civilians can't legally so I'm not sure
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by pc86 3mo ago
Is it legal to shoot a uniformed police officer pulling a gun on someone?
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by pc86 3mo ago
Ah yes, that old adage :)
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by pc86 3mo ago
> Then you will have a lot of Constitution amendments. You say that like it's a bad thing? > The burden of ever-changing law landscape will be carried by ordinary people, not by legislators. The "burden" would also
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by pc86 3mo ago
I have long thought that capping the number of representatives in the House is the single worst thing to happen, structurally, to the United States government. Representatives should be as close to the people as possible, and spending milli
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by pc86 3mo ago
In this very comment I started talking about the patriot act two or three times but kept deleting it because I didn't want to ramble. But yeah that's exactly what I was thinking of - for people who care about privacy and freedom i
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by pc86 3mo ago
Why would you think I'm making that completely different argument? If the current scenario is bad, and someone says "we should do this other thing that would be even worse," pointing out that the other thing is worse isn&#x27
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by pc86 3mo ago
I think it's more a function of who it employs. If you're able to get a job at NASA you're able to get a job a lot of other places. This is not necessarily true for large segments of the DOD.
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by pc86 3mo ago
Do you think the average person - ~98 IQ, at most one year of college but likely none, working some sort of retail, home health, or counter food service job - is truly capable of synthesizing third-order effects of a legal proposal and how
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by pc86 3mo ago
Representative democracy is rooted in the idea that the average person is kind of a moron. Just look at states where it's incredibly easy to get state-wide referendums on basically anything on the ballot and you'll see the legal l
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by pc86 3mo ago
The problem is that "the authoritarians" (read: almost every politician at every level of government, but a drastically increasing percentage the higher you go) only need to get something passed once then it is there forever. Ever
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by pc86 3mo ago
OK so maybe they're both jobs programs, but .mil is bigger and employs more people (almost certainly at a lower per capita cost).
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by pc86 3mo ago
That is literally the only selling point what are you on about?
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by pc86 3mo ago
Approximately zero people who are in the market for a Rivian would consider buying this.
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by pc86 3mo ago
The general population doesn't care a lick who has invested in the company, who the C suite is, any of that. Normal people make product-buying decisions based on the product.
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by pc86 3mo ago
The US is bigger.
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by pc86 3mo ago
If you go to a BMW or Mercedes dealership with no coupons or anything it'll be about that. It's less that the oil change costs that much and more that they don't want you to show up with a car they've never seen for an o
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by pc86 3mo ago
What law does it violate? It's not even clear to me what "it" you're referring to.

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