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by rlt 6y ago
You're commenting about "the courts" in a thread that started with "I very strongly feel that we should be very careful to avoid adopting a legalistic attitude towards freedom of speech."
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by rlt 6y ago
"Deplatforming" is some pretty great doublespeak for "censoring". We already have a solution to idiots vandalizing 5G towers: arrest them.
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by rlt 6y ago
Platforms that are monopolies or close to it are essentially the modern day town square, except instead of police and government enforcing rules, it's tech companies.
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by rlt 7y ago
Sigh. This is exactly the attitude that leads to the erosion of civil liberties.‘ 2010: "It's just a private company doing it for advertising, why not?" 2020: "Eh, private companies are already doing it, might as well le
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by rlt 7y ago
I'd rather everyone close their borders for now (except for cargo and essential travel, with testing/quarantine) and countries/states/regions respond however they see fit for their own populations. The regions with the b
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by rlt 7y ago
> https://www.firehouse.com/safety-health/ppe/news/21133559/fe... On the other hand, does the fire department for a town of 27,000 people really need 30,000 gowns, or could those be put to better use
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by rlt 7y ago
Instead of California succeeding, maybe it should be broken up into to smaller states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_and_secession_in_Cal...
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by rlt 7y ago
Why would they use two different meanings of "State" (capitalized, no less) in the same sentence?
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by rlt 7y ago
> If you do, he will retaliate (by, for example, withholding badly needed aid) Has this actually occurred? I know NY asked for way more ventilators than they got, but as I understood it they were giving them out "just in time"
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by rlt 7y ago
> Although the goal of the legislation, which has bipartisan support, is to stamp out online child exploitation, it does so by letting the US government regulate how internet companies should combat the problem—even if it means undermini
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by rlt 7y ago
In case you're suggesting the current administration is entirely at fault, the mask stockpile was depleted in 2009 and never replenished https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/face-masks-in-...
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by rlt 7y ago
> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Is there any evidence ICE is "using state of emergency to arrest people
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by rlt 7y ago
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but... I intend to break any sort of mandatory lockdown/curfew, without putting myself or anyone else at risk (e.x. going for a walk in a non-crowded outdoor area). I'm not comfortable with t
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by rlt 7y ago
> The order calls for the sheriff or chief of police to “ensure compliance.” What does this mean?
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by rlt 7y ago
In principle you could isolate just the higher-risk individuals, but the age limit you'd want to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system is wayyyy lower than 70, probably around age 40 where the CFR is maybe 0.2% [1] 1. https:&#x2F
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by rlt 7y ago
Well... it's a morbid thought, but if COVID-19 kills a large number of old people quickly, maybe SS will work itself out (FWIW it was my elderly dad who pointed this out to me) Related: according to Twitter, kids are starting to call C
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by rlt 7y ago
I'm genuinely curious what evidence there is for this?
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by rlt 7y ago
It’s extremely far-fetched, but I think the implication is either China engineered the virus or at least allowed it to spread, either because they already have a vaccine/treatment, or at least know they can control spread among their p
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by rlt 7y ago
To be clear, I don't believe the following (Hanlon's razor, etc), but it would make a good dystopian/thriller: As some point one might consider if governments see COVID-19 as an opportunity to "cull the herd". Japan
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by rlt 7y ago
It doesn't sound like terrorism (or even intentional arson) in this case, but I've always thought dry, windy, wildland-urban interface areas would be vulnerable to terrorist attacks. No smuggling of explosives etc needed, just a f
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by rlt 7y ago
I'm not quite as old, but I struggle with this question too. Programming and building shit is my passion, and I'd probably be a terrible manager, but I've been conditioned to believe management is the wise path for aging soft
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by rlt 7y ago
(This doesn’t answer your question but feels related) I have ADHD and find it incredibly difficult to read books. I’ll often “read” the same pages over and over several times without actually comprehending them because after a few pages I r
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by rlt 7y ago
I think it's more about the sexual morals of the countries where the majority of users are located. That said, I think it's silly. They're a technology company that should be able to come up with a technical solution. Twitter
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by rlt 7y ago
I don’t think that’s entirely fair. There are certainly a large number of people in Silicon Valley and San Francisco who are passionate about building technology and products. I can’t imagine nearly as many are as passionate about trading d
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by rlt 7y ago
This is obviously a problem if you expect small or even medium-sized transactions to be recorded on the blockchain itself. It's less obviously a problem if the blockchain is able to function as a "trust anchor" for additional
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by rlt 7y ago
> A nationalized pharmaceutical industry that provides drugs at cost Would the drugs be made available to other countries? If so, wouldn't we be subsidizing drug development for the rest of the world? (maybe that's ok?)
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by rlt 7y ago
Complain to your ISP, switch ISPs, complain to your government, etc.
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by rlt 7y ago
This seems like poor form coming from a competitor.
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by rlt 7y ago
But... the donations were anonymous, right?
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by rlt 7y ago
> Would you feel comfortable developing a relationship with someone involved in a high-profile sex crimes case that had tremendous amounts of damning evidence? If that relationship consisted of them anonymously giving me money, and me gi

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