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In the US at least I think as a policy matter there is still a commitment to building out of it in the medium to long term. However it's not politically viable to advocate that as …

In the sense that a former president of the US was just indicted for the first time ever, yes, it's political. By definition, in fact. However, to engage in a counterfactual: would…

>he doesn't like laws that go after social media platforms From a legal perspective you don't gotta be biased to reach the conclusion that there's not much states can do. Section 2…

Most indictments are never sealed (if the accused has been arrested on other charges, for example, there isn't much use in trying to keep it secret from the accused), and the ones …

The second half of paragraph 2 on page 7 of the brief: >And no foreign state has supported NSO’s claim to immunity; indeed, NSO has not even identified the states for which it clai…

I actually think you give the parent argument just a tad too little credit. If crypto was useful as a currency (and, as you point out, if it is comparably as energy efficient as vi…

>That policy was rectified many years ago. You're half right - the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act reformed the punishment ratio from 100:1 to about 18:1, and later in 2018 Congress made …

Platforms have the problem of scale. If I don't like how facebook or twitter are contributing to the information ecosystem I could go hang out on Gab or some other niche platform -…

To clarify the WSJ opinion section wrote articles including the one you linked that treat the allegations credibly. The newsroom wasn't as generous: https://variety.com/2020/politi…

Actually ad-homs rarely show up in competitive debate. Competitive debate has the norms that an unanswered argument is considered to be true, and that the winner of the round is us…

If you scroll down a magistrate ruled a couple weeks ago that the journalist must disclose their source. Pishevar's conduct doesn't really have anything to do with the story. The i…